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

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There are 9347 institutions with 73835 registered authors evaluated for all the rankings
For Central America and Caribbean, these are 148 institutions with 527 members with a total share of 505.72.

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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	23.60
2	[2]	Banco de México, México, Mexico	2.35	50	48.15
-	[-]	Instituto Tecnólogico Autónomo de México (ITAM) → Departamento Académico de Economía → Centro de Investigación Económica (CIE), México, Mexico	2.74	20	18.50
3	[3]	Colegio de México → Centro de Estudios Económicos, México, Mexico	3.42	20	19.06
4	[4]	Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), México, Mexico	3.71	33	30.08
5	[5]	Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) → Escuela de Gobierno y Transformación Pública (EGOByTP), Monterrey, Mexico	5.22	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	6.52	14	11.48
7	[6]	Bank for International Settlements → Representative Office for the Americas, México, Mexico	6.54	6	4.23
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	9.70	10	9.35
10	[10]	Universidad Iberoamericana → Departamento de Economía, Ciudad de México, Mexico	10.13	14	11.87
11	[11]	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT), México, Mexico	11.89	8	6.70
12	[14]	Universidad de Guanajuato → Departamento de Economía y Finanzas, Guanajuato, Mexico	12.73	15	14.40
13	[12]	Centro de Estudios Monetarios Latinoamericanos (CEMLA), México, Mexico	12.99	12	8.67
14	[13]	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México → Facultad de Económia, México, Mexico	13.27	23	20.13
15	[16]	Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León → Facultad de Economía, Monterrey, Mexico	15.48	11	11
16	[15]	Instituto Politécnico Nacional → Escuela Superior de Economía, México, Mexico	16.27	8	8
17	[17]	Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP) → Departamento de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales, Puebla, Mexico	16.75	2	2
-	[-]	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México → Facultad de Económia → División de Estudios de Posgrado (DEPFE), México, Mexico	16.82	9	6.70
18	[18]	Universidad Anáhuac México → Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Huixquilucan de Degollado, Mexico	16.86	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	2.04	50	10
2	[3]	Bank for International Settlements → Representative Office for the Americas, México, Mexico	2.27	6	4.23
3	[2]	Instituto Tecnólogico Autónomo de México (ITAM) → Departamento Académico de Economía, México, Mexico	2.59	28	10
4	[4]	Instituto Tecnólogico Autónomo de México (ITAM) → Departamento Académico de Administración, México, Mexico	2.84	7	7
-	[-]	Instituto Tecnólogico Autónomo de México (ITAM) → Departamento Académico de Economía → Centro de Investigación Económica (CIE), México, Mexico	4.30	20	10
5	[5]	Colegio de México → Centro de Estudios Económicos, México, Mexico	4.69	20	10
