Filip Smolik

The Institute of Psychology of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS) is a prestigious research institute with a history spanning nearly six decades and shaping academic psychology in the Czech Republic. Although the institute employs only 5% of psychologists engaged in research in the Czech Republic, its staff produce 24% of the country's academic output in the top 10% most-cited journals indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) database. The average number of international publications cited in WOS per researcher employed by the Institute of Psychology is higher than in other important psychology research institutes in the Czech Republic (Area comment in module 2 of evaluation according to Methodics 17+ in FORD, 5.1 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences).