Top Institutions and Economists in Central America and Caribbean, as of April 2026

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There are 9298 institutions with 73371 registered authors evaluated for all the rankings
For Central America and Caribbean, these are 147 institutions with 522 members with a total share of 499.95.

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Top institutions, all authors, all publication years

Rank	W.Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	[1]	Instituto Tecnólogico Autónomo de México (ITAM) → Departamento Académico de Economía, México, Mexico	1.34	28	24.10
2	[2]	Banco de México, México, Mexico	2.18	50	48.15
-	[-]	Instituto Tecnólogico Autónomo de México (ITAM) → Departamento Académico de Economía → Centro de Investigación Económica (CIE), México, Mexico	2.62	20	19
3	[3]	Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), México, Mexico	3.45	33	29.23
4	[4]	Colegio de México → Centro de Estudios Económicos, México, Mexico	4.20	19	18.56
5	[5]	Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) → Escuela de Gobierno y Transformación Pública (EGOByTP), Monterrey, Mexico	5.02	18	17.35
6	[6]	Bank for International Settlements → Representative Office for the Americas, México, Mexico	6.57	6	4.03
7	[8]	Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) → Escuela de Graduados en Administración y Dirección de Empresas (EGADE), Monterrey, Mexico	6.57	13	10.48
8	[7]	Instituto Tecnólogico Autónomo de México (ITAM) → Departamento Académico de Administración, México, Mexico	6.82	7	7
9	[10]	University of the West Indies → Department of Economics, Cave Hill, Barbados	9.66	9	8.85
10	[9]	Universidad Iberoamericana → Departamento de Economía, Ciudad de México, Mexico	10.05	14	11.96
11	[11]	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT), México, Mexico	12.11	8	6.70
12	[12]	Centro de Estudios Monetarios Latinoamericanos (CEMLA), México, Mexico	12.22	13	9.67
13	[14]	Universidad de Guanajuato → Departamento de Economía y Finanzas, Guanajuato, Mexico	12.59	15	14.40
14	[13]	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México → Facultad de Económia, México, Mexico	13.09	22	19.13
15	[15]	Instituto Politécnico Nacional → Escuela Superior de Economía, México, Mexico	15.20	8	8
16	[16]	Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León → Facultad de Economía, Monterrey, Mexico	15.28	12	12
-	[-]	Instituto Tecnólogico Autónomo de México (ITAM) → Departamento Académico de Economía → Centro de Analísis e Investigación Económica (CAIE), México, Mexico	16.79	1	1
-	[-]	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México → Facultad de Económia → División de Estudios de Posgrado (DEPFE), México, Mexico	16.85	9	6.70
17	[17]	Universidad Anáhuac México → Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Huixquilucan de Degollado, Mexico	16.93	14	13.50
18	[18]	Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP) → Departamento de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales, Puebla, Mexico	17.52	2	2

Top institutions, 10 best authors for each, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	[1]	Banco de México, México, Mexico	2.07	50	10
2	[3]	Bank for International Settlements → Representative Office for the Americas, México, Mexico	2.29	6	4.03
3	[2]	Instituto Tecnólogico Autónomo de México (ITAM) → Departamento Académico de Economía, México, Mexico	2.51	28	10
4	[4]	Instituto Tecnólogico Autónomo de México (ITAM) → Departamento Académico de Administración, México, Mexico	2.82	7	7
-	[-]	Instituto Tecnólogico Autónomo de México (ITAM) → Departamento Académico de Economía → Centro de Investigación Económica (CIE), México, Mexico	4.33	20	10
5	[5]	Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), México, Mexico	4.79	33	10
6	[6]	Colegio de México → Centro de Estudios Económicos, México, Mexico	5.15	19	10
7	[7]	Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) → Escuela de Gobierno y Transformación Pública (EGOByTP), Monterrey, Mexico	7.45	18	10
8	[8]	Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) → Escuela de Graduados en Administración y Dirección de Empresas (EGADE), Monterrey, Mexico	8.17	13	10
9	[9]	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT), México, Mexico	9.73	8	6.70
10	[10]	Centro de Estudios Monetarios Latinoamericanos (CEMLA), México, Mexico	10.58	13	9.67
11	[12]	Universidad Anáhuac México → Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Huixquilucan de Degollado, Mexico	11.71	14	10
12	[14]	Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León → Facultad de Economía, Monterrey, Mexico	13.52	12	10
13	[13]	Universidad Iberoamericana → Departamento de Economía, Ciudad de México, Mexico	13.58	14	10
14	[11]	Instituto Politécnico Nacional → Escuela Superior de Economía, México, Mexico	13.60	8	8
15	[15]	University of the West Indies → Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago	14.03	1	1
16	[16]	Universidad de Guanajuato → Departamento de Economía y Finanzas, Guanajuato, Mexico	17.57	15	10
17	[17]	Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP) → Departamento de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales, Puebla, Mexico	18.26	2	2
18	[18]	University of the West Indies → Department of Economics, Cave Hill, Barbados	19.36	9	8.85

