Research results and bibliometrics: Is a contradiction anatagonistic?

P. Minakir
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P. Minakir: Economic Research Institute, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Khabarovsk, Russia

Journal of the New Economic Association, 2021, vol. 50, issue 2, 183-190

Abstract: The legislative reforming of the Russian Academy of Sciences was activated in 2013. Not a consequence, but an important tool for the implementation of this reform and its deepening has become "digitalization" in the form of an exaggerated presentation of the results of scientific activity as bibliometric indicators, including the quality and number of publications. Based on the data of the Russian Science Citation Index the article examines the results of the policy of "increasing the visibility" of Russian economic science in the world publication space. It is shown that in a relatively short time, both extensive and intensive factors of increasing the publication mass are practically exhausted. At the same time, the qualitative parameters of publication activity turn out to be of low variability depending on the dynamics of the publications themselves. The issues of displaying the quality of scientific journals in bibliometric indicators are discussed. The conclusion is made that there is no antagonism between bibliometric and expert metrics when the latter prevail. A sequence of using these metrics is proposed for a comprehensive assessment of the results of scientific activities of organizations and scientists.

Keywords: reform of science; productivity of scientific organizations' activity; bibliometric data; scientific results (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I28 O38 O39 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.31737/2221-2264-2021-50-2-10

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