According to data extracted from the Portal de Producció Científica de la Universitat de València, women represent the 45.7 % of the research staff at the UV, which corresponds to 2.919 researchers out of a total of 6.389. This percentage exceeds the current average of female researchers in Spanish higher education, which is a percentage of 43.7 %, as well as in the Valencian Community, with a percentage of 42.9 %, according to the report ‘Científiques en xifres 2025’ of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.

On the other hand, the Annual data book of the Analysis and Planning Service of the UV (SAP) provides the percentage of female researchers (PDI) by branch of knowledge. Women exceed 50 % representation –therefore, they outnumber men– in Health Sciences with a 59.7 %, Arts and Humanities with a 54 %, followed by Socials and Legal Sciences with a 44.4 %, Sciences with the 33.4%, and Engineering with the 23.5 %.

These data highlight, once again, the need to promote STEM degrees among women. This intention is beginning to take shape from the earliest educational levels in coordination with centres for high education, through initiatives aimed at young girls –such as contests (e.g. De major vull ser com...), scientific dissemination in schools and high schools, or youth participation programmes. 

Even though the most cited researcher from UV on Google Scholar –María Moreno Llácer with 255,401 citations– belongs to the Department of Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics, the specialisations of the most cited researchers belong to the previous percentages. This way, Moreno Llácer is followed by Dolores Corella, from the Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, with 150,610 citations–, María Carmen Gómez Cabrera –from the Department of Physiology, with 29,617–, Irene Gil Saura, –from the Department of Marketing and Market Research, with 20,176–, and Consuelo Borrás, Physiology professor, with 15,557.

Impact of scientific production of womenOn the other hand, a great impact of female researchers of UV’s scientific production can be observed in the bibliometric indicators that gauge the quality, the impact and the visibility of scientific publications, including the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) indicators from the data base of Journal Citation Reports (JCR), Scimago Journal Rank (SJR), and Índice Dialnet de Revistas (IDR).

The first indicator of scientific impact is the JIF of JCR, in which two researchers of the Atomic Molecular and Nuclear Physics Department have a bigger presence: María Moreno Llácer, with 1,443 publications –of which 1,184 correspond to the quartile of biggest impact, Q1–, and​​​​​​​ María Aranzazu de Oyanguren with 1,293 –of which 1,144 are Q1.

The quartile is an indicator that evaluates the position of a magazine within its category. This way, a list of magazines is organised by impact factor and is divided in four parts. Each of these parts is a quartile organised, at the same time, from highest to lowest relevance: Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4.

Other researchers who are present in the JIF with more than 500 publications are Dolores Corella, with 621 –417 in Q1–, and Neus López March, also from Atomic Physics, with 534 –and 477 in Q1.

Additionally, some of them appear again in the SJR with more than 500 publications. María Moreno Llácer, with 1,363 results –1,189 in Q1–, María Aranzazu de Oyanguren with 964 –874 in Q1–, and Dolores Corella with 623 –511 in Q1

In relation with the Hispanic scientific production, the most highlighted index is the IDR, provided by​​​​​​​ Dialnet Mètriques, in which the top three female researchers of the Universitat de València are Inmaculada Revuelta, from the Department of Administrative and Procedural Law, with 137 publications –133 of them are in the first quartile (C1)–, Diana Marín, from Education and School Management, with 121 results –38 in C1–, and Dolores Gil, from Developmental and Educational Psychology, with 95 publications.

Although equality has not been reached yet, the numbers are uplifting. Real equality is getting closer, since there is progress in the scientific presence of women, and the Universitat de València is, once again, the best one in this, outnumbering the autonomic and state average.