Top authors, all publications years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[2]	Ernesto Stein	2.14
2	[4]	Jose Maria Barrero	2.89
3	[6]	Ignacio N. Lobato	4.81
4	[5]	Jon Frost	4.93
5	[3]	Rajagopal	5.70
6	[7]	Gerardo Esquivel	7.93
7	[10]	Daniel Chiquiar	7.95
8	[12]	Carlos Urrutia	9.58
9	[13]	Horacio Larreguy	10.30
10	[8]	David Arie Mayer-Foulkes	10.57
11	[9]	Raymundo Miguel Campos-Vazquez	11.23
12	[1]	Francisco Venegas-Martínez (Francisco Venegas-Martinez)	11.48
13	[14]	Torsten Ehlers	12.38
14	[15]	Isidro Soloaga	18.02
15	[16]	Eva O. Arceo-Gomez	18.03
16	[19]	Mauricio Romero	18.17
17	[18]	Nlandu Mamingi	19.00
18	[21]	Emilio Gutierrez	19.41
19	[22]	Gabriel Cuadra	21.22
20	[20]	Mariano Rojas	21.47
21	[30]	Tridib Sharma	23.17
22	[26]	Felipe Meza	24.16
23	[23]	Manuel Ramos Francia	24.95
24	[25]	Alfonso Miranda	26.54
25	[33]	Shaun David McRae	26.96
26	[29]	Juan Rosellon	27.03
27	[31]	David Jose Jaume	27.61
28	[34]	Santiago Bazdresch	28.38
29	[24]	Olaf Erenstein	29.11
30	[27]	Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid	30.70
31	[38]	Jessica Roldán Peña (Jessica Roldan-Pena)	30.71
32	[37]	Julio A. Carrillo	31.28
33	[28]	Hugo De Groote	31.39
34	[17]	Jose G. Vargas-Hernandez	32.26
35	[32]	Winston Ricardo Moore	33.27
36	[39]	Laura Juarez	33.61
37	[40]	Martin Tobal	35.45
38	[42]	Vijesh Vijaya Krishna	39.26
39	[36]	Daniel Ventosa-Santaulària (Daniel Ventosa-Santaularia)	39.40
40	[49]	Victoria Nuguer	39.74
41	[41]	Antonio Yúnez Naude (Antonio Yunez Naude)	40.33
42	[46]	Graciela Teruel	40.33
43	[53]	Michael Margolis	44.98
44	[51]	Romans Pancs	46.98
45	[48]	Gabriela Dutrénit (Gabriela Dutrenit)	47.37
46	[45]	Fausto Hernandez-trillo	48.13
47	[52]	Sara G. Castellanos	48.71
48	[54]	Raul Ibarra	51.81
49	[63]	Jorge Alonso Ortiz	52.62
50	[55]	Preeya Mohan	53.59
51	[56]	John R. Scott	54.13
52	[47]	Miguel Angel Santos	55.07
53	[58]	Antonio E. Noriega	55.84
54	[60]	Carlo Alcaraz (Carlo Eduardo Alcaraz Pribaz)	56.47
55	[44]	José Ernesto Amorós (Jose Ernesto Amoros)	57.27
56	[59]	Jaume Sempere	57.50
57	[62]	Edwin van Gameren	57.69
58	[64]	Lorenzo Menna	58.72
59	[57]	Francisco López-Herrera (Francisco Lopez-Herrera)	59.81
60	[68]	Andrei Gomberg	60.16
61	[61]	Jorge Eduardo Pérez Pérez (Jorge Eduardo Perez Perez)	62.49
62	[65]	Troy Lorde	63.11
63	[69]	Rene Cabral	63.40
64	[67]	Alfonso Mendoza-Velázquez (Alfonso Mendoza-Velazquez)	64.59
65	[72]	Jorge Fernández-Ruiz (Jorge Fernandez-Ruiz)	65.36
66	[50]	Elvio Accinelli	66.58

