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

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There are 9337 institutions with 73707 registered authors evaluated for all the rankings
For Central America and Caribbean, these are 148 institutions with 526 members with a total share of 504.14.

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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	23.60
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	2.97	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	3.73	32	29.08
5	[5]	Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) → Escuela de Gobierno y Transformación Pública (EGOByTP), Monterrey, Mexico	5.12	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	6.23	14	11.48
7	[6]	Bank for International Settlements → Representative Office for the Americas, México, Mexico	6.33	6	4.23
8	[7]	Instituto Tecnólogico Autónomo de México (ITAM) → Departamento Académico de Administración, México, Mexico	6.93	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	10.08	14	11.87
11	[11]	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT), México, Mexico	11.98	8	6.70
12	[15]	Universidad de Guanajuato → Departamento de Economía y Finanzas, Guanajuato, Mexico	12.56	15	14.40
13	[13]	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México → Facultad de Económia, México, Mexico	12.59	22	19.13
14	[14]	Centro de Estudios Monetarios Latinoamericanos (CEMLA), México, Mexico	12.62	12	8.67
15	[12]	Instituto Politécnico Nacional → Escuela Superior de Economía, México, Mexico	14.60	8	8
16	[16]	Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León → Facultad de Economía, Monterrey, Mexico	14.82	12	12
-	[-]	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México → Facultad de Económia → División de Estudios de Posgrado (DEPFE), México, Mexico	16.64	9	6.70
17	[18]	Universidad Anáhuac México → Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Huixquilucan de Degollado, Mexico	16.64	14	13.50
18	[17]	Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP) → Departamento de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales, Puebla, Mexico	16.75	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	2.21	50	10
2	[2]	Bank for International Settlements → Representative Office for the Americas, México, Mexico	2.64	6	4.23
3	[3]	Instituto Tecnólogico Autónomo de México (ITAM) → Departamento Académico de Economía, México, Mexico	2.69	28	10
4	[4]	Instituto Tecnólogico Autónomo de México (ITAM) → Departamento Académico de Administración, México, Mexico	3.20	7	7
-	[-]	Instituto Tecnólogico Autónomo de México (ITAM) → Departamento Académico de Economía → Centro de Investigación Económica (CIE), México, Mexico	4.29	20	10
5	[5]	Colegio de México → Centro de Estudios Económicos, México, Mexico	4.61	20	10
6	[6]	Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), México, Mexico	4.93	32	10
