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

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There are 9358 institutions with 74012 registered authors evaluated for all the rankings
For Central America and Caribbean, these are 148 institutions with 532 members with a total share of 510.22.

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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	3.55	20	19.06
4	[4]	Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), México, Mexico	3.70	34	31.08
5	[5]	Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) → Escuela de Gobierno y Transformación Pública (EGOByTP), Monterrey, Mexico	5.27	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	6.61	6	4.23
8	[7]	Instituto Tecnólogico Autónomo de México (ITAM) → Departamento Académico de Administración, México, Mexico	6.76	7	7
9	[10]	University of the West Indies → Department of Economics, Cave Hill, Barbados	9.70	10	9.35
10	[9]	Universidad Iberoamericana → Departamento de Economía, Ciudad de México, Mexico	10.11	14	11.87
11	[11]	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT), México, Mexico	11.85	8	6.70
12	[12]	Centro de Estudios Monetarios Latinoamericanos (CEMLA), México, Mexico	12.74	12	8.67
13	[14]	Universidad de Guanajuato → Departamento de Economía y Finanzas, Guanajuato, Mexico	12.79	15	14.40
14	[13]	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México → Facultad de Económia, México, Mexico	13.03	23	20.13
15	[16]	Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León → Facultad de Economía, Monterrey, Mexico	15.60	12	11.50
16	[15]	Instituto Politécnico Nacional → Escuela Superior de Economía, México, Mexico	16.34	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	16.95	2	2
18	[18]	Universidad Anáhuac México → Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Huixquilucan de Degollado, Mexico	17.23	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	2.17	50	10
2	[3]	Bank for International Settlements → Representative Office for the Americas, México, Mexico	2.29	6	4.23
3	[2]	Instituto Tecnólogico Autónomo de México (ITAM) → Departamento Académico de Economía, México, Mexico	2.43	29	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	4.28	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	5.03	34	10
7	[7]	Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) → Escuela de Gobierno y Transformación Pública (EGOByTP), Monterrey, Mexico	7.54	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	7.91	14	10
9	[9]	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT), México, Mexico	9.85	8	6.70
10	[10]	Centro de Estudios Monetarios Latinoamericanos (CEMLA), México, Mexico	11.83	12	8.67
11	[11]	Universidad Anáhuac México → Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Huixquilucan de Degollado, Mexico	12.17	14	10
12	[13]	Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León → Facultad de Economía, Monterrey, Mexico	13.22	12	10
13	[14]	University of the West Indies → Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago	14.18	1	1
14	[15]	Universidad Iberoamericana → Departamento de Economía, Ciudad de México, Mexico	14.32	14	10
15	[12]	Instituto Politécnico Nacional → Escuela Superior de Economía, México, Mexico	14.34	8	8
16	[16]	Government of Mexico → Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI), Aguascalientes, Mexico	16.96	2	1.90
17	[17]	Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP) → Departamento de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales, Puebla, Mexico	17.15	2	2
18	[18]	Universidad de Guanajuato → Departamento de Economía y Finanzas, Guanajuato, Mexico	18.58	15	10

Top authors, all publications years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[3]	Ernesto Stein	2.25
2	[6]	Jose Maria Barrero	2.91
3	[4]	Jon Frost	4.70
4	[7]	Ignacio N. Lobato	5.31
5	[5]	Rajagopal	5.86
6	[11]	Daniel Chiquiar	8.16
7	[8]	Gerardo Esquivel	8.32
8	[13]	Horacio Larreguy	8.75
9	[14]	Carlos Urrutia	9.51
10	[2]	Nora Claudia Lustig	11.21
11	[10]	David Arie Mayer-Foulkes	11.56
12	[9]	Raymundo Miguel Campos-Vazquez	11.65
13	[15]	Torsten Ehlers	12.05
14	[1]	Francisco Venegas-Martínez (Francisco Venegas-Martinez)	12.67
15	[17]	Mauricio Romero	17.37
16	[19]	Nlandu Mamingi	19.14
17	[16]	Isidro Soloaga	19.47
18	[18]	Eva O. Arceo-Gomez	19.62
19	[21]	Emilio Gutierrez	19.93
20	[23]	Gabriel Cuadra	22.77
21	[20]	Mariano Rojas	22.95
22	[36]	Tridib Sharma	24.81
23	[25]	Manuel Ramos Francia	26.48
24	[30]	Felipe Meza	26.96
25	[38]	Shaun David McRae	28.46
26	[37]	Santiago Bazdresch	28.57
27	[31]	David Jose Jaume	28.78
28	[24]	Olaf Erenstein	29.07
29	[27]	Alfonso Miranda	29.26
30	[26]	Juan Rosellon	29.37
31	[33]	Julio A. Carrillo	29.97
32	[42]	Jessica Roldán Peña (Jessica Roldan-Pena)	31.24
33	[29]	Hugo De Groote	31.81
34	[28]	Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid	33.11
35	[41]	Laura Juarez	34.56
36	[22]	Jose G. Vargas-Hernandez	34.68
37	[32]	Winston Ricardo Moore	35.19
38	[46]	Martin Tobal	37.06
39	[34]	Vijesh Vijaya Krishna	40.11
40	[50]	Victoria Nuguer	41.30
41	[43]	Antonio Yúnez Naude (Antonio Yunez Naude)	41.79
42	[48]	Graciela Teruel	42.46
43	[35]	Daniel Ventosa-Santaulària (Daniel Ventosa-Santaularia)	43.39
44	[39]	Fausto Hernandez-trillo	45.05
45	[52]	Michael Margolis	47.16
46	[54]	Romans Pancs	48.57
47	[49]	Gabriela Dutrénit (Gabriela Dutrenit)	50.09
48	[56]	Sara G. Castellanos	51.34
49	[57]	Raul Ibarra	52.47
50	[55]	Preeya Mohan	53.90
51	[45]	José Ernesto Amorós (Jose Ernesto Amoros)	56.62
52	[47]	Miguel Angel Santos	57.69
53	[59]	Edwin van Gameren	57.71
54	[65]	John R. Scott	57.72
55	[66]	Lorenzo Menna	58.02
56	[73]	Jorge Alonso Ortiz	58.76
57	[61]	Carlo Alcaraz (Carlo Eduardo Alcaraz Pribaz)	58.93
58	[68]	Jaume Sempere	59.24
59	[70]	Antonio E. Noriega	59.33
60	[62]	Jorge Eduardo Pérez Pérez (Jorge Eduardo Perez Perez)	60.59
61	[69]	Andrei Gomberg	62.16
62	[63]	Troy Lorde	64.34
63	[58]	Francisco López-Herrera (Francisco Lopez-Herrera)	64.43
64	[80]	Fernando Pérez-Cervantes (Fernando Perez Cervantes)	65.41
65	[75]	Rene Cabral	66.36
66	[72]	Jorge Fernández-Ruiz (Jorge Fernandez-Ruiz)	66.89
67	[76]	Alfonso Mendoza-Velázquez (Alfonso Mendoza-Velazquez)	68.43

