The University of Barcelona counts 161 researchers among the most influential in the world
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31/10/2024
A total of 161 members of the University of Barcelona’s research staff are among the 2% of the most influential scientists. They are the most cited in their disciplines, according to the new update of the database published by the publishing group Elsevier, known as the Stanford Ranking. The UB is the Spanish university with the most researchers in this group of leading scientists.
The UB is also the first university in Spain in a new ranking based exclusively on citations from the last year, in 2023, which aims to distinguish researchers who have achieved a high impact in their most recent publications. You can check online the list of UB researchers highlighted in the Stanford Ranking, both in the general ranking and in the list of researchers with the most recent impact.
The UB is also the first university in Spain in a new ranking based exclusively on citations from the last year, in 2023, which aims to distinguish researchers who have achieved a high impact in their most recent publications. You can check online the list of UB researchers highlighted in the Stanford Ranking, both in the general ranking and in the list of researchers with the most recent impact.
News
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Rankings
31/10/2024
A total of 161 members of the University of Barcelona’s research staff are among the 2% of the most influential scientists. They are the most cited in their disciplines, according to the new update of the database published by the publishing group Elsevier, known as the Stanford Ranking. The UB is the Spanish university with the most researchers in this group of leading scientists.
The UB is also the first university in Spain in a new ranking based exclusively on citations from the last year, in 2023, which aims to distinguish researchers who have achieved a high impact in their most recent publications. You can check online the list of UB researchers highlighted in the Stanford Ranking, both in the general ranking and in the list of researchers with the most recent impact.
The UB is also the first university in Spain in a new ranking based exclusively on citations from the last year, in 2023, which aims to distinguish researchers who have achieved a high impact in their most recent publications. You can check online the list of UB researchers highlighted in the Stanford Ranking, both in the general ranking and in the list of researchers with the most recent impact.
Among the 217,097 scientists included in the database, 3,508 are attached to Spanish state institutions and, of these, more than 55% are attached to public universities. Behind the UB are the Complutense University of Madrid (with 107 researchers), the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (93) and the University of Granada (89).
The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) is the organization with the most outstanding researchers (337), as it has all the research centres in the whole of Spain. In the case of Catalonia, the total number of scientists is 811 (23.1% of those in Spain). The UB brings together 34.5% of the researchers of the Catalan universities that appear in the ranking.
Globally, the country with the most researchers is the United States. It is followed by the United Kingdom, Germany and China. Spain is in the 11th position.
A total of 175 UB researchers, in the group of those with the greatest impact in the last year
As for the list of researchers with the greatest impact in the last year, in 2023, of the 223,152 researchers included, 175 are affiliated to the UB, which is the leading university in Spain. It is followed by the Complutense University of Madrid (123) and the universities of Granada and Valencia (both with 116 researchers).
The group of leading scientists established by this ranking includes more than fifty disciplines, from different fields of knowledge: from life and health sciences to experimental sciences (such as physics and chemistry), engineering, social sciences (such as economics) or humanities (such as communication and philology).
The Stanford Ranking, which is based on information provided by the Scopus database, measures the influence of research staff according to their output and impact in the fields of knowledge to which their publications belong. However, it should be noted that the institutional affiliations are assigned on the basis of the last article included in the Scopus tool for the period studied, which may affect the results in the case of research staff with more than one affiliation or in the case of temporary mobility, which is inherent to research.
The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) is the organization with the most outstanding researchers (337), as it has all the research centres in the whole of Spain. In the case of Catalonia, the total number of scientists is 811 (23.1% of those in Spain). The UB brings together 34.5% of the researchers of the Catalan universities that appear in the ranking.
Globally, the country with the most researchers is the United States. It is followed by the United Kingdom, Germany and China. Spain is in the 11th position.
A total of 175 UB researchers, in the group of those with the greatest impact in the last year
As for the list of researchers with the greatest impact in the last year, in 2023, of the 223,152 researchers included, 175 are affiliated to the UB, which is the leading university in Spain. It is followed by the Complutense University of Madrid (123) and the universities of Granada and Valencia (both with 116 researchers).
The group of leading scientists established by this ranking includes more than fifty disciplines, from different fields of knowledge: from life and health sciences to experimental sciences (such as physics and chemistry), engineering, social sciences (such as economics) or humanities (such as communication and philology).
The Stanford Ranking, which is based on information provided by the Scopus database, measures the influence of research staff according to their output and impact in the fields of knowledge to which their publications belong. However, it should be noted that the institutional affiliations are assigned on the basis of the last article included in the Scopus tool for the period studied, which may affect the results in the case of research staff with more than one affiliation or in the case of temporary mobility, which is inherent to research.
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