Top-cited scientists by field in Ecuador

13 fields · 27 subfields · Ecuador

In which fields are the top 2% scientists in Ecuador?

44 researchers whose current affiliation is in Ecuador are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list, across 13 fields and 27 subfields. Clinical Medicine has the most (14, 31.8%), followed by Biology (8) and Information & Communication Technologies (4); the largest subfield is General & Internal Medicine (6). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Field and subfieldListed authorsShareTop 100kHighest-ranked author
Clinical Medicine · 14 listed authors (31.8%)
General & Internal Medicine613.6%2Lowe, Rachel #30,780
Tropical Medicine24.5%0Cooper, Philip John #191,137
Allergy12.3%0Chérrez, Ivan #211,189
Legal & Forensic Medicine12.3%0Zambrano, Ana Karina #543,028
Neurology & Neurosurgery12.3%1Del-Brutto, Óscar H.D. #29,317
Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine12.3%0Chedraui, Peter A. #223,489
Sport Sciences12.3%1López-Gil, José Francisco #30,203
Biology · 8 listed authors (18.2%)
Zoology511.4%0Guayasamin, Juan Manuel #209,918
Ecology12.3%1Schaefer, Heinrich Martin #98,105
Evolutionary Biology12.3%1Jost, Lou #5,831
Ornithology12.3%0Greeney, Harold Francis #714,548
Information & Communication Technologies · 4 listed authors (9.1%)
Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing36.8%1Villegas-Ch, William Eduardo #48,475
Networking & Telecommunications12.3%0Govea, Jaime #307,157
Earth & Environmental Sciences · 3 listed authors (6.8%)
Environmental Sciences36.8%3Alvarado, Rafael #24,441
Engineering · 3 listed authors (6.8%)
Civil Engineering24.5%2Shariati, Mahdi #38,669
Electrical & Electronic Engineering12.3%0Hernandez, Wilmar #380,455
Chemistry · 3 listed authors (6.8%)
Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry24.5%1KUMAR, Brajesh #44,377
Enabling & Strategic Technologies · 2 listed authors (4.5%)
Energy24.5%2Nizami, Abdul Sattar #24,070
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology12.3%1Alexis, Frank #27,279
Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry · 2 listed authors (4.5%)
Food Science12.3%1Alvarez-Suarez, Jose M. #23,475
Veterinary Sciences12.3%0Lewbart, Gregory A. #507,626
Public Health & Health Services · 2 listed authors (4.5%)
Mathematics & Statistics · 1 listed authors (2.3%)
Applied Mathematics12.3%0Vivas-Cortez, Miguel #226,124
Physics & Astronomy · 1 listed authors (2.3%)
Nuclear & Particle Physics12.3%1Bellucci, Stefano #32,287
Social Sciences · 1 listed authors (2.3%)
Education12.3%0Walsh, Catherine E. #147,548
Biomedical Research · 0 listed authors (0.0%)
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology12.3%1Sharifi-Rad, Javad #794
Microbiology12.3%1Ortiz- Prado, Esteban #80,034
Toxicology12.3%1Tsatsakis, Aristides Michael #8,284

44 listed scientists in Ecuador

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