Transparency
How this ranking is built
This ranking is open, reproducible and based on public data. Here we explain exactly where the figures come from, who is included and who is not, and what limitations our indicator has.
Data source
All data comes from OpenAlex, the world's largest open catalog of scientific literature (successor of Microsoft Academic Graph), published under a CC0 license. The data for this edition was retrieved on 2026-07-13.
Inclusion criteria
- Authors with an h-index above 19 in OpenAlex.
- Whose primary institution (most recent known) is in Chile. Foreign collaborators with occasional ties are excluded from the main ranking.
- In countries with tens of thousands of authors above the threshold, the ranking includes the 3,000 profiles with the highest h-index.
With these criteria, this site lists 2,137 researchers from 128 institutions across 25 scientific areas.
What the h-index measures
An h-index of N means the author has N publications with at least N citations each. It combines productivity and impact in a single number and is the most widespread bibliometric indicator. We also show total citations, the i10 index (works with 10 or more citations), number of works and the average impact of the last 2 years.
Limitations you should know
- It favors high-citation areas (medicine, physics, materials science) over humanities, law or mathematics, where citation rates are lower. Compare within an area, not across areas.
- It favors long careers: the h-index can only grow over time, which penalizes brilliant young researchers.
- It does not distinguish authorship order or hyperprolific authorship in large consortia.
- It depends on OpenAlex data quality: author and institution assignment is automatic and may contain disambiguation errors.
- In some Caribbean countries, offshore medical schools inflate the figures with authors whose real ties to the country are limited.
For all these reasons, these metrics should not be used as the sole criterion to evaluate a person. This ranking is an outreach and transparency tool, not an official assessment.
Geolocation and territories
Each researcher is assigned to the territory and city of their primary institution according to OpenAlex geolocation, complemented with our own mapping to normalize names.
Corrections
Spotted an error in your profile or someone else's? The primary source is OpenAlex (you can request corrections there), and you can write to us so we review it in the next update.