Mexico's Top 2% Scientists 2023

Mexico has 355 scientists on the 2023 single-year Top 2% list, down 2.7% from 365 in 2022. That places Mexico 41st in the world by number of listed scientists, down 1 place. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México has the most listed scientists (47), followed by Instituto Politécnico Nacional (22).

Single Year

355

-10 (-2.7%) vs 2022

Career Data

352

+22 (+6.7%) vs 2022

World rank by count

#41

down 1 place vs 2022

Institutes

115

No change vs 2022

Scientists in Mexico on the list, by year

The single-year count has grown 17% 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	738	CC Coello Coello, Carlos A.	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 46
2	1,193	BJ Brown, James H.	The University of New Mexico	Ecology	Rank 29
3	2,911	RM Rinella, Mary E.	Pritzker School of Medicine	Gastroenterology & Hepatology	Rank 37
4	4,941	GJ Gómez-Aguilar, J. F.	Tecnológico Nacional de México	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 42
5	6,036	HM Heil, Martin	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 78
6	6,185	BY Bashan, Yoav	Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas Del Noroeste	Microbiology	Rank 121
7	7,330	CS Carmichael, S. Thomas	David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 421
8	7,997	GA Galano, Annia	Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana -Unidad Iztapalapa	Chemical Physics	Rank 126
9	8,030	MJ Morrone, Juan J.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Ecology	Rank 193
10	8,749	CJ Crossa, José	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 118
11	9,936	RM Reynolds, Matthew P.	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 133
12	11,376	Iqbal, Hafiz M.N.	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Environmental Sciences	Rank 173
13	11,771	HB Husted, Bryan W.	EGADE Business School	Business & Management	Rank 311
14	11,847	SM Selman, Moises	Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias	Respiratory System	Rank 76
15	11,946	Castillo, Oscar	Tijuana Institute of Technology	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 467
16	12,135	WG West, Geoffrey	Santa Fe Institute	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 115
17	13,408	SR Singh, Ravi P.	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 173
18	14,128	RC Rosales, Carlos	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Immunology	Rank 337
19	15,383	SC Sánchez, Carmen	Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala	Biotechnology	Rank 55
20	15,881	Cárdenas-Barrón, Leopoldo Eduardo	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Operations Research	Rank 73
21	16,473	YE Yahia, Elhadi M.	Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro	Food Science	Rank 119
22	17,680	CG Ceballos, Gerardo	Instituto de Ecología, UNAM	Ecology	Rank 374
23	17,790	OR Ortega, Romeo	Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 177
24	17,973	EO Erenstein, O.	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 114
25	20,072	BG Borges, Guilherme	Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramon de la Fuente	Psychiatry	Rank 419
26	20,184	FL Fridman, Leonid	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 201
27	20,326	XY Xu, Yunbi	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 284
28	20,432	Moreno, Jaime A.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 203
29	20,930	CE Cuevas, Erik	Universidad de Guadalajara	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 727
30	21,011	SS Serna-Saldívar, Sergio O.	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Food Science	Rank 170
31	23,473	JD Jablonski, David	The University of Chicago	Evolutionary Biology	Rank 184
32	24,849	RJ Rubio, José de Jesús	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 848
33	25,388	SS Sánchez, Sebastián F.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Astronomy & Astrophysics	Rank 227
34	27,230	RJ Rivera, Juan	Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública. México	Nutrition & Dietetics	Rank 200
35	27,425	BS Barquera, Simón	Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública. México	Public Health	Rank 289
36	31,143	BM Basin, Michael V.	Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 312
37	32,012	Venegas-Andraca, Salvador E.	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Optoelectronics & Photonics	Rank 68
38	32,075	HM Hajiaghaei-Keshteli, Mostafa	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 1,068
39	32,621	VA Varela, Ana Sofía	Instituto de Quimica de la UNAM	Organic Chemistry	Rank 425
40	32,811	BP Balvanera, Patricia	Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad	Ecology	Rank 648
41	32,918	MT Markow, Therese Ann	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Evolutionary Biology	Rank 245
42	33,086	AC Aguilar-Salinas, Carlos A.	Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición Salvador Zubiran	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 598
43	33,691	SH Sira-Ramírez, H.	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 337
44	34,498	AJ Armstrong-Altrin, John S.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Geology	Rank 35
45	34,904	DS Dong, Shi Hai	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	General Physics	Rank 201
46	35,128	GG González-Aguilar, Gustavo A.	Centro de Investigacion en Alimentacion y Desarrollo	Food Science	Rank 310
47	35,624	AJ Ancheyta, Jorge	Instituto Mexicano Del Petroleo	Energy	Rank 814
48	35,868	MJ Mas, Jean François	UNAM Campus Morelia	Geological & Geomatics Engineering	Rank 339
49	36,681	SS Snapp, Sieglinde S.	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 247
50	37,422	RI Romieu, Isabelle	Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública. México	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 1,311
51	38,687	Oliva, Diego	Universidad de Guadalajara	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 1,269
52	40,147	Melin, Patricia	Tijuana Institute of Technology	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 1,313
53	40,615	EJ Escalante-Garcia, J. Ivan	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Building & Construction	Rank 260
54	40,702	PR Pérez-Padilla, Rogelio	Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias	Respiratory System	Rank 268
