Spain Research Funders: 32 Funders and Where Their Research Is Published

In short32 research funders from Spain are named in the recent research articles of 1,206 journals we checked. The biggest is Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (428 journals). Below: the funders, then the journals that publish their funded research most often.

Research funders in Spain

Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación428 journals Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades403 journals Agencia Estatal de Investigación288 journals Instituto de Salud Carlos III147 journals Ministerio de Universidades40 journals Generalitat de Catalunya40 journals Generalitat Valenciana38 journals Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca35 journals Eusko Jaurlaritza34 journals Junta de Andalucía26 journals Comunidad de Madrid26 journals Xunta de Galicia26 journals Gobierno de Aragón25 journals Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad22 journals Basque Government19 journals Universitat de Valencia18 journals Universidad de Sevilla16 journals Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona16 journals Universidad de Zaragoza14 journals Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea13 journals Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas11 journals Universidad Internacional de La Rioja11 journals Junta de Extremadura11 journals Universidad Complutense de Madrid10 journals Universitat de Barcelona10 journals Universidad de Alicante10 journals 'la Caixa' Foundation10 journals Universitat Jaume I10 journals Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha10 journals Universidad de Valladolid10 journals Universidad de Málaga10 journals Universitat Politècnica de València10 journals

Journals that publish research funded in Spain most often

#	Journal	Funder mentions	Funders from Spain	Indexing	Impact factor*	Median review time
1	Revista de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales Serie A Matemáticas	44 in 200 articles	4	SCIE	1.29	239 days
2	Hispania-revista Espanola De Historia	40 in 90 articles	8	AHCI	0.03	n/a
3	Anuario de Estudios Medievales	39 in 105 articles	5	AHCI	0.10	n/a
4	Trabajos de Prehistoria	37 in 69 articles	7	AHCI SSCI	0.29	n/a
5	Asclepio	33 in 86 articles	5	AHCI	0.08	n/a
6	Boletín de la Sociedad Española de Cerámica y Vidrio	31 in 76 articles	4	SCIE	1.99	n/a
7	Advances in Sample Preparation	31 in 109 articles	3	ESCI	7.32	n/a
8	Open Respiratory Archives	31 in 200 articles	3	Scopus	0.84	n/a
9	Isegoría	30 in 126 articles	5	AHCI	0.12	n/a
10	Culture & History Digital Journal	29 in 52 articles	5	AHCI SSCI	0.29	n/a
11	Hispania Sacra	29 in 96 articles	4	AHCI	0.09	n/a
12	Documents d Anàlisi Geogràfica	29 in 50 articles	5	ESCI	0.29	n/a
13	Journal of Human Evolution	27 in 166 articles	2	SCIE SSCI	2.32	n/a
14	CUADERNOS DE DERECHO TRANSNACIONAL	27 in 195 articles	4	Scopus	0.20	n/a
15	Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming	27 in 119 articles	4	SCIE	0.85	n/a
16	Enseñanza de las Ciencias Revista de investigación y experiencias didácticas	27 in 61 articles	5	SSCI	1.03	n/a
17	Rubrica Contemporanea	26 in 69 articles	5	Scopus	0.11	n/a
18	Sedimentary Geology	26 in 200 articles	3	SCIE	2.66	n/a
19	Archivo Español de Arqueología	25 in 60 articles	5	AHCI	0.44	n/a
20	Cultura Lenguaje y Representación	25 in 72 articles	5	ESCI	0.54	n/a
21	Clínica e Investigación en Arteriosclerosis	25 in 116 articles	3	ESCI	0.77	n/a
22	Revista Española de Cardiología (English Edition)	24 in 200 articles	2	SCIE	1.07	n/a
23	Journal of Archaeological Science Reports	23 in 200 articles	2	AHCI	0.97	n/a
24	The European Journal of Psychiatry	23 in 110 articles	2	SSCI	1.47	n/a
25	Studia Aurea	22 in 60 articles	6	ESCI	0.08	n/a
26	Revista Matemática Complutense	22 in 92 articles	3	SCIE	0.70	219 days
27	Archivo Español de Arte	22 in 158 articles	6	AHCI	0.04	n/a
28	Revista de Literatura	22 in 113 articles	5	AHCI	0.08	n/a
29	Enrahonar An international journal of theoretical and practical reason	21 in 66 articles	3	ESCI	0.33	n/a
30	Microporous and Mesoporous Materials	20 in 200 articles	2	SCIE	4.32	n/a
31	Revista Latina de Comunicación Social	20 in 86 articles	5	ESCI	1.96	n/a
32	SERIEs	19 in 47 articles	5	SSCI	1.91	207 days
33	Machine Learning with Applications	19 in 200 articles	3	ESCI	5.30	n/a
34	Current Opinion in Systems Biology	18 in 67 articles	2	ESCI	3.10	n/a
35	Anuario de Estudios Americanos	18 in 78 articles	4	AHCI	0.09	n/a
36	Oñati Socio-legal Series	18 in 200 articles	3	ESCI	1.00	n/a
37	Physics of the Dark Universe	18 in 200 articles	2	SCIE	8.31	n/a
38	Journal of Cultural Heritage	18 in 200 articles	2	AHCI SCIE	4.00	n/a
39	Archivos de Bronconeumología	18 in 200 articles	2	SCIE	1.81	n/a
40	Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies	17 in 62 articles	4	AHCI	0.24	231 days

"Funder mentions" adds up how often the funders from Spain are named in the journal's recent research articles (up to 200 from the last 24 months); one article that names two of them counts twice. *Impact factor calculated by ScholarsColab, not the official Clarivate value. Review time: median days from submission to acceptance.

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Frequently asked questions

Which research funders in Spain fund the most published research?

By the number of journals that name them in recent research articles: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, Agencia Estatal de Investigación, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Ministerio de Universidades. In all, 32 funders from Spain are named in at least 10 journals.

Which journals publish the most research funded in Spain?

Counting the funder mentions of all 32 funders together: Revista de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales Serie A Matemáticas, Hispania-revista Espanola De Historia, Anuario de Estudios Medievales, Trabajos de Prehistoria, Asclepio.

Should I choose a journal because it publishes research funded in Spain?

It shows that editors and reviewers of the journal know this research community, but the fit with your topic, the indexing and the review time matter more. The free Journal Finder matches your abstract to the journals that published the closest papers.

How is this counted?

For each journal, ScholarsColab looked at up to 200 research articles from the last 24 months and counted the funders they name; the country is that of the funding body.

For each journal, ScholarsColab looked at up to 200 research articles from the last 24 months and counted the funders they name; funders named in at least 10 journals are grouped by the country of the funding body. Updated: 29 October 2026.