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UCC Food and Nutrition Scientists - Global Leaders in Research
The prestigious Elsevier/Stanford University World Rankings of Researchers has named 11 academics from the School of Food and Nutritional Sciences at University College Cork experts among the global top 2% of academics most cited in their fields.
This is a new record and demonstrates how UCC staff in the School of Food and Nutritional Sciences are working at the highest international level, pushing the boundaries of discovery and innovation, securing our sustainable food future. This international recognition reflects the fact that the School of Food and Nutritional Sciences is one of the most research active, and impactful, academic units across the University.
The world-class research performed in the School focuses on an end-to-end, interdisciplinary, total chain approach, ranging from food production systems and the bioeconomy, through ingredient and formulation science, product development and innovation, food bioprocessing and transformation, packaging, shelf-life and quality, to nutrition and health. The outcomes of this research provide impact across all the core commodity and value-add sectors of the food industry globally, including dairy, meat & fish, cereals & pseudocereals, fruit & vegetables and pulses/oilseeds/tubers. The research from the School also informs policy, with a specific example being the research from the Cork Centre of Vitamin D and Nutrition informing global public health guidelines in vitamin D and micronutrient nutrition for more than 20 years.
The rankings originated when a group of academics at Stanford University created a publicly available database of top-cited scientists that provides standardised information on citations, h-index, co-authorship adjusted hm-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions and a composite indicator (c-score). These rankings are significant as this is the only publicly available citation database that accommodates different discipline citation practices.
The rankings were compiled by Stanford University and recently published by Elsevier. The researchers are classified in 22 disciplinary fields and 174 subfields.
The selection is based on the top 100,000 researchers by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above in the sub-field. This work uses information from the Scopus database provided by Elsevier through the ICSR Lab (International Center for the Study of Research). The rankings can be accessed here.