“…Recent studies on meta-research in communication published in high-impact journals in the field being addressed in this study have focused on the system of research and knowledge production itself. However, they have also focused on the participation of Spanish researchers in national competitive calls for papers (Deuze, 2021;Gaitán Moya et al, 2021;García-Avilés, 2021;Gómez-Escalonilla and Izquierdo-Iranzo, 2021;Gómez-Diago, 2020;Goyanes, 2020;Lozano-Ascencio et al, 2020;Martínez-Nicolás, 2020;Peñafiel-Saiz et al, 2019;Seoane-Pérez, Martínez-Nicolás and Vicente-Mariño, 2020;Travieso-Rodríguez and Ríos-Hilario, 2020). These studies address the unique aspects of national research calls, authorship networks, researcher profiles, publication models, and citation of research results, but not the analysis of the results of those calls.…”