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Setting up a pilot citation index at a law library

VIDA, Ildikó

The Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of Eötvös Loránd University tries to encourage as best as they can the publication of departmental scientific works. As further support to the scientific activities of teaching and research staff, plans for creating a citation index was approved. In our days, citation indexes are indispensable research tools, yet no such index existed previously in the area of law and political sciences in Hungary. As a remedy to this situation, staff from the Faculty of Law, in cooperation with the faculty library, elaborated the first experimental version of the citation index in 2001. The database initially comprised the period 1998-2001, but as a result of positive feedback, the work is going on to go as far back as 1990. This citation index is a way to recognise not only the scientific qualities and successful research work of professors and faculty staff, but also their commitment to and passion for science.

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