PESC has a score of seven in CAPES (highest score, which denotes an international level) and the professors with the most citations in Google Scholar are:
1- Guilherme Horta Travassos, 10,387 quotes
2- Marta Lima de Queirós Mattoso, 5,867 citations
3- Nelson Maculan Filho, 5,412 quotes
4- Claudia Maria Lima Werner, 4,969 quotes
5- Carlos Eduardo Pedreira, 4,914 quotes
6- Jayme Luiz Szwarcfiter, 4,878 quotes
7- Jano Moreira de Souza, 3,931 quotes
8- Valmir Carneiro Barbosa, 3,290 quotes
9- Edmundo Albuquerque de Souza e Silva, 2,992 quotes
10- Daniel Ratton Figueiredo, 2,931 citations.

The most cited articles, also according to Google Scholar:

- Henrique Steinherz Hippert, Carlos Eduardo Pedreira and Reinaldo Castro Souza, "Neural networks for short-term load forecasting: A review and evaluation", IEEE Transactions on power systems 16 (1), 44-55, 2001 - 2,736 citations

- Jorge Biolchini, Paula Gomes Mian, Ana Candida Cruz Natali and Guilherme Horta Travassos, "Systematic review in software engineering", System Engineering and Computer Science Department COPPE/UFRJ, Technical Report ES-679, 2005 - 1,078 citations

- Leonardo FR Ribeiro, Pedro HP Saverese and Daniel R Figueiredo, "struc2vec Learning Node Representations from Structural Identity", Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGKDD international conference on knowledge discovery and data mining, 385,394, 2017 - 1,006 citations

The queries were made on 12/12/2022.

Congratulations to the authors and to the PESC!