First Public Lecture on the Project “Economic Education in Bulgaria 2030”

"It is a pleasure and an honour for me to be among you. First as a Bulgarian working by coincidence in Belgium, then as a researcher interested in scientific publications", these were the words Prof. Nikolay Denchev turned to the attendees. He clarified that his objective is to share opinions on how to write publications in good scientific journals.

The lecture was held in a hybrid format. In the Large Conference Hall of UNWE it was attended by the Rector Prof. Dr. Dimitar Dimitrov who is also Head of the project, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mihail Musov, Vice Rector for Research and International Affairs, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Rosen Kirilov, Vice-Rector for Digitalization and Cybersecurity, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kostadin Kolarov, Director of the Entrepreneurship Institute and Head of the Entrepreneurship Department.

The Rector added that in the context of the project it is also necessary to make a change in thinking and behavior aimed at research which becomes increasingly important. Prof. Dimitrov emphasized that the publishing activity is very important and its weigh increases significantly in the process of evaluation when the university applies for new projects. "It requires articles in high-impact journals indexed in first-class databases and we must slowly make this change which has already begun and combine this process with similar educational and research projects”.

Assoc. Prof. Mihail Musov expressed his thankfulness to Prof. Denchev for responding to the invitation by the university for making the public lecture available to all. "We will try to attract Prof. Denchev as a researcher at one of UNWE institutes so we rely very much on him to give his experience both in terms of publishing activity and in terms of research projects."

Prof. Denchev presented some of the journals that should be on focus for the scientists. According to him the most important journals for researchers are the ones that have an impact factor more than 5 such as Social Sciences and Web of Science.

During the lecture the practical requirements of the leading journals to evaluate and accept articles for publication were presented and discussed. The steps that each researcher must take in preparing, writing and editing the article were also discussed. The lecture provoked a great interest.