6	[6]	Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), México, Mexico	5.08	33	10
7	[7]	Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) → Escuela de Gobierno y Transformación Pública (EGOByTP), Monterrey, Mexico	7.54	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	7.87	14	10
9	[9]	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT), México, Mexico	9.76	8	6.70
10	[10]	Centro de Estudios Monetarios Latinoamericanos (CEMLA), México, Mexico	11.61	12	8.67
11	[11]	Universidad Anáhuac México → Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Huixquilucan de Degollado, Mexico	11.95	14	10
12	[13]	Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León → Facultad de Economía, Monterrey, Mexico	12.94	11	10
13	[14]	University of the West Indies → Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago	14.06	1	1
14	[12]	Instituto Politécnico Nacional → Escuela Superior de Economía, México, Mexico	14.11	8	8
15	[15]	Universidad Iberoamericana → Departamento de Economía, Ciudad de México, Mexico	14.72	14	10
16	[16]	Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP) → Departamento de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales, Puebla, Mexico	16.88	2	2
17	[17]	Government of Mexico → Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI), Aguascalientes, Mexico	17.09	2	1.90
18	[19]	Universidad de Guanajuato → Departamento de Economía y Finanzas, Guanajuato, Mexico	18.52	15	10

Top authors, all publications years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[2]	Ernesto Stein	2.29
2	[5]	Jose Maria Barrero	2.78
3	[6]	Jon Frost	4.93
4	[7]	Ignacio N. Lobato	5.00
5	[4]	Rajagopal	5.76
6	[9]	Daniel Chiquiar	7.93
7	[8]	Gerardo Esquivel	8.67
8	[13]	Carlos Urrutia	9.22
9	[14]	Horacio Larreguy	9.93
10	[3]	Nora Claudia Lustig	10.46
11	[10]	David Arie Mayer-Foulkes	11.45
12	[11]	Raymundo Miguel Campos-Vazquez	11.93
13	[1]	Francisco Venegas-Martínez (Francisco Venegas-Martinez)	12.70
14	[15]	Torsten Ehlers	12.73
15	[18]	Mauricio Romero	17.50
16	[19]	Nlandu Mamingi	19.15
17	[17]	Eva O. Arceo-Gomez	19.54
18	[16]	Isidro Soloaga	19.71
19	[22]	Emilio Gutierrez	20.27
20	[20]	Mariano Rojas	22.48
21	[23]	Gabriel Cuadra	22.51
22	[33]	Tridib Sharma	25.27
23	[27]	Felipe Meza	25.57
24	[25]	Manuel Ramos Francia	26.84
25	[26]	Alfonso Miranda	28.62
26	[24]	Olaf Erenstein	28.73
27	[31]	Santiago Bazdresch	28.93
28	[35]	Shaun David McRae	28.96
29	[30]	Juan Rosellon	29.31
30	[32]	David Jose Jaume	29.40
31	[36]	Jessica Roldán Peña (Jessica Roldan-Pena)	30.83
32	[29]	Hugo De Groote	31.97
33	[28]	Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid	33.38
34	[41]	Julio A. Carrillo	33.55
35	[38]	Laura Juarez	33.56
36	[21]	Jose G. Vargas-Hernandez	34.44
37	[34]	Winston Ricardo Moore	34.92
38	[39]	Martin Tobal	35.54
39	[42]	Vijesh Vijaya Krishna	39.78
40	[43]	Antonio Yúnez Naude (Antonio Yunez Naude)	41.38
41	[48]	Graciela Teruel	41.65
42	[49]	Victoria Nuguer	41.71
43	[40]	Daniel Ventosa-Santaulària (Daniel Ventosa-Santaularia)	42.47
44	[53]	Michael Margolis	46.60
45	[51]	Romans Pancs	47.24
