Mexico's Top 2% Scientists 2021

Mexico has 364 scientists on the 2021 single-year Top 2% list, up 20.1% from 303 in 2020. That places Mexico 40th in the world by number of listed scientists, down 1 place. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México has the most listed scientists (53), followed by Tecnologico de Monterrey (19).

Single Year

364

+61 (+20.1%) vs 2020

Career Data

342

+51 (+17.5%) vs 2020

World rank by count

#40

down 1 place vs 2020

Institutes

109

+4 (+3.8%) vs 2020

Scientists in Mexico on the list, by year

The single-year count has grown 20% since 2020.

Single-year list, change on the previous year

2021+20.1%

2022+0.3%

2023-2.7%

2024+6.8%

2025+9.5%

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Year	Single Year	Change	Career Data	Change
2020	303		291
2021	364	+20.1%	342	+17.5%
2022	365	+0.3%	330	-3.5%
2023	355	-2.7%	352	+6.7%
2024	379	+6.8%	384	+9.1%
2025	415	+9.5%	420	+9.4%

Top 10 institutes in Mexico

By number of listed scientists

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Rank in Mexico	World rank	Scientist	Institute	Sub-field	Rank in sub-field
1	594	CC Coello Coello, Carlos A.	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 32
2	2,516	GJ Gómez-Aguilar, J. F.	Tecnológico Nacional de México	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 20
3	2,851	BG Bakris, George L.	The University of Chicago Medicine	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 85
4	4,829	CE Crimmins, Eileen M.	University of Southern California	Gerontology	Rank 11
5	6,156	HM Heil, Martin	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudio Avanzados, Campus Guanajuato	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 77
6	6,503	GA Galano, Annia	Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana -Unidad Iztapalapa	Chemical Physics	Rank 126
7	8,039	Castillo, Oscar	Tijuana Institute of Technology	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 227
8	8,915	MJ Morrone, Juan J.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Ecology	Rank 231
9	9,073	CJ Crossa, José	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 117
10	9,539	RM Reynolds, Matthew P.	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 121
11	9,686	Cárdenas-Barrón, Leopoldo Eduardo	Tecnologico de Monterrey	Operations Research	Rank 45
12	9,951	SM Selman, Moisés	Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias	Respiratory System	Rank 65
13	10,546	HB Husted, Bryan W.	EGADE Business School	Business & Management	Rank 262
14	11,276	DJ de Jesús Rubio, José	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 305
15	12,902	CG Ceballos, Gerardo	Instituto de Ecología, UNAM	Ecology	Rank 321
16	13,880	TJ Theiler, James	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Optoelectronics & Photonics	Rank 23
17	14,395	PN Powe, Neil R.	University of California, San Francisco	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 89
18	14,948	FL Fridman, Leonid	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 155
19	15,350	Moreno, Jaime A.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 157
20	15,806	BR Brookmeyer, Ron	UCLA Fielding School of Public Health	Statistics & Probability	Rank 108
21	16,762	OR Ortega, Romeo	Instituto Tecnologico Autonoma de Mexico	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 172
22	17,376	SR Singh, Ravi Prakash	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 214
23	17,484	CT Cloughesy, Timothy F.	David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 639
24	17,904	RI Romieu, Isabelle	Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública. México	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 657
25	18,622	Sharma, Ashutosh	Tecnologico de Monterrey	Chemical Physics	Rank 345
26	19,656	Melin, Patricia	Tijuana Institute of Technology	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 507
27	20,184	RC Rosales, Carlos	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Immunology	Rank 510
28	20,205	DS Dong, Shi Hai	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	General Physics	Rank 115
29	21,296	BJ Buckley, J. S.	New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology	Energy	Rank 430
30	21,336	RJ Rivera, Juan A.	Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública. México	Nutrition & Dietetics	Rank 156
31	21,891	CE Cuevas, Erik	Universidad de Guadalajara	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 555
