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 [...]