Despite Galicia's distinctive position as a historical and cultural bridge between Spain and Portugal, no systematic bibliometric assessment of the academic literature centered on this region has been conducted to date. This paper addresses that gap by presenting the results of a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of research on Galicia indexed in the Scopus database, comprising over 18,000 academic documents across disciplines, languages, and institutional affiliations.

Three findings stand out. First, Portugal emerges as the most important international scientific partner in research on Galicia — ahead of any other country outside Spain itself — reflecting the region's structural role as a connector between the two Iberian states and suggesting that cross-border scholarly collaboration is already an established, if undertheorised, reality. Second, the two dominant subject areas in the corpus are Social Sciences and Arts and humanities, with Political Science and Economics ranking prominently within the former and History and Philological studies within the latter; this disciplinary profile maps closely onto the core concerns of Iberian studies, confirming that the existing literature provides a solid foundation on which a coherent research program can be built. Third, and relatedly, the volume and growth trajectory of this corpus demonstrate that Galician studies is not a field to be invented from scratch but one that can be systematically developed from a substantial body of cumulative research.

Taken together, these results support the feasibility of a Galician studies research agenda as a regional complement to nation-state-centred frameworks in Iberian political science. A regional perspective centred on Galicia offers a productive
vantage point to articulate shared research questions across Spain and Portugal, to deepen scholarly collaboration between both countries, and to advance the comparative study of Iberian politics beyond the limits of methodological nationalism.