Mexico's Top 2% Scientists 2022

Mexico has 365 scientists on the 2022 single-year Top 2% list, up 0.3% from 364 in 2021. That places Mexico 40th in the world by number of listed scientists. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México has the most listed scientists (52), followed by Instituto Politécnico Nacional (19).

Single Year

365

+1 (+0.3%) vs 2021

Career Data

330

-12 (-3.5%) vs 2021

World rank by count

#40

No change vs 2021

Institutes

115

+6 (+5.5%) vs 2021

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

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Rank in Mexico	World rank	Scientist	Institute	Sub-field	Rank in sub-field
1	683	CC Coello Coello, Carlos A.	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 36
2	3,579	GJ Gómez-Aguilar, J. F.	Tecnológico Nacional de México	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 27
3	4,122	MM Molitch, Mark E.	Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 86
4	5,736	BY Bashan, Yoav	Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas Del Noroeste	Microbiology	Rank 118
5	5,959	BT Bodenheimer, Thomas S.	University of California, San Francisco	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 107
6	6,531	HM Heil, Martin	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 84
7	7,585	EP Enright, Paul	Institute for Development and Innovation in Respiratory Physiology	Respiratory System	Rank 52
8	8,239	GA Galano, Annia	Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana -Unidad Iztapalapa	Chemical Physics	Rank 144
9	8,372	Castillo, Oscar	Tijuana Institute of Technology	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 280
10	9,775	CJ Crossa, José	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 130
11	10,013	Cárdenas-Barrón, Leopoldo Eduardo	Tecnologico de Monterrey	Operations Research	Rank 43
12	10,116	MJ Morrone, Juan J.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Ecology	Rank 256
13	10,278	RM Reynolds, Matthew	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 133
14	10,463	SM Selman, Moises	Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias	Respiratory System	Rank 73
15	12,604	HB Husted, Bryan W.	EGADE Business School	Business & Management	Rank 285
16	12,923	CG Ceballos, Gerardo	Instituto de Ecología, UNAM	Ecology	Rank 311
17	13,163	Moreno, Jaime A.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 123
18	13,483	RC Rosales, Carlos	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Immunology	Rank 379
19	14,370	CR Castro-Muñoz, Roberto	Tecnologico de Monterrey	Chemical Engineering	Rank 69
20	14,674	CE Cuevas, Erik	Universidad de Guadalajara	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 470
21	15,988	OR Ortega, Romeo	Instituto Tecnologico Autonoma de Mexico	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 145
22	16,300	Iqbal, Hafiz M.N.	Tecnologico de Monterrey	Environmental Sciences	Rank 195
23	17,089	VH Van Horn, Linda	Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	Nutrition & Dietetics	Rank 124
24	18,490	WJ Weiss, James N.	David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 608
25	18,679	FL Fridman, Leonid	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 171
26	18,757	AJ Armstrong-Altrin, John S.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Geology	Rank 22
27	18,991	RJ Rivera, Juan A.	Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública. México	Nutrition & Dietetics	Rank 137
28	19,712	SR Singh, Ravi P.	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 254
29	19,928	RJ Rubio, Jose de Jesus	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 610
30	22,479	RI Romieu, Isabelle	Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública. México	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 838
31	22,737	Melin, Patricia	Tijuana Institute of Technology	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 685
32	23,982	SC Sánchez, Carmen	Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala	Biotechnology	Rank 71
33	24,682	DS Dong, Shi Hai	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	General Physics	Rank 150
34	25,033	YE Yahia, Elhadi M.	Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro	Food Science	Rank 163
35	26,112	ME McNally, Elizabeth M.	Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 822
36	26,278	BG Borges, G.	Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramon de la Fuente	Psychiatry	Rank 532
37	27,104	SH Sira-Ramírez, Hebertt	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 247
38	27,389	SS Sánchez, S. F.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Astronomy & Astrophysics	Rank 246
39	27,569	EO Erenstein, Olaf	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 173
40	27,799	MD McElhinney, Doff B.	Stanford University School of Medicine	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 871
41	28,479	SS Serna-Saldivar, Sergio O.	Tecnologico de Monterrey	Food Science	Rank 190
42	29,284	VA Varela, Ana Sofia	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Organic Chemistry	Rank 410
43	29,939	BP Balvanera, Patricia	Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad	Ecology	Rank 657
44	30,727	XY Xu, Yunbi	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 426
45	30,849	LP Levitt, Pat	Keck School of Medicine of USC	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 1,783
46	31,032	AJ Ancheyta, Jorge	Instituto Mexicano Del Petroleo	Energy	Rank 628
47	32,315	BG Baranek, Grace T.	University of Southern California	Developmental & Child Psychology	Rank 270
48	33,667	BS Barquera, Simón	Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública. México	Public Health	Rank 332
49	33,675	AC Aguilar-Salinas, Carlos A.	Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición Salvador Zubiran	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 615
50	34,683	BM Basin, Michael	Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 314
51	35,670	GG González-Aguilar, Gustavo A.	Centro de Investigacion en Alimentacion y Desarrollo	Food Science	Rank 246
52	36,129	LE Lewis, Eldrin F.	Stanford University School of Medicine	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 1,100
53	36,944	AJ Alvarez-Ramirez, J.	Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana -Unidad Iztapalapa	Fluids & Plasmas	Rank 270
