Dr. Pablo Alonso Coello, head of the Clinical Epidemiology and Health Services Research Group in the Area of Epidemiology, Public Health and Health Services at the Sant Pau Research Institute – IIb Sant Pau, is one of the 38 researchers from Catalan research centres and universities on the list of the most cited in the world. The “Highly Cited Researchers” list is published every year by the Web of Science Group.
In total, the “Highly Cited Researchers” list includes 6,216 researchers from all over the world. They are the ones who have published articles that have been widely cited by their colleagues and, therefore, are the most influential. The highly cited researchers work in 60 different countries, but 85% are concentrated in institutions in 10 countries and 72% in the top five. This reveals a high concentration of talent in a few countries. The United States is the most represented – 44% of the total. It is followed by China and the United Kingdom. The rest of the top ten are Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Switzerland and Spain. Spain is represented on the list with 116 researchers, representing 1.9% of the world total. Researchers from Catalan centres account for approximately a third of the total number of centres in Spain.
