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

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There are 9374 institutions with 74391 registered authors evaluated for all the rankings
For Central America and Caribbean, these are 147 institutions with 531 members with a total share of 509.71.

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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	29	24.60
2	[2]	Banco de México, México, Mexico	2.33	50	48.15
-	[-]	Instituto Tecnólogico Autónomo de México (ITAM) → Departamento Académico de Economía → Centro de Investigación Económica (CIE), México, Mexico	2.72	21	19.50
3	[3]	Colegio de México → Centro de Estudios Económicos, México, Mexico	3.61	20	19.06
4	[4]	Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), México, Mexico	3.66	34	31.08
5	[5]	Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) → Escuela de Gobierno y Transformación Pública (EGOByTP), Monterrey, Mexico	5.30	20	19.25
6	[8]	Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) → Escuela de Graduados en Administración y Dirección de Empresas (EGADE), Monterrey, Mexico	6.42	14	11.48
7	[6]	Bank for International Settlements → Representative Office for the Americas, México, Mexico	6.58	5	3.73
8	[7]	Instituto Tecnólogico Autónomo de México (ITAM) → Departamento Académico de Administración, México, Mexico	6.63	7	7
9	[9]	University of the West Indies → Department of Economics, Cave Hill, Barbados	9.75	10	9.35
10	[10]	Universidad Iberoamericana → Departamento de Economía, Ciudad de México, Mexico	10.07	14	11.87
11	[11]	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT), México, Mexico	12.00	8	6.70
12	[14]	Universidad de Guanajuato → Departamento de Economía y Finanzas, Guanajuato, Mexico	12.55	16	15.40
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	12.99	23	20.13
15	[16]	Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León → Facultad de Economía, Monterrey, Mexico	15.70	12	11.50
16	[15]	Instituto Politécnico Nacional → Escuela Superior de Economía, México, Mexico	16.13	8	8
-	[-]	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México → Facultad de Económia → División de Estudios de Posgrado (DEPFE), México, Mexico	16.46	9	6.70
17	[17]	Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP) → Departamento de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales, Puebla, Mexico	16.62	2	2
18	[18]	Universidad Anáhuac México → Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Huixquilucan de Degollado, Mexico	17.07	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	2.12	50	10
2	[3]	Bank for International Settlements → Representative Office for the Americas, México, Mexico	2.32	5	3.73
3	[2]	Instituto Tecnólogico Autónomo de México (ITAM) → Departamento Académico de Economía, México, Mexico	2.48	29	10
4	[4]	Instituto Tecnólogico Autónomo de México (ITAM) → Departamento Académico de Administración, México, Mexico	2.83	7	7
-	[-]	Instituto Tecnólogico Autónomo de México (ITAM) → Departamento Académico de Economía → Centro de Investigación Económica (CIE), México, Mexico	4.24	21	10
