Objectives:

1. Maintain the Monitoring D data base of the academic staff tenured by Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy to account for their publications and citations;
2. Perform complete registration of the professors and lecturers newly retained in 2018 on a full-time employment contract basis at Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy in the citation data bases: SCOPUS, WoS and RSCI. Set the icons with the publication assets into the personal pages of the professors and lecturers in the Academy website;
3. Maintain the recognition of the publications by the professors and lectures retained on a full-time employment contract basis at Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy in the aforesaid data bases as officially affiliated with the Academy in view of the preparation of documents for accreditation and post-accreditation monitoring, the participation of the Academy in scientific projects and the ratings of the higher education institutions in Bulgaria.
4. Maintain the up-to-date condition of the scientific publication assets of the professors and lectures retained on a full-time employment contract basis at Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy in the Bulgarian Current Research Information System (BulCRIS).
5. Perform a scientometric analysis and, by means of a presentation before the Academic Council, bring to light the publication activities for 2016 of the professors and lectures retained on a full-time employment contract basis at Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy, with an emphasis on the data in the globally significant citation indices.
6. If possible and subject to the approval of the Academic Council, commission the iThenticate platform or equivalent similarity search software (including as per the contract with the Medical University of Varna) to support the publications of the Naval Academy in English. Evaluate the available software products and their applicability to the conditions at the Naval Academy.