Young Hungarian Researchers Receive Prestigious...

BUDAPEST, Hungary, November 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- International Honor for Ten Winners

BUDAPEST, Hungary, November 18 /PRNewswire/ --

    Elsevier, the world-leading publisher of scientific, technical
and medical information products and services announced today that the Scopus
Young Scientist Awards were awarded to the best young researchers under 30
years old, in ten scientific disciplinary areas.



    The winners were based on the votes from the Board of
Presidents of the Hungarian Rectors Conference and the awards were presented
by Karoly Molnar, Minister without portfolio for Research and Development,
Imre Rudas, President of the Hungarian Rectors' Conference (HRC), and Mr.
Eduard Cohen, Elsevier Managing Director of A&G International Markets at the
awards ceremony held in Budapest.



    Nominations for the awards were put forth by the rectors,
deans, and department heads of higher education institutions. The ten winners
were selected from over 100 nominees, based on a rigorous review by a panel
of three judges delegated by the Board of Presidents of HRC, with the
approval of President Imre Rudas using quantitative and qualitative criteria.
The main prize, a scientific conference trip worth EUR2000 sponsored by
Elsevier, was awarded to Dr. Imre Szilagyi.



    
    The 2008 Scopus Award Winners in Hungary are:
    
    
    Dr. Demeter Zoltan         Szent Istvan Egyetem    veterinary surgeon
    
    Dr. Papp Krisztian         ELTE                       biologist
    
    Dr. Szilagyi Imre          BME                         chemist
    
                                                       program designer
    Dr. Sule Zoltan            Pannon Egyetem           mathematician
    
    Dr. Obermayer-Kovacs Nora  Pannon Egyetem          technical manager
    
                                                         Environment
    Dr. Horvath Krisztian      Pannon Egyetem            engineering
    
    Szilagyi Andras            BME                         physics
    
    Kaposi Ambrus              SOTE                        genetics
    
    Novak Tamas                Karoly Robert Foiskola      physics
    
                                                       linguist, social
    Veszelszki Agnes           ELTE                        science





    The purpose of the Scopus Young Scientist Awards is to put the younger
generation of researchers in the spotlight, and to reward the efforts of
young talent. The awards are also a means for promoting the fight against
brain drain. Additionally, Dr. Molnar commented: "As part of this fight, and
our aim to increase the global visibility and recognition of Hungarian
scientific it is imperative to a maximum the number of scientific journals
from our country in Scopus."



    The Hungarian Rectors' Conference, together with Elsevier, aim
to contribute to the development of the information society by promoting
scientific thinking in higher education, and improving international
visibility of Hungarian scientific achievements.



    Eduard Cohen noted that: "A major cause of the brain drain can
be contributed to a lack in access to a wide range of high quality
scientific. We are proud to promote these young stars as Scopus can help them
in their quest for knowledge discovery."



About Scopus

BUDAPEST, Hungary, November 18 /PRNewswire/ --

    Covering the world's research literature, Scopus is the largest abstract 
and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources 
with smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Scopus is designed 
and developed with over 500 users and librarians internationally. Its unique
database contains abstracts and references from 15,000 peer-reviewed journals
from more than 4,000 publishers worldwide, ensuring broad interdisciplinary
coverage. In addition, Scopus not only offers users citation information
about the articles covered, but also integrates web and patent searches
directly from its clean and simple interface. Direct links to full-text
articles, library resources and other applications like reference management
software, make Scopus quicker, easier and more comprehensive to use than any
other literature research tool. In 2009 the Arts & Humanities module will be
added to Scopus at no additional cost to end users.



    For more information about Scopus please visit 
http://www.info.scopus.com.



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