The objective is to compare the bibliometric indicators of the candidates with those of their peer grantees to help them make better strategical decisions about their future candidatures.

We include bibliometric indicators in five dimensions in the benchmark:

Productivity

Visibility

Excellence

Leadership

International collaboration

Knowing how you rank among your peers you can answer questions like:

I'm I as productive as a grantee in my field?

Are my publications attracting enough attention in my field?

Are any of my publications among the top 10% most cited?

How often do I play the leading role when publishing papers?

Do I cooperate with colleagues abroad as often as the grantees in my field do?

• Completed on: On going assessmemt
• Client: All researchers

The objective was to characterize the biomedical publications in the top 1% most cited in the world with contributions of authors resident in Spain.

Eight disciplines composed the Biomedicine field and were included in the study:

Clinical Medicine

Biology & Biochemistry

Pharmacology & Toxicology

Molecular Biology & Genetics

Neuroscience & Behavior

Microbiology

Immunology

Psychiatry/Psychology

Also, the 19 nations and regions (Autonomous Communities), corresponding to the Nomenclature of Units for Territorial Statistics (NUTS 2) were include in the analysis by territories in Spain.

Lastly, ranking of the authors themselves were built according to 4 criteria:

Number of HCP in which the authors played a leading role

Total number of HCP attributed to the author

Number of Outstanding Papers in which authors played a leading role

Total number of OP

• Completed on: 2014
• Client: Fundació Banc de Sabadell

The objective was to compare the R&D system of Catalonia with the systems of similar regions in terms of number of the total personnel invloved in R&D tasks, the number of publications in peer-reviewed journals and the number of applications (total and in hight tech fields) in the European Patent Office (EPO).
Also, and analysis of the position of 23 different fields in Catalonia with respect to the reference (world average) in productivity and impact was included in this study.

The study was presented to the Parliamentary Advisory Board on Science and Technology (CAPCIT) of Catalonia to inform the deputies about the state of the R&D system of Catalonia. The CAPCIT is a mixed composition parliamentary body, with deputies and other entities related to science and technology (among others):

The Institute of Catalan Studies, IEC

Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation, FCRi

The Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona

The Catalan Association of Research Entities

Catalan universities

The Catalan Council of Scientific Communication

• Completed on: 2016
• Client: CAPCIT

The objective was to map the research groups on oncology in Spain: its members and host institutions and research topics, as well as their bibliometric indicators as calculated from their publications in scientific peer-reviewed journals.

The groups were classified by scientific discipline, anatomical part of the body and MeSH terms.
Also, a territorial analysis was performed at the level of Autonomous Communities (NUTS 2), in Spain.

The analysis of more than 10 thousand documents on oncology allowed the identification of nearly 3,000 researchers forming more than 300 hundred groups distributed allover Spain.

The map was donated to the telethon Marató de TV3 on cancer.

• Completed on: 2012
• Client: Fundació Marató de TV3

Provision of datasets for the observatory of R+D+I ICONO

In cooperation with Clarivate Analytics, the objective was to build a dashboard for the Fundación Española de Ciencia y Tecnología (FECYT) with the main indicators of the Spanish R&D system. The dataset used to build the dashboard were provided in the form of csv files containing different combinations of entities like sectors, organizations and authors, and the corresponding subsets of publications attributed to these entities.

The Spanish R+D+I Observatory (ICONO) of the Spanish Science and Technology Fundation (FECYT) generates and rigorously analyzes the most current information in relation to the main indicators and strategies of regional, national science and innovation and international.

Complete lists of organizations in these sectors for all Spain were provided:

Universities and their departments

Oficial reseach centers of Spain, including all the centers of the Spanish National Research Council

Hospitals and health institutes

Also, lists with the 100 most active athors per disciplines in the JCR were provided.

• Completed on: 2017
• Client: FECYT