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Research results
This section aims to show the evolution of IDIBAPS scientific output over time, in a graphic and comprehensible manner.
846 original papers published in prestigious international journals in 2010
IDIBAPS research serves the main fields of biomedicine. Our researchers’ enormous scientific output shows a clearly ascending trend, in terms of overall figures. In 2010, 846 articles were published in scientific journals with an impact factor.
As is seen in the chart, IDIBAPS continues to show a considerable increase in its scientific output, year after year.
IDIBAPS researchers, who come from the different institutions that it comprises, are divided up into five different theme areas. Each area is divided up into different teams that combine in-house research conducted with their own lines of research or in cooperation with other teams.
Below is a list of the five areas, with a chart showing the scientific output of each one:
- Biological aggression and response mechanisms
- Respiratory, cardiovascular and renal pathobiology and bioengineering
- Liver, digestive system and metabolism
- Clinical and experimental neuroscience
- Oncology and haematology
It should be said that the sum of the articles by area is higher than the institutional total. This is because publications resulting from collaboration between teams in two different areas have been counted once for each area.
Average IF of 4.94 points for each publication in 2010
One of the most widely-used indicators for evaluating the quality of research is to measure the Impact Factor (IF) of the journals in which it is published. This is statistical data that is measured based on the number of times the articles in a certain journal are cited.
Even though there are probably many factors that are just as important or even more important for analysing the work carried out by our researchers, the IF is an objective piece of information that serves as a guide. The progression of the total IF for IDIBAPS publications in recent years is shown in the following chart. In 2010, the 846 publications written by researchers from the IDIBAPS obtained 4,176 IF points (calculated using IF data for 2009 as a reference).
This means that the average IF for each article published in the IDIBAPS in 2010 was 4.94. Despite the enormous increase in the number of publications, the average IF is growing year after year. It indicates that the researchers of this Institute continue to publish their results in the best journals in their respective fields.
