With effect from January 1, 2016, the collective agreement negotiated with the scientific works council on performance bonuses for academic staff came into force. Sections 2 and 4 of the agreement regulate the performance bonuses and divide them into two types: (a) Star Journal Bonuses (§ 2), (b) Performance Bonuses for exceptional research achievements in organizational units (§ 4).

The implementation details of this performance bonus regulation are addressed in the operational agreement.

You can find the list of all publications that have been awarded through the WU Star Journal List and the Department Journal Ratings here.

The WU Best Paper Award is one of the highest research honors at WU, awarded annually to only a few individuals or teams. An independent international jury, with external guidance, recognizes the internationally outstanding research.

The award, funded by the Jubiläumsfonds of the City of Vienna for WU Vienna since 2000, is given in three categories. Since 2017, a fourth prize (New Research Avenues) has been awarded. This prize recognizes, across the three categories, the paper that best explores new paths away from the mainstream or brings the discipline closer to previously separate research fields.

• Category 1: Quantitative-analytical or formal scientific papers

• Category 2: Papers from business administration, economics, business education

• Category 3: Papers from foreign language business communication, law, humanities, sociology, economic geography; interdisciplinary papers

Third-party projects that have been acquired as part of national and international excellence programs or with the involvement of international research partners increase the visibility of WU as an internationally recognized research institution.