Twelve ICTA-UAB researchers, among the most influential in the world
The latest edition of the ranking of the researchers with the greatest scientific impact in the world, published by the Stanford University, places twelve ICTA-UAB researchers among the 2% of the most influential scientists. The ranking includes 85 scientists from the UAB. The list shows is based on citations from 2022, updated to the end of 2023.
The ICTA-UAB members included in the list are Jason Hickel, Isabelle Anguelovski, Giorgos Kallis, Jeroen van den Bergh, Joan Martinez-Alier, Victoria Reyes-García, Dan Brockington, Mario Giampietro, Esteve Corbera, Oriol Marquet, Sergio Villamayor-Tomás and Helen Cole.
Scientists are ranked based on Scopus data, with the top 100,000 or those in the top 2% of their field included. It provides standardized information on parameters related to the impact of scientific publications: the number of times an article is cited by another researcher, the h-index, co-authorship-adjusted hm-index, citations of papers in different authorship positions and a composite indicator, among others. In addition, the classification provides metrics with and without self-citations.
Considered one of the world’s most influential rankings, it has been created by an expert group whose members are John Loannidis (Stanford University), Jeroen Baas (Elsevier B.V.), Kevin W. Boyack (SciTech Strategies) and Richard Klavans (SciTech Strategies). The classification’s database encompasses 22 fields of science and 176 sub-fields and includes the world’s top 2% in each of their main disciplines, with representation from institutions from around the world.
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