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

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There are 9321 institutions with 73501 registered authors evaluated for all the rankings
For Central America and Caribbean, these are 147 institutions with 524 members with a total share of 502.44.

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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	1.55	28	24.10
2	[2]	Banco de México, México, Mexico	2.28	50	48.15
-	[-]	Instituto Tecnólogico Autónomo de México (ITAM) → Departamento Académico de Economía → Centro de Investigación Económica (CIE), México, Mexico	3.00	20	19
3	[3]	Colegio de México → Centro de Estudios Económicos, México, Mexico	3.44	20	19.06
4	[4]	Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), México, Mexico	3.62	32	29.08
5	[5]	Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) → Escuela de Gobierno y Transformación Pública (EGOByTP), Monterrey, Mexico	5.27	19	18.25
6	[8]	Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) → Escuela de Graduados en Administración y Dirección de Empresas (EGADE), Monterrey, Mexico	6.24	14	11.48
7	[6]	Bank for International Settlements → Representative Office for the Americas, México, Mexico	6.67	6	4.03
8	[7]	Instituto Tecnólogico Autónomo de México (ITAM) → Departamento Académico de Administración, México, Mexico	6.85	7	7
9	[9]	University of the West Indies → Department of Economics, Cave Hill, Barbados	9.71	10	9.35
10	[10]	Universidad Iberoamericana → Departamento de Economía, Ciudad de México, Mexico	10.16	14	11.87
11	[11]	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT), México, Mexico	11.99	8	6.70
12	[15]	Universidad de Guanajuato → Departamento de Economía y Finanzas, Guanajuato, Mexico	12.46	15	14.40
13	[13]	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México → Facultad de Económia, México, Mexico	12.66	22	19.13
14	[14]	Centro de Estudios Monetarios Latinoamericanos (CEMLA), México, Mexico	12.75	12	8.67
15	[12]	Instituto Politécnico Nacional → Escuela Superior de Economía, México, Mexico	14.87	8	8
16	[16]	Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León → Facultad de Economía, Monterrey, Mexico	14.88	12	12
17	[17]	Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP) → Departamento de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales, Puebla, Mexico	16.54	2	2
18	[18]	Universidad Anáhuac México → Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Huixquilucan de Degollado, Mexico	16.61	14	13.50

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	2.23	50	10
2	[3]	Instituto Tecnólogico Autónomo de México (ITAM) → Departamento Académico de Economía, México, Mexico	2.68	28	10
3	[2]	Bank for International Settlements → Representative Office for the Americas, México, Mexico	2.69	6	4.03
4	[4]	Instituto Tecnólogico Autónomo de México (ITAM) → Departamento Académico de Administración, México, Mexico	3.09	7	7
-	[-]	Instituto Tecnólogico Autónomo de México (ITAM) → Departamento Académico de Economía → Centro de Investigación Económica (CIE), México, Mexico	4.34	20	10
