Research in Slovenia

Research environment

Research and science were always an important part of Slovenian society – predecessor of today’s Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Academia Operosorum Labacensium was established in 1693 in Ljubljana. Today there are 50.692 researchers working in over 1.000 research organizations, organised in 1542 research groups and working on 9.712 projects (source: Slovenian Current Research Information System - SICRIS).

Funds available for R&D activities in Slovenia total around 2% of GDP (source: Slovenian Research Agency). End result is 13.375 scientific papers and over 118.000 citations per million inhabitants (source: Slovenian Research Agency). If you want to know more about scientific community in Slovenia, you can use Science Atlas - a web portal designed to explore collaboration and competences of researchers.

Science in Slovenia

Research landscape today reflects historical scientific excellence. There are some scientists from Slovenia that made impact on worldwide scientific community.

Hall of Fame - some more significant Slovenian scientists

Jurij Vega (1754 – 1802), author of Thesaurus Logarithmorum Completus
Herman Potočnik Noordung (1892 – 1929), author of The Problem of Space Travel
Frederik Pregl (1869 – 1930), Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1923 for making important contributions to quantitative organic microanalysis
Jožef Stefan (1835 – 1893), authoer of Stefan's law
Slavoj Žižek (1949 -), philosopher
Thomas Luckmann (1927 – 2016), co-author of The Social Construction of Reality

Research environment

Science in Slovenia

Hall of Fame - some more significant Slovenian scientists

Research institutions in Slovenia

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