Andrés Castellanos, recognized as a one of the Highly Cited researchers 2024 by Clarivate

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Andrés Castellanos-Gómez, researcher at the Material Science Institute of Madrid (ICMM-CSIC) and leader of the 2D Foundry group, has been recognized as one of the Highly Cited Researchers 2024 by Clarivate. This is the latest publication analysis by the analytics company and contains some 6600 researchers in the sciences and social sciences.

This list highlights researchers who have an outsized impact on their fields and extend the frontiers of knowledge. That means, "researchers who have demonstrated significant and broad influence in their field(s) of research", says the company.

Clarivate produces the list annually, based on an extensive analysis of scientific publishing data on Web of Science. Each researcher included in the list is the author of multiple papers ranked in the top 1% by citations for their field(s) and publication year over the past decade. Approximately one in a thousand researchers makes it onto this prestigious list.

The company explains that, despite this, "citation activity is not the sole selection indicator". Actually, "this list, based on citation activity, is then refined using qualitative analysis and expert judgment as we observe for evidence of community-wide recognition from an international and wide-ranging network of citing authors," it says.

"This milestone reflects the hard work and dedication of my past and presents lab members, mentors, and collaborators", celebrates Castellanos-Gómez. He remembers that science "is a team effort", so he is "grateful to all who contributed to this journey".

Andrés Castellanos-Gómez

Castellanos-Gomez is a Research Professot at the Spanish National Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC) since 2017. He explores novel 2D materials and studies their mechanical, electrical and optical properties with special interest on the application of these materials in nanomechanical and optoelectronic devices. Part of his work can be considered as pioneering in the field of 2D materials beyond graphene as he has reported some of the early works on novel 2D materials like MoS2, black phosphorus, TiS3 and franckeite. Among his achievements, his works on strain engineering of 2D semiconductors and on photodetectors based on 2D materials are considered seminal works by the community.

His work has been largely recognized: he authored more than 150 articles in international peer review journals and 6 book chapters. According to Google Scholar, Castellanos-Gomez has an h-index of 67, with a total number of citations above 22.000. He has received numerous awards and honors like the ERC Synergy Grant in 2024 and the ERC Starting Grant in 2017. He was appointed Fellow of the International Association for Advanced Materials, and was selected as one of the Emerging Leader 2020 by Journal of Physics: Materials, included in the Highly Cited Researchers lists of Clarivate/WOS during last years, selected as one of the 2018 Emerging Investigators by Chemical Society Reviews, selected as one of the Top Ten Spanish Talents of 2017 by the MIT Technology Reviews and he has been shortlisted in the Emerging Investigator Lectureship 2017 of the journals Chemical Communications and Chemical Society Reviews.

He has been also recognized with the National Prize for Young Researchers (2023) by the Ministry of Science of Spain and the Miguel Catalán Young award (2023) by the Comunidad de Madrid. Previously, he won the Young Researcher Award (experimental physics) of the Royal Physical Society of Spain (2016), the Joshep Wang Award (2014) given by the Cognizure Publishing Group, the 2013 Young Researcher Award of the Instituto Universitario de Materiales (Universidad de Alicante), the Young Resercher Award 2012/2013 of the Grupo Español del Carbón and the PhD thesis award of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Premio Extraordinario 2011).