Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Spain
The CSIC (Spanish National Research Council) is the largest and leading public research institution in Spain and the third in Europe due to the quality and quantity of its scientific production. It plays an essential role within the Spanish System for Science, Technology and Innovation and contributes to reinforce Spain’s position at the international level.
CSIC’s main aim is to develop and promote scientific studies to contribute to foster scientific and technological progress. CSIC's mission includes: 1) multidisciplinary scientific and technical research; 2) scientific and technical advice; 3) transferring results to the private sector; 4) contributing to the creation of technology-driven companies; 5) training specialised personnel; 6) management of infrastructure and large facilities; 7) promoting scientific culture. The CSIC is multidisciplinary, carrying out research in almost all fields of knowledge. Its activities encompass basic research all the way through to technological development.
The CSIC is present in all the autonomous regions through their centres across Spain. It comprises 120 centres spread across Spain, and is also present in Brussels and Rome. It is formed by employees with a wide range of academic qualifications and professional categories. The CSIC employs 11,000 people, of which 3.000 are researchers. In total, they represent the 6% of Spain’s R&D workforce and generate approximately the 20% of the country’s production. Likewise, the CSIC collaborates with other juridical entities such as consortia and trading companies.
1 November 2017 - 31 October 2018
Region: Global
Subject/journal group: All
The table to the right includes counts of all research outputs for Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) published between 1 November 2017 - 31 October 2018 which are tracked by the Nature Index.
Hover over the donut graph to view the FC output for each subject. Below, the same research outputs are grouped by subject. Click on the subject to drill-down into a list of articles organized by journal, and then by title.
Note: Articles may be assigned to more than one subject area.
AC | FC |
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1056 | 199.52 |
Outputs by subject (FC)
Subject | AC | FC | |
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Physical Sciences | 549 | 85.21 | |
ACS Nano | 12 | 3.44 | |
Advanced Functional Materials | 15 | 4.35 | |
Advanced Materials | 5 | 2.85 | |
Applied Physics Letters | 18 | 6.31 | |
Astronomy & Astrophysics | 18 | 5 | |
European Physical Journal C | 90 | 9.08 | |
Journal of High Energy Physics | 139 | 13.87 | |
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters | 24 | 3.30 | |
Nano Letters | 21 | 3.13 | |
Nature | 7 | 0.44 | |
Nature Communications | 21 | 3.69 | |
Nature Materials | 2 | 0.29 | |
Nature Nanotechnology | 3 | 0.64 | |
Nature Photonics | 2 | 1.55 | |
Nature Physics | 3 | 0.29 | |
Physical Review A | 2 | 0.30 | |
Physical Review B | 31 | 6.05 | |
Physical Review D | 2 | 0.42 | |
Physical Review Letters | 53 | 11.33 | |
Physical Review X | 4 | 0.26 | |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 10 | 1.69 | |
Science | 3 | 0.15 | |
Science Advances | 4 | 0.26 | |
The Astrophysical Journal Letters | 60 | 6.52 | |
Life Sciences | 286 | 52.63 | |
Earth & Environmental Sciences | 93 | 22.41 | |
Chemistry | 222 | 58.56 |
Highlight of the month
How sheets of cells can turn into tubes
© DEA/P. CASTANO/Getty
An irregular three-dimensional (3D) shape has been discovered that helps explain how tubes of cells form.
Sheets of cells called epithelia line the outer and inner surfaces of most organs in the body, but it is unclear how cells adapt to create a solid curve.
A team that included researchers from the Spanish National Research Council modelled a new 3D shape that cells could adopt to enable epithelial sheets to form a tube. The team named this shape, which has one triangular face, scutoid after the Latin for shield. To confirm the shape exists in living cells, the researchers searched for and found scutoids in the tubular salivary glands of flies.
Understanding how tissue architecture changes during development stages could aid the development of artificial organs.
- Nature Communications 9, 2960 (2018). doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-05376-1
Top articles by Altmetric score in current window
Artificially lit surface of Earth at night increasing in radiance and extent
Science Advances
2017-11-01
Morphometric, Behavioral, and Genomic Evidence for a New Orangutan Species
Current Biology
2017-11-20
Scutoids are a geometrical solution to three-dimensional packing of epithelia
Nature Communications
2018-07-27
1 November 2017 - 31 October 2018
International vs. domestic collaboration by FC
- 30.42% Domestic
- 69.58% International
Note: Hover over the graph to view the percentage of collaboration.
Top 10 domestic collaborators by FC (190 total)
- Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain
- Domestic institution
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Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Spain
(60.56)
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University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain
(31.11)
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University of Valencia (UV), Spain
(30.10)
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University of Barcelona (UB), Spain
(26.99)
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University of Zaragoza (Unizar), Spain
(23.55)
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Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain
(19.92)
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Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Spain
(19.17)
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Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain
(18.74)
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Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII), Spain
(18.62)
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University of Seville (US), Spain
(18.21)
Top 10 international collaborators by FC (2302 total)
- Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain
- Foreign institution
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French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France
(31.39)
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Max Planck Society, Germany
(21.46)
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Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany
(20.48)
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National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Italy
(19.70)
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European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
(10.79)
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University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK)
(9.72)
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Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China
(8.63)
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Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK)
(8.38)
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National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), Italy
(7.70)
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University of Lisbon (ULISBOA), Portugal
(7.08)
Note: Collaboration is determined by the fractional count (FC), which is listed in parentheses.
