Indicadores Científicos de Andalucía (ISI, Web of Science, 2002)

Science and Technology Policies are gaining a more prominent role in the governments plans of the most developed countries. In tha Andalusian region the new government elected on March 14, 2004, committed to promote R&D + innovation policies and significantly increase the budgets allocated to them. To meet this challenge the Department of Innovation, Science and Enterprise (Consejería de Innovación, Ciencia y Empresa) was created. Given these increases in activity and budgets, they are also becoming increasingly important the assessment processes of plans and programs, and the scientific activity in general. The work presented here is intended to give continuity to a series of bibliometric works started some years ago on behalf of the Plan Andaluz de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación (PAIDI) --Andalusian Research Plan- itself, and reflects the scientific production of Andalusia according to the databases of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI Web of Science), providing important new features to previous editions: standardization of the scientific institutions generating Andalusian scientific outputs, extension of the study to the CSIC centres and to hospitals, and inclusion of tables and graphs that charts the evolution of the main indicators in recent years. The information contained in this publication, along with other works and similar initiatives, as will be the consolidation and expansion of the Scientific Information System of Andalusia (SICA) will be a source of valuable information for the assessment processes that the newly created Andalusian Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation will face. Also will be useful for decision making processes after the implementation of various programs under the new PAIDI to be adopted in 2005.