Top authors, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[1]	Jose Maria Barrero	1.46
2	[2]	Jon Frost	2.39
3	[4]	Torsten Ehlers	4.71
4	[5]	Mauricio Romero	4.87
5	[6]	Horacio Larreguy	4.96
6	[7]	Raymundo Miguel Campos-Vazquez	8.37
7	[9]	Emilio Gutierrez	8.45
8	[10]	David Jose Jaume	9.09
9	[8]	Jessica Roldán Peña (Jessica Roldan-Pena)	9.20
10	[3]	Francisco Venegas-Martínez (Francisco Venegas-Martinez)	11.95
11	[11]	Martin Tobal	12.26
12	[13]	Preeya Mohan	14.30
13	[12]	Olaf Erenstein	14.79
14	[14]	Rajagopal	16.76
15	[16]	Carlos Urrutia	17.87
16	[15]	Jorge Eduardo Pérez Pérez (Jorge Eduardo Perez Perez)	18.55
17	[19]	Victoria Nuguer	18.75
18	[18]	Mariano Rojas	22.13
19	[21]	Lorenzo Menna	23.38
20	[20]	Vijesh Vijaya Krishna	23.68
21	[25]	Shaun David McRae	25.05
22	[22]	Julio A. Carrillo	25.22
23	[27]	Gustavo Leyva	26.00
24	[23]	Arturo Garcia	29.23
25	[29]	Carlos Vladimir Rodriguez Caballero	29.70
26	[30]	Sandra Aguilar-Gomez	30.27
27	[44]	Santiago Bazdresch	32.03
28	[33]	Gerardo Esquivel	32.14
29	[36]	Juan Rosellon	33.69
30	[32]	Jose Roberto Balmori-de-la-Miyar	34.11
31	[34]	Daniel Ventosa-Santaulària (Daniel Ventosa-Santaularia)	35.24
32	[40]	Adan Silverio-Murillo	36.27
33	[35]	Adriana Gama	36.86
34	[45]	Georgia Ramsay Bush	37.17
35	[37]	Ernesto Stein	37.90
36	[41]	Tauhidul Islam Tanin	38.88
37	[42]	Arturo Alberto Aguilar Esteva	38.97
38	[43]	Pedro Ignacio Hancevic	40.33
39	[50]	Gabriel Cuadra	42.17
40	[53]	Leon Fernandez Bujanda	44.91
41	[52]	Fernanda Marquez-Padilla	46.18
42	[56]	Miguel Flores	46.71
43	[38]	José Ernesto Amorós (Jose Ernesto Amoros)	47.82
44	[49]	Carlos A. Carrasco	47.92
45	[48]	Edgar Demetrio Tovar-García	49.41
46	[59]	Tiago Gomes da Silva Tavares	50.33
47	[31]	Jose G. Vargas-Hernandez	50.70
48	[54]	Isidro Soloaga	51.71
49	[47]	Miguel Angel Santos	52.90
50	[58]	Edwin van Gameren	53.06
51	[51]	Eva O. Arceo-Gomez	54.06
52	[60]	Laura Juarez	54.38
53	[26]	Ericka G. Rascon-Ramirez (Ericka Rascón Ramirez)	55.24
54	[57]	Nadine McCloud	55.60
55	[63]	Francisco Corona	55.92
56	[64]	Isabel Melguizo	56.15
57	[77]	Alexander Rosado-Serrano	56.96
58	[65]	Aurora Alejandra Ramírez-Álvarez (Aurora Alejandra Ramirez-Alvarez)	57.39
59	[62]	Daniel Chiquiar	58.13
60	[74]	Jose A. Pellerano	58.46
61	[68]	Alfonso Miranda	58.82
62	[66]	Francisco López-Herrera (Francisco Lopez-Herrera)	59.04
63	[71]	Stephen McKnight	59.42
64	[61]	Roberto Joaquín Santillán-Salgado (Roberto Joaquin Santillan Salgado)	60.14
65	[79]	Carlo Alcaraz (Carlo Eduardo Alcaraz Pribaz)	64.06
66	[73]	Juan R. Hernandez	64.64
67	[85]	Julio César Leal Ordóñez (Julio Cesar Leal Ordonez)	65.18
