Important role of DEQ professors in Research.com

The Research.com portal has just positioned USC as the leading university in Spain in the field of environmental sciences. This classification is based on the study of the h-index of research personnel based on data extracted from Microsoft Academic Graph up to December 6, 2021. Specifically, the list that has just been published is the result of the analysis of 166,880 researcher profiles. According to this classification, USC ranks 110th in the world in this area of ​​knowledge and has 13 outstanding researchers in this field.

The total sum of the h-index values ​​of the most outstanding USC scientific profiles in the environmental field is 515, with an average h-index value of 39.62. The total number of publications of the best USC scientists is 1,439 with an average value of publications per scientist of 110.69. The list of research staff from the Department of Chemical Engineering included in this area is made up of Gumersindo Feijoo, Sara González-García, María Teresa Moreira, Marta Carballa, Francisco Omil, Anuska Mosquera-Corral and Almudena Hospido.