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

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There are 9296 institutions with 73242 registered authors evaluated for all the rankings
For Central America and Caribbean, these are 147 institutions with 519 members with a total share of 497.50.

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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	2.21	50	48.15
-	[-]	Instituto Tecnólogico Autónomo de México (ITAM) → Departamento Académico de Economía → Centro de Investigación Económica (CIE), México, Mexico	2.67	20	19
3	[3]	Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), México, Mexico	3.46	33	29.23
4	[4]	Colegio de México → Centro de Estudios Económicos, México, Mexico	4.29	19	18.56
5	[5]	Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) → Escuela de Gobierno y Transformación Pública (EGOByTP), Monterrey, Mexico	4.87	16	15.20
6	[7]	Bank for International Settlements → Representative Office for the Americas, México, Mexico	6.49	6	4.23
7	[8]	Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) → Escuela de Graduados en Administración y Dirección de Empresas (EGADE), Monterrey, Mexico	6.61	13	10.48
8	[6]	Instituto Tecnólogico Autónomo de México (ITAM) → Departamento Académico de Administración, México, Mexico	6.71	7	7
9	[10]	University of the West Indies → Department of Economics, Cave Hill, Barbados	9.68	9	8.85
10	[9]	Universidad Iberoamericana → Departamento de Economía, Ciudad de México, Mexico	9.95	14	11.96
11	[12]	Centro de Estudios Monetarios Latinoamericanos (CEMLA), México, Mexico	12.07	13	9.67
12	[11]	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT), México, Mexico	12.22	8	6.70
13	[14]	Universidad de Guanajuato → Departamento de Economía y Finanzas, Guanajuato, Mexico	12.70	15	14.40
14	[13]	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México → Facultad de Económia, México, Mexico	13.00	22	19.13
15	[16]	Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León → Facultad de Economía, Monterrey, Mexico	15.17	12	12
16	[15]	Instituto Politécnico Nacional → Escuela Superior de Economía, México, Mexico	15.58	8	8
-	[-]	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México → Facultad de Económia → División de Estudios de Posgrado (DEPFE), México, Mexico	16.62	9	6.70
-	[-]	Instituto Tecnólogico Autónomo de México (ITAM) → Departamento Académico de Economía → Centro de Analísis e Investigación Económica (CAIE), México, Mexico	16.81	1	1
17	[17]	Universidad Anáhuac México → Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Huixquilucan de Degollado, Mexico	17.13	14	13.50
18	[18]	Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP) → Departamento de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales, Puebla, Mexico	17.74	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	1.98	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	2.64	28	10
4	[4]	Instituto Tecnólogico Autónomo de México (ITAM) → Departamento Académico de Administración, México, Mexico	2.74	7	7
