Research in chemistry of the departments of the University of Castilla La Mancha

This paper presents a bibliometric study which tries to find out the output and impact of the research activities in the field of Chemistry at the University of Castilla-La Mancha during the period 2000-2005. The data used in this study were obtained from the Science Citation Index and Journal Citation Reports databases, specially adapted to be used in bibliometric studies, by indexing the most important international journals. Results report data on productivity output of the departments, and show the scientific collaboration patterns, between authors, via the coauthorship index and the degree of domestic and international collaboration. The research visibility will be known measuring the impact factor and quartiles as a tool for ranking and categorizing journals in which it was published.