Publication Activity at UrFU Keeps Growing

21:38, February 1, 2013

Publication activity of UrFU researchers has increased by 40%

The status of scientists working in the leading university of vast Ural Region and also one of the largest universities in Russia - Ural Federal University - has significantly improved: their publication activitity has grown by 40% in comparison to 2011.

The ambitious targets set by the University leaders in 2011, when they launched the publication activity incentive programme, were met ahead of schedule.

In 2012, instead of 350 academic articles to be published in the most influential international journals included into the databases Scopus and Web of Knowledge, UrFU scientists published 640 articles.

"The efforts of the university team brought its schools of thought to the new level of development and helped achieve international recognition", said UrFU Rector Viktor Koksharov. "As we see, the ambitions of the University's researchers are quite realistic - thanks to the incentive programme we have not only increased the number of globally cited publications, but also improved the status of Ural scientists in such spheres as engineering, natural sciences, humanities, economics and social studies".

According to the Vice-Rector for Research Vladimir Kruzhaev, now the University has set a new target - to get more publications in the journals with high impact-factor (a measure reflecting the average number of citations to the articles published in the journal).

The new targets will also affect the incentive program.  The amount of quarterly disbursement paid to the authors of the academic papers and articles will be 70,000 roubles for a publication in a journal with an impact-factor over 5.  For each of their works published in journals with the minimal impact-factor UrFU scientists will get 20,000 roubles.

In 2012, the leading UrFU scientists received about 82 million roubles through the incentive program for their publications in international journals.  In the last quarter of 2012 program participants were paid 16 million roubles.