According to the Second Edition of Scimago Institutions Ranking World Reports, ICIQ holds a Normalized Impact value of 2.69, the second highest one among 135 Spanish Institutions. Normalized Impact scores indicate the scientific impact that institutions have over the scientific community, and show the ratio between the average scientific impact of an institution and the world average impact of publications of the same time frame, document type and subject area.
SIR World Report 2010 is the most exhaustive and comprehensive ranking of Worldwide Research Institutions, and the ranking includes 2,833 institutions that together are responsible for 80.55% of wordlwide scientific output during the term 2004-2008 as indexed in Scopus database.