Five UJI researchers rank among the 300 most prominent women scientists in Spain (IMAGE)
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La investigadora Marisa Salanova, en el centro, ranks first among women scientists from Castelló. She leads the WANT research group and focuses her research on the field of occupational health psychology. Five researchers from the Universitat Jaume I of Castelló in the fields of psychology and chemistry have ranked among the top 300 Spanish and international women scientists working in Spain, according to a ranking based on public Google Scholar profiles and equivalent OpenAlex indicators. The highest-ranked UJI researcher is Professor Marisa Salanova, while Associate Professor Isabel M. Martínez ranks third among the university’s researchers. Both carry out their research in the field of social psychology within the WANT research team on Psychosocial Prevention and Healthy Organisations at the UJI (www.want.uji.es), which in recent years has focused on occupational health psychology. Through competitive research projects and consultancy activities for companies on psychosocial risk prevention, training and applied positive psychology, the group promotes psychosocial and financial health in organisations, as well as resilience in situations of crisis and rapid change. The team has developed the HERO scientific model and several diagnostic tools that make it possible to assess the state of organisations and help work teams proactively and systematically plan best practices and resources to improve tasks, the social environment and organisational climate. According to Marisa Salanova, director of the research team, “this ranking helps increase the visibility of the scientific impact of the research carried out at the UJI in psychology and psychosocial health”. Cristina Botella, founder of the Psychology and Technology Laboratory (LabPsiTec) and emeritus professor, considered the first Spanish researcher in applied psychology, together with the current laboratory director, Professor of Psychopathology Azucena García Palacios, rank second and fourth among UJI researchers. LabPsiTec investigates the possibilities that new information and communication technologies offer for clinical psychology practice. For more than twenty-five years, the laboratory has tested tools such as virtual and augmented reality and mobile systems for clinical assessment and treatment. Professor Cristina Botella pioneered this line of work focused on different areas related to health, quality of life and personal and social wellbeing. Professor García Palacios has focused on developing intervention programmes and leading research lines devoted to personality disorders and chronic pain. Finally, researcher María Ibáñez Martínez, from the Area of Analytical Chemistry, ranks fifth among UJI researchers. She is a member of the Public Health and Environmental Analytical Chemistry research group and the University Institute of Pesticides and Water Resources (IUPA). Her research focuses on the use of modern hybrid chromatography/mass spectrometry techniques (LC-MS), mainly high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS), for the control, identification, confirmation and quantification of contaminants and other organic compounds in environmental, food and biological samples. She also leads numerous GLP studies at the IUPA Pesticide Residue Analysis Laboratory. The ranking, compiled by Isidro F. Aguillo at the Cybermetrics Lab of the Institute of Public Goods and Policies of the Spanish National Research Council (IPP-CSIC), aims to increase the visibility of women researchers through open-access platforms such as Google Scholar, ORCID and OpenAlex, which provide broader coverage than other bibliometric sources, including subscription-based databases. It also seeks to promote open infrastructures through the wider use of personal ORCID identifiers and institutional ROR identifiers. The 2026 edition of the ranking includes a total of 12,110 researchers ranked according to the global impact of their research, 122 of whom belong to the public university of Castelló. The full ranking can be consulted in the author’s publication. Publication Aguillo, Isidro F. (2026). Ranking de mujeres investigadoras españolas y en España. Edición GS-ORCID OPENALEX Abril 2026. figshare. Preprint. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.32063853.v5
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