32	22,026	AJ Armstrong-Altrin, John S.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Geology	Rank 34
33	24,618	SH Sira-Ramirez, Hebertt	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 237
34	24,834	Iqbal, Hafiz M.N.	Tecnologico de Monterrey	Biotechnology	Rank 79
35	25,017	YE Yahia, Elhadi M.	Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro	Food Science	Rank 152
36	25,261	CM Cabana, Michael D.	University of California, San Francisco	Pediatrics	Rank 60
37	27,225	EO Erenstein, Olaf	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 172
38	28,525	DV Della Valle, Craig J.	Rush University Medical Center	Orthopedics	Rank 135
39	28,944	BA Bendelac, Albert	The University of Chicago	Immunology	Rank 727
40	28,952	HJ Hemphill, J. Claude	University of California, San Francisco	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 1,642
41	29,225	LB Lo, Bernard	University of California, San Francisco	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 357
42	29,749	BG Borges, Guilherme	Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramon de la Fuente	Psychiatry	Rank 610
43	30,593	AJ Ancheyta, Jorge	Instituto Mexicano Del Petroleo	Energy	Rank 640
44	31,107	CR Castro-Muñoz, Roberto	Tecnologico de Monterrey	Chemical Engineering	Rank 192
45	31,295	BM Basin, Michael V.	Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 308
46	32,299	BR Buijs, Ruud M.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 1,824
47	32,999	AJ Alvarez-Ramirez, J.	Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana -Unidad Iztapalapa	Fluids & Plasmas	Rank 259
48	33,251	BS Barquera, Simón	Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública. México	Public Health	Rank 345
49	34,175	PR Perez-Padilla, Rogelio	Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias	Respiratory System	Rank 249
50	36,908	SC Sánchez, Carmen	Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala	Biotechnology	Rank 115
51	37,175	YJ Yazdany, Jinoos	University of California, San Francisco	Arthritis & Rheumatology	Rank 226
52	38,486	CJ Czernin, Johannes	David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging	Rank 150
53	39,097	ME Martínez-Romero, Esperanza	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Campus Morelos	Microbiology	Rank 877
54	39,183	SS Stock, Stuart R.	Northwestern University	Materials	Rank 727
55	39,340	GC Giza, Christopher	University of California, Los Angeles	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 2,184
56	39,726	VS Verma, Surendra P.	Instituto de Energías Renovables de la UNAM	Geochemistry & Geophysics	Rank 734
57	40,042	YW Yu, Wen	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 381
58	40,504	ML Michener, Lori A.	University of Southern California	Orthopedics	Rank 200
59	41,169	VA Varela, Ana Sofía	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Organic Chemistry	Rank 597
60	41,977	RJ Ruiz-García, Jorge	Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo	Strategic, Defence & Security Studies	Rank 74
61	42,726	GG González-Aguilar, Gustavo A.	Centro de Investigacion en Alimentacion y Desarrollo	Food Science	Rank 290
62	44,102	SL Sánchez-Lozada, Laura Gabriela	Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Ignacio Chavez	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 328
63	44,604	RB Rodriguez-Iturbe, Bernardo	Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Ignacio Chavez	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 330
64	45,431	SS Serna-Saldivar, Sergio O.	Tecnologico de Monterrey	Food Science	Rank 318
65	46,258	KR Kallet, Richard H.	University of California, San Francisco	Respiratory System	Rank 336
66	46,286	MJ Mas, Jean François	UNAM Campus Morelia	Geological & Geomatics Engineering	Rank 375
67	46,485	EA Estrada, Alejandro	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology	Rank 115
68	47,258	PF Páez-Osuna, F.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Environmental Sciences	Rank 570
69	47,552	Venegas-Andraca, Salvador E.	Tecnologico de Monterrey	Optoelectronics & Photonics	Rank 92
70	47,672	ER Effros, Rita Brickman	David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	Immunology	Rank 1,107
71	47,764	VJ Villaseñor, José Luis	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Ecology	Rank 994
72	47,850	PJ Pedraza-Chaverri, José	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Rank 1,095
73	48,196	AP Angelos, Peter	The University of Chicago	Surgery	Rank 225