5	[5]	Colegio de México → Centro de Estudios Económicos, México, Mexico	4.73	20	10
6	[6]	Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), México, Mexico	5.01	34	10
7	[7]	Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) → Escuela de Gobierno y Transformación Pública (EGOByTP), Monterrey, Mexico	7.47	20	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	10.16	8	6.70
10	[11]	Centro de Estudios Monetarios Latinoamericanos (CEMLA), México, Mexico	11.83	12	8.67
11	[10]	Universidad Anáhuac México → Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Huixquilucan de Degollado, Mexico	11.99	14	10
12	[13]	Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León → Facultad de Economía, Monterrey, Mexico	13.26	12	10
13	[12]	Instituto Politécnico Nacional → Escuela Superior de Economía, México, Mexico	14.11	8	8
14	[14]	University of the West Indies → Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago	14.22	1	1
15	[15]	Universidad Iberoamericana → Departamento de Economía, Ciudad de México, Mexico	14.46	14	10
16	[16]	Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP) → Departamento de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales, Puebla, Mexico	16.67	2	2
17	[17]	Government of Mexico → Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI), Aguascalientes, Mexico	16.88	2	1.90
18	[18]	Universidad de Guanajuato → Departamento de Economía y Finanzas, Guanajuato, Mexico	18.46	16	10

Top authors, all publications years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[3]	Ernesto Stein	2.25
2	[6]	Jose Maria Barrero	2.78
3	[4]	Jon Frost	4.68
4	[7]	Ignacio N. Lobato	4.69
5	[5]	Rajagopal	5.78
6	[8]	Gerardo Esquivel	8.29
7	[11]	Daniel Chiquiar	8.30
8	[13]	Horacio Larreguy	9.53
9	[15]	Carlos Urrutia	10.59
10	[2]	Nora Claudia Lustig	11.43
11	[10]	David Arie Mayer-Foulkes	11.52
12	[9]	Raymundo Miguel Campos-Vazquez	11.87
13	[14]	Torsten Ehlers	12.18
14	[1]	Francisco Venegas-Martínez (Francisco Venegas-Martinez)	12.63
15	[18]	Mauricio Romero	18.32
16	[19]	Nlandu Mamingi	19.42
17	[17]	Eva O. Arceo-Gomez	19.48
18	[21]	Emilio Gutierrez	19.51
19	[16]	Isidro Soloaga	19.94
20	[20]	Mariano Rojas	22.42
21	[23]	Gabriel Cuadra	22.89
22	[37]	Tridib Sharma	24.88
23	[25]	Manuel Ramos Francia	26.89
24	[30]	Felipe Meza	27.30
25	[33]	Santiago Bazdresch	27.80
26	[31]	David Jose Jaume	27.84
27	[38]	Shaun David McRae	28.46
28	[26]	Juan Rosellon	29.34
29	[24]	Olaf Erenstein	29.39
30	[35]	Julio A. Carrillo	29.60
31	[27]	Alfonso Miranda	29.61
32	[39]	Jessica Roldán Peña (Jessica Roldan-Pena)	30.38
33	[29]	Hugo De Groote	32.42
34	[28]	Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid	33.03
35	[22]	Jose G. Vargas-Hernandez	34.80
36	[32]	Winston Ricardo Moore	34.80
37	[42]	Laura Juarez	35.12
38	[46]	Martin Tobal	38.35
39	[50]	Victoria Nuguer	40.37
40	[36]	Vijesh Vijaya Krishna	40.40
41	[34]	Daniel Ventosa-Santaulària (Daniel Ventosa-Santaularia)	41.95
42	[43]	Antonio Yúnez Naude (Antonio Yunez Naude)	42.03
43	[48]	Graciela Teruel	42.45
44	[41]	Fausto Hernandez-trillo	45.67
