- Professor Alonso is number one in the h-index ranking of Spanish female researchers in the area of Health Sciences. The h-index is an indicator of the impact of research publications
- Alonso also leads the h-index ranking of male/female Spanish researchers in the specific area of Pharmacology and Pharmacy
María José Alonso, Professor of Biopharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), is the most influential researcher in Spain in the area of Health Sciences, according to the citation index of her scientific publications. The h-index, the most relevant indicator of the impact of the scientific publications within a specific domain, lists her with an h-index 67, the highest position among all the female researchers in this field.
In Spain, the impact of scientific publications signed by women in the multiple areas of Health research is below the impact of their male colleagues, with the only exception of the Pharmacology and Pharmacy area, where Professor Alonso is at the top of the ranking.
According to the latest update of this reference list, Professor Alonso obtained an h-index 67, with more than 14,800 citations from her publications. María José Alonso maintains this leadership position over the last years. Already in 2010, impact of her work has led her to be classified among the top ten researchers in her field worldwide (Times Higher Education international ranking).
This list gathers the data of a total of 3,993 researchers working in Spain, of which 2,331 appear in the rankings of 157 research areas. The average value of the h-indexes that appear in the rankings is 36.
