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La presente edición incluye cambios destacados en relación a ediciones anteriores: •Un formato más corto, presentando los indicadores clave en los ámbitos más representativos, sustituyendo a la exhaustiva descripción de indicadores que se presentaba con anterioridad. •Comentarios de los gráficos en formato ejecutivo, acompañando cada gráfico con uno o más comentarios explicativos cortos y que resaltan los aspectos más relevantes. •Un análisis de tendencias y estimaciones a 2010 de algunos de los indicadores principales, incluyendo un capítulo de proyección de los principales indicadores bibliométricos de España. Desde la Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología confiamos en que el trabajo realizado para la elaboración de este nuevo documento contribuya a mejorar el conocimiento sobre el Sistema Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología y arroje luz sobre los aspectos más relevantes de la producción de nuestros investigadores en términos de publicaciones y generación de conocimiento especializado. De este modo, el Observatorio ICONO contribuirá de forma exitosa a mejorar los procesos de toma de decisión en el ámbito de la investigación científica, el desarrollo y la innovación tecnológica, áreas de actuación que se imponen cada vez con mayor fuerza como los nuevos motores que han de impulsar el sistema productivo de nuestro país.

This work summarizes the scientific production indicators at national, regional and international areas as research and aims to become a tool of analysis and evaluation of scientific activity in Spain. From the information provided is possible diagnoses based on the characterization of its evolution and knowledge of their strengths and weaknesses both domestically and internationally.

In this new release, the Indicadores Bibliométricos report is becoming "the" information tool for the continuous analysis of the scientific activity in Spain. It allows to make diagnoses based on its evolution over time, and to take decisions based on actual knowledge of the strengths and weaknesses of scientific of the Spanish national science, technology and innovation system. From the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (Fecyt) we are confident that the work done in preparing this new document will contribute to improve the knowledge of the National Science and Technology System and shed light on relevant aspects of the production of our researchers in terms of publications and generation of specialized knowledge. Thus, the ICON Observatory successfully contribute to an improved decision-making processes in the field of scientific research, development and technological innovation, policy areas that are imposed with increasing force as the new engines that have to boost our country's productive system.

In this new edition, the main goal of this study is to describe and analyze the scientific output of Andalusia Community Autonomous, both at institutional level as thematic distribution, by the use of a set of scientometric indicators, for the period 2003-2005 using Web of Science as data source.

We analyze the scientific production of excellence through bibliometric indicators of scientific activity that allows to know Spanish, among others, regional capacities in research. In this regard, this study is intended as a tool of analysis and information to assist the diagnosis of scientific activity in Spain. The purpose is to provide a structured analysis with the main reference bibliometric indicators of scientific production volume within the international comparative framework. And distribution and thematic visibility of production, with special attention to gender indicators and interregional relative to the Autonomous Communities of Spain.

In this new edition, the study deals with the scientific collaboration to: -Describe the collaboration patterns at regional level in all aggregation level and its comparison at national and international level. -Identify the thematic/cognitive structure of Galician scientific output. -Representation of institutional structure in specific areas by collaboration networks. -Determination of main geographical axis through relations with other countries.

This report collects and combines both bibliometric indicators (production and impact) and socio-economic, in order to provide a complete enough description and schematic of the state and evolution of the science for the period from 1990 to 2004. The indicators presented in this study have been compiled from recognized sources (as reference) internationally, among which is "Web of Science", developed by Thomson Scientific. This edition includes an analysis of indicators on existing trends and patterns relating to gender and scientific communication

The main goal of this study is to describe and analyze the scientific output of Asturias Community Autonomous (Spain), both at institutional level as thematic distribution, by the use of a set of scientometric indicators.

The main goal of this study is to describe and analyze the scientific output of Extremadura Community Autonomous (Spain), both at institutional level as thematic distribution, by the use of a set of scientometric indicators for the period 1990-2002 using Web of Science as source of data.

The work reflects the scientific production of Andalusia in an area where research is reaching a very remarkable, and in a period when we wanted to enhance the role and presence in Andalusia in the scientific development of the Spanish state.