45	[53]	Michael Margolis	47.54
46	[55]	Romans Pancs	48.09
47	[49]	Gabriela Dutrénit (Gabriela Dutrenit)	49.82
48	[56]	Sara G. Castellanos	52.29
49	[54]	Preeya Mohan	53.60
50	[47]	Miguel Angel Santos	54.01
51	[58]	Raul Ibarra	54.03
52	[45]	José Ernesto Amorós (Jose Ernesto Amoros)	54.88
53	[60]	Edwin van Gameren	57.46
54	[61]	John R. Scott	57.52
55	[67]	Antonio E. Noriega	57.82
56	[68]	Lorenzo Menna	58.57
57	[66]	Carlo Alcaraz (Carlo Eduardo Alcaraz Pribaz)	60.11
58	[75]	Jorge Alonso Ortiz	61.06
59	[62]	Jorge Eduardo Pérez Pérez (Jorge Eduardo Perez Perez)	61.38
60	[69]	Andrei Gomberg	61.61
61	[71]	Jaume Sempere	62.25
62	[73]	Rene Cabral	64.98
63	[82]	Fernando Pérez-Cervantes (Fernando Perez Cervantes)	65.47
64	[64]	Troy Lorde	65.79
65	[79]	Raissa Fabregas	65.84
66	[59]	Francisco López-Herrera (Francisco Lopez-Herrera)	67.65
67	[72]	Jorge Fernández-Ruiz (Jorge Fernandez-Ruiz)	67.72

Top authors, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[1]	Jose Maria Barrero	1.46
2	[2]	Jon Frost	2.35
3	[3]	Torsten Ehlers	4.78
4	[6]	Horacio Larreguy	4.85
5	[5]	Mauricio Romero	5.04
6	[8]	Raymundo Miguel Campos-Vazquez	8.33
7	[10]	Emilio Gutierrez	8.88
8	[9]	Jessica Roldán Peña (Jessica Roldan-Pena)	9.27
9	[11]	David Jose Jaume	9.30
10	[12]	Martin Tobal	12.54
11	[4]	Francisco Venegas-Martínez (Francisco Venegas-Martinez)	12.91
12	[14]	Preeya Mohan	15.06
13	[13]	Olaf Erenstein	15.27
14	[7]	Nora Claudia Lustig	16.05
15	[15]	Rajagopal	16.95
16	[18]	Carlos Urrutia	18.70
17	[20]	Victoria Nuguer	19.10
18	[17]	Jorge Eduardo Pérez Pérez (Jorge Eduardo Perez Perez)	19.51
19	[19]	Mariano Rojas	22.29
20	[22]	Raissa Fabregas	24.50
21	[23]	Lorenzo Menna	25.21
22	[21]	Vijesh Vijaya Krishna	25.96
23	[25]	Gustavo Leyva	26.27
24	[27]	Shaun David McRae	26.33
25	[29]	Julio A. Carrillo	27.58
26	[36]	Santiago Bazdresch	29.46
27	[26]	Carlos Vladimir Rodriguez Caballero	30.14
28	[24]	Arturo Garcia	30.25
29	[30]	Sandra Aguilar-Gomez	30.29
30	[31]	Gerardo Esquivel	33.65
31	[33]	Jose Roberto Balmori-de-la-Miyar	36.09
32	[38]	Tauhidul Islam Tanin	36.66
33	[41]	Juan Rosellon	37.87
34	[42]	Adan Silverio-Murillo	37.88
35	[39]	Daniel Ventosa-Santaulària (Daniel Ventosa-Santaularia)	38.75
36	[40]	Ernesto Stein	39.57
37	[37]	Luis Angel Monroy-Gómez-Franco (Luis Angel Monroy-Gomez-Franco)	40.03
38	[48]	Georgia Ramsay Bush	41.57
39	[44]	Adriana Gama	41.75
40	[46]	Arturo Alberto Aguilar Esteva	42.50
41	[45]	Pedro Ignacio Hancevic	43.64
42	[35]	José Ernesto Amorós (Jose Ernesto Amoros)	44.24
43	[57]	Gabriel Cuadra	47.98
44	[55]	Leon Fernandez Bujanda	47.99
45	[54]	Edwin van Gameren	50.43
46	[58]	Miguel Flores	50.68
47	[60]	Fernanda Marquez-Padilla	50.92
48	[34]	Jose G. Vargas-Hernandez	52.31
49	[56]	Francisco Corona	52.43
50	[50]	Edgar Demetrio Tovar-García	53.22
51	[53]	Carlos A. Carrasco	53.42
52	[47]	Miguel Angel Santos	54.95
53	[52]	Isidro Soloaga	55.27
54	[49]	Hernan Daniel Bejarano	55.57
55	[63]	Laura Juarez	56.28
56	[51]	Eva O. Arceo-Gomez	56.63
57	[66]	Isabel Melguizo	57.49
58	[61]	Nadine McCloud	57.87