-	[-]	Instituto Tecnólogico Autónomo de México (ITAM) → Departamento Académico de Economía → Centro de Investigación Económica (CIE), México, Mexico	4.32	20	10
5	[5]	Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), México, Mexico	4.68	33	10
6	[6]	Colegio de México → Centro de Estudios Económicos, México, Mexico	5.13	19	10
7	[7]	Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) → Escuela de Gobierno y Transformación Pública (EGOByTP), Monterrey, Mexico	7.61	16	10
8	[8]	Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) → Escuela de Graduados en Administración y Dirección de Empresas (EGADE), Monterrey, Mexico	8.42	13	10
9	[9]	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT), México, Mexico	9.56	8	6.70
10	[10]	Centro de Estudios Monetarios Latinoamericanos (CEMLA), México, Mexico	10.55	13	9.67
11	[12]	Universidad Anáhuac México → Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Huixquilucan de Degollado, Mexico	11.84	14	10
12	[11]	Instituto Politécnico Nacional → Escuela Superior de Economía, México, Mexico	13.26	8	8
13	[13]	Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León → Facultad de Economía, Monterrey, Mexico	13.27	12	10
14	[14]	Universidad Iberoamericana → Departamento de Economía, Ciudad de México, Mexico	13.60	14	10
15	[15]	University of the West Indies → Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago	14.43	1	1
16	[17]	Universidad de Guanajuato → Departamento de Economía y Finanzas, Guanajuato, Mexico	17.72	15	10
17	[16]	Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP) → Departamento de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales, Puebla, Mexico	18.06	2	2
18	[18]	University of the West Indies → Department of Economics, Cave Hill, Barbados	19.06	9	8.85

Top authors, all publications years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[2]	Ernesto Stein	2.15
2	[4]	Jose Maria Barrero	2.78
3	[6]	Ignacio N. Lobato	5.05
4	[5]	Jon Frost	5.18
5	[3]	Rajagopal	5.65
6	[7]	Gerardo Esquivel	7.74
7	[8]	Daniel Chiquiar	7.95
8	[11]	Carlos Urrutia	8.47
9	[9]	David Arie Mayer-Foulkes	10.74
10	[13]	Horacio Larreguy	10.97
11	[10]	Raymundo Miguel Campos-Vazquez	11.12
12	[1]	Francisco Venegas-Martínez (Francisco Venegas-Martinez)	11.49
13	[14]	Torsten Ehlers	13.08
14	[19]	Mauricio Romero	17.64
15	[15]	Isidro Soloaga	18.08
16	[16]	Eva O. Arceo-Gomez	18.16
17	[17]	Nlandu Mamingi	18.66
18	[21]	Emilio Gutierrez	19.43
19	[22]	Gabriel Cuadra	20.97
20	[20]	Mariano Rojas	21.80
21	[30]	Tridib Sharma	23.82
22	[26]	Felipe Meza	24.25
23	[23]	Manuel Ramos Francia	24.78
24	[29]	Juan Rosellon	26.51
25	[25]	Alfonso Miranda	26.73
26	[35]	Shaun David McRae	27.76
27	[31]	Jessica Roldán Peña (Jessica Roldan-Pena)	28.71
28	[33]	David Jose Jaume	28.96
29	[24]	Olaf Erenstein	29.06
30	[36]	Santiago Bazdresch	29.10
31	[27]	Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid	30.42
32	[37]	Julio A. Carrillo	31.11
33	[28]	Hugo De Groote	31.23
34	[18]	Jose G. Vargas-Hernandez	32.62
35	[32]	Winston Ricardo Moore	33.55
36	[39]	Laura Juarez	34.03
37	[40]	Martin Tobal	35.53
38	[48]	Victoria Nuguer	37.38
39	[47]	Graciela Teruel	39.27
