The citation index of UrFU physicists has increased

13:22, November 20, 2015

The experts note the growth of the university position in the objective rating for Physics

According to UrFU Vice-Rector for Science, Vladimir Kruzhaev, UrFU have all the chances to approach the leaders of the objective rating THE for Physics in the coming years. This was also confirmed by experts: Ural Federal University is among seven Russian universities, approaching the top-100 group.

This was discussed at a seminar conference of universities participating in the project 5-100 and a round table on the subject ratings, organized by the Association "Global Universities" (UrFU is a member of the association). Both events took place in Moscow.

The citation index of the scientific papers written by physicists of UrFU was 49% last year, it increased till 72% this year. Experts agree that it confirms the correctness of the measures imposed by the top-management of the university: promoting publications, attracting graduate and postgraduate students from the foreign universities, participation of UrFU scientists in the international conferences.

According to the Vice-Rector for Science, implementation of the initiative to create the Center for Materials Science of the BRICS countries, suggested by UrFU, which was supported at the Meeting of Ministers of the BRICS. In addition, the chosen strategy for support of publications in journals with high impact factor, widely read scientific journals, has demonstrated its value in practice.

 “The academic reputation of the university is determined by the level of internationalization, joint research with scientists from other countries. The bigger number of joint publications in physics we have worked upon was made in collaboration with scientists from Germany. We also actively collaborate with our Chinese colleagues and researchers from other countries,” - says Vladimir Kruzhaev.