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27/10/2026 - General information

Stanford University’s World’s Top 2% Scientists ranking includes more than forty professionals from Hospital del Mar and the Hospital del Mar Research Institute

The list includes 44 professionals who are currently or have previously been affiliated with the hospital and its research institute.

The World's Top 2% Scientists ranking, which includes the world's most influential researchers, features 44 professionals affiliated with Hospital del Mar and the Hospital del Mar Research Institute (HMRIB) in its latest edition. The list, compiled by Stanford University in the United States, takes into account the most highly cited scientists across a range of disciplines. Researchers are classified into 22 scientific fields and 174 subfields, and the ranking includes 100,000 individuals, representing the top 2% of active scientists worldwide.

The ranking comprises two lists. One takes into account researchers' entire careers, while the other considers only citation data from scientific publications in recent years.

The first among the more than forty professionals from Hospital del Mar and HMRIB to appear in the ranking is Jordi Alonso, although many other prominent researchers are also included. These include Mar Albà, Joan Albanell, Francisco Álvarez Lerma, Joaquín Arribas, Joaquim Bellmunt and Esther Barreiro, as well as Olga Castañer, Francesc Colom, Maria Isabel Covas, Rafael de la Torre, Adolfo Díez Pérez, Roberto Elosua, Montse Ferrer, Montse Fitó and Antonio García de Herreros.

Also among the world's most highly cited scientists are Olatz Garin, Joaquim Gea, Ana María Giménez-Arnau, Luis Grande, Juan Pablo Horcajada and Benedetto Ielpo. The list also includes Jaume Marrugat, Jordi Mestres, Jordi Peña Casanova, Manuel Pera, Luis Pérez Jurado, Jesús A. Pozo, Óscar Pozo, Jesús Pujol and Ramon Pujol, as well as Miquel Porta, Rodrigo Quian-Quiroga, Jaume Roquer, Aleix Sala-Vila, Helmut Schröder, Jordi Segura, Antoni Sitges-Serra, Marc Suárez-Calvet, Marta Torrens, Jordi Vallès, Olga Valverde, Gemma Vilagut and Pablo Villoslada.

You can consult the lists at this link.

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