Los nuevos ingresos como candidato a investigador en el SNI, 1996-2003

This paper shows a profile, from the perspective of their scientific output, of the “Candidate Researcher’s” to join, for the first time, the Mexican research elite known as National System of Researchers (SNI). Based on that academic profile, a probability model using the information submitted by the researchers on their applications is shown, analyzing the transition to the two levels of SNI that present more dynamics: Candidate Researcher and National Researcher Level I. These variables are displayed first at the time of admission to SNI and second, when the first extension in the System.