The first edition Ranking of scientists in Spanish Institutions by Webometrics, based on the Google Scholar Citations public profiles of scientists working in Spain, lists 9 ICCUB Researchers among the first 1,000 researchers in a list of 10,000. These ICCUB researchers are: Ricardo Graciani Díaz, Licia Verde, M C González-García, Raúl Jiménez, Joan Solà Peracaula, Roberto Emparan, José Ignacio Latorre, Artur Polls and Paolo Padoan.

The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities is an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group belonging to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the largest public research body in Spain.This Ranking edition was built with data collected during the October 2015 from the public profiles of researchers working in Spain institutions. It is a BETA Ranking of the scientists according to their declared (voluntarily) presence in the Google Scholar Citations database. However, it gives a general overview about the general position of Spanish institutions, showing that the ICCUB (Universitat de Barcelona) is a leading institute in Spain.