Source: Scopus, 2003-2008 (Scimago Group, 2010)
Euskadi is the seventh region in the country in the production of research in absolute terms
The scientific production (number of documents of all types –articles, presentations at conferences, etc. – indexed on the basis of international reference data) is directly related to the volume of population of the geographic area subject to analysis in each case, and of course, more specifically with the quantity of persons who are professionally dedicated to scientific research in all fields of knowledge, from humanities to experimental sciences, including the social sciences, arts, life sciences, engineering disciplines and technical sciences, etc.
In
this respect, Euskadi, which in 2010 has a population of 2.18 million,
is in seventh place, both in inhabitants and in indexed scientific
production in the whole of Spain. Andalusia, Catalonia and Madrid, with
populations that range from 8.35 million in the first case to 6.44 in
the third case, 2 to 3 times greater than that of Euskadi, and with a
good part of the country’s principle universities, occupy the first
places.
The UPV/EHU [University of Basque Country] is the institution that
assembles the greater part of the researchers and scientific production
in Euskadi, and this figure constitutes 2/3 of the total.