Carmen Muñoz and Cedrick Boeckx, researchers and teachers at the Faculty of Philology and Communication, among the 2% of the most influential scientists being the most cited in the field of Communication and Textual Studies

A total of 166 members of the UB research staff rank among the 2% most influential scientists as they are the most cited in their disciplines, according to the new database update published by the Elsevier publishing group, known as the Stanford ranking. UB is the state university with the most research staff in this group of leading scientists, belonging to more than 50 disciplines in different fields of knowledge, from life and health sciences to experimental sciences (such as physics and chemistry), engineering, social sciences (such as economics), and humanities (such as communication and philology). Among these are Carmen Muñoz Lahoz, professor of university at the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and English Studies; and Cedric Boeckx, associate professor at the Department of Catalan Philology and General Linguistics and researcher ICREA.

Among the 19,605 scientists that include the database, 2,998 are attached to institutions in the Spanish State. Behind the UB are the University of Valencia (with 82 researchers), the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (81) and the Complutense University of Madrid (79).

It must be said that the Higher Council of Scientific Research (CSIC) is the centre with the most outstanding researchers (545), as it adds all its research centers across the state. In the case of Catalonia, the total number of scientists is 742 (25% of those in the state), of which 443 (60%) are attached to public universities.

Worldwide, the country with the most researchers is the United States. There is followed by the United Kingdom and Germany. It is noteworthy that, this year, both the total number of scientists included in this 2% of researchers with more influence and the number of states of origin.

The Stanford ranking, which is produced from the information provided by the Scopus database, measures the influence of research staff according to their production and impact on the fields of knowledge to which their publications are subscribed. It has to be said, however, that the institutional subscriptions are assigned on the basis of the last article that collects Scopus for the period studied, which may affect the results in the cases of research staff with more than one affiliation or the temporary mobility of research.