46	[44]	Fausto Hernandez-trillo	48.52
47	[50]	Gabriela Dutrénit (Gabriela Dutrenit)	50.18
48	[54]	Sara G. Castellanos	51.30
49	[47]	Miguel Angel Santos	52.77
50	[56]	Raul Ibarra	52.91
51	[55]	Preeya Mohan	53.79
52	[60]	Antonio E. Noriega	56.60
53	[46]	José Ernesto Amorós (Jose Ernesto Amoros)	57.12
54	[61]	Lorenzo Menna	57.40
55	[58]	John R. Scott	58.02
56	[63]	Edwin van Gameren	58.42
57	[71]	Jorge Alonso Ortiz	58.92
58	[65]	Carlo Alcaraz (Carlo Eduardo Alcaraz Pribaz)	60.10
59	[59]	Jorge Eduardo Pérez Pérez (Jorge Eduardo Perez Perez)	60.28
60	[67]	Jaume Sempere	60.84
61	[66]	Andrei Gomberg	61.39
62	[64]	Troy Lorde	63.17
63	[62]	Francisco López-Herrera (Francisco Lopez-Herrera)	63.63
64	[79]	Fernando Pérez-Cervantes (Fernando Perez Cervantes)	64.79
65	[70]	Rene Cabral	66.27
66	[73]	Jorge Fernández-Ruiz (Jorge Fernandez-Ruiz)	67.54

Top authors, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[1]	Jose Maria Barrero	1.48
2	[2]	Jon Frost	2.43
3	[5]	Mauricio Romero	4.75
4	[3]	Torsten Ehlers	4.79
5	[6]	Horacio Larreguy	4.97
6	[8]	Raymundo Miguel Campos-Vazquez	7.96
7	[10]	Emilio Gutierrez	8.82
8	[9]	Jessica Roldán Peña (Jessica Roldan-Pena)	9.28
9	[11]	David Jose Jaume	9.48
10	[4]	Francisco Venegas-Martínez (Francisco Venegas-Martinez)	11.99
11	[13]	Martin Tobal	12.85
12	[12]	Olaf Erenstein	14.65
13	[14]	Preeya Mohan	14.86
14	[7]	Nora Claudia Lustig	15.75
15	[15]	Rajagopal	16.97
16	[18]	Carlos Urrutia	17.84
17	[17]	Jorge Eduardo Pérez Pérez (Jorge Eduardo Perez Perez)	18.66
18	[20]	Victoria Nuguer	19.91
19	[22]	Lorenzo Menna	23.42
20	[19]	Mariano Rojas	23.65
21	[21]	Vijesh Vijaya Krishna	24.36
22	[24]	Gustavo Leyva	25.36
23	[26]	Shaun David McRae	25.63
24	[27]	Julio A. Carrillo	27.45
25	[28]	Carlos Vladimir Rodriguez Caballero	29.20
26	[25]	Arturo Garcia	30.33
27	[29]	Sandra Aguilar-Gomez	30.41
28	[38]	Santiago Bazdresch	30.96
29	[31]	Gerardo Esquivel	32.53
30	[34]	Jose Roberto Balmori-de-la-Miyar	35.82
31	[41]	Juan Rosellon	37.25
32	[35]	Luis Angel Monroy-Gómez-Franco (Luis Angel Monroy-Gomez-Franco)	38.25
33	[44]	Adan Silverio-Murillo	38.45
34	[42]	Tauhidul Islam Tanin	38.98
35	[40]	Adriana Gama	39.05
36	[37]	Ernesto Stein	39.13
37	[39]	Daniel Ventosa-Santaulària (Daniel Ventosa-Santaularia)	39.16
38	[45]	Arturo Alberto Aguilar Esteva	40.96
39	[48]	Georgia Ramsay Bush	41.00
40	[46]	Pedro Ignacio Hancevic	43.86
41	[55]	Gabriel Cuadra	45.40
42	[56]	Leon Fernandez Bujanda	46.02
43	[36]	José Ernesto Amorós (Jose Ernesto Amoros)	47.13
44	[57]	Fernanda Marquez-Padilla	48.54
45	[58]	Miguel Flores	48.87
46	[49]	Edgar Demetrio Tovar-García	51.02
47	[54]	Edwin van Gameren	51.18
48	[32]	Jose G. Vargas-Hernandez	51.79
49	[52]	Carlos A. Carrasco	52.14
50	[47]	Miguel Angel Santos	52.45
51	[53]	Isidro Soloaga	54.64
52	[62]	Laura Juarez	54.66
53	[50]	Hernan Daniel Bejarano	55.26
54	[64]	Isabel Melguizo	55.61
55	[51]	Eva O. Arceo-Gomez	55.75
56	[59]	Nadine McCloud	55.90
57	[63]	Francisco Corona	56.42
58	[60]	Roberto Joaquín Santillán-Salgado (Roberto Joaquin Santillan Salgado)	58.14
