Professor Ilídio Barreto, from Católica Lisbon, was included in the World’s Top Scientists list compiled by Stanford University and published by Elsevier. The list refers to all main knowledge domains (from Physics to Neurology). Scientists are classified into 22 scientific fields and 176 sub-fields. There are currently about 8.8 million active scientists in the World.  Professor Barreto was included in the Business and Management sub-field.

In 2020, Professor Barreto joined the Editorial Review Board of the Academy of Management Journal, which is considered by many scholars as the most impactful scientific publication in theory testing in the Management field over the last two decades. It is the first time a Portuguese scholar occupies such a position.