Leading research at the UB
A total of 166 members of the research staff of the UB are listed in the 2% of the world's most influential scientists, since they are the most cited ones in their respective disciplines, according to the new update of the database. published by the editorial Elsevier, known as the Stanford ranking. The UB is the Spanish university with the highest figures of researchers in this group of leading scientists. You can check here the members of the University of Barcelona who have been listed in the Stanford ranking. Among the 195,605 scientists in the database, 2,998 are affiliated at Spanish institutions. The UB is followed by the University of Valencia, wit 82 researchers, the Technical University of Catalonia (81) and the Complutense University of Madrid (79). The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) is the centre with most highlighted researchers, a total of 545, counting all its research centres in Spain.

