Four of the CNAG-CRG PI’s (Ivo Gut, Simon Heath, Marc Martí-Renom & Tomàs Marquès-Bonet) are present on the top zone of the Ranking of Scientists in Spain that has been published by the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group belonging to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the largest public research body in Spain.

Ivo Gut, Director of the CNAG-CRG and leader of the Applied Genomics Group is on position nº 49 and Simon Heath, leader of the Bioinformatics Development Group is on position nº 56, in the top 1% of ranked scientists.

Marc Martí-Renom, leader of the Genome Biology Group and Tomàs Marquès-Bonet are also found in the top 10% of the ranked scientists.


The Ranking
10.000 scientists from all the research topics have been ranked according to the citations in their [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.es/ "gs") public profiles. The list consists of the Top 10 000 profiles ranked first by H-index and, when ties appear, then by the total number of citations as a second criterium.

This edition was built with data collected in October 2015 from the public profiles of researchers working in Spain institutions. It is important to mention that this is not a complete picture because there are a lot of scientists in Spain that do not have a public profile in Google Scholar and so, they are not considered in this list.

This ranking has been funded by the Project ACUMEN (European Commission 7th Framework Programme, Capacities, Science in Society 2010. Grant Agreement 266632 and the CSIC Intramural 201310E040).

Google Schoolar Citations Profiles
Google Scholar (GS) is a free very large bibliographic database that it is especially useful for bibliometric purposes as it provides the number (and lists them) of citations received by the items included. Its current size is over 160 million unique documents, many of them with links to openly available full-text versions). This is almost three times the current coverage of the paywalled competitors like WoS/Thomson or Scopus/Elsevier.

GS Citations is a tool for setting up author profiles of individuals and their publications as covered by GS. There are many advantages in generating your own profile using GSC. It is really very easy to use as you only need a Google account to start collecting your publications and the associated metrics. The system is very powerful and it guides you in every step offering candidate publications (with a very low error rate) and the possibility of merging, delete or adding records.