7	[7]	Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) → Escuela de Gobierno y Transformación Pública (EGOByTP), Monterrey, Mexico	7.31	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	7.86	14	10
9	[9]	Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT), México, Mexico	9.67	8	6.70
10	[11]	Universidad Anáhuac México → Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Huixquilucan de Degollado, Mexico	11.63	14	10
11	[12]	Centro de Estudios Monetarios Latinoamericanos (CEMLA), México, Mexico	11.76	12	8.67
12	[13]	Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León → Facultad de Economía, Monterrey, Mexico	12.73	12	10
13	[10]	Instituto Politécnico Nacional → Escuela Superior de Economía, México, Mexico	12.82	8	8
14	[15]	University of the West Indies → Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago	14.14	1	1
15	[14]	Universidad Iberoamericana → Departamento de Economía, Ciudad de México, Mexico	14.31	14	10
16	[16]	Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP) → Departamento de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales, Puebla, Mexico	16.17	2	2
17	[18]	Universidad de Guanajuato → Departamento de Economía y Finanzas, Guanajuato, Mexico	17.35	15	10
18	[19]	University of the West Indies → Department of Economics, Cave Hill, Barbados	18.45	10	9.35

Top authors, all publications years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[5]	Ernesto Stein	2.63
2	[6]	Jose Maria Barrero	3.69
3	[9]	Ignacio N. Lobato	5.13
4	[2]	Jon Frost	5.27
5	[4]	Rajagopal	7.16
6	[8]	Gerardo Esquivel	8.27
7	[11]	Daniel Chiquiar	8.56
8	[16]	Carlos Urrutia	9.95
9	[15]	Horacio Larreguy	10.06
10	[3]	Nora Claudia Lustig	10.43
11	[7]	Raymundo Miguel Campos-Vazquez	10.99
12	[10]	David Arie Mayer-Foulkes	11.70
13	[14]	Torsten Ehlers	12.80
14	[1]	Francisco Venegas-Martínez (Francisco Venegas-Martinez)	15.23
15	[21]	Mauricio Romero	17.02
16	[19]	Isidro Soloaga	18.57
17	[20]	Eva O. Arceo-Gomez	18.58
18	[22]	Nlandu Mamingi	19.51
19	[23]	Emilio Gutierrez	19.84
20	[18]	Mariano Rojas	21.26
21	[24]	Gabriel Cuadra	21.67
22	[38]	Tridib Sharma	23.47
23	[34]	Felipe Meza	24.61
24	[27]	Manuel Ramos Francia	25.17
25	[37]	David Jose Jaume	25.51
26	[29]	Juan Rosellon	26.16
27	[25]	Olaf Erenstein	26.42
28	[42]	Shaun David McRae	26.68
29	[33]	Alfonso Miranda	27.69
30	[39]	Santiago Bazdresch	28.32
31	[43]	Jessica Roldán Peña (Jessica Roldan-Pena)	29.81
32	[12]	Jose G. Vargas-Hernandez	29.82
33	[32]	Hugo De Groote	30.16
34	[45]	Laura Juarez	31.42
35	[30]	Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid	31.54
36	[48]	Julio A. Carrillo	31.77
37	[36]	Winston Ricardo Moore	32.51
38	[35]	Martin Tobal	34.90
39	[56]	Victoria Nuguer	36.42
40	[47]	Vijesh Vijaya Krishna	37.39
41	[40]	Daniel Ventosa-Santaulària (Daniel Ventosa-Santaularia)	37.86
42	[57]	Romans Pancs	39.76
43	[51]	Antonio Yúnez Naude (Antonio Yunez Naude)	40.24
44	[55]	Graciela Teruel	40.39
45	[52]	Miguel Angel Santos	40.55
46	[50]	Fausto Hernandez-trillo	44.52
47	[65]	Michael Margolis	45.53
