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A bibliometric study on the scientific production of the Revista CENIC Ciencias Químicas during the period 1996-2005 was made. This serial publication is an official journal of the National Center for Scientific Research (NCSR), and its objective is the diffusion of outstanding and new results developed inside and outside the country in the branch of Chemical Sciences, mainly contributions on Analytical Chemistry, Chemical Physics, Inorganic and Organic Chemistry. The annual behaviour of the papers published in the journal is shown, as well as their typology. The predominance of original scientific papers can be observed. The authors with five or more papers during the studied period are presented, as well as the institutions and branches with a higher presence in the scientific production of the journal. The behaviour of the most productive branches from the NCSR, specifically the Chemical one, the Ozone Research Center, and the Center of Natural Products, is compared with the corresponding ones of important national institutions as the Faculty of Chemistry, the Institute of Materials and Reagents and the Center of Biomaterials, all belonging to the University of Havana, and the Center of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, the Institute of Food Industry Research, and the Higher Polytechnic Institute "José Antonio Echeverría". The transparency in the publishing policy for the selection of papers was evidenced. The necessity to revise the journal diffusion, promotion, distribution and visibility policies, in order to achieve the indicators of international presence and collaboration, was demonstrated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]