5	[5]	Colegio de México → Centro de Estudios Económicos, México, Mexico	4.58	20	10
6	[6]	Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), México, Mexico	5.01	32	10
7	[7]	Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) → Escuela de Gobierno y Transformación Pública (EGOByTP), Monterrey, Mexico	7.37	19	10
8	[8]	Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) → Escuela de Graduados en Administración y Dirección de Empresas (EGADE), Monterrey, Mexico	7.81	14	10
9	[9]	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT), México, Mexico	9.78	8	6.70
10	[11]	Universidad Anáhuac México → Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Huixquilucan de Degollado, Mexico	11.47	14	10
11	[12]	Centro de Estudios Monetarios Latinoamericanos (CEMLA), México, Mexico	11.93	12	8.67
12	[10]	Instituto Politécnico Nacional → Escuela Superior de Economía, México, Mexico	12.83	8	8
13	[13]	Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León → Facultad de Economía, Monterrey, Mexico	13.20	12	10
14	[15]	University of the West Indies → Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago	13.87	1	1
15	[14]	Universidad Iberoamericana → Departamento de Economía, Ciudad de México, Mexico	14.05	14	10
16	[16]	Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP) → Departamento de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales, Puebla, Mexico	16.09	2	2
17	[18]	Universidad de Guanajuato → Departamento de Economía y Finanzas, Guanajuato, Mexico	17.07	15	10
18	[19]	University of the West Indies → Department of Economics, Cave Hill, Barbados	18.53	10	9.35

Top authors, all publications years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[5]	Ernesto Stein	2.69
2	[6]	Jose Maria Barrero	3.40
3	[9]	Ignacio N. Lobato	5.54
4	[2]	Jon Frost	5.60
5	[4]	Rajagopal	7.11
6	[11]	Daniel Chiquiar	8.05
7	[8]	Gerardo Esquivel	8.19
8	[16]	Carlos Urrutia	9.87
9	[15]	Horacio Larreguy	9.97
10	[3]	Nora Claudia Lustig	9.98
11	[10]	David Arie Mayer-Foulkes	11.13
12	[7]	Raymundo Miguel Campos-Vazquez	11.24
13	[14]	Torsten Ehlers	12.72
14	[1]	Francisco Venegas-Martínez (Francisco Venegas-Martinez)	15.22
15	[21]	Mauricio Romero	16.07
16	[19]	Isidro Soloaga	18.50
17	[20]	Eva O. Arceo-Gomez	18.66
18	[22]	Nlandu Mamingi	19.56
19	[18]	Mariano Rojas	21.15
20	[23]	Gabriel Cuadra	21.23
21	[25]	Emilio Gutierrez	21.37
22	[38]	Tridib Sharma	23.29
23	[34]	Felipe Meza	24.56
24	[31]	Manuel Ramos Francia	25.77
25	[29]	Juan Rosellon	26.37
26	[24]	Olaf Erenstein	26.64
27	[33]	Alfonso Miranda	27.27
28	[40]	Santiago Bazdresch	27.45
29	[42]	David Jose Jaume	28.89
30	[12]	Jose G. Vargas-Hernandez	29.42
31	[43]	Jessica Roldán Peña (Jessica Roldan-Pena)	29.60
32	[47]	Shaun David McRae	29.66
33	[32]	Hugo De Groote	30.02
34	[26]	Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid	30.46
35	[35]	Winston Ricardo Moore	32.12
36	[48]	Laura Juarez	32.69
37	[49]	Julio A. Carrillo	34.03
38	[36]	Martin Tobal	34.57
39	[56]	Victoria Nuguer	36.63
40	[37]	Daniel Ventosa-Santaulària (Daniel Ventosa-Santaularia)	36.87
41	[46]	Vijesh Vijaya Krishna	37.52
