68 UPF lecturers in the fields of the Humanities and Social and Legal Sciences are among the top 20 positions in Spain within their respective fields of knowledge in the Scholar H Index ranking 2012. Moreover, 20 of these lecturers appear in the top three positions.

 

• Ranking by areas showing the 68 lecturers in the top 20 positions

 

The Scholar H Index, produced by the Evaluation of Science and Scientific Communication Research Group at the University of Granada, is a bibliometric index that measures the academic production of lecturers and researchers at public universities in Spain in the Humanities and Social and Legal Sciences fields, based on counting the publications and bibliographic citations they receive through Google Scholar.

The indicator was published in mid-2013, and since then the authors have corrected, updated and expanded the data, which were released in March 2014.

The 20 UPF lecturers listed among the top three positions of various disciplines in the ranking, which is divided into Social Sciences, Legal Sciences, Humanities and Fine Arts sections, are:

Social Sciences

In the Social Sciences field, in the area of Economic Analysis within the Economics section, Robin Hogarth, Jordi Galí and Andreu Mas -Colell occupy first, second and third place respectively. This performance is repeated in the area of Applied Economics, by professors José García Montalvo, Máximo Motta and Jaume Ventura, in that order. In Financial Economics and Accounting, Xavier Freixas is ranked first and Oriol Amat is in second place. Finally, in Business Organization, Vicente Ortún is in third place.

In the area of Psychology, Nuria Sebastián is in second place followed by Albert Costa in third, and in the disciplines of Communication, Joan Ferrés ranks first in Audiovisual Communication and Advertising, and Javier Díaz Noci and Miquel Rodrigo take second and third place respectively, in Journalism. In Documentation, Lluís Codina is ranked third. In Political and Administration Science, Willem Saris is in first place, and Mariano Torcal is in third.

Legal and Human Sciences

UPF lecturers are also represented in these areas. In the Legal Sciences, Francisco Ramos appears in third place in Procedural Law. The Human Sciences area includes Juan Carlos Garavaglia (2nd) in Contemporary History and Josep Fontana (3rd) in History and Economic Institutions. Finally, in the disciplines of Hispanic Philology, Daniel Cassany appears in the third place in Catalan Philology.

An experimental methodology

The Scholar H Index involved the mass measurement of the academic output of a scientific community of more than 50,000 professors, and the results of around 15,000 of them are listed. In order to minimize any possible errors (since there is no control or standardization of the sources processed), they were measured with a tolerable error of performance using the H and G indices, which tolerate errors of no more than 10%.

The H and G indices are two bibliometric indicators for measuring the relevance of a researcher's scientific output, designed by the experts JE Hirsch and Leo Egghe respectively. The calculation for each author is based on their scientific production and their associated citations in Google Scholar located. The index is calculated after a manual processing of the results, and is presented by areas of knowledge, taking the first third of the lecturers with a higher H-index as the cut-off point.

 

RANKING BY AREAS SHOWING THE 68 LECTURERS IN THE TOP 20 POSITIONS

SOCIAL SCIENCES

AREA OF KNOWLEDGE	SPECIFICAL AREA	LECTURER	POSITION
ECONOMY	Economic Analysis	Robin Hogart	1
		Jordi Galí	2
		Andreu Mas-Colell	3
		Fabio Canova	4
		Gabor Lugosi	6
		Antonio Ciccione	7
		Michael Greenacre	9
		Rosmarie Nagel	19
	Business Organization	Vicente Ortún	3
		Benito Arruñada	7
	Applied Economics	José García Montalvo	1
		Máximo Motta	2
		Jaume Ventura	3
		Albert Satorra	4
		Marta Reynal-Querol	8
		Jaume Puig-Junoy	12
	Financial Ecnomics and Accounting	Xavier Freixas	1
		Oriol Amat	2
		José Luis Peydró	7
		Nicola Gennaioli	12
PSICOLOGY	Basic Psicology	Núria Sebastián	2
		Albert Costa	3
		Salvador Soto Faraco	4
	Social Psicology	Verónica Benet-Martínez	7
COMMUNICATION	Audiovisual Communication and Advertising	Joan Ferrés	1
		Jordi Xifra	16
	Journalism	Javier Díaz Noci	2
		Miquel Rodrigo	3
		Josep Gifreu	14
		Jaume Guillamet	15
DOCUMENTATION		Lluís Codina	3
		Mari-Carmen Marcos	17
POLITICAL SCIENCE AND ADMINISTRATION		Willem Saris	1
		Mariano Torcal	3
		Kenneth Hanf	5
		Jacint Jordana	6
		Ricard Zapata	9
		Ferran Requejo	11
		Ignacio Lago	14

LEGAL SCIENCES

AREA OF KNOWLEDGE	LECTURER	POSITION
CIVIL LAW	Pablo Salvador Coderch	6
	Fernando Gómez Pomar	13
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW	Rafael Jiménez	15
	Marc Carrillo	17
TAX AND FINANCIAL LAW	Rafael Oliver	12
PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW	Manuel Cienfuegos	14
PRIVAT INTERNATIONAL LAW	Albert Font	20
COMMERCIAL LAW	José Masseguer	9
CRIMINAL LAW	Jesús M. Silva	4
	Elena Larrauri	12
PROCEDURAL LAW	Francisco Ramos	3
PHILOSOPHY OF LAW	Josep Joan Moreso	13

HUMAN SCIENCES

AREA OF KNOWLEDGE	SPECIFIC AREA	LECTURER	POSITION
HISTORY	Ancient History	Marina Picazo	17
	Medieval History	Josep M. Salrach	10
	Contemporary History	Juan Carlos Garavaglia	2
	History and Economic Institutions	Josep Fontana	3
		Joachim Voth	6
		Albert Carreras	7
		Xavier Tafunell	12
	Science History	Antoni Malet	9
	Art History	Carlos Reyero	7
SPANISH PHILOLOGY	Catalan Philology	Daniel Cassany	3
TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION		Aurora Bel	8
		Patrick Zabalbeascoa	9
		José Chabás	13
		Jenny Brumme	18
EAST ASIA STUDIES		Manel Ollé	6
		Albert Galvany	8
		Jacint Soler	8
PHILOSOPHY		Francisco Fernández Buey	8