The Romanian Academy of Scientists
is the successor and sole legatee of the Romanian Academy of Sciences (1935 - 1948) and of the Romanian Association of Scientists established in 1956. In 1996 it changed title in the Romanian Academy of Scientists and among the honorary members were important Nobel laureates According to the institutional evaluation Scimago/ELSEVIER, based on the international scientific visibility of its members, AOSR ranks 22nd/Romania and 775th/world in the ranking of research and higher education institutions.