48	[41]	Francisco López-Herrera (Francisco Lopez-Herrera)	47.02
49	[44]	Jorge Eduardo Pérez Pérez (Jorge Eduardo Perez Perez)	47.73
50	[58]	Gabriela Dutrénit (Gabriela Dutrenit)	48.11
51	[31]	Stephen McKnight	48.12
52	[62]	Sara G. Castellanos	48.12
53	[61]	Raul Ibarra	49.70
54	[64]	Preeya Mohan	51.98
55	[53]	José Ernesto Amorós (Jose Ernesto Amoros)	54.34
56	[72]	Carlo Alcaraz (Carlo Eduardo Alcaraz Pribaz)	55.23
57	[68]	John R. Scott	55.50
58	[54]	Elvio Accinelli	55.92
59	[81]	Jorge Alonso Ortiz	56.24
60	[59]	Vicente German-Soto	56.67
61	[69]	Edwin van Gameren	57.22
62	[77]	Andrei Gomberg	57.52
63	[71]	Antonio E. Noriega	57.56
64	[75]	Lorenzo Menna	58.63
65	[70]	Jorge Fernández-Ruiz (Jorge Fernandez-Ruiz)	59.38
66	[78]	Jaume Sempere	59.87

Top authors, publications last 10 years

Rank	W.Rank	Author	Score
1	[1]	Jose Maria Barrero	1.95
2	[2]	Jon Frost	2.55
3	[7]	Horacio Larreguy	4.99
4	[5]	Mauricio Romero	5.14
5	[4]	Torsten Ehlers	5.56
6	[9]	Raymundo Miguel Campos-Vazquez	7.74
7	[12]	Emilio Gutierrez	8.95
8	[10]	Jessica Roldán Peña (Jessica Roldan-Pena)	9.70
9	[11]	David Jose Jaume	9.77
10	[14]	Martin Tobal	12.63
11	[3]	Francisco Venegas-Martínez (Francisco Venegas-Martinez)	14.65
12	[13]	Olaf Erenstein	14.72
13	[16]	Preeya Mohan	14.82
14	[8]	Rajagopal	15.44
15	[6]	Nora Claudia Lustig	15.49
16	[22]	Carlos Urrutia	17.45
17	[18]	Jorge Eduardo Pérez Pérez (Jorge Eduardo Perez Perez)	18.84
18	[25]	Victoria Nuguer	19.31
19	[17]	Mariano Rojas	21.54
20	[23]	Vijesh Vijaya Krishna	23.73
21	[27]	Lorenzo Menna	24.47
22	[32]	Gustavo Leyva	24.90
23	[34]	Shaun David McRae	25.04
24	[30]	Julio A. Carrillo	25.52
25	[31]	Carlos Vladimir Rodriguez Caballero	26.64
26	[29]	Arturo Garcia	29.57
27	[24]	Gerardo Esquivel	30.14
28	[38]	Sandra Aguilar-Gomez	30.29
29	[46]	Santiago Bazdresch	31.48
30	[41]	Jose Roberto Balmori-de-la-Miyar	33.89
31	[44]	Juan Rosellon	34.32
32	[36]	Daniel Ventosa-Santaulària (Daniel Ventosa-Santaularia)	34.77
33	[45]	Tauhidul Islam Tanin	35.73
34	[49]	Adan Silverio-Murillo	36.11
35	[51]	Pedro Ignacio Hancevic	37.25
36	[43]	Adriana Gama	37.30
37	[42]	Ernesto Stein	37.74
38	[53]	Arturo Alberto Aguilar Esteva	38.93
39	[19]	Jose G. Vargas-Hernandez	38.99
40	[56]	Georgia Ramsay Bush	39.20
41	[20]	Stephen McKnight	39.85
42	[63]	Leon Fernandez Bujanda	41.05
43	[37]	José Ernesto Amorós (Jose Ernesto Amoros)	42.29
44	[64]	Miguel Flores	42.56
45	[33]	Roberto Joaquín Santillán-Salgado (Roberto Joaquin Santillan Salgado)	42.69
46	[69]	Gabriel Cuadra	43.04
47	[26]	Francisco López-Herrera (Francisco Lopez-Herrera)	43.35
48	[66]	Fernanda Marquez-Padilla	44.72
49	[40]	Edgar Demetrio Tovar-García	44.93
50	[62]	Nadine McCloud	45.90
51	[57]	Francisco Corona	46.47
52	[72]	Isabel Melguizo	46.91
53	[58]	Carlos A. Carrasco	47.31
54	[48]	Miguel Angel Santos	47.41
55	[67]	Laura Juarez	47.86
56	[75]	Alexander Rosado-Serrano	48.59
57	[68]	Edwin van Gameren	48.75
58	[50]	Isidro Soloaga	49.63
59	[59]	Eva O. Arceo-Gomez	50.94
60	[55]	Hernan Daniel Bejarano	52.22
