- Professor Alonso is number one in the h-index ranking of Spanish female researchers in any area of 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 woman researcher in Spain, 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 71, the highest position among all the female researchers in Spain, in any area of Sciences.
In Spain, the impact of scientific publications signed by women in the multiple research areas is below the impact of their male colleagues, with only a few exceptions, among them 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 71, with more than 16.300 citations from her publications. María José Alonso has maintained a leader position over the last years in the Pharmacology and Pharmacy area. Already in 2010, the 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 4,025 researchers working in Spain, 2,329 of them from 157 different research areas. The average value of the h-indexes in the rankings is 38.
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