168 UPC researchers feature in the CSIC women scientists ranking
The latest edition of the ranking of Spanish and foreign female researchers working in Spain, compiled by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), includes 168 UPC professors. The ranking classifies female scientists with an h-index of 18 or higher on Google Scholar.
May 26, 2026
The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has published the 5th edition of its ranking of women scientists, which features data on Spanish female researchers and foreign ones working in Spain. Of the 12,110 researchers listed in this edition, 168 are from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC), ten of whom are professors assigned to UPC-linked research centres.
The top one thousand positions include scientists Maria Pau Ginebra (ranked 134th), Ivet Ferrer (363rd), Ana María Sastre (564th), Rosa Maria Badia (761st) and Elaine Armelin (989th). See the full list of UPC female researchers included in this ranking.
Raising the profile of female talent
The ranking of Spanish and foreign female researchers in Spain is compiled by the CSIC’s Cybermetrics Lab to increase the visibility of women’s work in science and promote open science. The study is based on public data from Google Scholar, a search engine specialising in scientific content and literature.
The ranking orders researchers firstly by their h-index (a research impact indicator that combines the number of published papers with citations received) and secondly by their total number of citations. To be included in this edition, researchers must have an ORCID identifier in their Google Scholar profile and an h-index of at least 18.
