More than 40 researchers from UC3M, among the most influential in the world according to the Stanford ranking
10/9/25
The latest edition of the Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientists List for 2025, known in many circles as the Stanford Ranking, identifies the world's most influential researchers based on citations of their scientific work. It includes a total of 43 members of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), two more than last year.
By scientific field, UC3M stands out in Enabling & Strategic Technologies (11), Physics & Astronomy (9), Information & Communication Technologies (8) and Engineering (7). By subfield, it stands out in Materials (6) and Networking & Telecommunications (4).
This list, which has gained considerable resonance in recent years, has been coordinated by John Ioannidis of Stanford University and was recently published by Elsevier under the title: August 2025 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”.
It uses Elsevier's Scopus database as a reference and ranks researchers according to various bibliometric indicators: total number of citations, H-index, co-author adjusted H-index, number of citations to articles as sole, first, or last author, etc.
Two lists of highly cited researchers
This ranking provides two lists of researchers who are among the top 2% most cited in their scientific fields: one that quantifies their impact throughout their research career, and another list for their impact in the previous year (2024).
This edition features 43 members of UC3M: 30 (out of a total of 230,333) in the list that analyzes their entire research career and 31 (out of a total of 187,674) in the list that refers only to the impact of their research in 2024. The details are broken down in the following table:
| Researchers | Career | 2024 | Scientific field |
| Abenojar-Buendía, Juana | X | Enabling & Strategic Technologies | |
| Ahedo, Eduardo | X | X | Physics & Astronomy |
| Anca-Couce, Andrés | X | X | Enabling & Strategic Technologies |
| Banchs, Albert | X | X | Information & Communication Technologies |
| Bautista, Asunción | X | X | Enabling & Strategic Technologies |
| Boada, Beatriz L. | X | X | Engineering |
| Boada, Maria Jesús L | X | Engineering | |
| Bonilla, Luis L. | X | Physics & Astronomy | |
| Conti, Claudio Jorge | X | Clinical Medicine | |
| Cuesta, José Antonio | X | Biology | |
| de la Escalera, Arturo | X | X | Information & Communication Technologies |
| de Vicente, Julio I. | X | X | Engineering |
| Díaz-López, Vicente | X | Engineering | |
| García Osma, Beatriz | X | Economics & Business | |
| García-Armada, Ana | X | X | Information & Communication Technologies |
| García-González, D. | X | X | Enabling & Strategic Technologies |
| González-Benito, Javier | X | X | Chemistry |
| Goyanes, Manuel | X | Communication & Textual Studies | |
| Hernández, Luis | X | Engineering | |
| Hochberg, David | X | X | Physics & Astronomy |
| Iñarrea, Jesús | X | Physics & Astronomy | |
| López-Cardona, Juan Dayron | X | Enabling & Strategic Technologies | |
| Martínez-Ros, Ester | X | Economics & Business | |
| Martínez-Sánchez, Ángel E. | X | X | Physics & Astronomy |
| Míguez, Joaquín | X | Information & Communication Technologies | |
| Moro, Esteban | X | Physics & Astronomy | |
| Munoz-Organero, Mario | X | X | Information & Communication Technologies |
| Navarro, Carlos | X | Enabling & Strategic Technologies | |
| Puebla, Ricardo | X | Physics & Astronomy | |
| Rajo-Iglesias, Eva | X | X | Information & Communication Technologies |
| Ripoll, Jorge | X | Physics & Astronomy | |
| Ruiz-Castillo, Javier | X | Social Sciences | |
| Sánchez-Arriaga, Gonzalo | X | Engineering | |
| Sanchez-Reillo, Raul | X | Information & Communication Technologies | |
| Sanz-Serna, J. M. | X | X | Mathematics & Statistics |
| Soria-Verdugo, A. | X | Engineering | |
| Torralba, Jose M. | X | X | Enabling & Strategic Technologies |
| Tsipas, S. A. | X | Enabling & Strategic Technologies | |
| Usaola, Julio | X | Enabling & Strategic Technologies | |
| Vázquez, Carmen | X | Enabling & Strategic Technologies | |
| Velastín, Sergio A | X | X | Information & Communication Technologies |
| Yousef, Mohamed S. | X | Enabling & Strategic Technologies | |
| Zaera, R. | X | X | Engineering |
