We are pleased to announce the results of the best VILNIUS TECH research articles contest.

Research articles (having VILNIUS TECH affiliation, publishing data, being not Online First or Online Ready, and not being published in conference material publications) published during 2024 in international journals ranked in Q1, Q2 quartiles in Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics) database editions Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) or Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) (quartiles according to Journal Impact Factor values), or in Scopus database (quartiles according to CiteScore values) were evaluated in the contest.

The articles were evaluated by the Commission, leaded by the vice-rector for science and innovations – prof. dr. D. Navakauskas. During the contest every member of the Commission presented the papers submitted to the contest, the assessments of external experts were presented by the Commission’s secretarial member, suggestions for article evaluations were proposed. The final decisions were made by the majority of Commission members votes in open voting.

TRANSPORT ENGINEERING:

First place – Šabanovič, Eldar; Kojis, Paulius; Ivanov, Valentin; Dhaens, Miguel; Skrickij, Viktor. Development and evaluation of artificial neural networks for real-world data-driven virtual sensors in vehicle suspension // IEEE Access. Piscataway, NJ : IEEE. ISSN 2169-3536. eISSN 2169-3536. 2024, vol. 12, p. 13183-13195. [Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science); Scopus; IEEE Xplore] [M.kr.: T 003,T 001,T 009] [IF: 3,600; AIF: 4,533; quartile: Q2 (2024, Clarivate JCR SCIE)] [CiteScore: 9,00; SNIP: 1,504; SJR: 0,849; quartile: Q1 (2024, Scopus Sources)]. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3356715  

Second place – Stosiak, Michał; Karpenko, Mykola. The influence of the hydropneumatic accumulator on the dynamic and noise of the hydrostatic drive operation // Eksploatacja i niezawodność – Maintenance and reliability. Warsaw : Polish Maintenance Society. ISSN 1507-2711. eISSN 2956-3860. 2024, vol. 26, iss. 2, p. 1-11. [Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science); DOAJ; Scopus] [M.kr.: T 003] [IF: 3,100; AIF: 3,600; quartile: Q1 (2024, Clarivate JCR SCIE)] [CiteScore: 6,00; SNIP: 1,122; SJR: 0,641; quartile: Q1 (2024, Scopus Sources)]. https://doi.org/10.17531/ein/186169  

Third place – Matijošius, Jonas; Gutarevych, Yurii; Shuba, Yevheniy; Rimkus, Alfredas; Syrota, Oleksander. Effect of the addition of hydrogen-containing (H2/O2) gas on indicated and effective parameters of a gasoline engine // International journal of hydrogen energy. Oxford : Elsevier BV. ISSN 0360-3199. 2024, vol. 56, p. 66-74. [Scopus; Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science)] [M.kr.: T 003,T 009] [IF: 8,300; AIF: 7,066; quartile: Q1 (2024, Clarivate JCR SCIE)] [CiteScore: 13,30; SNIP: 1,777; SJR: 1,685; quartile: Q1 (2024, Scopus Sources)]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2023.11.289