Addressing the event, Minister of Education Jeyhun Bayramov highlighted what has been done in recent years to ensure continuous development of higher education, facilitate universities` access to international scientific databases and encourage publication of Azerbaijani scientists` articles in leading international journals. Saying cooperation with Clarivate Analytics is already yielding fruits, the minister noted that the number of Azerbaijani scientists` papers published in indexed journals has increased 74 percent in the past five years, while the indicator of higher education institutions has grown 88 percent.

The event then featured a ceremony to present “Web of Science Azerbaijan - 2018” awards.

Baku State University (BSU) won “Web of Science Azerbaijan - 2018” awards. The journal “Applied and Computational Mathematics”,  founded  by the Institute of Applied Mathematics of Baku State University, the Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies and Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences was also awarded.

Dean of the Department of Physics, Professor Mohammedali Ramazanov and Associate Professor of the Department of Chemistry Atash Gurbanov became the winners of the Web of Science in the nomination of the most productive authors in the field of natural sciences.

Press and Information Department, 06 December, 2018