Medical and research staff at the Can Ruti Campus, once again among the world’s most prominent in the scientific field
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The Can Ruti Campus and the healthcare and research teams of the different institutions that comprise it continue to prove, once again this year, to be a relevant node on a global scale in terms of scientific production and progress.
In this regard, nearly thirty professionals from the Hospital and the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP), the Foundation for the Fight Against Infections, the IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute, and the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute (IJC) have been included in a global list of scientists recognised for their significant impact through publications and citations.
This is the latest and most recent update of the Scopus database by Elsevier, a global publisher in the field of Medicine and Health Sciences. The list includes approximately 200,000 authors, accounting for 2% of the world's scientific workforce, who are recognised in two rankings: for their entire scientific career and for their impact in the past year.
In terms of their overall career achievements, the list includes the following names:
- Antoni Bayés, Clinical Director of the Germans Trias Heart Institute and Principal Investigator of the Heart Failure and Cardiac Regeneration Research Group (ICREC) at IGTP
- Esteban Ballestar, Head of the Epigenetics and Immune Diseases Group at IJC
- Pere Joan Cardona, Head of the Microbiology Service at the Hospital and Principal Investigator of the Clinical and Experimental Microbiology Research Group at IGTP
- Bonaventura Clotet, President of the Foundation for the Fight Against Infections and Director of IrsiCaixa
- Antoni Dávalos, former Clinical Director of Neurosciences at the Hospital and a member of the Neurovascular Research Group at IGTP
- Victoria Delgado, Head of the Cardiovascular Imaging Section at Germans Trias and Scientific Director of the Comparative Medicine and Bioimaging Center of Catalonia (CMCiB)
- Manel Esteller, Director of the Josep Carreras Leukemia Research Institute (IJC) and Head of the Cancer Epigenetics Group
- Magí Farré, Head of the Clinical Pharmacology Service and responsible for the Polyvalent Clinical Research Unit (UPIC) at IGTP
- Carlos Ferrándiz, former Head of the Dermatology Service
- Miquel Àngel Gassull, former Director of IGTP and an expert in inflammatory bowel disease
- Manel Monreal, former Clinical Chief of the Internal Medicine Service at the Hospital
- Manuel Perucho, former Director of the Predictive and Personalized Medicine Program at IGTP
- Josep-Maria Ribera, Head of the Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Group at IJC
- Enric Carreras, Head of the Barcelona Endothelium Team (BET) at IJC
- Ciril Rozman, scientific founder of IJC
- Montse Sanchez-Cespedes, Head of the Cancer Genetics Group at IJC
- Fumiichiro Yamamoto, Head of the Immunohematology and Glycobiology Group at IJC
In terms of the influence of their work during 2022, the list repeats some of these names - Bayés, Delgado, Dávalos, Clotet, Monreal, Cardona, Farré, Ferrándiz, Sanchez-Cespedes, Ballestar, Ribera, Carreras and Esteller - but also introduces new ones:
- Jordi Barretina, current Director of the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP)
- María Berdasco, Head of the Epigenetic Therapies Group at IJC
- Jaume Canet, former Head of the Anesthesia and Resuscitation Service
- José Manuel Carrascosa, Head of the Dermatology Service at the Hospital
- Josep Maria Llibre, Associate Medical Staff in the HIV unit at Germans Trias and a researcher at the Foundation for the Fight Against Infections
- Josep Lupón, Head of the Cardiology Service at the Hospital
- Oriol Mitjà, Head of the Infectious Diseases Section at the Hospital and Head of the Community Infection Control Strategies Section at the Foundation for the Fight Against Infections
- Roger Paredes, Head of the Infectious Diseases Service at the Hospital, Principal Investigator at IrsiCaixa, and Scientific Director of the Foundation for the Fight Against Infections
- Alejandro Vaquero, Head of the Chromatin Biology Laboratory at IJC
Reference
Ioannidis, John P.A. October 2023 data-update for 'Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators'. Elsevier Data Repository. 2023 Oct 4; Vol 6. DOI: 10.17632/btchxktzyw.6.