54	39,713	ME Martínez-Romero, Esperanza	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Campus Morelos	Microbiology	Rank 954
55	39,917	BJ Buckley, J. S.	New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology	Energy	Rank 835
56	40,738	PJ Pedraza-Chaverri, José	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Quimica	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Rank 985
57	42,083	PR Pérez-Padilla, Rogelio	Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias	Respiratory System	Rank 312
58	43,719	RB Rodriguez-Iturbe, Bernardo	Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición Salvador Zubiran	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 312
59	44,097	Venegas-Andraca, Salvador E.	Tecnologico de Monterrey	Optoelectronics & Photonics	Rank 89
60	44,577	SL Sánchez-Lozada, Laura G.	Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Ignacio Chavez	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 318
61	44,744	MT Markow, Therese Ann	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados	Evolutionary Biology	Rank 361
62	45,395	MJ Mas, Jean François	UNAM Campus Morelia	Geological & Geomatics Engineering	Rank 378
63	45,411	EA Estrada, Alejandro	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology	Rank 98
64	45,473	MM Medina-Mora, Maria Elena	Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramon de la Fuente	Psychiatry	Rank 839
65	47,477	MP Muriel, Pablo	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados	Toxicology	Rank 178
66	47,933	ER Effros, Rita Brickman	David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	Immunology	Rank 1,211
67	48,019	Oliva, Diego	Universidad de Guadalajara	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 1,334
68	48,263	VS Verma, Surendra P.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Geochemistry & Geophysics	Rank 829
69	48,918	MD Morales-Morales, David	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry	Rank 180
70	49,299	GG Gamba, Gerardo	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 363
71	49,745	RJ Ruiz-García, Jorge	Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo	Strategic, Defence & Security Studies	Rank 88
72	49,791	HP Hsue, Priscilla Y.	University of California, San Francisco	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 1,450
73	50,044	OM Olson, Mark E.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Evolutionary Biology	Rank 404
74	50,591	AO Arrieta, Oscar	Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia, México	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 1,928
75	51,182	MS Magallón, Susana	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Evolutionary Biology	Rank 424
76	52,344	AF Aureli, Filippo	Universidad Veracruzana	Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology	Rank 113
77	54,726	VJ Villaseñor, José Luis	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Ecology	Rank 1,118
78	55,405	RJ Rosell, Julieta A.	Instituto de Ecología, UNAM	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 830
79	56,324	EJ Escalante-Garcia, J. Ivan	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados	Building & Construction	Rank 303
80	56,398	OY Orlov, Yury	Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y de Educacion Superior de Ensenada	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 506
81	57,007	BD Boyer, David S.	Keck School of Medicine of USC	Ophthalmology & Optometry	Rank 301
82	57,921	PG Pérez Gutiérrez, Rosa Martha	Escuela Superior de Ingenieria Quimica e Industrias Extractivas	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry	Rank 179
83	57,958	NC Noguez, Cecilia	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Applied Physics	Rank 1,172
84	58,866	PF Páez-Osuna, Federico	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Environmental Sciences	Rank 741
85	59,452	NS Namendys-Silva, Silvio A.	Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición Salvador Zubiran	Emergency & Critical Care Medicine	Rank 210
86	59,693	PA Poznyak, Alexander	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 533
87	59,938	Kharisov, Boris I.	Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León	Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry	Rank 236
88	60,220	AH Azim, Hatem A.	Hospital Zambrano Hellion TecSalud	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 2,289
89	60,873	LJ López-Bucio, José	Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 934
90	61,362	FL Ferrari, Luca	Centro de Geociencias de la UNAM	Geochemistry & Geophysics	Rank 1,052
91	61,419	EA Elías-Zúñiga, Alex	Tecnologico de Monterrey	Materials	Rank 1,004
92	61,595	DL de-Bashan, Luz E.	Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas Del Noroeste	Microbiology	Rank 1,463
93	62,547	RS Rosales-Mendoza, Sergio	Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 969
94	63,040	GJ Gutiérrez-Vega, Julio C.	Tecnologico de Monterrey	Optics	Rank 251
95	64,478	MJ Medina-Franco, José L.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry	Rank 199
96	65,047	RR Romero-Troncoso, Rene	Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro	Electrical & Electronic Engineering	Rank 197
97	65,709	CL Calderón-Garcidueñas, Lilian	Universidad del Valle de México	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 3,498
98	65,851	BL Bello-Perez, L. A.	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Food Science	Rank 520
99	67,323	YW Yu, Wen	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 602
100	69,114	FC Franco-Paredes, Carlos	Hospital Infantil de Mexico Federico Gomez	Microbiology	Rank 1,637
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Frequently asked questions

How many scientists from Mexico are in the 2022 Stanford Top 2% list?

365 scientists affiliated with Mexico are on the 2022 single-year list, and 330 are on the career-long list.

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

On the 2022 single-year list, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México has the most listed scientists from Mexico, with 52. It is followed by Instituto Politécnico Nacional 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 365 in 2022, a change of +20.5%.

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.