Dr Jūratė Kuprienė, Dr Žibutė Petrauskienė, project eLABa Speech at the conference National Research Journals: Quantity and Quality on March 18th, 2015 in Vilnius, Lithuania. VIDEO and PDF ( in Lithuanian). The report will present eLABa repository, its features and capabilities, and in connection with that – examine to what extent and how open access can be useful for [...]
Henk Moed, Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Speech at the conference Technologies Transforming Research Assessment on March 19th, 2014 in Vilnius, Lithuania. Video and PDF Since research performance is more and more regarded as a key factor in economic performance and societal welfare, research assessment has become a major issue for a wide range [...]
Ulf Sandström, guest researcher at Örebro University and researcher at the Royal Institute of Technology KTH Stockholm, Sweden Speech at the conference Technologies Transforming Research Assessment on March 19th, 2014 in Vilnius, Lithuania. VIDEO and PDF The use of performance indicators are based on assumption about scientists’ behaviour at the publishing market. Researchers are [...]
Pero Šipka, Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science, Belgrade, Serbia Speech at the conference ‘Technologies Transforming Research Assessment’ on March 19th, 2014 in Vilnius, Lithuania. Presentation video and PDF The concepts of Quality Control and Quality Assurance have found its application in various production domains including journal publishing. Quality Enforcement [...]
Ülle Must, The Estonian Research Council, Estonia Speech at the conference Technologies Transforming Research Assessment on March 19th, 2014 in Vilnius, Lithuania. VIDEO and PDF In current paper the author will keeps track of changes that have occurred in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania during the twenty years that has passed since then, when her first [...]
Rūta Petrauskaitė, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas; Research Council of Lithuania, Vilnius Speech at the conference Technologies Transforming Research Assessment on March 19th, 2014 in Vilnius Lithuania. VIDEO and PDF The presentation deals with the problem of bibliometric indicators such as citation indexes for the assessment of social sciences and humanities. It consists of two [...]
Răzvan Valentin Florian, Romania Speech at the conference Technologies Transforming Research Assessment on March 19, 2014 in Vilnius, Lithuania. PDF and VIDEO In 2011, the higher education and research systems of Romania undertook major reforms that were praised by the European Commission and led to what Nature editorialists characterized as “exemplary laws and structures for [...]
The article '100 years Anniversary of the first Lithuanian journal Medicine and Nature (Medicina ir gamta)' is written by Regina Vaišvilienė, The Lithuanian Library of Medicine (Lietuvos medicinos biblioteka) From the history of Lithuanian Medicine The social-political situation of the beginning of the 20th century, when the Lithuanian press ban was lifted in 1904, the social and cultural [...]
Thomson Reuters published research journal indicators 2010 in Journal Citation Report (JCR) on 28 June 2011. We would like to congratulate the following editors-in-chief: Zenonas Dabkevičius, Mifodijas Sapagovas and Vincentas Lamanauskas whose journals got first citation indicators – Impact Factors this year. Congratulations for Prof. Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas whose three edited journals took leading positions in [...]