IMFD researchers are part of Stanford's list of World Top 2% scientists

November, 2024 - Pablo Barceló, Marcelo Arenas and Domingo Mery, academics Pablo Barceló, Marcelo Arenas and Domingo Mery, academics DCC-IMC UC; together with Aidan Hogan, Gonzalo Navarro, Claudio Gutiérrez and Ricardo Baeza-Yates, academics DCC UCHand Sebastián Valenzuela, academic of the Faculty of Communications UC and researcher of NUDOS, were recognized in the latest edition of the ranking "World's Top 2% Scientists", which also highlights the most cited highlights the most cited researchers throughout their careers.

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

Gonzalo Navarro (DCC UCH) leads the ranking of the most cited throughout his career, thanks to his fruitful career, in which in addition to his work, his collaborations in various research areas stand out. His central research topic is the relationship between compression and data structures, and thanks to the collaboration in the 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.

The researcher Marcelo Arenas (DCC-IMC UC), has more than 4,900 citations and his research covers areas such as data management and semantic web, being recognized his work "Semantics and complexity of SPARQL" and "Consistent query answers in inconsistent databases".

Barceló, director of IMC UC, researcher at the National Center for Artificial Intelligence (CENIA) and IMFD , emphasized that: "Appearing in this ranking shows that what is being done here is of international level, that it is visible and that people are interested in it. people are interested in it". He says that his inclusion in the list is mainly due to the fact that his research has been growing over the years. "Papers that I did some time ago have progressively begun to have an impact. In my case there was also a change of area, since I moved from the area of data management to artificial intelligence and computational learning or machine learning. Thanks to this, I am now in a much larger community, so citations are beginning to grow and the papers are also becoming more visible," explains Barceló.

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 relevance of the academic work of these researchers at a global level.

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