40	[41]	Antonio Yúnez Naude (Antonio Yunez Naude)	40.21
41	[42]	Vijesh Vijaya Krishna	40.23
42	[38]	Daniel Ventosa-Santaulària (Daniel Ventosa-Santaularia)	41.01
43	[51]	Romans Pancs	45.55
44	[53]	Michael Margolis	46.69
45	[49]	Gabriela Dutrénit (Gabriela Dutrenit)	47.13
46	[44]	Fausto Hernandez-trillo	47.62
47	[52]	Sara G. Castellanos	48.26
48	[54]	Raul Ibarra	52.32
49	[55]	John R. Scott	53.00
50	[66]	Jorge Alonso Ortiz	53.92
51	[56]	Preeya Mohan	54.83
52	[59]	Carlo Alcaraz (Carlo Eduardo Alcaraz Pribaz)	55.14
53	[58]	Antonio E. Noriega	55.29
54	[45]	José Ernesto Amorós (Jose Ernesto Amoros)	56.85
55	[60]	Jaume Sempere	57.93
56	[62]	Lorenzo Menna	58.84
57	[63]	Edwin van Gameren	59.08
58	[68]	Andrei Gomberg	59.34
59	[57]	Francisco López-Herrera (Francisco Lopez-Herrera)	59.69
60	[64]	Troy Lorde	62.03
61	[65]	Alfonso Mendoza-Velázquez (Alfonso Mendoza-Velazquez)	62.79
62	[61]	Jorge Eduardo Pérez Pérez (Jorge Eduardo Perez Perez)	63.18
63	[71]	Rene Cabral	64.09
64	[50]	Elvio Accinelli	64.62
65	[72]	Jorge Fernández-Ruiz (Jorge Fernandez-Ruiz)	64.77

Top authors, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[1]	Jose Maria Barrero	1.44
2	[2]	Jon Frost	2.39
3	[3]	Torsten Ehlers	4.74
4	[5]	Mauricio Romero	4.80
5	[6]	Horacio Larreguy	5.05
6	[7]	Raymundo Miguel Campos-Vazquez	8.28
7	[9]	Emilio Gutierrez	8.37
8	[8]	Jessica Roldán Peña (Jessica Roldan-Pena)	8.72
9	[10]	David Jose Jaume	8.98
10	[4]	Francisco Venegas-Martínez (Francisco Venegas-Martinez)	11.97
11	[11]	Martin Tobal	12.32
12	[12]	Olaf Erenstein	14.24
13	[13]	Preeya Mohan	14.58
14	[16]	Carlos Urrutia	17.55
15	[19]	Victoria Nuguer	18.39
16	[15]	Jorge Eduardo Pérez Pérez (Jorge Eduardo Perez Perez)	18.45
17	[14]	Rajagopal	19.30
18	[18]	Mariano Rojas	21.91
19	[22]	Shaun David McRae	23.60
20	[20]	Vijesh Vijaya Krishna	23.76
21	[21]	Lorenzo Menna	24.03
22	[27]	Gustavo Leyva	25.04
23	[24]	Julio A. Carrillo	25.92
24	[23]	Arturo Garcia	28.42
25	[29]	Carlos Vladimir Rodriguez Caballero	29.75
26	[32]	Sandra Aguilar-Gomez	30.98
27	[42]	Santiago Bazdresch	31.34
28	[31]	Gerardo Esquivel	33.32
29	[36]	Juan Rosellon	33.37
30	[33]	Jose Roberto Balmori-de-la-Miyar	35.22
31	[34]	Adriana Gama	36.08
32	[35]	Daniel Ventosa-Santaulària (Daniel Ventosa-Santaularia)	36.29
33	[41]	Georgia Ramsay Bush	36.52
34	[43]	Adan Silverio-Murillo	36.91
35	[38]	Ernesto Stein	37.47
36	[40]	Arturo Alberto Aguilar Esteva	37.84
37	[45]	Tauhidul Islam Tanin	39.99
38	[44]	Pedro Ignacio Hancevic	40.12
39	[48]	Gabriel Cuadra	41.01
40	[51]	Fernanda Marquez-Padilla	44.99
41	[53]	Leon Fernandez Bujanda	45.77
42	[37]	José Ernesto Amorós (Jose Ernesto Amoros)	46.04
43	[54]	Miguel Flores	47.09
44	[57]	Tiago Gomes da Silva Tavares	48.50
45	[50]	Carlos A. Carrasco	49.49
46	[47]	Edgar Demetrio Tovar-García	50.80
47	[30]	Jose G. Vargas-Hernandez	50.97
48	[49]	Eva O. Arceo-Gomez	52.47
49	[56]	Isidro Soloaga	52.76
50	[55]	Nadine McCloud	53.95
51	[59]	Laura Juarez	54.00
52	[26]	Ericka G. Rascon-Ramirez (Ericka Rascón Ramirez)	54.37
53	[60]	Isabel Melguizo	54.83
54	[58]	Daniel Chiquiar	56.00
55	[61]	Francisco Corona	56.09
56	[76]	Alexander Rosado-Serrano	56.28
