Stanford University has published the ‘World’s Top 2% Scientist List’, a ranking of the world’s most cited researchers in all areas of knowledge. This ranking is based on Scopus data provided by Elsevier. Once again, we are proud to announce that 5 researchers from this list are part of CEIGRAM.
The World’s Top 2% Scientists List generates two rankings: the first considers the researcher’s entire career, and the second, the last year of results. This latest edition includes more than 217,000 researchers in the career ranking and more than 223,000 in the last year’s ranking, from 23,125 universities in 167 countries.
This ranking evaluates multiple indicators, such as the H-index, the HM-index adjusted for co-authorship, citations and co-authorship position, among others. The presence of CEIGRAM research staff in this ranking demonstrates the relevance of the studies carried out and their usefulness in the development of new research.
The School of Agricultural, Food and Biosystems Engineering (ETSIAAB) has achieved important international recognition. A total of 10 ETSIAAB teaching and research staff have been included in the prestigious ‘World’s Top 2% Scientists List’. The research staff recognised for this achievement belong to different research structures and departments (Food Technology, Agronomy and Agriculture, Environmental Science and Engineering, Horticulture, Energy and Virology), highlighting the strategic importance of the ETSIAAB as a whole in highly relevant and topical issues.
You can read the original publication and download the full Top 2% Scientist list at the following link: https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/7
CEIGRAM RECOGNITION
CEIGRAM research staff who have been included in the list for recognition of their research careers include Professors Miguel Quemada, María Gómez del Campo and Ana Iglesias.
On the other hand, in the list that recognises the citations obtained in the last academic year, Miguel Quemada and Ana Iglesias are again included, but also Alberto Sanz-Cobeña and Luis Lassaletta.
Below you can read a brief description of the personal profiles of each of the researchers who have received this recognition:
Miguel Quemada. University Professor in the Department of Agricultural Production at the Polytechnic University of Madrid since 2008, he obtained his PhD in Agronomy at the University of Georgia (USA) in 1995, and over the last 30 years, his lines of research have focused on the development of strategies based on water and nitrogen management to maintain the sustainability of cropping systems under current and future conditions. He has coordinated several national and international projects and participated in numerous agreements with fertiliser and agri-food companies. He was coordinator of the SIRENA Network of Scientific Excellence. He regularly collaborates with the European Commission in project evaluation and monitoring panels. He has participated as an expert in different scientific panels, such as the European Nitrogen Expert Panel (EUNEP). He is coordinator of the AgSystems group (http://blogs.upm.es/agsystems/).
Professor Quemada has an h-index (Scopus) of 42 and has published 107 articles, mostly in high impact journals, which have been cited on a total of 5,018 occasions. His publications have been especially relevant in fields such as: Cover crops, remote sensing, vegetation index, environmental impact assessment and nitrogen cycle.
María Gómez del Campo. Profesora en el Departamento de Producción Agraria de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid desde 2001 y Catedrática desde 2020. Imparte docencia sobre el cultivo de frutales y olivar. Secretaria del Master Universitario en Agricultura de Precisión y directora del Curso de Experto en Olivicultura
In his doctoral thesis (1998) he evaluated the response of vine varieties to water availability. He specialised in olive cultivation working at the University of Seville between 1997 and 2001. His research activity focuses on the development of deficit irrigation strategies and olive orchard design. He leads an interdisciplinary group on precision irrigation and fertilisation of fruit trees.
According to Scopus Maria has an h-index of 24, has published 53 articles, mostly in high impact journals, and has been cited a total of 1,263 times. Several of her articles reflect the results of field trials of more than 8 years. His publications have been especially relevant in fields such as: Olive, Irrigation, Remote Sensing, Soil Moisture and Vitis Vinifera.
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Ana Iglesias. Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Statistics and Business Management at the UPM. She is a member of the Hydroinformatics and Water Management Research Group.
His scientific activity focuses on the interactions between global change, agriculture and water, with special emphasis on economic impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. She leads several EU projects related to adaptation policy. She has published more than 200 articles and has been a contributing author to the IPCC since 1995; for the 2014 IPCC report she was editor of the Economics of Climate Change journal. Since 2016 she is a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency (EEA).
According to Scopus, he has published a total of 116 articles, which have been cited up to 7,622 times, giving him an h-index of 37. His publications are particularly related to the following topics: Climate Change, Phenology, Viticulture, Climate Modeling, Hydrology Models, Uncertainty Analysis, among others.
Alberto Sanz-Cobeña. Professor in the Department of Food Chemistry and Technology at the UPM. His research activity, in addition to being focused on the study and analysis of mitigation strategies for N losses associated with agricultural production under real field conditions, is centred on an exercise of increasing scales, both temporal and spatial. The use of process models, together with the experimental data obtained during his research activity, is allowing the estimation of agri-environmental impacts, in the medium and long term, in different agricultural systems and under different management strategies.
In addition, it has sought a more integrated view of a complex problem such as the emission of GHGs in the agri-food system and other nitrogen compounds and their mitigation. Without abandoning the generation of quality empirical data at the plot scale, I have led other studies focused on provincial, river basin, national and large region (Mediterranean) scales. Delving into methodologies such as meta-analysis, modelling and nutrient balances. In addition, he is particularly interested in the impact that changes in habits, both in production and consumption, can have on the increase in the sustainability of agri-food systems, at different scales.
According to Scopus, Alberto Sanz has published 83 articles that have been cited on 4,362 occasions, giving him an h-index of 35.
Luis Lassaletta Coto. PhD in Science from the Complutense University of Madrid (2007), he has focused his career on the study of the sustainability of agricultural systems in relation to nutrient cycles and greenhouse gas emissions. After finishing his thesis he worked as coordinator of the Ecocampus Office at the University of Alcalá. Subsequently he spent almost 8 years between the Sorbonne University in Paris, the CNRS (France) and the Dutch Environment Agency (PBL). In 2018 he joined Prof. M. Quemada’s group (AgSystems) at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid as a Ramón y Cajal researcher.
Without abandoning the line of global agronomy, he currently focuses his scientific activity on the study of the particularities of the Mediterranean region in terms of nutrient management in agroecosystems in a context of climate change or the risk of contamination and loss of soil fertility, using modelling tools and nutrient balances, the analysis of historical trajectories and the generation of management scenarios. He participates as an expert in different international scientific panels such as the European Nitrogen Expert Panel (EUNEP), the European Commission Knowledge Hub on Water and Agriculture (2020) and the global UN INMS project leading the work on nitrogen use efficiency.
Luis Lassaletta has an h-index of 44 (Scopus) and has published 89 articles, cited on a total of 9,045 occasions, several of them ‘highly-cited’ and in journals considered as ‘high-profile’ such as Nature, Nature Climate Change, Nature Sustainability and Nature Food.
This individual recognition reaffirms the importance of the work we do at CEIGRAM. It highlights the quality and impact of its research on relevant topics such as agricultural sustainability, the fight against climate change and the efficient management of resources, key areas to face today’s global challenges.
These results demonstrate CEIGRAM’s commitment to quality research and its capacity to generate useful knowledge that directly influences sustainable policies and practices at an international level. In addition, the recognition of our researchers reinforces the role of the centre as a reference in the search for innovative solutions to improve agricultural systems and protect the environment.End of form