74	48,587	SS Sánchez, S. F.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Astronomy & Astrophysics	Rank 472
75	48,863	MP Muriel, Pablo	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados	Toxicology	Rank 188
76	48,953	MF Masset, Frédéric S.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Campus Morelos	Astronomy & Astrophysics	Rank 479
77	49,154	GG Gamba, Gerardo	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 358
78	49,846	NH Nelson, Heidi	American College of Surgeons	Surgery	Rank 229
79	50,483	EJ Escalante-Garcia, J. Ivan	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados	Building & Construction	Rank 266
80	52,518	OY Orlov, Yury	Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y de Educacion Superior de Ensenada	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 496
81	54,483	MS Magallón, Susana	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Evolutionary Biology	Rank 452
82	54,534	AF Aureli, Filippo	Universidad Veracruzana	Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology	Rank 140
83	54,752	LL Liau, Linda M.	David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 1,967
84	54,787	IT Isakova, Tamara	Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 400
85	54,842	LB Levine, Brett R.	Rush University Medical Center	Orthopedics	Rank 302
86	54,874	AC Aguilar-Salinas, Carlos A.	Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición Salvador Zubiran	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 965
87	55,258	BP Balvanera, Patricia	Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad	Ecology	Rank 1,141
88	55,311	CL Calderón-Garcidueñas, Lilian	Universidad del Valle de México	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 2,976
89	56,007	CE Cunningham, Emmett T.	California Pacific Medical Center	Ophthalmology & Optometry	Rank 284
90	56,325	MD Morales-Morales, David	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry	Rank 252
91	56,475	PG Pérez Gutiérrez, Rosa Martha	Escuela Superior de Ingenieria Quimica e Industrias Extractivas	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry	Rank 166
92	56,849	FL Ferrari, Luca	Centro de Geociencias de la UNAM	Geochemistry & Geophysics	Rank 1,060
93	56,941	HW Hsu, Wellington K.	Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	Orthopedics	Rank 317
94	57,004	AO Arrieta, Oscar	Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia, México	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 2,048
95	57,070	OM Olson, Mark E.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Evolutionary Biology	Rank 475
96	57,716	AH Azim, Hatem A.	Hospital Zambrano Hellion TecSalud	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 2,083
97	58,724	MM Medina-Mora, María Elena	Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramon de la Fuente	Psychiatry	Rank 1,034
98	58,746	SI Sim, Ida	University of California, San Francisco	Medical Informatics	Rank 63
99	60,342	ÑS Ñamendys-Silva, Silvio A.	Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición Salvador Zubiran	Emergency & Critical Care Medicine	Rank 202
100	61,089	MJ Michael, Joel	Rush Medical College	Education	Rank 521
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Frequently asked questions

How many scientists from Mexico are in the 2021 Stanford Top 2% list?

364 scientists affiliated with Mexico are on the 2021 single-year list, and 342 are on the career-long list.

Which institute in Mexico has the most Top 2% scientists?

On the 2021 single-year list, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México has the most listed scientists from Mexico, with 53. It is followed by Tecnologico de Monterrey with 19.

How has the number of Top 2% scientists in Mexico changed since 2020?

On the single-year list, Mexico went from 303 scientists in 2020 to 364 in 2021, a change of +20.1%.

What is the difference between the single-year and career-long lists?

The single-year list ranks scientists on the citations their work received in one year. The career-long list ranks them on citations across their whole career. Both lists are published every year, and a scientist can be on one, both or neither.

What is the official source of this data?

The rankings come from the science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators published by Ioannidis et al. in the Elsevier Data Repository, updated every year. TOPSCINET, an independent platform, organises that data by country, year, institute and field, so you can compare and explore it.