55	41,061	SL Sánchez-Lozada, Laura Gabriela	Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Ignacio Chavez	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 287
56	41,252	PJ Pedraza-Chaverri, José	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Rank 836
57	43,077	SG Santoyo, Gustavo	Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo	Microbiology	Rank 1,008
58	43,324	OM Olson, Mark E.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Evolutionary Biology	Rank 306
59	44,743	RB Rodriguez-Iturbe, Bernardo	Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición Salvador Zubiran	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 327
60	44,925	VS Verma, Surendra P.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Geochemistry & Geophysics	Rank 727
61	45,533	SM Soleimani, Manoocher	UNM Health Sciences Center	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 336
62	47,296	BJ Buckley, J. S.	New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology	Energy	Rank 1,136
63	48,502	SB Scott Budinger, G. R.	Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	Respiratory System	Rank 332
64	48,529	AJ Alvarez-Ramirez, J.	Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana -Unidad Iztapalapa	Food Science	Rank 456
65	48,768	GG Gamba, Gerardo	Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición Salvador Zubiran	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 355
66	50,558	AC Aguilar, Cristóbal N.	Universidad Autonoma de Coahuila	Biotechnology	Rank 188
67	50,728	Kharisov, Boris I.	Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León	Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry	Rank 180
68	51,674	FC Franco-Paredes, Carlos	Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez	Microbiology	Rank 1,180
69	52,981	PR Pérez-Gutierrez, Rosa M.	Escuela Superior de Ingenieria Quimica e Industrias Extractivas	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry	Rank 174
70	53,415	Sharma, Ashutosh	Tecnológico de Monterrey, Querétaro	Chemical Physics	Rank 719
71	53,934	RJ Ruiz-García, Jorge	Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo	Strategic, Defence & Security Studies	Rank 97
72	54,403	MM Medina-Mora, Maria Elena	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Psychiatry	Rank 983
73	54,634	OY Orlov, Yury	Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y de Educacion Superior de Ensenada	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 527
74	54,996	ME Martínez-Romero, Esperanza	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Campus Morelos	Microbiology	Rank 1,258
75	55,498	ZB Ziaeian, Boback	David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 1,596
76	55,860	MP Muriel, Pablo	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Toxicology	Rank 198
77	56,726	ZJ Zimmerman, Janice L.	Hospital Regional #6 IMSS	Emergency & Critical Care Medicine	Rank 194
78	57,434	LJ López-Bucio, José	Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 955
79	59,164	RD Romero, David	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 578
80	59,717	BJ Baizabal-Carvallo, José Fidel	Universidad de Guanajuato	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 2,965
81	60,995	Parra-Saldívar, Roberto	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Environmental Sciences	Rank 1,013
82	61,318	AO Arrieta, Oscar	Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia, México	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 2,197
83	61,839	YW Yu, Wen	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 606
84	61,912	ER Effros, Rita Brickman	David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	Immunology	Rank 1,385
85	62,965	PF Páez-Osuna, Federico	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Environmental Sciences	Rank 1,040
86	63,266	EA Estrada, Alejandro	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology	Rank 118
87	63,860	BL Bello-Pérez, Luis A.	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Food Science	Rank 616
88	63,967	RM Ramirez-Montoya, Maria Soledad	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Education	Rank 632
89	64,085	HD Hoyt, David B.	American College of Surgeons	Emergency & Critical Care Medicine	Rank 215
90	64,172	KO Kharissova, Oxana V.	Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León	Materials	Rank 1,165
91	64,982	GA Gelbukh, Alexander	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 2,089
92	65,005	SE Soto-Perez-de-Celis, Enrique	Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición Salvador Zubiran	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 2,350
93	65,636	SL Simental-Mendía, Luis E.	Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social	Pharmacology & Pharmacy	Rank 399
94	66,683	MS Magallón, Susana	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Evolutionary Biology	Rank 457
95	67,970	GG Greendale, Gail	David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 1,142
96	68,023	RJ Rosell, Julieta A.	Instituto de Ecología, UNAM	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 1,142
97	69,052	LF Lagunas-Rangel, Francisco Alejandro	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Gerontology	Rank 128
98	69,237	RR Romero-Troncoso, Rene de J.	Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro	Electrical & Electronic Engineering	Rank 216
99	70,849	VE Vázquez-Semadeni, Enrique	Instituto de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica	Astronomy & Astrophysics	Rank 730
100	71,515	RS Rosales-Mendoza, Sergio	Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 1,203
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Frequently asked questions

How many scientists from Mexico are in the 2023 Stanford Top 2% list?

355 scientists affiliated with Mexico are on the 2023 single-year list, and 352 are on the career-long list.

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

On the 2023 single-year list, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México has the most listed scientists from Mexico, with 47. It is followed by Instituto Politécnico Nacional with 22.

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 355 in 2023, a change of +17.2%.

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.