Mario Piattini, Scientific Director of AQCLab is among the best researchers in the world according to the latest edition of the ranking prepared by John P. A. Ioannidis (Stanford University, USA) and co-authors, which analyses their scientific production and the number of times they have been cited, among other criteria.

In this way, Mario de is placed at the top of the international science and technology system by virtue of the ranking carried out by Stanford University and published in the journal PlosBiology. The work is based on the information contained in the Scopus database to evaluate scientists by the impact of their citations. Overall, it shows the contributions of the top 100,000 researchers in all fields according to the composite citation index, as well as other colleagues who are in the top 2% of scientists in their main discipline.

The latest update of the study Updated science-wide author databases of standardised citation indicators, known as the Stanford ranking, shows that, overall, Spain is ranked 13th in terms of the number of researchers in the career list and 11th in the list.