61	[65]	Philippe Bance	54.26
62	[35]	Ericka G. Rascon-Ramirez (Ericka Rascón Ramirez)	54.33
63	[70]	Daniel Chiquiar	54.46
64	[54]	Vicente German-Soto	54.56
65	[82]	Alfonso Miranda	56.23
66	[15]	Fredy Gamboa-Estrada	56.83
67	[76]	Aurora Alejandra Ramírez-Álvarez (Aurora Alejandra Ramirez-Alvarez)	56.99
68	[81]	Hugo De Groote	57.80
69	[90]	Jose A. Pellerano	59.24
70	[79]	Jorge Garza-Rodriguez	59.68
71	[88]	Carlo Alcaraz (Carlo Eduardo Alcaraz Pribaz)	59.84
72	[89]	Tridib Sharma	60.17
73	[94]	Julio César Leal Ordóñez (Julio Cesar Leal Ordonez)	60.81
74	[86]	Juan R. Hernandez	61.28
75	[52]	Miguel Ángel Mendoza González (Miguel Angel Mendoza Gonzalez)	62.77
76	[84]	Raul Ibarra	63.10
77	[95]	Timothy James Laing	64.37
78	[71]	Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid	65.52
79	[83]	Pedro Paulo Orraca Romano	67.19
80	[101]	David R. Heres	69.05
81	[99]	Roberto Velez Grajales	69.27
82	[97]	Marco Hernandez-Vega	69.92
83	[93]	Daniel Flores	70.17
84	[98]	Alberto Ortiz	71.05
85	[106]	Claudia Alvarez	71.60
86	[107]	David Juárez-Luna (David Juarez-Luna)	72.95
87	[118]	Manuel Gómez-Zaldívar (Manuel Gomez-Zaldivar)	73.22
88	[78]	Oscar Valdemar De la Torre Torres	73.27
89	[111]	Mariela Dal Borgo	73.44
90	[85]	Francisco Cabrera-Hernandez	73.58
91	[110]	Rodrigo Mariscal	73.86
92	[109]	Edgar Cruz	74.11
93	[125]	Alexandros Fakos	74.43
94	[100]	Astrid Loretta Ayala	76.62
95	[105]	Miriam Juarez-Torres	76.73
96	[117]	Felipe Meza	78.18
97	[132]	Nikola Mirkov	79.18
98	[112]	David Contreras-Loya	79.44
99	[91]	Jose Caraballo-Cueto	80.03
100	[96]	Alfonso Mendoza-Velázquez (Alfonso Mendoza-Velazquez)	80.13
101	[119]	Alfredo Ibáñez (Alfredo Ibanyez)	80.40
102	[129]	Juan M. Contreras	80.54
103	[114]	Arturo Antón-Sarabia (Arturo Anton-Sarabia)	81.00
104	[124]	Manuel Ramos Francia	82.31
105	[74]	Tiago Gomes da Silva Tavares	83.92
106	[120]	Jose Morales-Arilla	84.59
107	[92]	Pablo Cotler	85.00
108	[116]	José L. Casco (Jose L. Casco)	85.59
109	[137]	Igor L. Kheifets	87.49
110	[102]	Fausto Hernandez-trillo	87.57
111	[134]	Santiago García-Verdú (Santiago Garcia-Verdu)	87.94
112	[103]	Villalobos Lopez Jose Antonio	88.77
113	[121]	Rene Cabral	88.81
114	[87]	María Saavedra García (Maria Saavedra Garcia)	88.92
115	[144]	Irvin Rojas	88.93
116	[113]	Irving Llamosas-Rosas	88.97
117	[128]	Rocio Elizondo	89.59
118	[47]	Jeetendra Khadan	89.67
119	[108]	Jorge O. Moreno	92.34
120	[115]	Wesley Colin Marshall	92.56
121	[127]	Rubens Moura	93.20
122	[141]	Andrei Gomberg	94.03
123	[130]	Gabriela Dutrénit (Gabriela Dutrenit)	94.24
124	[140]	Ricardo E. Buitrago R.	95.85
125	[139]	Antonio Alleyne	96.19
126	[122]	Troy Lorde	96.42
127	[136]	Rafael Bernardo Carmona-Benítez (Rafael Bernardo Carmona-Benitez)	96.60
128	[133]	Sonia B. Di Giannatale	97.75
129	[143]	Alice Krozer	98.53
130	[131]	Gustavo A. Del Angel	99.77
131	[147]	Carlos Medel-Ramírez (Carlos Medel-Ramirez)	100.50
132	[149]	Jean-Marc Blazy	100.98

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