CNB Report. Research, development, innovation. 2015/2016
When we look back on the past two years, one of the first things that comes to mind for most of us is the fire that destroyed our low voltage power plant on the morning of 14 February 2015. The invaluable dedication of the centre’s maintenance crew and of many other people mitigated the potentially...
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| Tipo de recurso: | otro |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2017 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repositorio: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digital.csic.es:10261/182290 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/182290 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Scientific report Memoria científica bianual |
| Sumario: | When we look back on the past two years, one of the first things that comes to mind for most of us is the fire that destroyed our low voltage power plant on the morning of 14 February 2015. The invaluable dedication of the centre’s maintenance crew and of many other people mitigated the potentially devastating consequences of an accident that paralysed the institute’s activities for two weeks. The complete restoration of the power plant, now more reliable than the previous one and equipped with an automatic fire extinction system, finalized in spring 2016 and should prevent future accidents of this kind. The resilience of the CNB to adversities also applies to its scientific life. The members of our Scientific Advisory Board, who visited the CNB last year during the centre’s 5-year external evaluation, state in their summary report that “the scientific performance of the CNB has resisted very well the critical situation generated in Spain by the reduction of resources committed to research funding during the evaluated period”. Indeed, we faced difficult times, but have reason to believe that we are recovering from the economic crisis. In 2012 and 2013, funding fell from values that in previous years ranged from 14 to 19 million euros per year, to about 11 million euros. In 2014, we raised 13 million euros and, in addition, obtained the 4-million-euro Severo Ochoa Grant. This positive trend continued and, in both 2015 and 2016, funding of research stabilized at approximately 16 million euros per year. The CNB’s scientific productivity in the past two years has kept up with our longer-term average. In 2015 and 2016, our scientists published 450 articles in JCR-indexed journals, with a mean impact factor close to 6. When we rank these journals by impact factor, we find that 80% and 34% of the centre’s scientific output were published respectively in the top 25% and top 10% of journals in their fields of knowledge... |
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