42	[57]	Romans Pancs	39.05
43	[55]	Graciela Teruel	40.16
44	[51]	Antonio Yúnez Naude (Antonio Yunez Naude)	40.28
45	[52]	Miguel Angel Santos	40.92
46	[63]	Michael Margolis	44.67
47	[50]	Fausto Hernandez-trillo	44.86
48	[39]	Jorge Eduardo Pérez Pérez (Jorge Eduardo Perez Perez)	46.06
49	[41]	Francisco López-Herrera (Francisco Lopez-Herrera)	48.00
50	[59]	Gabriela Dutrénit (Gabriela Dutrenit)	48.19
51	[30]	Stephen McKnight	48.32
52	[61]	Raul Ibarra	50.08
53	[64]	Sara G. Castellanos	50.18
54	[65]	Preeya Mohan	51.58
55	[76]	Andrei Gomberg	53.78
56	[67]	John R. Scott	54.00
57	[53]	José Ernesto Amorós (Jose Ernesto Amoros)	54.25
58	[81]	Jorge Alonso Ortiz	54.77
59	[54]	Elvio Accinelli	54.81
60	[58]	Vicente German-Soto	55.59
61	[70]	Antonio E. Noriega	56.39
62	[72]	Carlo Alcaraz (Carlo Eduardo Alcaraz Pribaz)	56.41
63	[69]	Edwin van Gameren	56.65
64	[74]	Lorenzo Menna	57.56
65	[77]	Jaume Sempere	58.46
66	[86]	Nicolas Melissas	61.58

Top authors, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[1]	Jose Maria Barrero	1.89
2	[2]	Jon Frost	2.51
3	[5]	Mauricio Romero	5.03
4	[7]	Horacio Larreguy	5.20
5	[4]	Torsten Ehlers	5.47
6	[9]	Raymundo Miguel Campos-Vazquez	8.14
7	[12]	Emilio Gutierrez	8.93
8	[10]	Jessica Roldán Peña (Jessica Roldan-Pena)	9.46
9	[11]	David Jose Jaume	9.61
10	[14]	Martin Tobal	12.72
11	[3]	Francisco Venegas-Martínez (Francisco Venegas-Martinez)	14.58
12	[16]	Preeya Mohan	14.68
13	[13]	Olaf Erenstein	14.79
14	[6]	Nora Claudia Lustig	15.25
15	[8]	Rajagopal	15.66
16	[22]	Carlos Urrutia	18.64
17	[18]	Jorge Eduardo Pérez Pérez (Jorge Eduardo Perez Perez)	18.87
18	[25]	Victoria Nuguer	18.91
19	[17]	Mariano Rojas	20.95
20	[23]	Vijesh Vijaya Krishna	23.76
21	[27]	Lorenzo Menna	24.07
22	[29]	Julio A. Carrillo	26.11
23	[37]	Shaun David McRae	26.35
24	[36]	Gustavo Leyva	26.89
25	[35]	Carlos Vladimir Rodriguez Caballero	28.73
26	[28]	Arturo Garcia	28.79
27	[39]	Sandra Aguilar-Gomez	30.13
28	[48]	Santiago Bazdresch	30.54
29	[24]	Gerardo Esquivel	30.57
30	[44]	Juan Rosellon	33.32
31	[32]	Daniel Ventosa-Santaulària (Daniel Ventosa-Santaularia)	33.43
32	[41]	Jose Roberto Balmori-de-la-Miyar	33.64
33	[46]	Adan Silverio-Murillo	35.34
34	[45]	Tauhidul Islam Tanin	36.32
35	[49]	Pedro Ignacio Hancevic	36.53
36	[43]	Adriana Gama	36.76
37	[42]	Ernesto Stein	37.81
38	[20]	Stephen McKnight	38.55
39	[56]	Georgia Ramsay Bush	38.62
40	[54]	Arturo Alberto Aguilar Esteva	38.66
41	[19]	Jose G. Vargas-Hernandez	39.15
42	[34]	José Ernesto Amorós (Jose Ernesto Amoros)	40.59
43	[61]	Leon Fernandez Bujanda	40.62
44	[65]	Gabriel Cuadra	41.88
45	[63]	Miguel Flores	42.22
46	[31]	Roberto Joaquín Santillán-Salgado (Roberto Joaquin Santillan Salgado)	43.24
47	[26]	Francisco López-Herrera (Francisco Lopez-Herrera)	43.25
48	[40]	Edgar Demetrio Tovar-García	44.63
49	[60]	Nadine McCloud	44.92
50	[66]	Fernanda Marquez-Padilla	45.47
51	[58]	Francisco Corona	45.95
52	[74]	Tiago Gomes da Silva Tavares	46.40
53	[55]	Carlos A. Carrasco	46.52
54	[73]	Isabel Melguizo	48.00
55	[77]	Alexander Rosado-Serrano	48.40
56	[68]	Laura Juarez	48.88
57	[51]	Isidro Soloaga	48.98
