Analysis of scientific collaboration of the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Scopus, 2003-2008)

Introduction: research in universities is strongly affected by changes in government funding policies. In the new international scientific research and globalization allows the strengthening of the relations of scientific collaboration of researchers from national and international institutions. Objectives: Knowledge of globalization opens up new funding policies for cooperation and collaboration in science, the quantitative study of the scientific collaboration of the Polytechnic University of Valencia will place it in the national and international scientific context, then, will be analyzed and evaluated the environment and international scientific activity of the UPV during the period 2003-2008, and will be described the pattern of cooperation from the UPV with other national and international. Methodology: As part of the analysis of the internationalization of research produced at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), this study examines various indicators of scientific collaboration by countries and institutions, collaboration rate national, sectorial and regional levels, etc., Of papers published in journals included in the SCOPUS database. The data have been extracted from the tools developed for this purpose within the Global Atlas Project of Science (TIN 2008-06514-CO2-01/TIN), funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation. Results: UPV institutional collaboration includes 907 institutions, 73.5% of whom are foreign. The UPV maintains co-authorship with 665 institutions in 60 countries. The U. S. is the main cooperation partner by number of institutions, with 132 institutions and 363 jobs. Finally, we analyze the national territorial collaboration and institutional sector, production distributed scientific collaboration in 3642 articles, with 242 institutions in the following percentages: 36% inter-industry, 27% intra-industry, 23% inter-sectorial, and 14% intra-sectorial.