Full Professor | Instituto Politécnico Nacional | Mexico
Professor Francisco Venegas-Martínez is an exceptionally distinguished researcher whose career spans decades of groundbreaking contributions in economics, finance, and environmental studies. Holding dual PhDs in Mathematics and Economics from Washington State University and a post-doctoral tenure at the University of Oxford, he currently serves as a Profesor-Investigador at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN) in Mexico, where he has profoundly influenced both research and higher education. His research interests encompass environmental science, greenhouse gas emissions, renewable and non-renewable resources, economic and financial theory, and energy regulation, reflecting a rare interdisciplinary mastery. Professor Venegas-Martínez has an outstanding publication record with approximately 300 peer-reviewed articles in high-impact national and international journals, over 27 authored books including the widely cited “Riesgos Financieros y Económicos,” and more than 100 book chapters published by renowned houses such as Routledge and Springer. His work has garnered roughly 4,600 citations and recognition in major bibliometric rankings including EconLit, RePEc, and CONACYT metrics, making him one of the most prolific and influential Mexican researchers in economics and finance. His research has been cited by leading global economists including Stanley Fischer, Arnold Zellner, and Frank Fabozzi, highlighting the international significance of his work. Professor Venegas-Martínez has received numerous prestigious awards, such as the Finance Diamond Award from Fundación IMEF (2023), the Lázaro Cárdenas Distinction from IPN (2012), and the National Prize in Economic Research “Maestro Jesús Silva Herzog” (2002), reflecting both national and international recognition of his scientific excellence. Beyond publications, he has contributed to over 40 editorial boards, delivered more than 300 keynote lectures worldwide, and mentored generations of students and researchers. His deep and sustained impact on economic, financial, and environmental scholarship, combined with his leadership in scientific communities, makes him eminently suitable for recognition as a Best Researcher Award recipient.
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Featured Publications
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Fonseca-Zendejas, A. S., Borrego-Salcido, C., & Venegas-Martínez, F. (2025). An estimated DSGE model under the New Keynesian framework for Mexico. Computational Economics.
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Jiménez-Preciado, A. L., Martínez-García, M. Á., Trejo-García, J. C., & Venegas-Martínez, F. (2025). Short- and long-term assessments of ESG risk in Mexican mortgage institutions: Combining expert surveys, radar plot visualization, and cluster analysis. Sustainability.
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Jiménez-Preciado, A. L., Álvarez-García, J., Cruz-Aké, S., & Venegas-Martínez, F. (2024). The power of words from the 2024 United States presidential debates: A natural language processing approach. Information.
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Venegas-Martínez, F., & Jiménez-Preciado, A. L. (2024). Clustering a sample of major and emerging economies in function of their economic policy uncertainty: K-means, agglomerative hierarchical clustering and density-based spatial clustering with noise. EconoQuantum.
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Jiménez-Preciado, A. L., Cruz-Aké, S., & Venegas-Martínez, F. (2024). Identification of patterns in CO2 emissions among 208 countries: K-means clustering combined with PCA and non-linear t-SNE visualization. Mathematics.