Highly Cited Researchers from Clarivate Analytics is an annual list recognizing leading researchers in the sciences and social sciences from around the world. The final new list contains about 3,400 Highly Cited Researchers in 21 fields of the sciences and social sciences. This list recognizes world-class researchers selected for their exceptional research performance, demonstrated by production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science.

El proyecto DECIDES, impulsado por COSCE con la colaboración de la Fundación “la Caixa”, y cuyo objetivo último es propiciar la refundación de un sistema de ciencia basado en las iniciativas del propio colectivo científico, organizó el pasado 16 de octubre una jornada dedicada a debatir el papel de las Agencias Nacionales de Investigación en el siglo XXI, propiciando el contraste entre distintos modelos de estructuras, gestión y funcionamiento. La intensidad y variedad de intervenciones requería disponer de un resumen, a modo de conclusiones, que permitiera abordar y manejar ordenadamente los aspectos más relevantes expuestos. Desde esa perspectiva, la Comisión DECIDES ha elaborado un documento de puntos, partiendo de su criterio experto, con el propósito de que sea un instrumento útil, tanto para quienes asistieron a la Jornada como para quienes no pudieron participar y, en general quieran disponer de una guía sobre la importancia, funcionalidad e influencia de las agencias de investigación en la gestación y desarrollo de las políticas científicas.

El presente informe aporta recomendaciones para incentivar las actividades de Transferencia del Conocimiento universitario desde una doble perspectiva. Por una parte, un escenario institucional en el que se defina un nuevo sistema de indicadores de la Transferencia del Conocimiento en el Sistema Universitario Español, que derive en una política de impulso y de prestigio para las universidades españolas. Se sugiere la elaboración de un plan plurianual con la Administración Pública (bien sea la Administración General del Estado o la Autonómica) en el que se podrían incluir programas e iniciativas que contribuirían a la mejora y al desarrollo de indicadores institucionales más robustos en las universidades.  Por otra parte, un escenario de mérito y premio individual, a través de la introducción de un tramo de Transferencia del Conocimiento, que permita reconocer el esfuerzo y el desempeño investigador en este ámbito mediante «septenios de Transferencia».

Se presentan rankings por campos científicos y disciplinas de las revistas científicas españolas que figuran en Google Scholar Metrics (GSM). Se ordenan de acuerdo con el índice h que es el indicador bibliométrico adoptado por Google. Se pretende con este trabajo comprobar la amplitud en la cobertura que posee Google Scholar Metrics de las revistas científicas españolas. Los dos criterios utilizados por Google Scholar Metrics para incluir revistas en su producto son: contar con 100 trabajos publicados y poseer al menos una cita. Las búsquedas bibliográficas se efectuaron entre el 4 y 18 de noviembre de 2018. Se han identificado 1456 revistas, de las cuales 757 revistas de Ciencias Sociales, 372 de Arte y Humanidades, 188 de Ciencias de la Salud y 139 de Ciencias Naturales e Ingenierías. En total son 1347 únicas (una misma revista pude clasificarse un una o más áreas).

A High Level Group of experts chaired by Pascal Lamy was convened to suggest measures how to maximise the impact of the next Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (R&I). The Lamy Report1 issued in July 2017 called for prioritising investments in areas where the EU added value is the greatest in terms of the degree of risk involved and where the benefits of economies of speed, scale and scope can be reaped. The expert group suggested that the next EU R&I programme should translate global societal challenges into a limited number of large-scale R&I ‘missions’ that would define expected impacts across an entire portfolio of activities, rather than at the level of individual call topics. The report highlighted that these R&I missions, or ‘moon shots’, should have a breakthrough or transformative potential for science, technology, industry or society taking the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a global reference framework for their selection. The European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, Carlos Moedas, invited the Professor Mariana Mazzucato to draft strategic recommendations on mission-oriented research and innovation in the EU. The Mazzucato Report2, presented in February 2018, detailed the rationale for EU level R&I mission, expanded the concept, put forward key criteria for the selection of missions and outlined important considerations for their successful implementation. A wide-scale public consultation was launched to gather reactions to the proposed R&I mission selection criteria and their implementation modalities, as well as to source stakeholder ideas for concrete mission proposals. This report provides a synthesis on the results of the call for feedback on the Mazzucato Report comprising results from the online survey and the submitted stakeholder position papers.

