This ranking, a global benchmark for analyzing research activity, acknowledges researchers from UAL in two primary categories this year: those with the most influential scientific careers and those with the highest number of citations over the past year.
In the category of influential scientific careers, the University of Almería retains 14 of its researchers. Thirteen are repeat honorees from previous years, with one new addition: Francisco García Camacho. Other notable researchers in this section include Amadeo Fernández Alba, Emilio Molina Grima, José Luis Guil-Guerrero, Tomás Lafarga, Francisco Manzano Agugliaro, Gabriel Acién, Roberto Romero González, Antonia Garrido Frenich, Rodney Thompson, José Antonio Sánchez Pérez, José Luis Martínez Vidal, and Ana Agüera.
Furthermore, in the classification of scientists with the most cited publications in 2026, the University of Almería includes the names of Emilio Abad Segura (Financial Economics and Accounting), José M. Muyor Rodríguez (Didactics of Body Expression), Francisco M. Padilla (Plant Production), Rubén Trigueros (Developmental and Educational Psychology), Alejandro Pérez Castilla (Didactics of Body Expression), M. del Mar Molero Jurado (Developmental and Educational Psychology), José Luis Guzmán (Systems and Automation Engineering), Marisa Gallardo (Plant Production), Fernando García Barroso (Zoology), María J. López (Microbiology), Remedios López Liria (Physiotherapy), Lorena Gutiérrez Puertas (Nursing), María José Sánchez Muros (Animal Production), María Dolores Ruiz Fernández (Nursing), and Pedro Parra Rivas (Applied Physics).
The significance of appearing on this list is amplified when considering the university's size; the UAL ranks alongside much larger institutions. The ranking is compiled using standardized data on citation frequency, the number of authors per article, and their position within publications, selecting the top 2% of researchers globally across 20 scientific fields and 174 subfields. The data is sourced from the Scopus database, updated by Elsevier on October 7th, reflecting August 2026 data.
