One of the approaches in assessment of scientific work are scientometric indicators that monitor the volume of citations from selected scientific journals, articles, and authors. The most prominent global sources of information in the area of research and development are the databases Web of Science (WOS) and Scopus, containing data on articles, their authors, contents, citation index, and edition information.
Overview of the twenty most cited authors according to the analysis by WOS for the year 2014
Analysis of publication activity according to WOS and SCOPUS 2014
In the comparison of data by WOS, Palacký University has been achieving above-average results. According to data from the years 2002-2011, UP was dominant in comparisons that consider the size of the institution or differences in citation trends in individual scientific disciplines. UP places in the above-average zone together with the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and Czech Technical University in Prague. The most productive areas of research at UP have been Chemistry, Physics, Biochemistry, and Optics.
The multi-disciplinary bibliography and citation database Web of Science monitors the citation index of academic articles and regularly updates bibliographic data including abstracts of articles from more than 12 500 prominent international scientific and academic journals in all disciplines.
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Its index includes over 60 million records from more than 5 000 publishers. Scopus also features smart tools to track, analyse and visualise research. It is available from the UP network.