MP calls on NCFA to encourage young scientists

MP calls on NCFA to encourage young scientists

15:21 – 13.08.11

An MP of the opposition party Heritage has sent a letter to the
National Competitiveness Foundation of Armenia (NCFA), calling on it
to encourage young Armenian scientists.

In the letter Anahit Bakhshyan said that two Armenian scientific
magazines have received Impact Factor from the British influential
media holding Thompson Reuters.

The Impact Factor is a measure of the frequency with which the average
article in a journal has been cited in a particular year or period.

“This is an unprecedented and exclusively significant event in our
newly independent history,” said Bakhshyan in the letter.
Further, she called on the NCFA to organize a special event to mark this event.

Particularly, she suggested launching a project aimed at encouraging
young scientists to write scientific articles which, in turn, would
contribute to the establishment of the platforms, in this case the
magazines, where they are published.

Bakhshyan also suggested paying young scientists who write such
articles four times as much as is the average salary of a scientist.

“It is necessary to design a special strategy that will have at its
core such projects of encouragement,” said she, adding that it will
pave the way for Armenia to have influential and internationally
recognized scientific magazines.

“That will be one of the important cornerstones to really build a
knowledge-based economy,” read the letter.

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