LSMU Science Fund

The Science Fund is formed in order to support the University’s research development in accordance with the University’s strategic activity plan approved by the Council.

Funding of the Science Fund is allocated for the following purposes:

To finance the research of university research groups, researchers, and doctoral students.
To encourage the most productive and active research workers and doctoral students working at the University.
To support scientific events organised by the University.
To support the publication of articles by university employees in journals. The requirements for the journal are determined by the Board of the Science Foundation no more than once a year. The established requirements shall be applied no earlier than 2 months after their publication on the University’s website.
For the support of the university’s experimental base for carrying out scientific research in the strategic development areas determined by the Council.
To encourage experimental development and commercialisation of R&D results by university scientists, researchers, and doctoral students.

Board:

Chairperson of the board;
active researchers delegated by the heads of the University’s faculties and scientific institutes (at least one representative from each faculty and scientific institute of the University);
the Head of the Research Affairs Department or their delegated employee;
Two doctoral students delegated by the doctoral student council;
Head of Economics and Planning Department of the University;
Delegated employee of the Hospital of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Kauno Klinikos.

Requirements for LSMU Science Fund support

The Science Fund covers the costs of publishing open-access articles by University employees, provided the Journal Impact Factor Percentile (https://jcr.clarivate.com/jcr/home) in the relevant scientific category is at least 80.
The Science Fund covers the costs of publishing open-access articles by University doctoral students or individuals who have completed doctoral studies, are preparing a dissertation, and are within 12 months of completing their studies. This applies provided the Journal Impact Factor Percentile (https://jcr.clarivate.com/jcr/home) in the relevant scientific category is at least 50, the author is the first author, and the article publishes results from the dissertation.
The Science Fund covers the costs only for open-access articles publishing research results. Case reports are not eligible.
The Science Fund covers the costs of open-access articles for employees, doctoral students, or individuals who have completed doctoral studies, are preparing a dissertation, and are within 12 months of completing their studies, up to a maximum of €3,500 (including VAT) per article.
The Science Fund covers costs up to a maximum of €4,000 (including VAT) per article employees, doctoral students, or individuals who have completed doctoral studies, are preparing a dissertation, and are within 12 months of completing their studies if the journal’s Impact Factor Percentile is 90 or higher.
In exceptional cases, the Chairman of the Science Fund Board may approve payments exceeding €4,000 for articles intended for particularly significant publications with exceptionally high Clarivate Analytics scientometric indicators, where a University scientist is the corresponding author.
Ineligible expenses include article preparation, translation, editing, layout, color illustrations in print versions, additional article copies, language editing services, and other supplementary services.

it is necessary to submit:
a request for the payment of article publication costs, addressed to the Chairperson of the Board of the LSMU Science Fund. All authors of the article accepted for publication, their institutional affiliations (affiliations), the name of the journal, the title of the article accepted for publication, and the requested payment amount are indicated in the request; also, the application indicates from which ongoing/implemented project the results are published or for which project it is planned to submit an application; other information significant in your opinion; or
a request in the established form for the payment of article publication costs, if the first author of the article is a doctoral student or individuals who have completed doctoral studies, are preparing a dissertation, and are within 12 months of completing their studies, and the results of the dissertation work are published in the article The request indicates all authors of the accepted printed article, their institutional affiliations (affiliations), the name of the journal, the name of the article accepted for publication, the amount requested for payment; the application also indicates the results of the ongoing/implemented project, or the project for which the application is planned, other information significant in your opinion.
A certificate issued by the LSMU Library and Information Centre that the citation index of your chosen journal meets the support criteria of the LSMU Science Fund.
copy of the email letter or other a document showing that the editorial staff of the magazine has accepted your article for publication (accepted for publication);
an invoice, indicating the requested payment amount;
only that page(s) of the accepted article manuscript (but not the entire manuscript) where the names, surnames, affiliations, e-mails of all the authors of the article can be seen, e-mail addresses that were provided when submitting the article manuscript to the editorial board of the journal.

All the above-mentioned documents are delivered by email mokslocentras@lsmu.lt

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