Total 2,424,675 scientists, country 221, and institutions 24,468 are evaluated in the Productivity Rankings, an exclusive service provided by AD Scientific Index. This ranking measures and highlights the scientific productivity of researchers based on the i10 index (number of publications with at least 10 citations). This system identifies highly productive scientists across disciplines, institutions, and regions, contributing to the development of evidence-based academic policies and effective incentive mechanisms. The rankings include global, regional, and institutional analyses, along with specialized rankings such as Scientists' Last 6 Years' i10 Index and Universities' i10 Index Rankings 2025. With Premium Membership, you can:
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* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
![Francisco Rodríguez Cascante](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/00/648474.jpg)
Literatura centroamericana
literatura costarricense
literatura regional
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
137
44
0.321
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
![Alexander Rojas Parajeles](/user/assets/images/profile/no-profile-photo.png)
Cine
documentales
literatura
arte
filosofía
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17
6
0.353
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
![Ricardo Martínez Esquivel](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/89/4501647.jpg)
sinología
Misión China
masonería
Sociedad Teosófica
religiones
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13
5
0.385
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
![Maria Cortes](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/c0/4501441.jpg)
Cine
Literatura
Centroamérica
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11
2
0.182
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
![Allen Quesada](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/10/4500799.jpg)
language testing
TESOL
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9
6
0.667
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
![Adrian Vergara Heidke](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/68/5897163.jpg)
lingüística
estudios del discurso
pragmática
multimodalidad
lingüística forense
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7
2
0.286
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
![Gilbert Ulloa Brenes](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/a1/4590136.jpg)
Estudios culturales
Educación
Psicología cultural
Literatura
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4
3
0.750
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
![Jonathan Elizondo Mejias](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/e9/5027787.jpg)
EFL
ESL
Pegagogy
ICT
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
3
1.000
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
![Sofia Flores](/user/assets/images/profile/no-profile-photo.png)
Lingüística computacional
lenguas indígenas
comunicación social
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
2
0.667
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
![Maynor Barrientos](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/79/4561251.jpg)
literatura
análisis de redes sociales
teología
filosofía
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
2
0.667
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* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
![Ileana Arias Corrales](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/30/4880312.jpg)
Lingüística aplicada
lengua francesa
didáctica de lenguas extranjeras
sociolingüística
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
2
0.667
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
![Edgar Casasola](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/b0/4527892.jpg)
Language Technologies
Information Retrieval
Natural Language Proccesing
Artificial Intelligence
Multi Agent Systems and Comp
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
1
0.333
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
![Juan Pablo Zúniga Vargas](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/e3/5897230.jpg)
English Language Teaching
teacher education
educational research
educational technologies
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
1
0.333
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
![Karen Poe](/user/assets/images/profile/no-profile-photo.png)
Literature
Cinema
Gender Studies
Latin America and Spain
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
0
0.000
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
![Verónica García-Castro](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/7a/4880487.jpg)
L2 language learning
L2 pedagogy
psycholinguistics
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2
2
1.000
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
![Alexánder Sánchez Mora](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/79/4525431.jpg)
Literatura colonial
Barroco
Historia
Centroamérica
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2
1
0.500
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
![Leonardo Sancho](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/bd/4525996.jpg)
literatura colonial
sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
teatro breve virreinal
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2
1
0.500
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
![Karen Alejandra Calvo Díaz](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/43/4880424.jpg)
Evaluación educativa
teoría literaria
estudios literarios
literatura comparada
literatura fantástica
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2
1
0.500
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
![Alejandra Giangiulio-Lobo](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/91/5897287.jpg)
literature
gothic
technology
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2
1
0.500
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
