Although research activities are recognised and rewarded by the Faculty’s Performance Assessment System, the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences (GTK) wishes to recognise excellent performance, to encourage research and research cooperation in addition to the current funds available for GTK. The incentives are intended to stimulate a rise in the number of strong publications and consequently in the number of successful faculty applications.

Subject of the incentive award

The award pertains to any scientific journal article, accepted for publication in the calendar year preceding the year under review and published in a foreign or domestic journal in a foreign language, in journals ranking Q1 or higher, provided it is not a journal classified as 0 or X according to the Norwegian List. The author must have properly indicated their affiliation with BME GTK.

The applicant

The award can be obtained through an application, depending on eligibility.

All applicants who are eligible to apply for the Strategic Fund shall be eligible to apply for the incentive award. The application is subject to the BME GTK affiliation indicated on the publication in compliance with the relevant requirements. Applications are evaluated by the Scientific Committee, which then makes a recommendation to the Dean for the award.

Amount of the incentive award

The amount of the incentive award depends on the classification of the journal. These rankings are available on the Scimago website (https://www.scimagojr.com/). A journal is ranked

• P1 if it is in the best 1% in all categories,
• D1 if it is in the best 10% in all categories,
• Q1 if it is in the best 25% in all categories

and it is not included in any higher categories. The assessment criteria of the released publications also include the number of authors, the rate for single-authored articles with the relevant ranking is the 2/(1+n)th fraction of the incentive award where n is the number of authors. The incentive amount is calculated as follows:

A P1 publication is rated 3A, a D1 publication is rated 2A and a Q1 publication is rated 1A. The amount of the incentive award is divided among the publication’s authors. The rate of ‘A’ shall be determined for each year by the Faculty by approving the faculty budget.

The ranking of a publication shall be based on the most recent known ranking of a journal.

Only publications accepted after the first day of the year preceding the year of the submission of the application may be submitted in an application. Applications shall include the acceptance letter and the most recent known ranking of the relevant journal.

Detailed information:

Dean’s Order no. 7/2025 (VI.06.) – On the Procedure of Awarding Publication Incentives at the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Application form: Publication Incentive_application form_2025

Application deadline: June 15, 2025