The University of Wroclaw was nominated in the field of humanities for the ELSEVIER Research Impact Leaders Award competition. The competition is addressed to universities whose researches make the greatest contribution to the visibility of Polish science in the world.

Prizes are awarded in six disciplines: agricultural and natural sciences; engineering and technical; humanities; health and medical sciences; exact and social sciences. The jury takes into account the increase in the number of publications in prestigious scientific journals, publications with the participation of foreign co-authors and the citation index in a given discipline.

Publications in the field of humanities make up 6.1 percent of all publications of the Wroclaw university. Over 11% documents were created as a result of cooperation with foreign authors, and 18.3% are publications in journals in the first decile of the best in terms of CiteScore.