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24-12-2010

19 CEICS researchers rank among the Spanish experts with the greatest international impact

Nineteen researchers have been included in the study’s lists of experts, which can be viewed at http://indice-h.webcindario.com. Of the university researchers mentioned, those at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) and the Pere Virgili Institute for Health Research (IISPV) obtained the highest positions in the study in the fields of chemistry and medicine. The majority of the researchers in the study rank within the top ten researchers in their respective areas of specialisation.

The list was created using data from the Web of Science and is based on the “h-index”. This is a system proposed by Jorge Hirsch of the University of California which measures a scientist’s professional impact in terms of the number of citations his or her articles have received. It assigns a number to each scientist, which is the number of publications by that scientist that have received at least the same number of citations. So, if an expert has an index of h=25 it means that 25 of the articles that he or she has published have been cited 25 or more times.

The most significant of these at the URV, ICIQ and IISPV are:

BIOLOGY

Mycology

• Josep Guarro, URV/IISPV
• Josep Cano, URV/IISPV

HEALTH SCIENCES

Intensive care  

• Jordi Rello, Joan XXIII Hospital/ IISPV
• Emili Díaz, Joan XXIII Hospital/ IISPV

Medical Laboratory Technology

• Jorge Joven, URV/ Joan XXIII Hospital/ IISPV
• Jordi Camps, URV/ Joan XXIII Hospital/ IISPV
• Natalia Ferré, URV/ Joan XXIII Hospital/ IISPV

Toxicology

•  Josep Domingo, URV/IISPV
   

PHYSICS
 

Physics / Mathematics

•  Alex Arenas, URV

CHEMISTRY

Analytical chemistry

• Francesc Borrull, URV
• Rosa Maria Marcé, URV

Electrochemistry

• Eduard Llobet, URV

Inorganic chemistry  

• José Ramón Galán, ICIQ
• Carmen Claver, URV
   

Organic chemistry

• Antonio Echevarren, ICIQ/URV
• Miquel Àngel Pericàs, ICIQ
• Javier de Mendoza, ICIQ/URV

Multi-disciplinary chemistry  

• Javier de Mendoza, ICIQ/URV
• Feliu Maseras, ICIQ
• Pablo Ballester, ICIQ