Top authors, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[1]	Jose Maria Barrero	1.48
2	[2]	Jon Frost	2.35
3	[3]	Torsten Ehlers	4.76
4	[5]	Mauricio Romero	4.87
5	[6]	Horacio Larreguy	4.97
6	[8]	Raymundo Miguel Campos-Vazquez	7.98
7	[11]	Emilio Gutierrez	9.25
8	[9]	Jessica Roldán Peña (Jessica Roldan-Pena)	9.29
9	[10]	David Jose Jaume	9.51
10	[13]	Martin Tobal	12.92
11	[4]	Francisco Venegas-Martínez (Francisco Venegas-Martinez)	12.97
12	[12]	Olaf Erenstein	14.70
13	[14]	Preeya Mohan	15.01
14	[7]	Nora Claudia Lustig	16.55
15	[15]	Rajagopal	17.02
16	[18]	Carlos Urrutia	18.60
17	[19]	Victoria Nuguer	19.06
18	[17]	Jorge Eduardo Pérez Pérez (Jorge Eduardo Perez Perez)	19.17
19	[20]	Mariano Rojas	24.04
20	[22]	Lorenzo Menna	24.56
21	[21]	Vijesh Vijaya Krishna	25.28
22	[26]	Shaun David McRae	25.54
23	[27]	Gustavo Leyva	26.33
24	[24]	Raissa Fabregas	26.47
25	[28]	Julio A. Carrillo	27.67
26	[23]	Arturo Garcia	29.29
27	[29]	Sandra Aguilar-Gomez	30.13
28	[31]	Carlos Vladimir Rodriguez Caballero	30.16
29	[38]	Santiago Bazdresch	31.02
30	[32]	Gerardo Esquivel	32.88
31	[34]	Jose Roberto Balmori-de-la-Miyar	35.61
32	[43]	Adan Silverio-Murillo	37.69
33	[42]	Juan Rosellon	37.73
34	[40]	Tauhidul Islam Tanin	38.27
35	[37]	Luis Angel Monroy-Gómez-Franco (Luis Angel Monroy-Gomez-Franco)	39.31
36	[39]	Ernesto Stein	39.46
37	[41]	Daniel Ventosa-Santaulària (Daniel Ventosa-Santaularia)	39.52
38	[48]	Georgia Ramsay Bush	40.17
39	[44]	Adriana Gama	40.62
40	[45]	Arturo Alberto Aguilar Esteva	41.66
41	[47]	Pedro Ignacio Hancevic	44.36
42	[36]	José Ernesto Amorós (Jose Ernesto Amoros)	45.18
43	[57]	Gabriel Cuadra	46.73
44	[55]	Leon Fernandez Bujanda	47.95
45	[59]	Fernanda Marquez-Padilla	49.98
46	[60]	Miguel Flores	50.13
47	[58]	Francisco Corona	51.01
48	[56]	Edwin van Gameren	51.23
49	[33]	Jose G. Vargas-Hernandez	52.23
50	[50]	Edgar Demetrio Tovar-García	52.31
51	[54]	Carlos A. Carrasco	53.31
52	[49]	Miguel Angel Santos	54.51
53	[53]	Isidro Soloaga	54.80
54	[52]	Eva O. Arceo-Gomez	56.13
55	[62]	Nadine McCloud	56.20
56	[51]	Hernan Daniel Bejarano	56.63
57	[64]	Laura Juarez	57.09
58	[65]	Isabel Melguizo	57.13
59	[61]	Roberto Joaquín Santillán-Salgado (Roberto Joaquin Santillan Salgado)	57.83
60	[79]	Alexander Rosado-Serrano	59.22
61	[35]	Ericka G. Rascon-Ramirez (Ericka Rascón Ramirez)	60.29
62	[71]	Francisco López-Herrera (Francisco Lopez-Herrera)	61.32
63	[69]	Stephen McKnight	61.88
64	[74]	Alfonso Miranda	62.61
65	[67]	Daniel Chiquiar	63.00
66	[73]	Aurora Alejandra Ramírez-Álvarez (Aurora Alejandra Ramirez-Alvarez)	63.42
67	[84]	Jose A. Pellerano	65.43
68	[75]	Hugo De Groote	65.72
69	[81]	Timothy James Laing	65.80