![Juan Carlos Saravia](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/d8/4880326.jpg)
Literature
languages
technology
Asian cultures
Free/Open Source software
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2
1
0.500
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
![William Charpentier](/user/assets/images/profile/no-profile-photo.png)
phonetics
vocabulary acquisition
grammar
writing
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1
1
1.000
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
![Norman Marin Calderon](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/d5/4733097.jpg)
Psychoanalysis
Hispanic Literature
English Studies
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1
1
1.000
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
![María Daniela Muñoz Alvarado](/user/assets/images/profile/no-profile-photo.png)
Social Sciences
Literature
Music
Library and Information Science
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1
1
1.000
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
![Jose Fabián Elizondo González|JF Elizondo González, JFE González, JOSÉ FABIÁN ELIZONDO GONZÁLEZ](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/96/4880433.jpg)
Applied Linguistics
ESP
TEFL
Language Proficiency
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1
1
1.000
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
![Geraldine Zamora-Sánchez](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/03/4880383.jpg)
language learning
ESP
applied linguistics
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1
1
1.000
Francisco Rodríguez Cascante
Universidad de Costa Rica
San José, Costa Rica
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
137
44
0.321
Literatura centroamericana
literatura costarricense
literatura regional
Alexander Rojas Parajeles
Universidad de Costa Rica
San José, Costa Rica
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17
6
0.353
Cine
documentales
literatura
arte
filosofía
Ricardo Martínez Esquivel
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13
5
0.385
sinología
Misión China
masonería
Sociedad Teosófica
religiones
Maria Cortes
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11
2
0.182
Cine
Literatura
Centroamérica
Allen Quesada
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9
6
0.667
Adrian Vergara Heidke
Universidad de Costa Rica
San José, Costa Rica
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7
2
0.286
lingüística
estudios del discurso
pragmática
multimodalidad
lingüística forense
Gilbert Ulloa Brenes
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4
3
0.750
Estudios culturales
Educación
Psicología cultural
Literatura
Jonathan Elizondo Mejias
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
3
1.000
Sofia Flores
Universidad de Costa Rica
San José, Costa Rica
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
2
0.667
Lingüística computacional
lenguas indígenas
comunicación social
Maynor Barrientos
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
2
0.667
literatura
análisis de redes sociales
teología
filosofía
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Ileana Arias Corrales
Universidad de Costa Rica
San José, Costa Rica
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
2
0.667
Lingüística aplicada
lengua francesa
didáctica de lenguas extranjeras
sociolingüística
Edgar Casasola
Universidad de Costa Rica
San José, Costa Rica
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
1
0.333
Language Technologies
Information Retrieval
Natural Language Proccesing
Artificial Intelligence
Multi Agent Systems and Comp
Juan Pablo Zúniga Vargas
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
1
0.333
English Language Teaching
teacher education
educational research
educational technologies
Karen Poe
Universidad de Costa Rica
San José, Costa Rica
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3
0
0.000
Literature
Cinema
Gender Studies
Latin America and Spain
Verónica García-Castro
Universidad de Costa Rica
San José, Costa Rica
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2
2
1.000
L2 language learning
L2 pedagogy
psycholinguistics
Alexánder Sánchez Mora
Universidad de Costa Rica
San José, Costa Rica
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2
1
0.500
Literatura colonial
Barroco
Historia
Centroamérica
Leonardo Sancho
Universidad de Costa Rica
San José, Costa Rica
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2
1
0.500
literatura colonial
sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
teatro breve virreinal
Karen Alejandra Calvo Díaz
Universidad de Costa Rica
San José, Costa Rica
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2
1
0.500
Evaluación educativa
teoría literaria
estudios literarios
literatura comparada
literatura fantástica
Alejandra Giangiulio-Lobo
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2
1
0.500
literature
gothic
technology
Juan Carlos Saravia
Universidad de Costa Rica
San José, Costa Rica
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2
1
0.500
Literature
languages
technology
Asian cultures
Free/Open Source software
William Charpentier
Universidad de Costa Rica
San José, Costa Rica
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1
1
1.000
phonetics
vocabulary acquisition
grammar
writing
Norman Marin Calderon
Universidad de Costa Rica
San José, Costa Rica
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1
1
1.000
Psychoanalysis
Hispanic Literature
English Studies
María Daniela Muñoz Alvarado
Universidad de Costa Rica
San José, Costa Rica
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1
1
1.000
Social Sciences
Literature
Music
Library and Information Science
Jose Fabián Elizondo González|JF Elizondo González, JFE González, JOSÉ FABIÁN ELIZONDO GONZÁLEZ
Universidad de Costa Rica
San José, Costa Rica
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1
1
1.000
Applied Linguistics
ESP
TEFL
Language Proficiency
Geraldine Zamora-Sánchez
Universidad de Costa Rica
San José, Costa Rica
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1
1
1.000
language learning
ESP
applied linguistics