The ranking includes the 200,409 most cited researchers among the nearly 10 million scientists considered active worldwide.
A total of 13 researchers from the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) have been included in the list of the most influential scientists that Stanford University prepares each year taking into account the impact of their publications. This ranking is based on bibliometric information extracted from the Scopus database.
Considered the most prestigious at the international level, the list "The World’s Top 2% Scientists 2021" gathers the names of the 200,409 most cited researchers in the world among the nearly 10 million scientists considered active, which represents this 2% of the total.
The ranking covers 22 scientific areas and 176 sub-disciplines, and takes into account the number of published articles, the total citations, h-index, number of authors in the publications, and paper citations as well as different authorship positions.
Among the 86 Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) institutes in the ranking, the ICM-CSIC occupies the 20th position considering the number of scientists of the institute that appear in the list. Likewise, with 13 researchers, the ICM-CSIC occupies the first position among the Spanish marine centers present in this list.
Within the ICM-CSIC staff in the ranking appear Josep M Gasol (Marine Biology and Hydrology), Ramon Massana (Microbiology), Francesc Piferrer (Fisheries), Joan Cartes (Marine Biology and Hydrology), Albert Calbet (Marine Biology and Hydrology), Rafael Simó (Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences), Marta Estrada (Biology), Roger Villanueva (Biology), Montserrat Solé (Earth and Environmental Sciences), Francesc Sardà (Biology), Francesc Maynou (Biology), Albert Palanques (Earth and Environmental Sciences) and Jordi Font (Engineering).