QUOTATION AS A MEASURE OF SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTION -THE POSITION OF THE WESTERN BALKAN COUNTRIES IN RELATION TO SOME EU COUNTRIES.

In this paper, the ranking of scientific workers in the countries of the Western Balkan (WB) is performed according to the achieved result measured through the standardized Stanford University procedure for measuring the citation of scientific papers, using the so-called composite coefficient of citation (c). It was determined that only researchers from Serbia and Montenegro from the WB countries will be on this prestigious list, with modest results in relation to other comparable EU countries, as well as EU countries similar in terms of population. The obtained results indicate that the development of science in the WB countries is in an enviable lag behind the results of science in other EU countries, which will set great obstacles for further EU integration of these countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]