As of July 4th 2017, José Carlos R. Alcantud has been awarded the 2017 IME Research Prize. IME is the Multidisciplinary Institute of Enterprise, University of Salamanca.

José Carlos R. Alcantud has received the 2015 Research Prize  of the School of Economics and Business (Universidad de Salamanca). His paper Finite sets of data compatible with multidimensional inequality measures (Information Sciences 265, 2014, pp. 85-90) has the top 5-year impact factor among the papers published by researchers from the School in 2014.