Science and Technology Policies are gaining a more prominent role in the governments plans of the most developed countries. In tha Andalusian region the new government elected on March 14, 2004, committed to promote R&D + innovation policies and significantly increase the budgets allocated to them. To meet this challenge the Department of Innovation, Science and Enterprise (Consejería de Innovación, Ciencia y Empresa) was created. Given these increases in activity and budgets, they are also becoming increasingly important the assessment processes of plans and programs, and the scientific activity in general. The work presented here is intended to give continuity to a series of bibliometric works started some years ago on behalf of the Plan Andaluz de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación (PAIDI) --Andalusian Research Plan- itself, and reflects the scientific production of Andalusia according to the databases of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI Web of Science), providing important new features to previous editions: standardization of the scientific institutions generating Andalusian scientific outputs, extension of the study to the CSIC centres and to hospitals, and inclusion of tables and graphs that charts the evolution of the main indicators in recent years. The information contained in this publication, along with other works and similar initiatives, as will be the consolidation and expansion of the Scientific Information System of Andalusia (SICA) will be a source of valuable information for the assessment processes that the newly created Andalusian Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation will face. Also will be useful for decision making processes after the implementation of various programs under the new PAIDI to be adopted in 2005.

The main goal of this study is to describe and analyze the Spanish scientific output, both at institutional level as thematic distribution, by the use of a set of scientometric indicators that allow us to monitoring the Spanish Scientific System.

To contribute to the analysis of the situation, evolution and effects of the R+D activity in the autonomous community of Galicia (northern Spain) for the different areas of knowledge is one of the objectives branching from the Consortium of University Libraries of Galicia. To this end, among other necessary actions, we must retrieve data available on scientific output by Galician research personnel, and from there, through the elaboration of indicators, to establish the conditions existing among efforts, disciplines, organisations, territory, etc. For this reason, the Consortium of University Libraries of Galicia took the initiative of promoting an analysis of the state of the art of research in Galicia through the study of scientific indicators, in order to determine the present situation as well as its evolution since the year 1990. The main objective is to measure the situation of Galicia insofar as the generation of new knowledge and its relationship with investment efforts by analysing socioeconomic indicators that describe the situation of the resources invested in R+D; indicators of output that describe quantitative aspects of research activity; indicators of impact, showing the visibility of work within the scientific community; and indicators of collaboration with other Spanish autonomous communities and in the international realm.

The aims of the study are: – To analyze the scientific output in biomedicine at regional level – To describe its evolution along the time and to compare it with national figures – To define the communication patterns of Andalusian researchers in different thematic areas – To identify and analyze scientific collaboration types

Scientific and technical research plays a paramount role in the economic and social development of the most advanced countries. For this reason governments pay special attention to the scientific and technological policies in order to improve Science and Technology Systems. In this sense evaluation processes, both qualitative and quantitative, are very important to know the situation in order to take correct strategic decisions. Moreover, if we add the fact that in the Andalucia region, Spain, the current Plan Andaluz de Investigación (already in its third implementation) is being finished and will be superseded by the new Plan Andaluz de Investigación, Desarrollo Tecnológico e Innovación (Andalusian Plan for Research, Technological Development and Innovation) from 2004 onwards, it seems very convenient to publish the results of the qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the Sistema Andaluz de Investigación based on its scientific production. Indeed, this evaluation should be done together with other parameters and indicators that will provide a more complete overview of all the aspects that affect and have influence on that system. As a consequence, with this publication we want to provide a useful tool to the various managers responsible for the Andalusian Science, in order they can take decisions: Research Centres can decide their strategic plans, researchers can reorient or refine their research lines to address topics of higher social impact. Of course, responsible politicians must address the debate to drive within the greatest possible consensus to a widely accepted definition of the new Plan Andaluz de Investigación Desarrollo Tecnológico e Innovación, as an essential tool for the development of the Knowledge Society in Andalucía.