José Carlos R. Alcantud has been awarded the 2022 IME Research Prize. This prize acknowledges the best research conducted by members of IME during 2022.

On April 8th, 2022, MDPI has announced the winners of the Mathematics 2020 Best Paper Awards. The article Soft Open Bases and a Novel Construction of Soft Topologies from Bases for Topologies, by José Carlos R. Alcantud, has been one of the six winning papers. These articles were nominated by the journal’s Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Francisco Chiclana.

Influential researchers – Press reports On December 8th, 2021, the local media published news concerning the updated database of a study conducted by Ioannidis et al. at Stanford University. The dossier (updated August 2021) includes José Carlos R. Alcantud among the top 2% of scientists of their main subfield discipline. https://www.lagacetadesalamanca.es/salamanca/salamanca-consolida-su-liderazgo-en-la-lista-de-los-investigadores-mas-influyentes-NL9814294 https://salamancartvaldia.es/not/279986/buena-nota-profesores-universidad-salamanca-rankings-stanford/ https://www.tribunasalamanca.com/noticias/una-treintena-de-investigadores-de-la-usal-entre-los-mas-destacados-del-mundo-segun-el-ranking-de-la-universidad-de-stanford/1638880858

On October 19th, 2021, the now famous study conducted by Ioannidis et al. at Stanford University has been updated. It contains a publicly available database with standardized citation indicators of over 100,000 top-scientists. The updated dossier includes José Carlos R. Alcantud among the top 2% of scientists of their main subfield discipline. The latest single-year impact list places him…

On May 4th, 2021, the local media published news concerning a study conducted by Ioannidis et al. at Stanford University. The dossier includes J.C.R.Alcantud among the top 2% of scientists of their main subfield discipline. https://saladeprensa.usal.es/filessp/prensa/noticias/20210504_x/002AIX4P.pdf (in Spanish). https://www.salamanca24horas.com/texto-diario/mostrar/2867947/treinta-ocho-profesores-universidad-salamanca-clasifican-entre-investigadores-prestigiosos-mundo (in Spanish).

The following papers by members of BORDA have become ESI (Essential Science Indicators) highly cited papers: J. C. R. Alcantud, F. Feng and R. R. Yager: An N-soft set approach to rough sets. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems 28(11) (2020), 2996-3007 M. Akram, A. Adeel and J. C. R. Alcantud. Group Decision-Making Methods Based on Hesitant N-Soft Sets. Expert Systems With Applications 115…

The paper «Some formal relationships among soft sets, fuzzy sets, and their extensions», by J. C. R. Alcantud, has been acknowledged as the most cited citable item towards 2018 Journal Impact Factor of International Journal of Approximate Reasoning.