MTMT – frequently asked questions
Registration, login
How to register?
Click the registration button and complete the form. In the Institution field, select the appropriate Corvinus University of Budapest organization. You must confirm your registration via an automatically generated email, after which it will be approved within two business days. Upon receiving this approval, you may login the database.
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Can I login to MTMT with EduID?
Yes. For the first time, you need to log in with your User ID and password. Once you have successfully logged in, you can configure EduID access by selecting the EduID link icon located at the bottom of the Edit Data form in the upper right personal menu.
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Forgotten password, forgotten username
If you have forgotten your username, please contact your research support librarian (MTMT contact). In case you have forgotten your password, you can request a new one by clicking on the Forgotten password tab on the login website of MTMT.
How to record publications and make them public?
How does the University record the publications?
According to the Provisions of the Vice-Rector for Research 3/2024, the research support librarians record publication data that can be taken into account for academic performance. The authors may submit their data-recording requests by completing this form.
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How can I affiliate myself with the publications that are already registered in MTMT?
After login in the Common operations: Assigning publications by co-author to myself. Also under Searches, in the My possible publications and My possible publications created by my co-authors options. Affiliation can be started by clicking on the Authors button.
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I can’t affiliate the institution with my publication. What can I do?
Since the launch of MTMT version 2.2.19 (June 2025), authors cannot affiliate themselves with their institution. Contact your research support librarian (MTMT contact).
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Can I assign my co-authors to the publication?
Since the launch of MTMT version 2.2.19 (June 2025), it’s not possible. Authors can assign only themselves to publications.
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Can I register a thesis or conference presentation in MTMT?
Technically yes, in type Miscellaneous, and sub-types:
Diplomawork, thesis, Report of Scientific Students Association for a thesis;
Not specified for a conference presentation.
These do not count on the academic performance.
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How do I know if my publication has already been in MTMT?
A publication can be added to MTMT in more ways: by the co-authors, the librarians or Hungarian publishers. You can check a publication according to the followings:
- After logging in to the database, search for the title among All my publications.
- If a publication’s data have already been recorded and assigned to the author, it will be in your list.
- If a publication is not in the list, you may want to click on the My possible publications created by my co-authors on the left side and check the list. If you still can’t find the publication, try My possible publications and My possible other publications in citations options.
If the publication you are looking for is found as a result of one of the last three searches, you can start the author assignment by clicking on the Authors button.
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Can I delete a publication from MTMT?
You can’t. If you find an incorrect publication, a one with missing data or a duplicate record, ask a librarian for help.
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Can I upload the full text of a publication to MTMT?
You can’t, but you can add a link or an identifier (e.g., a DOI) to the full text.
You can upload the full text to Corvinus Research Repository from MTMT via the Operations – SWORD upload option.
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Can I register a publication or a conference paper based on an acceptance letter only?
It is only worthwhile to register a publication in MTMT if it has an active DOI or is accessible on the publisher’s website.
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Can I edit my publication’s data?
Yes, you can. After registration, the author has 90 days to edit the assigned publications. If a librarian sets the record to Admin approved or Validated within 90 days, the author can’t edit it. In this case, ask a librarian for help.
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Can I edit my “Centrally managed” records?
You can’t. If you would like to modify the record for missing data, send an email to oktkut@uni-corvinus.hu. Adding an identifier (Operations) or setting national and international contributions (Authors) is still possible.
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Who makes the publications public?
Who added and recorded the data of the publication. Once the publication is public, its data can be viewed on MTMT’s public platform, as well as in the Summary table and Specialty table.
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What levels does publication checking have?
Checking itself is made by the librarians.
Admin approved means that a librarian (MTMT administrator) formally checked the registered data.
Validated means that a librarian compared the data in MTMT with another database’s and/or the publication’s data.
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Publication list, summary and specialty tables
Jornal articles are not in the proper place in my table. What may cause this?
It happens when a journal is not (set to be) peer-reviewed or the article is less than three pages long.
Being set to be peer-reviewed is done by MTMT administrators according to the followings:
- journal is indexed by WoS, Scopus, or PubMed;
- journal is listed in SciMago and has SJR;
- journal is listed in ERIH and/or ERIH+;
- journal is listed in DOAJ;
- according to Ulrich’s and/or the journal’s webpage, the journal is peer-reviewed and indexed by a larger database;
- journal is listed by a HAS section.
If you find a problem of this kind, please let us know at oktkut@uni-corvinus.hu.
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How can I download my complete publication list?
You can do it either after login, in Common operations – Lists & tables – Public list of papers (list can be printed or saved in .pdf format) OR
by clicking in the Reports and templates menu’s Templates part Publication list for author option (list can be saved in .pdf or in word format).
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How can I set my Specialty table in MTMT?
After login, in the Edit author option, choose the proper table at the Summary table template 2 part, OR in the Common operations choose Set specialty table.
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How can I download my summary or specialty table?
After login, in Common operations – Lists & tables – View summary/specialty table ( the list can be printed or saved in .pdf format).
Without logging in, searched for the author on the public platform, by clicking on the MTMT summary/specialty table button.
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How can I create a selected list of my publications?
After logging in to MTMT, list your publications then choose the required publications by clicking on them. Go to List button in the upper menu and either choose New list option or add/delete new publications to/from existing lists.
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Citations and scientometrics in MTMT
How are citations recorded in MTMT?
For the purposes of academic promotion and, upon request from faculty members, the librarians record citations in MTMT to the university’s publications indexed in international bibliographic databases (WoS and Scopus).
Recording of citations from other sources can be required via the data registration request form.
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Is there automatic citation recording to MTMT?
Partly. The colleauges of MTMT Centre periodically export citations from Web of Science (WoS) database to those publications that have WoS ID.
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What is a dependent citation?
If the citing and the cited publication have minimum one common author, the citation is dependent.
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Can I record theses and/or PhD dissertations as citations?
Yes, you can but they are not included in your academic assessment.
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Hirsch index in MTMT
You can see it in your Summary table Its value is based on the citations of All scientific publications without PhD dissertations and publications set as Miscellaneous.
Calculation of h-index: publications are ordered by descending number of their citations. H-index is the order number that is equal to or greater than the number of citations. You can make a query in MTMT for your h-index. After logging in, go to Searches and Templates and click on New Search, select the Hirsch-listás template.
How MTMT calculates the independent h-index:
- Regarding the cited publication, the following are not taken:
- edited book,
- educational publications,
- retracted articles.
- Regarding the citing publication, the following are not taken:
- non-independent citations, which are seen at the publication’s level; it means, if there’s a common author of the cited and the citing publication, the citation is taken as non-independent;
- publications categorized as Miscellaneous (presentations, publications available only in repositories (e.g.: ResearchGate, SSRN, arXiv), theses, research reports, etc.);
- PhD dissertations;
- publications not categorized as scientific;
- retracted articles;
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Can I see the SJR of my articles in MTMT?
Yes, you can. MTMT imports Q1-Q4 ranking from Scimago, assigns these values to the journals, and makes them publicly available in the database. The data are refreshed annually (in summer). Data are seen in the author’s publication list after logging in, and on their public profile.
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Can I see the MTA ratings (MTA A-D) of my articles in MTMT?
Yes, you can. Data are seen in the author’s publication list after logging in, and on their public profile.
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