Manel Esteller, Director of the Josep Carreras Leukemia Research Institute, ICREA Research Professor and Chairman of Genetics at the School of Medicine of the University of Barcelona, is renowned in cancer epigenetics, his knowledge area, and the name of the research group which he leads in the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute.

The Web of Science Group (WSG) list identifies scientists and social scientists who produced multiple papers ranking in the top 1% by citations for their field and year of publication, demonstrating significant research influence among their peers.

The methodology that determines the who’s who of influential researchers draws on the data and analysis performed by bibliometric experts from the Institute for Scientific Information at the WSG. The data are taken from 21 broad research fields within Essential Science Indicators, a component of InCites. The fields are defined by sets of journals and exceptionally, in the case of multidisciplinary journals such as Nature and Science, by a paper-by-paper assignment to a field based on an analysis of the cited references in the papers. This percentile-based selection method removes the citation advantage of older papers relative to recently published ones since papers are weighed against others in the same annual cohort.

This year the list includes more than 6,000 Highly Cited Researchers in various fields from more than 60 nations. Spain is in the top 10, with 103 HCR, among which is Manel Esteller.