To take advantage of the digital revolution, to accelerate research, to engage the power of machine analysis at scale while ensuring transparency, reproducibility and societal utility, data and other digital objects created by and used for research need to be FAIR. FAIR data are data which meet standards of findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability. Advancing the global Open Science movement and the development of the European Open Science Cloud is the unambiguous objective for this report. This document is both a report and an action plan for turning FAIR into reality. It offers a survey and analysis of what is needed to implement FAIR and it provides a set of concrete recommendations and actions for stakeholders in Europe and beyond.

This report is an update on the data in the NanoData Landscape Compilation reports published in June 2017. Those reports were based on data from 2015 (for the reports on energy, health, ICT, manufacturing and photonics) and 2016 (for the reports on construction, environment and transport). The move from the EU Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) to the EU Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (H2020) has seen both an increase in budget (from EUR 50 billion for FP7 to over EUR 70 billion for Horizon 2020) and strategic changes, including a widening of the knowledge base and increased emphasis on societal impacts, collaboration with industry and the market-related application of research results. Greater financial support is being provided for SMEs (with a target of 20% of total budget). As a horizontal and enabling technology, nanotechnology is seen as relevant to many areas under the pillars for Excellent Science (e.g. future and emerging technologies (FET)) and Societal Challenge (e.g. secure, clean and efficient energy), but it also gets specific attention under the Industrial Leadership pillar in Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies (LEIT), which covers (i) nanotechnologies, advanced materials, advanced manufacturing and processing, and biotechnology; (ii) ICT; and (iii) space.

This event, held annually since 1991 will once again be the place to meet all the players in European patent information. Among the delegates will be patent searchers from industry and private practice, experts from patent offices and many providers of commercial patent information services.

With its worldwide coverage and simple search features, Espacenet offers free access to information about inventions and technical developments from 1836 to today. Espacenet is accessible to beginners and experts and is updated daily. It contains data on more than 100 million patent documents from around the world.

The ERC Consolidator Grants are awarded to outstanding researchers of any nationality and age, with at least seven and up to twelve years of experience after PhD, and a scientific track record showing great promise. Research must be conducted in a public or private research organisation located in one of the EU Member States or Associated Countries. The funding (average of €2 million per grant), is provided for up to five years and mostly covers the employment of researchers and other staff to consolidate the grantees' teams.

La Estadística sobre las actividades en investigación científica y desarrollo tecnológico (I+D) tiene como principal objetivo medir los recursos económicos y humanos destinados a investigación por todos los sectores económicos en que se divide la economía (empresas, administraciones públicas, enseñanza superior e instituciones privadas sin fines de lucro) con el fin de:
- Facilitar un instrumento para la gestión, planificación, decisión y control en materia de política científica nacional.
- Proporcionar a los organismos estadísticos la información que solicitan, obtenida con arreglo a normas internacionales que permiten la comparabilidad entre los diversos países.

RECERCAT, el butlletí electrònic de la Secretaria d'Universitats i Recerca amb informació sobre recerca, ciència i tecnologia, és una eina de comunicació al servei de la difusió de la recerca d'excel·lència i de la tasca que estan duent a terme universitats, empreses, centres, grups i personal investigador a Catalunya.

International mobility facilitates the exchange of scientific, institutional and cultural knowledge. Yet whether globalization and advances in virtual communication technologies have altered the impact of researcher mobility is a relevant and open question that we address by analysing a broad international set of 26 170 physicists from 1980 to 2009, focusing on the 10-year period centred around each mobility event to assess the impact of mobility on research outcomes. We account for secular globalization trends by splitting the analysis into three periods, measuring for each period the effect of mobility on researchers' citation impact, research topic diversity, collaboration networks and geographical coordination. In order to identify causal effects we leverage statistical matching methods that pair mobile researchers with non-mobile researchers that are similar in research profile attributes prior the mobility event. We find that mobile researchers gain up to a 17% increase in citations relative to their non-mobile counterparts, which can be explained by the simultaneous increase in their diversity of co-authors, topics and geographical coordination in the period immediately following migration. Nevertheless, we also observe that researcher's completely curtail prior collaborations with their source country in 11% of the cross-border mobility events. As such, these individual-level perturbations fuel multiscale churning in scientific networks, e.g. rewiring the connectivity of individuals and ideas and affecting international integration. Together these results provide additional clarity on the complex relationship between human capital mobility and the dynamics of social capital investment, with implications for immigration and national innovation system policy.