Dr. Raminta Pranckutė, a researcher at VILNIUS TECH, has been included in the prestigious “World’s Top 2% Scientists“ list. Among the eleven university researchers featured in this ranking, she holds third place in terms of citation impact.
This achievement sends an important message: research in library and information science at a technological university is an equally valuable and internationally competitive field of scholarly activity. Its significance extends far beyond the traditional functions of libraries. Such research contributes to the creation of new knowledge, advances in scholarly communication, the development of open science, and the strengthening of the scientific potential of the entire academic community.
The international recognition received by Dr. Raminta Pranckutė confirms that scientific excellence at the university is cultivated not only within faculties and research institutes, but also within the academic library. Today, a university library is not merely a provider of research infrastructure and services; it is also an active creator of knowledge, whose scholarly work can be evaluated and recognised according to the same international standards as research in other academic disciplines.
This is a significant acknowledgement not only for the researcher herself, but also for the place of library and information science research within the university’s research ecosystem. It demonstrates that the value of science is determined by the quality, impact, and international recognition of research rather than by the university unit in which it is conducted or the field traditionally associated with it.
The “World’s Top 2% Scientists” ranking is compiled annually by a team of researchers from Stanford University, based on bibliometric data from Elsevier’s Scopus database. It includes researchers from various scientific disciplines whose publications demonstrate outstanding international citation impact.
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