GDRC Professors Win the Award for Scientific Publication
Fri, 26 Sep 2014 12:08:00 BST
A refereed journal paper entitled: “Post disaster C&D debris management: A Sri Lanka Case Study” published in the Journal of Civil Engineering and Management written by Huddersfield Professors Dilanthi Amaratunga and Richard Haigh along with Sri Lankan Scientist Dr Gayani Karunsasena at the University of Moratuwa Sri Lanka has been selected for a President’s Award for Scientific Publication
There are 2 tiers of awards:
· Tier 1:President’s Awards for Scientific Publication - criteria for selection being a publication in the top 10% of Science Citation Index Expanded journals, ranked on their Impact Factor under each journal category based on SCI categorization of journals
· Tier 2: National Research Council Merit Awards for Scientific Publication - criteria for selection: A publication in a Science Citation Index Expanded journal with an Impact Factor of 1 or more, in the given year.
Our paper has been recognised with a Tier 1 President’s Award for scientific publication.
This scheme is managed by the Sri Lanka National Research Council and is based on the Science Citation Index (SCI). SCI is a database of the world’s scientific periodicals judged to be the topmost by its publisher, with respect to quality and impact on science. Thus the SCI analyses about 3700 periodicals containing a world total of about 1,2000,000 titles of articles, in a given year. The compilation done for the President's Awards for Scientific Publications scheme covers all the “hard science” titles (excluded the social science) with a Sri Lankan address against at least one author as given in the SCI.
This system includes a measure of journal quality based on Impact Factor also taking into consideration that different disciplines have widely differing Impact Factors for their journals, and the quantum of research published. These awards are given to papers which has contribution from Sri Lankan scientists who achieve a publication in the top 10% of Science Citation Index Expanded journals (ranked on their Impact Factor under each journal category based on SCI categorization of journals) or two or more publications in a Science Citation Index Expanded journal with an Impact Factor of 1 or more, in the given year.