59	[59]	Roberto Joaquín Santillán-Salgado (Roberto Joaquin Santillan Salgado)	57.99
60	[78]	Alexander Rosado-Serrano	59.46
61	[68]	Aurora Alejandra Ramírez-Álvarez (Aurora Alejandra Ramirez-Alvarez)	59.85
62	[32]	Ericka G. Rascon-Ramirez (Ericka Rascón Ramirez)	60.20
63	[69]	Stephen McKnight	62.31
64	[64]	Daniel Chiquiar	62.37
65	[71]	Francisco López-Herrera (Francisco Lopez-Herrera)	63.02
66	[73]	Alfonso Miranda	64.67
67	[83]	Jose A. Pellerano	64.87
68	[80]	Timothy James Laing	65.68
69	[74]	Hugo De Groote	66.58
70	[79]	Carlo Alcaraz (Carlo Eduardo Alcaraz Pribaz)	67.24
71	[92]	Julio César Leal Ordóñez (Julio Cesar Leal Ordonez)	69.06
72	[77]	Raul Ibarra	69.14
73	[91]	David R. Heres	70.03
74	[75]	Jorge Garza-Rodriguez	70.22
75	[72]	Francisco Cabrera-Hernandez	71.24
76	[89]	Alberto Ortiz	71.87
77	[82]	Juan R. Hernandez	71.94
78	[84]	Roberto Velez Grajales	73.66
79	[76]	Vicente German-Soto	74.12
80	[85]	Tridib Sharma	75.02
81	[86]	Daniel Flores	76.29
82	[67]	Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid	77.16
83	[98]	Rodrigo Mariscal	78.16
84	[88]	Miriam Juarez-Torres	78.40
85	[87]	Philippe Bance	79.52
86	[96]	Marco Hernandez-Vega	80.93
87	[108]	Alexandros Fakos	81.80
88	[120]	Manuel Gómez-Zaldívar (Manuel Gomez-Zaldivar)	82.68
89	[99]	David Juárez-Luna (David Juarez-Luna)	82.75
90	[115]	Juan M. Contreras	84.56
91	[119]	Nikola Mirkov	84.86
92	[97]	Claudia Alvarez	84.98
93	[102]	David Contreras-Loya	86.27
94	[94]	Astrid Loretta Ayala	86.33
95	[105]	Mariela Dal Borgo	88.46
96	[110]	Alfredo Ibáñez (Alfredo Ibanyez)	89.79
97	[103]	Arturo Antón-Sarabia (Arturo Anton-Sarabia)	90.41
98	[122]	Ignacio N. Lobato	90.50
99	[111]	Edgar Cruz	90.83
100	[107]	Jose Morales-Arilla	90.97
101	[62]	Tiago Gomes da Silva Tavares	92.15
102	[118]	Manuel Ramos Francia	92.17
103	[106]	José L. Casco (Jose L. Casco)	92.33
104	[117]	Felipe Meza	94.21
105	[129]	Rene Cabral	96.20
106	[126]	Rocio Elizondo	96.46
107	[43]	Jeetendra Khadan	96.65
108	[135]	Igor L. Kheifets	96.86
109	[123]	Rubens Moura	96.91
110	[127]	Santiago García-Verdú (Santiago Garcia-Verdu)	96.92
111	[95]	Jose Caraballo-Cueto	98.21
112	[134]	Jean-Marc Blazy	99.69
113	[70]	Nekeisha Spencer	99.93
114	[132]	Rafael Bernardo Carmona-Benítez (Rafael Bernardo Carmona-Benitez)	100.74
115	[139]	Ricardo E. Buitrago R.	100.85
116	[104]	Alfonso Mendoza-Velázquez (Alfonso Mendoza-Velazquez)	100.93
117	[114]	Irving Llamosas-Rosas	101.25
118	[128]	Gabriela Dutrénit (Gabriela Dutrenit)	101.45
119	[136]	Alice Krozer	101.96
120	[148]	Irvin Rojas	102.34
121	[133]	Akito Kamei	103.57
122	[137]	Antonio Alleyne	103.86
123	[141]	Luis Hernandez-Roman	105.73
124	[113]	Pedro Paulo Orraca Romano	105.93
125	[100]	Fausto Hernandez-trillo	107.64
126	[109]	Miguel Ángel Mendoza González (Miguel Angel Mendoza Gonzalez)	108.11
127	[131]	Sonia B. Di Giannatale	108.38
128	[112]	Pablo Cotler	108.61
129	[125]	Troy Lorde	108.67
130	[145]	Karen Watkins	112.67
131	[143]	Winston Ricardo Moore	112.73
132	[147]	Julio Cesar Arteaga	112.94
133	[116]	Wesley Colin Marshall	115.20

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