Researchers from IMFD are part of Stanford’s list World Top 2% Scientists ranking

November, 2024.- Pablo Barceló, Marcelo Arenas, and Domingo Mery, DCC–IMC UC faculty members; along with Aidan Hogan, Gonzalo Navarro, Claudio Gutiérrez, and Ricardo Baeza-Yates, DCC UCH faculty members, and Sebastián Valenzuela, faculty member at the Facultad de Comunicaciones UC and researcher at NUDOS, were recognized in the latest edition of the “World’s Top 2% Scientists” ranking, which also highlights the most cited researchers throughout their careers.

The list was compiled by Stanford University and the publisher Elsevier, which highlights the most cited researchers worldwide across various disciplines, selecting the top names among more than 100,000 profiles from the Scopus database, a bibliographic database of abstracts and citations from scientific journal articles owned by Elsevier, launched in 2004.

Gonzalo Navarro (DCC UCH) leads the ranking of the most cited researchers throughout their entire career, thanks to his fruitful career, in which, in addition to his own work, his collaborations across various research areas stand out. His central research topic is the relationship between compression and data structures, and thanks to collaboration within IMFD, he has connected his area with graph databases, where the issue of space usage has become crucial as these grow in volume and complexity.

Researcher Marcelo Arenas (DCC-IMC UC) has more than 4,900 citations, and his research covers areas such as data management and the semantic web, with his works “Semantics and complexity of SPARQL” and “Consistent query answers in inconsistent databases” being particularly recognized.

Barceló, director of IMC UC, researcher at the National Center for Artificial Intelligence (CENIA) and IMFD, noted that: “Appearing in this ranking shows that what is being done here is of international caliber, that it is visible, and that people are interested in it.” He mentions that his inclusion on the list is mainly due to his research having grown in impact over the years. “Papers I wrote a while ago have progressively started to have an impact. In my case, there was also a change of field, since I moved from data management to artificial intelligence and machine learning. Thanks to that, I am now part of a much larger community, which means citations start to grow and papers also become more visible,” Barceló explains.

The “World’s Top 2% Scientists” ranking, whose data is updated annually, uses a c-score that takes into account not only the number of citations, but also the author’s position in the publications and co-authorship, reaffirming the global relevance of these researchers’ academic work.

You can check the full list here.