COMPARISION OF SELECTED AGRICULTURE UNIVERSITIES IN EUROPE ON BASIS OF ANALYSIS OF ACADEMIC OUTPUT.

The purpose of this work was to collate selected agriculture universities in Europe on the basis of academic output. This analysis was performed with the data from the Web of Science Core Collection database for the period 2009-2016. Selected universities are: Wageningen University & Research (NLD - WUR), Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SWE - SUA), Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NOR - NUA), Mendel University in Brno (CZE - MUA), Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (CZE - CULS), Slovak University of Agriculture Nitra (SVK - SLUA), Estonian University of Life Sciences (EST - EULS), Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies (LVA - LLU), SGGW - Warsaw University of Life Sciences (POL - WULS), University of Agriculture in Krakow (POL - KUA), Poznan University of Life Sciences (POL - PULS), Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences (POL - WUELS), University of Life Sciences in Lublin (POL - LULS). Research methodology was performed in three steps: 1)searches in the Web of Science Core Collection database of standardized institutional names of selected academic institutions; 2) downloading selected scientific documents that were published in the WoS CC for standardized institutional names of selected academic institutions in the years 2009-2016; 3) loading data from the WoS CC database into the InCites: Benchmarking & Analytics tool and analyzing selected indicators of academic output. In terms of employee publication activity, two groups can be distinguished: I - The Netherlands, Sweden, Norway and the Czech Republic, II - other universities. For all the analysed universities, both the number of publications and their quality increased over time, which proves the continuous scientific development of employees. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]