59	[33]	Ericka G. Rascon-Ramirez (Ericka Rascón Ramirez)	58.61
60	[77]	Alexander Rosado-Serrano	59.19
61	[65]	Daniel Chiquiar	60.30
62	[73]	Alfonso Miranda	60.61
63	[67]	Aurora Alejandra Ramírez-Álvarez (Aurora Alejandra Ramirez-Alvarez)	60.66
64	[69]	Stephen McKnight	60.92
65	[66]	Francisco López-Herrera (Francisco Lopez-Herrera)	61.73
66	[80]	Timothy James Laing	64.48
67	[79]	Carlo Alcaraz (Carlo Eduardo Alcaraz Pribaz)	64.89
68	[75]	Hugo De Groote	65.23
69	[85]	Jose A. Pellerano	65.49
70	[72]	Jorge Garza-Rodriguez	67.09
71	[76]	Raul Ibarra	67.59
72	[87]	Julio César Leal Ordóñez (Julio Cesar Leal Ordonez)	67.68
73	[78]	Juan R. Hernandez	69.15
74	[71]	Francisco Cabrera-Hernandez	69.52
75	[89]	David R. Heres	69.74
76	[82]	Tridib Sharma	70.95
77	[23]	Fredy Gamboa-Estrada	71.80
78	[74]	Vicente German-Soto	72.41
79	[83]	Daniel Flores	72.80
80	[86]	Roberto Velez Grajales	73.94
81	[90]	Alberto Ortiz	74.57
82	[84]	Philippe Bance	75.72
83	[96]	Rodrigo Mariscal	76.10
84	[88]	Miriam Juarez-Torres	77.43
85	[70]	Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid	78.87
86	[97]	David Juárez-Luna (David Juarez-Luna)	79.27
87	[93]	Marco Hernandez-Vega	79.29
88	[122]	Manuel Gómez-Zaldívar (Manuel Gomez-Zaldivar)	82.95
89	[99]	David Contreras-Loya	83.13
90	[114]	Alexandros Fakos	83.91
91	[92]	Astrid Loretta Ayala	84.42
92	[101]	Mariela Dal Borgo	84.65
93	[119]	Nikola Mirkov	85.08
94	[116]	Juan M. Contreras	85.37
95	[105]	Edgar Cruz	86.66
96	[106]	Alfredo Ibáñez (Alfredo Ibanyez)	87.24
97	[113]	Manuel Ramos Francia	88.92
98	[103]	Arturo Antón-Sarabia (Arturo Anton-Sarabia)	89.13
99	[61]	Tiago Gomes da Silva Tavares	89.73
100	[112]	Felipe Meza	89.90
101	[102]	Claudia Alvarez	90.16
102	[129]	Igor L. Kheifets	91.14
103	[43]	Jeetendra Khadan	92.28
104	[117]	Santiago García-Verdú (Santiago Garcia-Verdu)	92.38
105	[125]	Rene Cabral	92.79
106	[123]	Rocio Elizondo	93.11
107	[110]	Jose Morales-Arilla	93.20
108	[108]	José L. Casco (Jose L. Casco)	94.50
109	[98]	Alfonso Mendoza-Velázquez (Alfonso Mendoza-Velazquez)	95.32
110	[95]	Jose Caraballo-Cueto	96.56
111	[118]	Gabriela Dutrénit (Gabriela Dutrenit)	96.96
112	[137]	Irvin Rojas	97.85
113	[135]	Ricardo E. Buitrago R.	99.43
114	[126]	Rubens Moura	100.48
115	[115]	Irving Llamosas-Rosas	100.80
116	[130]	Rafael Bernardo Carmona-Benítez (Rafael Bernardo Carmona-Benitez)	101.52
117	[132]	Antonio Alleyne	101.66
118	[134]	Alice Krozer	103.21
119	[104]	Fausto Hernandez-trillo	104.14
120	[109]	Pedro Paulo Orraca Romano	105.15
121	[121]	Troy Lorde	105.68
122	[107]	Pablo Cotler	106.10
123	[111]	Miguel Ángel Mendoza González (Miguel Angel Mendoza Gonzalez)	106.47
124	[141]	Luis Hernandez-Roman	107.04
125	[128]	Sonia B. Di Giannatale	107.47
126	[142]	Jean-Marc Blazy	108.23
127	[140]	Julio Cesar Arteaga	109.06
128	[138]	Winston Ricardo Moore	110.40
129	[136]	Andrei Gomberg	112.66
130	[149]	Jesús Manuel Palma-Ruiz (Jesus Manuel Palma-Ruiz)	112.96
131	[120]	Wesley Colin Marshall	114.64
132	[124]	Oscar Valdemar De la Torre Torres	114.96

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