Mexico's Top 2% Scientists 2023: Career-Long List

Mexico has 352 scientists on the 2023 career-long Top 2% list, up 6.7% from 330 in 2022. That places Mexico 39th in the world by number of listed scientists. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México has the most listed scientists (53), followed by Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (20).

Single Year

355

-10 (-2.7%) vs 2022

Career Data

352

+22 (+6.7%) vs 2022

World rank by count

#39

No change vs 2022

Institutes

117

No change vs 2022

Scientists in Mexico on the list, by year

The career-long count has grown 21% since 2020.

Career-long list, change on the previous year

2021+17.5%

2022-3.5%

2023+6.7%

2024+9.1%

2025+9.4%

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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%

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Rank in Mexico	World rank	Scientist	Institute	Sub-field	Rank in sub-field
1	747	BJ Brown, James H.	The University of New Mexico	Ecology	Rank 16
2	1,404	CC Coello Coello, Carlos A.	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 39
3	7,676	JD Jablonski, David	The University of Chicago	Evolutionary Biology	Rank 98
4	8,495	HM Heil, Martin	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 74
5	8,545	BY Bashan, Yoav	Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas Del Noroeste	Microbiology	Rank 212
6	9,065	CS Carmichael, S. Thomas	David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 782
7	10,217	SM Selman, Moises	Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias	Respiratory System	Rank 100
8	10,611	OR Ortega, Romeo	Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 76
9	11,916	WG West, Geoffrey	Santa Fe Institute	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 169
10	14,532	SH Sira-Ramírez, H.	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 103
11	15,254	RI Romieu, Isabelle	Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública. México	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 686
12	15,467	HD Hoyt, David B.	American College of Surgeons	Emergency & Critical Care Medicine	Rank 45
13	16,276	Sharma, Ashutosh	Tecnológico de Monterrey, Querétaro	Chemical Physics	Rank 393
14	16,846	ER Effros, Rita Brickman	David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	Immunology	Rank 612
15	19,032	CJ Crossa, José	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 202
16	19,939	AD Alarcón-Segovia, Donato	Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición Salvador Zubiran	Arthritis & Rheumatology	Rank 162
17	20,075	GA Galano, Annia	Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana -Unidad Iztapalapa	Chemical Physics	Rank 470
18	20,695	MT Markow, Therese Ann	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Evolutionary Biology	Rank 221
19	22,365	MJ Morrone, Juan J.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Ecology	Rank 380
20	23,600	RM Reynolds, Matthew P.	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 272
21	25,184	DS Dong, Shi Hai	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	General Physics	Rank 151
22	26,186	HB Husted, Bryan W.	EGADE Business School	Business & Management	Rank 255
23	26,324	FL Fridman, Leonid	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 195
24	27,406	GG Gamba, Gerardo	Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición Salvador Zubiran	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 291
25	27,559	AJ Albores-Saavedra, J.	Fundación Clínica y Hospital Médica Sur	Pathology	Rank 90
26	28,452	Cárdenas-Barrón, Leopoldo Eduardo	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Operations Research	Rank 90
27	29,396	SR Singh, Ravi P.	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 345
28	30,343	Castillo, Oscar	Tijuana Institute of Technology	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 599
29	30,764	RM Rinella, Mary E.	Pritzker School of Medicine	Gastroenterology & Hepatology	Rank 477
30	31,585	GJ Gómez-Aguilar, J. F.	Tecnológico Nacional de México	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 465
31	33,705	ME Martínez-Romero, Esperanza	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Campus Morelos	Microbiology	Rank 850
32	33,838	TG Torre-Amione, Guillermo	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 1,362
33	34,358	RB Rodriguez-Iturbe, Bernardo	Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición Salvador Zubiran	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 364
34	36,463	CG Ceballos, Gerardo	Instituto de Ecología, UNAM	Ecology	Rank 629
35	38,392	SM Soleimani, Manoocher	UNM Health Sciences Center	Urology & Nephrology	Rank 418
36	38,550	AJ Ancheyta, Jorge	Instituto Mexicano Del Petroleo	Energy	Rank 428
37	39,252	VS Verma, Surendra P.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Geochemistry & Geophysics	Rank 653
38	39,678	DE Degli Esposti, Mauro	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Campus Morelos	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Rank 1,700
39	39,687	AF Aureli, Filippo	Universidad Veracruzana	Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology	Rank 129
40	40,567	AJ Alvarez-Ramirez, J.	Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana -Unidad Iztapalapa	Food Science	Rank 156
41	41,104	RJ Rivera, Juan	Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública. México	Nutrition & Dietetics	Rank 319
42	43,732	EJ Erler, J.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 675
43	44,099	MP Muriel, Pablo	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Toxicology	Rank 180
44	44,412	RT Romeo, Tony	Instituto de Fisiologia Celular de la UNAM	Microbiology	Rank 1,123
45	46,643	YW Yu, Wen	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 344
46	47,832	SJ Sotelo, Julio	Academia Nacional de Medicina de México	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 3,408
47	47,990	PR Pérez-Padilla, Rogelio	Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias	Respiratory System	Rank 477
48	48,108	BG Borges, Guilherme	Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramon de la Fuente	Psychiatry	Rank 975
49	48,716	BJ Buckley, J. S.	New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology	Energy	Rank 566
