NIOM has improved by 19 positions  in the  World’s Ranking of Research Centres among organizations from Poland. In 2012 the ranking included 8 thousands of research institutes from all over the world (in the world’s list NIOM is 1321st  while in the previous ranking it was 3686th).

The ranking is prepared by the High Council of Scientific Research in Madrid (CSIC – Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas) and its assumption is to promote making scientific publications available in Internet. Assessment in the ranking is carried out on a basis of Internet resources concerning classified institutions. It also summarizes global efficiency of the institutes and scientific centres as well as reflects their involvement in scientific knowledge dissemination. Development of communication between the scientists in Internet e.g. via Internet publishing houses or knowledge repositories; significance of ventures of Open Access type and positioning of websites of the institutes in Internet and many others aspects were taken into account.

In this year’s ranking the first place in the world  belongs to NIH – National Institutes of Health. According to the Webometrics ranking the best European institution turned out to be CERN – European Organization for Nuclear Research.

More information concerning principles of ranking creation
Polish research centres in the ranking

Human Resources Strategy for Researchers

Asbestos

Quality policy in laboratories

Central Register of Occupational Diseases