A

• AHCI – Arts and Humanities Citation Index – part of WoS, encompasses more than 1 818 journals from 28 disciplines of humanities. It is divided into Decile and Quartiles.
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• AIS – Article Influence Score is an indicator for journals that are included in the Journal Citation Reports database under Web of Science. AIS reflects the average number of citations per article over the last 5 years. Individual citations are weighted according to several criteria within the Eigenfactor, with higher weight given to citations from prestigious journals, not counting self\-citations, etc.
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• APC – Article Processing Charge – charges the author of an article for publishing in an OA journal using the Gold OA mode. The charge pays for peer review, language check and editing.
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B

• Bibliometric result – The result indexed in a bibliometric database (usually WoS and Scopus, but others may be included). Most often these are articles in professional journals or papers in conference proceedings.

C

• Citations/Cited by – Number/list of other publications that cite the publication.
• CiteScore – Journal impact indicator in the SCOPUS database. It is calculated by dividing the number of citations in a given year by the number of articles in the three preceding years. In general, the higher the better.
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D

• D1 – The first decile. To publish in D1 means that the article is in the best 10 % of journals in the given academic area in WoS or SCOPUS.
• Diamond OA – Open Access publishing method. The publisher of the journal provides the fee for full\-text publication, so both readers and authors are exempt from paying for access or publication.
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• DOAJ – Directory of Open Access Journals – online directory enabling search for journals in the Open Access mode. Encompasses information about more than 21 700 journals for which it evaluates the APC cost and licence in use.
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E

• Eigenfactor – The calculation of "prestige" of a journal based on what other journals cite it.
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• Embargo – Time limitation of access to a scientific publication after its publication. During the embargo period, the article is only available to subscribers of the respective journal.
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• ERIH PLUS – Europe Reference Index For the Humanities and Social Sciences – European database of journals of social sciences and humanities. The main goal is to make the search for relevant HSS journals easier for European researchers. It is not divided into Deciles and Quartiles.
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• ESCI – Emerging Sources Citation Index – includes over 9 000 journals from all scientific disciplines. It is divided into Decile and Quartiles.
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G

• Gold OA – One of the possible ways of publishing in the Open Access mode. Gold Open Access articles are freely available to everyone. Journals require an APC fee for publishing an article.
• Green OA – Form of Open Access publishing. The author publishes the article themselves for example through a repository and by doing so provides free access to the article. Before publication, the author needs to learn about the rules set by the owner of the repository through which they find out whether the publication is allowed.

H

• h-index – Hirsch index. A number assessing the author's publication activity. It is calculated as the number of publications (n) that have n or more citations. For example, an h\-index of 5 means that the author has five articles that have at least five citations.
• HSS – Humanities and Social Sciences

J

• JIF – Indicator of influence of journals in WoS. It is calculated by dividing the total number of citations of the journal for a given period by the number of citations from the same period. In general, the higher, the better.
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M

• M1 – Module 1 of the national assessment. Quality of selected (best) results. Each institution nominates a certain number of bibliometric and non-bibliometric results, the quality of which is then assessed by a panel of evaluators.
• M17+ – Methodology of a national evaluation of research organisations and evaluation of programmes of special purpose support, research, development and innovation in the Czech Republic. It is divided into five Modules (M1–M5).
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N

• Non-bibliometric result – A scientific result that is not recorded in a bibliometric database. This is most often used to refer to scholarly books and chapters in scholarly books, but it can also refer to various application results, textbooks, articles in non-indexed scholarly journals, etc.

O

• Open Access – Part of Open Science. Publishing in such a way that anyone can access the results of scientific research for free (usually through internet access). Can be provided in more ways – gold, green or diamond/platinum open access.
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• Open Science – The aim of Open Science is to make science accessible to everyone. There are many different approaches to practising this idea.
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• ORCID – Open Researcher and Contributor ID. Author identifier compatible with IS MU, ISVaVaI, WoS, SCOPUS, often required by various publishers. Operated by an independent non\-profit organization.
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P

• Predatory journal – A journal that, using unfair practices, makes money from its publishing authors.
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Q

• Q1, 2, 3, 4 – Quartile. To publish in Q1 means that the article is in the best 25 % of journals in the given academic area in WoS or SCOPUS. Subsequently, Q2 marks journals ranging between 26 – 50 %, Q3 51 – 75 % and Q4 76 – 100 %

R

• References – Number/list of other publications cited by the publication.
• Repository – A specialized repository used for archiving and accessing scientific results. It can specialize on publications or data. The MU Repository is used for publications. A trusted repository, which is required by most grant providers, must meet certain characteristics.
• Researcher ID – Author identifier used in WoS and other associated tools.
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• RIV – Results Information Register (RIR). Database collecting results of research, development and innovation in Czechia. The register should collect all information about results supported by public money.
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• RIV point – Results Information Register points. Previously used evaluation methodology to rate scientific results in Czechia. Not in use at the moment.

S

• SCOPUS – Citation database owned by Elsevier publishing. Covers mainly scientific production of western Europe.
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• Scopus Author ID – Author identifier used in the SCOPUS database and associated tools.
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• SCIE – Science Citation Index Expanded – part of WoS, encompasses more than 9 461 journals from 178 scientific fields, mostly from natural sciences. It is divided into (the first) Decile and Quartiles.
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• SJR – SCImago Journal Rank is an indicator of scientific influence of scholarly journal – according to citations and the importance/prestige of citing journals. (Average number of weighted citations during selected year per document published in that journal during the previous three years).
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• SSCI – Social Sciences citation index – part of WoS, includes over 3 547 journals from 58 areas of social sciences. It is divided into Decile and Quartiles; it may consist of humanities journals.
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V

• VaVaI – An abbreviation used in Czech for Science, Research and Innovation Council or also Research, Development and Innovation, or another combination of these terms. This term is commonly used in documents from the RVVI (the Government Council for Research, Development and Innovation, headed by the Minister for Science, Research and Innovation).

W

• Web of Science (WoS) – Citation database owned by Clarivate. Covers mainly scientific production of North America and selected Asian regions.
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