CIC energiGUNE, a leading Basque research center in electrochemical energy storage and conversion and thermal energy storage and conversion, maintains five of its scientists within the “Ranking of the World Scientists”, carried out annually by Stanford University and the academic publisher Elsevier, which have just released the results of their report for the last year.
Professor Michel Armand, honorary scientific director of the electrochemistry area of CIC energiGUNE, appears once again as the most important researcher in the Basque Country, considering all the scientific fields, and is already ranked third at the national level, moving up one position compared to last year. In addition, within his field of specialization - Energy - Professor Armand is the most important researcher in both the Basque Country and Spain, and is ranked 14th worldwide.
Also at the top of the ranking of the most influential scientists in the Basque Country, but in this case in the field of Mechanical Engineering, is the Scientific Director of the Thermal Energy Storage and Conversion Area of CIC energiGUNE and Ikerbasque Professor, Elena Palomo. Dr. Palomo is also the eighth most influential researcher in the field of Mechanical Engineering in Spain.
As it is to be expected, taking into account the field of specialization of CIC energiGUNE, the field of Energy is a reference for two of the other scientists mentioned in the ranking. Thus, together with Michel Armand, the publication maintains Montse Casas-Cabanas, Scientific Director of the Electrochemical Energy storage and conversion Area and Ikerbasque Research Professor, as the tenth most important scientist in the Basque Country, and places Yaroslav Grosu, head of the Interfacial Phenomena and Porous Media group, only two positions below, in twelfth position among the most influential scientists in the Basque Country in this field.
Finally, in the field of Chemistry and Physics, CIC energiGUNE counts with the fourth most important researcher in the Basque Country. Javier Carrasco appears in position 19 at a national level in this field of research and is the 58th most prestigious researcher in the Basque Country, considering all scientific fields.
The “Ranking of the World Scientists”, released this month, contains the information corresponding to the scientific activity developed in 2023. The data of this publication, considered the main international reference in the scientific field, are collected worldwide according to the impact of published research -in which more than 210,000 researchers are cited-, taking into account various factors such as co-authorship or the percentage of self-citations, as well as through the combined analysis of a series of standardized parameters, directly related to the impact of indexed scientific publications. The study gives an overview of both the historical professional career of the researchers and the specific work carried out in the last year analyzed.
In the case of the historical professional career, it should be noted that Professor Michel Armand is ranked number 10 worldwide in the field of energy, which highlights the unparalleled value of his career and the importance of his work at CIC energiGUNE.
