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:

Multidisciplinary scientific and technical research
Scientific and technical advice
Transferring results to the private sector
Contributing to the creation of technology-driven companies
Training specialised personnel
Management of infrastructure and large facilities
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.

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1 September 2020 - 31 August 2021

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 September 2020 - 31 August 2021 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.

Count	Share
1153	210.05

Outputs by subject (Share)

Subject	Count	Share
Physical Sciences	523	82.35
ACS Nano	17	3.81
Advanced Functional Materials	11	1.36
Advanced Materials	8	0.52
Applied Physics Letters	12	5.39
Astronomy & Astrophysics	23	9.17
European Physical Journal C	63	7.19
Journal of High Energy Physics	153	23.05
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters	14	1.09
Nano Letters	18	3.19
Nature	9	0.66
Nature Communications	37	6.76
Deep neural networks using a single neuron: folded-in-time architecture using feedback-modulated delay loops 2021-08-27		0.20
Coherent coupling between vortex bound states and magnetic impurities in 2D layered superconductors 2021-08-03		0.36
Gαq activation modulates autophagy by promoting mTORC1 signaling 2021-07-27		0.30
Planar refraction and lensing of highly confined polaritons in anisotropic media 2021-07-15		0.09
Spectral index-flux relation for investigating the origins of steep decay in γ-ray bursts 2021-07-07		0.03
FtsZ induces membrane deformations via torsional stress upon GTP hydrolysis 2021-06-03		0.14
Event generation and statistical sampling for physics with deep generative models and a density information buffer 2021-05-20		0.06
A high-entropy manganite in an ordered nanocomposite for long-term application in solid oxide cells 2021-05-11		0.13
Hinge-shift mechanism as a protein design principle for the evolution of β-lactamases from substrate promiscuity to specificity 2021-03-25		0.03
Hyperbolic enhancement of photocurrent patterns in minimally twisted bilayer graphene 2021-03-12		0.08
Spin-state-dependent electrical conductivity in single-walled carbon nanotubes encapsulating spin-crossover molecules 2021-03-11		0.08
Complex plasmon-exciton dynamics revealed through quantum dot light emission in a nanocavity 2021-02-26		0.11
Seasonal biological carryover dominates northern vegetation growth 2021-02-12		0.03
Mechanisms of feedback inhibition and sequential firing of active sites in plant aspartate transcarbamoylase 2021-02-11		0.35
Giant optical anisotropy in transition metal dichalcogenides for next-generation photonics 2021-02-08		0.03
A population-based controlled experiment assessing the epidemiological impact of digital contact tracing 2021-01-26		0.02
van der Waals driven anharmonic melting of the 3D charge density wave in VSe 2021-01-26		0.12
Sarcoma classification by DNA methylation profiling 2021-01-21		0
Non-volatile optical switch of resistance in photoferroelectric tunnel junctions 2021-01-15		1
How ice grows from premelting films and water droplets 2021-01-11		0.45
Giant topological longitudinal circular photo-galvanic effect in the chiral multifold semimetal CoSi 2021-01-08		0.08
Multi-scale characterisation of a ferroelectric polymer reveals the emergence of a morphological phase transition driven by temperature 2021-01-08		0.15
FSC-Q: a CryoEM map-to-atomic model quality validation based on the local Fourier shell correlation 2021-01-04		0.69
Revealing 3D magnetization of thin films with soft X-ray tomography: magnetic singularities and topological charges 2020-12-14		0.13
Large deep-sea zooplankton biomass mirrors primary production in the global ocean 2020-11-27		0.11
Voltage-driven motion of nitrogen ions: a new paradigm for magneto-ionics 2020-11-18		0.18
Blue emission at atomically sharp 1D heterojunctions between graphene and h-BN 2020-10-23		0.02
Immunodominant proteins P1 and P40/P90 from human pathogen Mycoplasma pneumoniae 2020-10-14		0.24
Andean drought and glacial retreat tied to Greenland warming during the last glacial period 2020-10-12		0.08
In primary airway epithelial cells, the unjamming transition is distinct from the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition 2020-10-07		0.08
Plasmonic antenna coupling to hyperbolic phonon-polaritons for sensitive and fast mid-infrared photodetection with graphene 2020-09-25		0.06
Thioglycoligase derived from fungal GH3 β-xylosidase is a multi-glycoligase with broad acceptor tolerance 2020-09-25		0.83
Fabrication of a novel magnetic topological heterostructure and temperature evolution of its massive Dirac cone 2020-09-24		0.03
Retrospective evaluation of whole exome and genome mutation calls in 746 cancer samples 2020-09-21		0
Graphene transistors for real-time monitoring molecular self-assembly dynamics 2020-09-18		0.02
Hot electrons in a nanowire hard X-ray detector 2020-09-18		0.10
A gas-to-particle conversion mechanism helps to explain atmospheric particle formation through clustering of iodine oxides 2020-09-09		0.36
Nature Materials	1	0.03
Nature Photonics	2	0.10
Nature Physics	3	0.06
Physical Review A	2	0.07
Physical Review B	6	1.06
Physical Review D	8	1.02
Physical Review Letters	61	8.17
Physical Review X	4	0.79
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America	8	2.13
Science	7	0.86
Science Advances	10	0.99
The Astrophysical Journal Letters	46	4.90
Chemistry	254	56.84
Life Sciences	368	65.03
Earth & Environmental Sciences	143	25.84

Highlight of the month

Ingredient for life seeded by interstellar space?

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A molecule that may have been key to the emergence of life on Earth could have come from interstellar space by hitching a lift on meteorites.

The emergence of life required a molecular method of encoding and replicating genetic information. It also needed a membrane-like material to enclose and protect the genetic material.

All cell membranes today are formed from a bilayer of phospholipids, which consist of a hydrophilic headgroup and two hydrophobic tails. The simplest phospholipids incorporate the molecule ethanolamine in their headgroup.

Now, a team led by researchers at the Spanish National Research Council has shown that ethanolamine can form in interstellar space. By analysing radio telescope data, the team detected ethanolamine in an interstellar molecular cloud.

As ethanolamine has previously been detected in meteoritic material, the molecule may have been delivered to early Earth by meteorites. It could thus have been available for the formation of the first cellular membranes.

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