jlerinc posted on February 21, 2025 09:55
On February 20, 2025, Josip Lorincz received the Science Award from the home University of Split, Croatia. The award is assigned to the most productive scientists whose work has significantly contributed to the recognition of the University of Split in terms of scientific excellence.
The ceremony of awarding the Science Award of the University of Split for the year 2024, was held in the University of Split Senate Chamber. The awarded scientists were selected among all currently employed scientists at the University of Split, based on the criteria of scientific productivity in 2023. As the basis for awarding the Award for Science for 2024, the University Library created in different scientific fields ranking list of a scientist having published scientific works indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) and Scopus databases. In addition to the number of published papers, the university commission in the process of evaluation also applied additional criteria of scientific excellence, such as authorship place on the published work and the quality of the journals in which scientist publish their scientific work (journal indexing quartile in Journal Citation Reports (JCR) and Scimago Journal Reports (SJR)), contribution to the scientific papers (main and corresponding author), etc.
The commissions proposed candidates for the Science Award of the University of Split for 2024 by taking into account the total number of scientists from a particular scientific field. The Senate of the University of Split approved the list of awarded candidates at the Senate meeting session held on December 19, 2024. in Split, Croatia.
The official announcement can be found on the University of Split web portal, and part of the awarding ceremony atmosphere can be found on the Slobodna Dalmacija web portal or Dalmatnski portal announcement.