Key facts in Research

SOMM alliance brings together the top-performing and most competitive Spanish research centres and units in all disciplines

10705 Research Personnel
Encompassing PhD students, independent researchers, group leaders, scientific research support and research facility personnel (data at end 2019, obtained from 52 members).
48.4% International Postdocs
Out of 2,188 Postdocs, 1059 come from abroad (2019, 52 members)
9980 Publications
In international peer-reviewed journals (data from 2019, 53 members)
75.4% Q1 Publications
Articles published in the top-25% (first quartile) ranked journals (data from 2019, obtained from 52 members)
661 PhD Theses
Defended during 2019, with degrees issued by more than 30 different collaborating Universities (data from 52 members)
467 EU consortia
SOMMa researchers contribute to international science with several collaborations, like all these EU collaborative projects (2019)