Comparative analysis of the Spanish science and transfer metrics by autonomous communities

Spanish scientific production and technology transfer that it entails are constantly growing, and consequently that of the Autonomous Communities as well. How-ever, this does not mean that all the Autonomous Com-munities evolve in the same way, nor that they all im-plement the same policies. In this paper we present a comparison of investment in R & D & i, scientific produc-tion, and its transfer to the productive fabric of the sev-enteen Spanish Autonomous Communities in the pe-riod 2003-2020. The data used to carry out this work has been extracted from three of the platforms created by the SCImago group: SCImago Journal & Country Rank (SJ & CR), SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR) and SCImago Patents Rank (SPR) (under develop-ment) based on information included in Elsevier's Sco-pus database and PATSTAT. In total, 1,276,914 pri-mary documents published in the 2003-2020 period have been recovered, signed by authors affiliated to Spanish institutions that have been disaggregated at the level of Autonomous Communities. With them, a battery of indicators of scientific production (12), its technological impact (5) and technology transfer (5) has been generated, in addition to its variation rates.