Spain Increases Its Tender

Spain increased its presence in world scientific production of excellence in 2019 becoming the country that grew the most compared to the previous year in terms of the number of published scientific documents. Furthermore 17 of the Spanish scientific publications of 2019 are among the most cited in the world at the same level as Germany and France.The Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology FECYT through the Spanish R D i Observatory ICON has updated the bibliometric indicators of Spanish scientific production for the period 2006-2019 with data from the two main world bases of bibliographic references and scientific citations Scopus and Web of Science WOS.According to the data collected 17 of Spanish scientific publications in 2019 are among the most cited in the world rising two percentage points with respect to 2018 in the Scopus database and equaling Germany and France both countries ahead in regarding the number of published documents. In WOS 12.2 of the publications belong to the group of the most cited in the world.By geographical distribution according to Scopus the autonomous communities with the highest percentage of highly cited publications - of excellence - are the Balearic Islands Catalonia and Cantabria. In WOS they are Catalonia the Balearic Islands and Navarra.Regarding the thematic distribution according to Scopus the areas in which our country has the highest percentage of highly cited publications - of excellence - are Chemical Engineering 30.4 Chemistry 29.1 Immunology and Microbiology 27.1 and Environmental Sciences 26.9. According to WOS they are Physics 15.6 Medicine 15 Space Sciences 14.3 and Molecular Biology and Genetics 14.Of the neighboring countries Spain has been the country that has grown the most in 2019 in terms of the number of published scientific documents. In Scopus our country reached 93417 publications almost 6 more than in 2018 while in WOS there were 73633 documents. This figure places Spain as responsible for more than 3 of world scientific production.In addition in 2019 our country maintains the global scientific impact of publications at 1.2 which means that Spanish scientific production is cited 20 more than the world average.According to Scopus 59.8 of the documents of the Spanish scientific production were published in the best journals in each area and in WOS the percentage of Spanish articles published in the best journals in each area was 52.1.More than half of the Spanish scientific production 56 in WOS and 50.4 in Scopus is the result of international collaboration which continues to grow year after year. Spains main collaborating countries are the United States the United Kingdom Italy Germany and France. Italy is consolidated as our main European partner. The slight difference between the two databases is due to the number of journals they index Scopus almost 23000 journals and WOS more than 18000.