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Cedrick Boeckx and Carmen Muñoz, among the 2% of the scientists with more influence in the world
News | 04-11-2024
The researchers of the Faculty of Philology and Communication form part of the most cited academicians at the field of Communication and Textual Surveys
A total of 161 members of the personal researcher of the UB find among the 2 % of the scientists with more influence. They are the most quoted at his disciplines, according to the new update of the database that publishes the publishing band Elsevier, met as a Ranking of Stanford. The UB is the university of the State with more personal researcher at this band of scientific leaders.
At this band of scientific leaders has more of 50 disciplines of distinct fields of the ken: since the sciences of the life and of the health until the experimental sciences (like the physicist and the chemistry), the engineerings, the social sciences (like the economics) or the humanities (like the communication and the philology). Among these, excel Carmen Muñoz Lahoz, teacher of university of the Department Modern Literatures and English Surveys; and Cedric Boeckx, researcher ICREA and teacher associated linked at the Department of Catalan Philology and General Linguistics.
Among the 217.097 scientists that includes the database, 3.508 are ascribed at institutions of the Spanish State and, of these, more of the 55 % are ascribed at public universities. Behind the UB there is the University Complutense of Madrid (with 107 researchers ascribed), the Poly University of Catalonia (93) and the University of Granada (89).
The Superior Council of Scientific Inquests (CSIC) is the organism with more singled out researchers (337), since it sums all the centres of enquiry that has from everywhere of the State. At the case of Catalonia, the total figure of scientists is of 811 (the 23,1 % of the of the State). The UB reunites a 34,5 % of the researchers of the Catalan universities that appear at the ranking.
To scale world, the country with more researchers is the United States. Every tracked, there is the United Kingdom, Germany and the China. Spain occupies the position number 11.
A total of 175 researchers of the UB, at the band of the that achieve more impact the last year
Regarding the listing of researchers with more impact the last year, the 2023, of the 223.152 that include, 175 are ascribed at the *UB, that is the university leader at the State. They track it the University Complutense of Madrid (123) and the universities of Granada and of Valencia (both, with 116 researchers).
The Ranking of Stanford, that elaborates from the information that provides the database Scopus, size the influence of the personal researcher according to the production and the impact at the areas of ken at what ascribe its publications. It is necessary to say, but, that the institutional ascriptions assign splitting of the last article that collects the tool Scopus for the period studied, thing that can affect the results at the case of the personal researcher with more of an ascription or at case of temporal mobility, own of the enquiry.