Fourteen female researchers from CITIC, among the top-ranked at the CSIC
- The UDC centre is consolidating its position in terms of scientific impact indicators and international visibility in the field of ICT.
A Coruña, May 14th, 2026
The Centre for Research on Information and Communications Technologies at the Universidade da Coruña (CITIC) has 14 female researchers included in the “Ranking of Women Researchers Spanish or in Spain”, compiled by the Cybermetrics Laboratory of the Institute for Public Policy and Public Goods at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC due to its name in Spanish).
The ranking brings together more than 12,000 profiles from Google Scholar and other platforms such as ORCID and OpenAlex, and is based on scientific impact indicators such as the h-index and the number of citations. The aim is to raise the profile of women researchers’ work through open and accessible data, in line with the principles of Open Science.
Among the CITIC researchers several stand out for its high international scientific standing. The ranking includes, among others, Paula Fraga Lamas, Amparo Alonso Betanzos y Verónica Bolón Canedo, leading figures in the field of artificial intelligence and data science. It also features researchers such as Nieves Rodríguez Brisaboa, in the field of databases; Margarita Alonso Ramos, in linguistics and language technologies, Berta Guijarro Berdiñas and Noelia Sánchez Maroño, in artificial intelligence; Lara Pallas Quintela; Susana Ladra González in data sciences; Noelia Barreira Rodríguez and Elena María Hernández Pereira, also in AI; and María José Lombardía Cortiña, in statistics.
Taken altogether, these researchers reflect the thematic diversity of CITIC, with expertise in areas such as artificial intelligence, computing, computer vision, mathematics, computational linguistics and optimisation.
Over a hundred at the UDC
The UDC has a total of 102 female researchers featured in this ranking, amongst more than 450 national and international institutions, thus consolidating its role in high-impact research by women. Furthermore, 8 researchers from the university are ranked amongst the top 1.000.
The ranking, organised by the CSIC, highlights women’s research activity through the use of open infrastructures and identification systems such as ORCID or ROR, promoting transparency and the visibility of scientific knowledge.