57	[63]	Aurora Alejandra Ramírez-Álvarez (Aurora Alejandra Ramirez-Alvarez)	56.49
58	[74]	Jose A. Pellerano	57.54
59	[65]	Edwin van Gameren	58.07
60	[66]	Francisco López-Herrera (Francisco Lopez-Herrera)	58.66
61	[69]	Alfonso Miranda	58.68
62	[67]	Stephen McKnight	58.93
63	[62]	Roberto Joaquín Santillán-Salgado (Roberto Joaquin Santillan Salgado)	61.87
64	[84]	Julio César Leal Ordóñez (Julio Cesar Leal Ordonez)	62.22
65	[78]	Carlo Alcaraz (Carlo Eduardo Alcaraz Pribaz)	62.30
66	[72]	Juan R. Hernandez	63.47
67	[46]	Miguel Angel Santos	63.54
68	[82]	Timothy James Laing	64.04
69	[64]	Hernan Daniel Bejarano	65.17
70	[80]	Hugo De Groote	65.87
71	[85]	Alberto Ortiz	67.93
72	[73]	Jorge Garza-Rodriguez	68.20
73	[77]	Raul Ibarra	68.35
74	[86]	David R. Heres	68.89
75	[81]	Philippe Bance	70.20
76	[25]	Fredy Gamboa-Estrada	71.24
77	[100]	Oscar Alfonso Carvallo Valencia	73.19
78	[88]	Tridib Sharma	73.24
79	[87]	Marco Hernandez-Vega	73.43
80	[79]	Vicente German-Soto	73.44
81	[95]	David Juárez-Luna (David Juarez-Luna)	73.77
82	[75]	Francisco Cabrera-Hernandez	73.77
83	[97]	Rodrigo Mariscal	74.17
84	[70]	Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid	76.79
85	[93]	Miriam Juarez-Torres	79.43
86	[90]	Astrid Loretta Ayala	79.59
87	[94]	Roberto Velez Grajales	79.89
88	[107]	Alexandros Fakos	79.96
89	[98]	Daniel Flores	80.72
90	[99]	Edgar Cruz	81.65
91	[89]	Pedro Paulo Orraca Romano	81.65
92	[120]	Nikola Mirkov	83.07
93	[121]	Manuel Gómez-Zaldívar (Manuel Gomez-Zaldivar)	83.68
94	[103]	Alfredo Ibáñez (Alfredo Ibanyez)	84.25
95	[106]	David Contreras-Loya	84.66
96	[101]	Arturo Antón-Sarabia (Arturo Anton-Sarabia)	85.15
97	[110]	Felipe Meza	86.57
98	[124]	Igor L. Kheifets	86.83
99	[122]	Juan M. Contreras	87.11
100	[113]	Manuel Ramos Francia	87.32
101	[108]	Mariela Dal Borgo	87.63
102	[115]	Santiago García-Verdú (Santiago Garcia-Verdu)	87.96
103	[118]	Rene Cabral	87.97
104	[111]	Jose Morales-Arilla	88.96
105	[104]	José L. Casco (Jose L. Casco)	89.07
106	[96]	Alfonso Mendoza-Velázquez (Alfonso Mendoza-Velazquez)	89.64
107	[39]	Jeetendra Khadan	90.91
108	[131]	Irvin Rojas	92.51
109	[125]	Rocio Elizondo	93.87
110	[119]	Gabriela Dutrénit (Gabriela Dutrenit)	95.47
111	[126]	Alice Krozer	95.56
112	[114]	Sonia B. Di Giannatale	96.21
113	[129]	Antonio Alleyne	96.80
114	[123]	Rubens Moura	98.43
115	[130]	Rafael Bernardo Carmona-Benítez (Rafael Bernardo Carmona-Benitez)	99.74
116	[109]	Miguel Ángel Mendoza González (Miguel Angel Mendoza Gonzalez)	100.11
117	[105]	Fausto Hernandez-trillo	101.27
118	[135]	Julio Cesar Arteaga	104.87
119	[141]	Jean-Marc Blazy	105.08
120	[138]	Andrei Gomberg	105.84
121	[112]	Pablo Cotler	105.92
122	[137]	Winston Ricardo Moore	106.34
123	[127]	Troy Lorde	106.85
124	[145]	Ricardo E. Buitrago R.	106.95
125	[117]	Oscar Valdemar De la Torre Torres	107.21
126	[116]	Wesley Colin Marshall	107.36
127	[128]	Jose Caraballo-Cueto	107.68
128	[132]	Irving Llamosas-Rosas	109.34
129	[148]	Jesús Manuel Palma-Ruiz (Jesus Manuel Palma-Ruiz)	111.69
130	[144]	Romans Pancs	115.67

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