Affiliated joint institutions and consortia
- Laboratorio de Materiales y Superficies (UMA-CSIC), Spain
- Grupo de Superficies y Materiales Porosos (SMAP), UVA-CSIC, Spain
- Unidad Mixta de Investigación en Biodiversidad (UMIB), Spain
- Centro de Acústica Aplicada y Evaluación No Destructiva (CAEND), Spain
- Observatori de l’Ebre (OE), Spain
- Laboratorio de Circuitos Corticales, UPM-CSIC, Spain
- Laboratorio Internacional en Cambio Global (LINCGlobal), Chile
- Laboratorio de Heteroestructuras con Aplicación en Spintronica, Spain
- Laboratorio de Catálisis Homogénea (CSIC-US), Spain
- Laboratorio de Catálisis Homogénea (CSIC-UHU), Spain
- UCLM-CSIC Laboratorio de Oncología, Spain
- Instituto de Neurociencias, Spain
- Unidad Asociada de Biomedicina (ULPGC-CSIC), Spain
- Laboratorio Internacional en Cambio Global (LINCGlobal), Spain
- Instituto de Tecnología Química (ITQ), Spain
- Centro de Química y Materiales de Aragón (CEQMA), Spain
- Instituto de Instrumentación para Imagen Molecular (I3M), Spain
- Andalusian Center for Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine (CABIMER), Spain
- Andalusian Centre for Developmental Biology (CABD), Spain
- Andalusian Institute of Earth Sciences (IACT), Spain
- Applied Magnetism Institute (IMA), Spain
- Basque Centre for Biophysics (CSIC-UPV/EHU), Spain
- CEI·MAR Project, Spain
- CSIC/UAB Proteomics Laboratory, Spain
- Campus of International Excellence UAM-CSIC, Spain
- Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (IPHES), Spain
- Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC), Spain
- Center of Materials Physics (CFM), Spain
- Centre for Automation and Robotics (CAR CSIC-UPM), Spain
- Centre for Desertification Research (CIDE), Spain
- Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), Spain
- Centre of Astrobiology (CAB), CSIC-INTA, Spain
- Centro Nacional de Aceleradores (CNA), Spain
- Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (CAVD), United States of America (USA)
- Geosciences Institute (IGEO), Spain
- Grupo de Síntesis Química de La Rioja, Spain
- InForest Join Research Unit (CSIC-CTFC-CREAF), Spain
- Institute for Chemical Research (IIQ), Spain
- Institute for Corpuscular Physics (IFIC), Spain
- Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (IFISC), Spain
- Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio), Spain
- Institute for Mediterranean and Subtropical Horticulture "La Mayora" (IHSM), Spain
- Institute for Plant Molecular and Cell Biology (IBMCP), CSIC-UPV, Spain
- Institute for Theoretical Physics (IFT), Spain
- Institute of Agrobiotechnology (IDAB), Spain
- Institute of Astrophysics of Canarias (IAC), Spain
- Institute of Biology and Functional Genomics (IBFG), Spain
- Institute of Biomedical Research (IIB Sant Pau), Spain
- Institute of Biomedical Research Alberto Sols (IIBM), Spain
- Institute of Biomedical Research of Salamanca (IBSAL), Spain
- Institute of Biomedicine and Biotechnology of Cantabria (IBBTEC), Spain
- Institute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBiS), Spain
- Institute of Chemical Synthesis and Homogenous Catalysis (ISQCH), Spain
- Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE), Spain
- Institute of Food Science Research (CIAL), Spain
- Institute of Materials Science of Aragon (ICMA), Spain
- Institute of Materials Science of Sevilla (ICMSE), Spain
- Institute of Mathematical Sciences (ICMAT), Spain
- Institute of Microelectronics Sevilla (IMS), Spain
- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology of Cancer (IBMCC), Spain
- Institute of Physics of Cantabria (IFCA), Spain
- Institute of Plant Biochemistry and Photosynthesis (IBVF), Spain
- Institute of Research in Game Resources (IREC), Spain
- Instituto de Biologa y Gentica Molecular (IBGM), Spain
- International Global Change Laboratory (LINC-Global), Spain
- Materials Physics Center (MPC), Spain
- Matgas 2000 A.I.E., Spain
- Mayora Experimental Station (EELM), CSIC, Spain
- Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA), Spain
- Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology Research Center (CINN), Spain
- Organometallic Chemistry Institute "Enrique Moles" (IUQOEM), Spain
- Planck Collaboration, France
- SMOS Barcelona Expert Centre (SMOS-BEC), Spain
- Severo Ochoa Centre for Molecular Biology (CBMSO), Spain
- The LAGUNA-LBNO Collaboration, Switzerland
- The Spanish CRG Beamline (SpLine), Spain
- Unit of Pharmaceutical Chemistry (UB-CSIC), Spain

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