70	[80]	Carlo Alcaraz (Carlo Eduardo Alcaraz Pribaz)	66.43
71	[76]	Raul Ibarra	68.12
72	[88]	David R. Heres	68.25
73	[72]	Francisco Cabrera-Hernandez	69.53
74	[78]	Jorge Garza-Rodriguez	69.75
75	[91]	Julio César Leal Ordóñez (Julio Cesar Leal Ordonez)	70.27
76	[83]	Juan R. Hernandez	72.26
77	[25]	Fredy Gamboa-Estrada	72.53
78	[77]	Vicente German-Soto	74.04
79	[85]	Tridib Sharma	74.72
80	[89]	Roberto Velez Grajales	75.64
81	[86]	Daniel Flores	75.74
82	[94]	Alberto Ortiz	76.13
83	[98]	Rodrigo Mariscal	77.41
84	[87]	Philippe Bance	77.88
85	[90]	Miriam Juarez-Torres	78.90
86	[68]	Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid	79.09
87	[96]	Marco Hernandez-Vega	79.57
88	[99]	David Juárez-Luna (David Juarez-Luna)	81.64
89	[116]	Nikola Mirkov	82.30
90	[122]	Manuel Gómez-Zaldívar (Manuel Gomez-Zaldivar)	82.92
91	[112]	Alexandros Fakos	84.36
92	[102]	David Contreras-Loya	85.25
93	[95]	Astrid Loretta Ayala	86.69
94	[105]	Mariela Dal Borgo	86.72
95	[121]	Juan M. Contreras	87.68
96	[107]	Alfredo Ibáñez (Alfredo Ibanyez)	88.17
97	[108]	Edgar Cruz	89.06
98	[100]	Claudia Alvarez	89.79
99	[106]	Arturo Antón-Sarabia (Arturo Anton-Sarabia)	91.18
100	[63]	Tiago Gomes da Silva Tavares	91.83
101	[120]	Manuel Ramos Francia	92.22
102	[114]	Felipe Meza	92.37
103	[131]	Igor L. Kheifets	94.27
104	[127]	Rene Cabral	95.01
105	[113]	Jose Morales-Arilla	95.49
106	[126]	Rocio Elizondo	95.49
107	[125]	Santiago García-Verdú (Santiago Garcia-Verdu)	96.04
108	[118]	Rubens Moura	96.28
109	[46]	Jeetendra Khadan	96.68
110	[111]	José L. Casco (Jose L. Casco)	96.69
111	[97]	Jose Caraballo-Cueto	97.79
112	[135]	Ricardo E. Buitrago R.	98.92
113	[70]	Nekeisha Spencer	99.41
114	[104]	Alfonso Mendoza-Velázquez (Alfonso Mendoza-Velazquez)	99.52
115	[123]	Gabriela Dutrénit (Gabriela Dutrenit)	99.93
116	[141]	Irvin Rojas	100.61
117	[134]	Antonio Alleyne	103.12
118	[119]	Irving Llamosas-Rosas	104.07
119	[133]	Rafael Bernardo Carmona-Benítez (Rafael Bernardo Carmona-Benitez)	105.37
120	[137]	Alice Krozer	105.92
121	[110]	Pedro Paulo Orraca Romano	106.17
122	[143]	Jean-Marc Blazy	106.52
123	[103]	Fausto Hernandez-trillo	106.97
124	[124]	Troy Lorde	107.78
125	[136]	Akito Kamei	108.16
126	[109]	Pablo Cotler	108.46
127	[115]	Miguel Ángel Mendoza González (Miguel Angel Mendoza Gonzalez)	108.78
128	[130]	Sonia B. Di Giannatale	108.88
129	[145]	Luis Hernandez-Roman	110.42
130	[144]	Julio Cesar Arteaga	112.27
131	[139]	Winston Ricardo Moore	112.49
132	[117]	Wesley Colin Marshall	114.61
133	[155]	Jesús Manuel Palma-Ruiz (Jesus Manuel Palma-Ruiz)	115.74
134	[142]	Andrei Gomberg	116.60

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