2011 List of Top Ten Most Cited Spanish Social Scientists Released

PHILADELPHIA, April 2, 2012  /PRNewswire/ -- The Lauder Institute of Management & International Studies at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School today announced the release of its bi-annual ranking of the most cited Spanish social scientists, measuring the impact of their research activities worldwide. Six economists and four sociologists top the ranking of top ten most cited Social Scientists, according to data tracked through the end of 2011 from the Institute for Scientific Information (see attached table). Sociologist Manuel Castells tops the list, with three times as many citations to his research as the second-ranked, Juan J. Linz, who is a sociologist and political scientist. The third spot was claimed by economist Andreu Mas-Colell.

Castells's most impactful research focuses on urban social movements, the rise of the network society, and the role of cities in the information-driven global economy. Linz's research deals with the sociological aspects of political regimes, transition to democracy, and the advantages and disadvantages of presidential versus parliamentary democracy. Mas-Colell is a mathematical economist who has made major contributions to microeconomics and general equilibrium theory.

The three social scientists with the greatest number of new citations during the year 2011 alone work on topics of current interest. Castells (with 1,270 new citations) researches globalization and the Internet, while Manuel Arellano (732 new citations) and Jordi Gali (582 new citations) primarily focus research on macroeconomic and econometric issues that relate to the ongoing global financial and economic crisis.

As in the 2009 ranking, Barcelona-based universities and schools account for five of the top ten spots, with Universitat Pompeu Fabra boasting three of its faculty members among the top ten. Three of the top ten Spanish social scientists work at U.S. universities, and two others have appointments both in the U.S. and Spain. The four sociologists among the top ten hold appointments at U.S. universities.

The ranking of the top ten scholars was calculated using information on citations to the articles, books, book chapters, and working papers published by social scientists, as reflected in the Institute for Scientific Information's Social Science, Science, and Humanities Citation Indexes, which track academic publishing in scientific journals around the world. The number of citations was calculated as the sum of the citations to each of the articles, books, book chapters, and working papers authored by the scholars included in the ranking.

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The Ten Most Cited Spanish Social Scientists (through 2011)

Source: Institute for Scientific Information.

SOURCE Lauder Institute