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Evaluation of scientific performance according to indexes in Serbia

Dr. Stela Filipi-Matutinovic Branislava Avramovic, MSc Aleksandra Popovic in cooperation with Ivanka Klajn University Library “Svetozar Markovic, Belgrade, Serbia Biblioteka Matice srpske, Novi Sad, Serbia

Science was present in Serbia from 1979. Serbian scientists consulted it at the infor- University Library “Svetozar Markovic” and Library of Matica srpska are entitled by the Republic mation centers of our libraries. Number of was not the official criterion for the evaluation and Regional Ministry of Science for Vojvodina to issue certificates about the number of citations for of scientific performance until 1996, when it was first mentioned in the Bylaw on the election for individual scientists or institutions for accreditation of individuals and research institutions by the professors and researchers. In 2001 it became a criterion for financing researchers by the Ministry of National authorities. Science. In 2008 bylaw it is defined that citations should be collected from the ISI and from , and that academic staff must have articles published in journals 1000 on the JCR list. Number of scientific papers in Web of Science with at least one author from Serbia 800 shows constant growth. 600 4000 400 3500 200 3000 2500 0 over 2000 1500-1999 1000-1499 500-999 400-499 300-399 200-299 100-199 10 to 99 1 to 9 citations 2000 1500 Beograd Novi Sad Total 1000 500 Number of authors from Serbia with particular number of citations to their papers in SCI and WoS 0 (self citations excluded) 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

Number of papers Between years 2003 and 2008 University Library had 1487 requests for bibliographies of cited works from individuals and institutions, found 83033 citations and Library of Matica srpska had 2326 requests and found 15277 citations. Citations from , other citation databases (, , SCIndeks) authors collect themselves and present them to authorities.