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Ten UPF researchers are among the 100 most cited Spanish scientists in the world

The Cybermetrics Lab at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has published the ranking of the most cited Spanish scientists in the world. Out of a total of 5,000 researchers, more than one hundred belong to Pompeu Fabra University.
29.06.2016

 

Teun A. van Dijk UPFThe Cybermetrics Lab at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has published a list of the most cited Spanish scientists worldwide. Of the 5,000 scientists who make up the ranking, more than a hundred belong to Pompeu Fabra University, ten of whom are in the top 100.

Teun A. van Dijk, professor at Department of Translation and Language Sciences (DTCL) at UPF since 1999, heads the list in 6th position, with more than 66,500 citations. His work focuses on critical discourse studies, analyzing its power and effects on the ideology of society.

The head of the research group in Bioinformatics and Genomics of the Center for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona (CRG), Xavier Estivill, is in 11th position. Estivill is an associated professor at the UPF since 2002 and is an expert in genetics. His group investigates the contribution of different genetic variants in human disease, and the effect of epigenetic modifications in complex diseases.

The third member of the UPF on the list is Josep Maria Antó, Professor of Medicine at the Department of Experimental and Health Sciences (DCEXS). Located at 24th position, Antó is current the scientific director of the Institute for Global Health of Barcelona (ISGlobal). His main research area is the epidemiology of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease aimed at identifying its environmental causes and prevention.

With more than 51,400 citations and in 33rd position comes Roderic Guigó, professor at the University since 2001 and coordinator of the Bioinformatics Programme of the Center for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona (CRG). Guigó works with genomics, studying the signals involved in the specification of genes in genomic sequences.

Xavier Estivill CRGThe following member of UPF on the list is Ricardo Baeza Yates, the 51st most cited Spanish researcher in the world. ICREA research professor and coordinator of the Web Research Group of the Department of Information and Communication Technologies (DTIC) at UPF, Baeza Yates is an expert in algorithms and data structures, information retrieval data searching and mining on the web, and has been the vice president for research of Yahoo! Labs for the past ten years.

Francisco X. Real, professor at the Department of Experimental and Health Sciences (DCEXS) at UPF and head of the Epithelial Carcinogenesis group of the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), is ranked 60. Real has made important contributions in the field of the biology of pancreatic and bladder cancer, and lately has focused on the genetic analysis of skin tumors.

At number 72 we find Ricard Solé, head of the DCEXS’s Complex Systems Lab and ICREA research professor. One of his main interests is the understanding of the origins of complexity and destruction, both in biological systems and in artificial systems. To achieve this, the laboratory conducts both theoretical and experimental research, including a synthetic biology programme.

The UPF professor and head of the research group on Genomics of Individuality at the IBE (CSIC-UPF), Francesc Calafell, is located 93rd on the list. His current research focuses on the pursuit of individuality in the genome, to find out what makes us the way we are.

Josep Maria Antó ISGlobalFinally, at number 95 on the list we can find Luc Steels, ICREA research professor at UPF. Steels is currently coordinating the research group on Language Evolution at the IBE (CSIC-UPF), focusing on the development of a theory about the origins and evolution of language. His interests include artificial intelligence, being in 1996 the founder of the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris.

The Ranking of Scientists in Spain is based on data found in Google Scholar Citations in January 2016. It is an initiative of the CSIC’s Cybermetrics Lab as part of the "Ranking Web of Universities" or Webometrics, the largest academic ranking of Higher Education Institutions.  Since 2004 and every six months an independent, objective, free, open scientific exercise is performed by the Cybermetrics Lab (Spanish National Research Council, CSIC) for the provision of reliable, multidimensional, updated and useful information about the performance of universities from all over the world based on their web presence and impact. The most cited Spanish scientist in the world this year was Alberto Ruiz Jimeno, professor at the University of Cantabria and principal investigator in the Structure of Matter Department of the Institute of Physics of Cantabria.

The full ranking can be found here: Ranking of Scientists in Spain (I): From 1 to 5000.

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