68	[82]	Timothy James Laing	65.98
69	[67]	Hernan Daniel Bejarano	66.69
70	[75]	Raul Ibarra	67.02
71	[80]	Hugo De Groote	67.66
72	[76]	Jorge Garza-Rodriguez	68.90
73	[84]	Tridib Sharma	69.48
74	[86]	Alberto Ortiz	70.21
75	[90]	David R. Heres	71.29
76	[81]	Philippe Bance	71.53
77	[72]	Francisco Cabrera-Hernandez	72.07
78	[78]	Vicente German-Soto	73.31
79	[88]	Roberto Velez Grajales	74.49
80	[94]	David Juárez-Luna (David Juarez-Luna)	74.81
81	[103]	Oscar Alfonso Carvallo Valencia	75.53
82	[89]	Marco Hernandez-Vega	75.62
83	[96]	Rodrigo Mariscal	75.82
84	[70]	Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid	76.72
85	[87]	Pedro Paulo Orraca Romano	79.09
86	[114]	Manuel Gómez-Zaldívar (Manuel Gomez-Zaldivar)	79.85
87	[92]	Astrid Loretta Ayala	80.34
88	[116]	Nikola Mirkov	81.83
89	[97]	Miriam Juarez-Torres	82.08
90	[112]	Alexandros Fakos	82.19
91	[100]	Edgar Cruz	82.66
92	[99]	Daniel Flores	82.72
93	[104]	Alfredo Ibáñez (Alfredo Ibanyez)	82.82
94	[102]	David Contreras-Loya	83.14
95	[117]	Juan M. Contreras	84.57
96	[113]	Manuel Ramos Francia	85.36
97	[101]	Arturo Antón-Sarabia (Arturo Anton-Sarabia)	86.51
98	[106]	Mariela Dal Borgo	87.09
99	[109]	Felipe Meza	87.35
100	[118]	Santiago García-Verdú (Santiago Garcia-Verdu)	88.77
101	[127]	Igor L. Kheifets	88.79
102	[123]	Rene Cabral	89.29
103	[120]	Rocio Elizondo	89.41
104	[111]	Jose Morales-Arilla	89.92
105	[108]	José L. Casco (Jose L. Casco)	90.37
106	[39]	Jeetendra Khadan	90.44
107	[95]	Alfonso Mendoza-Velázquez (Alfonso Mendoza-Velazquez)	91.13
108	[121]	Gabriela Dutrénit (Gabriela Dutrenit)	95.22
109	[133]	Irvin Rojas	95.33
110	[115]	Sonia B. Di Giannatale	96.42
111	[128]	Alice Krozer	98.07
112	[126]	Rubens Moura	99.42
113	[130]	Antonio Alleyne	99.44
114	[129]	Rafael Bernardo Carmona-Benítez (Rafael Bernardo Carmona-Benitez)	100.19
115	[107]	Pablo Cotler	101.94
116	[110]	Miguel Ángel Mendoza González (Miguel Angel Mendoza Gonzalez)	102.01
117	[105]	Fausto Hernandez-trillo	102.03
118	[24]	Fredy Gamboa-Estrada	104.63
119	[124]	Troy Lorde	105.16
120	[136]	Julio Cesar Arteaga	106.07
121	[144]	Ricardo E. Buitrago R.	106.87
122	[137]	Andrei Gomberg	107.05
123	[142]	Jean-Marc Blazy	107.31
124	[125]	Jose Caraballo-Cueto	108.10
125	[138]	Winston Ricardo Moore	108.21
126	[119]	Wesley Colin Marshall	108.61
127	[146]	Jesús Manuel Palma-Ruiz (Jesus Manuel Palma-Ruiz)	109.31
128	[132]	Irving Llamosas-Rosas	110.13
129	[122]	Oscar Valdemar De la Torre Torres	110.32
130	[148]	Romans Pancs	116.36
131	[147]	Antonio Jimenez-Martinez	117.37

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