50	49,188	ET Ellenberger, Tom	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Rank 2,070
51	49,419	Moreno, Jaime A.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 371
52	51,795	IF Izrailev, Felix M.	Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla	Fluids & Plasmas	Rank 446
53	51,946	BA Bravo, Alejandra	Instituto de Biotecnología de la UNAM	Microbiology	Rank 1,305
54	52,476	JE Juaristi, Eusebio	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Organic Chemistry	Rank 999
55	54,164	MA Meneses, A.	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 3,778
56	56,419	BR Burgos-Vargas, Ruben	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Arthritis & Rheumatology	Rank 392
57	57,915	RC Rosales, Carlos	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Immunology	Rank 1,706
58	58,096	KR Kelly, Rafael	Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y de Educacion Superior de Ensenada	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 436
59	58,607	PF Páez-Osuna, Federico	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Environmental Sciences	Rank 330
60	59,467	AM Aluja, Martín	Instituto de Ecología, A.C.	Entomology	Rank 126
61	59,680	HM Hernández-Avila, Mauricio	Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública. México	Public Health	Rank 548
62	59,893	YE Yahia, Elhadi M.	Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro	Food Science	Rank 267
63	59,931	VR Vazquez-Duhalt, Rafael	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Biotechnology	Rank 165
64	60,461	XY Xu, Yunbi	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 784
65	60,655	Melin, Patricia	Tijuana Institute of Technology	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 1,158
66	60,732	MM Madou, Marc J.	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Analytical Chemistry	Rank 408
67	61,004	EA Estrada, Alejandro	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology	Rank 216
68	61,078	OY Orlov, Yury	Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y de Educacion Superior de Ensenada	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 454
69	61,079	KJ Keppie, J. Duncan	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Geochemistry & Geophysics	Rank 1,044
70	61,954	RJ Rubio, José de Jesús	Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 1,180
71	62,144	OJ Oró, J.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Evolutionary Biology	Rank 563
72	62,451	RG Ruiz-Palacios, Guillermo M.	Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición Salvador Zubiran	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 813
73	63,016	MR Moreno-Sánchez, Rafael	Facultad de Estudios Superiores Iztacala	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Rank 2,606
74	64,876	MM Moshinsky, Marcos	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Nuclear & Particle Physics	Rank 1,059
75	65,222	NC Noguez, Cecilia	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Applied Physics	Rank 1,708
76	65,735	ÁE Álvarez-Buylla, Elena R.	Instituto de Ecología, UNAM	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 860
77	66,587	SR Simon, Ronald	Scripps Clinic	Allergy	Rank 200
78	66,594	BR Buijs, R. M.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 4,568
79	66,946	VE Vázquez-Semadeni, Enrique	Instituto de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica	Astronomy & Astrophysics	Rank 859
80	69,193	MM Medina-Mora, Maria Elena	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Psychiatry	Rank 1,301
81	69,417	MS Magallón, Susana	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Evolutionary Biology	Rank 613
82	70,514	MJ Mas, Jean François	UNAM Campus Morelia	Geological & Geomatics Engineering	Rank 282
83	70,536	SS Sánchez, Sebastián F.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Astronomy & Astrophysics	Rank 925
84	70,716	WT Williams, Trevor	Instituto de Ecología, A.C.	Entomology	Rank 156
85	70,908	RH Richardson, Harry W.	Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México	Urban & Regional Planning	Rank 87
86	72,311	AC Aguilar-Salinas, Carlos A.	Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición Salvador Zubiran	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 1,577
87	73,948	PL Possani, Lourival D.	Instituto de Biotecnología de la UNAM	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Rank 3,019
88	74,045	SP Sebastian, P. J.	Instituto de Energías Renovables de la UNAM	Energy	Rank 921
89	74,391	PD Page, Dany	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Astronomy & Astrophysics	Rank 980
90	75,186	BM Basin, Michael V.	Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 557
91	77,503	ZJ Zimmerman, Janice L.	Hospital Regional #6 IMSS	Emergency & Critical Care Medicine	Rank 247
92	77,644	GG Greendale, Gail	David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 1,685
93	77,896	PR Pérez-Gutierrez, Rosa M.	Escuela Superior de Ingenieria Quimica e Industrias Extractivas	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry	Rank 235
94	78,501	BF Bermúdez-Rattoni, Federico	Instituto de Fisiologia Celular de la UNAM	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 5,257
95	79,052	RR Romo, Ranulfo	El Colegio Nacional	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 5,276
96	79,357	FJ Fripiat, José	Instituto Mexicano Del Petroleo	Chemical Physics	Rank 1,564
97	80,514	MD Morales-Morales, David	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry	Rank 485
98	81,034	FL Ferrari, Luca	Centro de Geociencias de la UNAM	Geochemistry & Geophysics	Rank 1,413
99	82,348	SS Snapp, Sieglinde S.	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 411
100	83,453	EO Erenstein, O.	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo	Agronomy & Agriculture	Rank 417
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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 career-long list, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México has the most listed scientists from Mexico, with 53. It is followed by Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional with 20.

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

On the career-long list, Mexico went from 291 scientists in 2020 to 352 in 2023, a change of +21.0%.

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.