58	[52]	Miguel Angel Santos	49.25
59	[59]	Eva O. Arceo-Gomez	49.54
60	[70]	Edwin van Gameren	50.02
61	[57]	Hernan Daniel Bejarano	51.78
62	[71]	Daniel Chiquiar	53.48
63	[30]	Ericka G. Rascon-Ramirez (Ericka Rascón Ramirez)	53.54
64	[64]	Philippe Bance	53.81
65	[53]	Vicente German-Soto	54.08
66	[75]	Aurora Alejandra Ramírez-Álvarez (Aurora Alejandra Ramirez-Alvarez)	56.31
67	[83]	Alfonso Miranda	57.15
68	[86]	Jose A. Pellerano	57.61
69	[81]	Hugo De Groote	58.14
70	[79]	Jorge Garza-Rodriguez	58.64
71	[89]	Carlo Alcaraz (Carlo Eduardo Alcaraz Pribaz)	59.80
72	[85]	Juan R. Hernandez	60.48
73	[90]	Tridib Sharma	60.66
74	[92]	Julio César Leal Ordóñez (Julio Cesar Leal Ordonez)	61.39
75	[69]	Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid	61.68
76	[50]	Miguel Ángel Mendoza González (Miguel Angel Mendoza Gonzalez)	62.56
77	[84]	Raul Ibarra	63.71
78	[95]	Timothy James Laing	64.43
79	[82]	Pedro Paulo Orraca Romano	66.54
80	[94]	Alberto Ortiz	69.86
81	[97]	Marco Hernandez-Vega	70.63
82	[98]	David R. Heres	70.80
83	[102]	David Juárez-Luna (David Juarez-Luna)	71.78
84	[105]	Edgar Cruz	72.49
85	[112]	Manuel Gómez-Zaldívar (Manuel Gomez-Zaldivar)	72.63
86	[87]	Francisco Cabrera-Hernandez	72.66
87	[78]	Oscar Valdemar De la Torre Torres	73.13
88	[107]	Mariela Dal Borgo	73.30
89	[106]	Rodrigo Mariscal	73.98
90	[108]	Claudia Alvarez	74.33
91	[120]	Alexandros Fakos	74.58
92	[100]	Roberto Velez Grajales	75.03
93	[96]	Astrid Loretta Ayala	75.22
94	[128]	Nikola Mirkov	77.41
95	[104]	Miriam Juarez-Torres	77.51
96	[93]	Alfonso Mendoza-Velázquez (Alfonso Mendoza-Velazquez)	78.72
97	[115]	Alfredo Ibáñez (Alfredo Ibanyez)	79.59
98	[119]	Felipe Meza	79.65
99	[110]	David Contreras-Loya	80.05
100	[111]	Arturo Antón-Sarabia (Arturo Anton-Sarabia)	81.28
101	[121]	Manuel Ramos Francia	81.79
102	[132]	Juan M. Contreras	82.75
103	[91]	Pablo Cotler	83.01
104	[109]	Daniel Flores	83.33
105	[114]	José L. Casco (Jose L. Casco)	83.56
106	[118]	Jose Morales-Arilla	83.80
107	[15]	Fredy Gamboa-Estrada	84.38
108	[135]	Igor L. Kheifets	85.30
109	[129]	Santiago García-Verdú (Santiago Garcia-Verdu)	86.07
110	[99]	Villalobos Lopez Jose Antonio	86.15
111	[117]	Rene Cabral	87.95
112	[141]	Irvin Rojas	88.03
113	[88]	María Saavedra García (Maria Saavedra Garcia)	88.27
114	[103]	Fausto Hernandez-trillo	89.33
115	[124]	Rocio Elizondo	89.68
116	[47]	Jeetendra Khadan	90.05
117	[113]	Wesley Colin Marshall	91.07
118	[126]	Gabriela Dutrénit (Gabriela Dutrenit)	92.95
119	[125]	Rubens Moura	93.18
120	[130]	Sonia B. Di Giannatale	93.59
121	[142]	Andrei Gomberg	93.74
122	[138]	Antonio Alleyne	95.35
123	[116]	Jose Caraballo-Cueto	96.43
124	[139]	Alice Krozer	97.11
125	[148]	Ricardo E. Buitrago R.	97.79
126	[123]	Troy Lorde	98.01
127	[136]	Rafael Bernardo Carmona-Benítez (Rafael Bernardo Carmona-Benitez)	98.54
128	[147]	Jean-Marc Blazy	100.08
129	[145]	Carlos Medel-Ramírez (Carlos Medel-Ramirez)	101.03
130	[134]	Irving Llamosas-Rosas	102.09
131	[122]	Gavin D. M. Ooft	102.30
132	[133]	Gustavo A. Del Angel	102.41

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