Approaches to scientometric evaluation of the work of reasearch teams

Abstract

Abstract. Personality assessments are administered for a variety of purposes among different groups of qualified personnel in a wide range of practice settings, including the educational and scientific fields. There is strong evidence of the usefulness of specific personality tests in these settings, especially using a multiparameter assessment system. However, there are no unified guidelines that form the basis for current personality assessment practice. The absence of these guidelines may contribute to increased inconsistencies in the formation of work teams for research projects by research managers. The aim of the article is to form the main methods for assessing the results of scientific activity of scientific teams, used in Ukraine, with identifying their advantages and disadvantages. Adequate assessment of the effectiveness of scientific teams and individual scientists is a key task for building a rating of both the scientist himself and the scientific institution in which he has affiliation. The methodology of the research is based on the principle of systematicity, a comparative analysis of evaluation criteria has been carried out. Scientific novelty. The article considers the principles, methods and indicators of scientometric evaluation of information processes in science and evaluation of publication activity of individuals and scientific teams; analyzes the main criteria for assessing the prospects of scientific directions, evaluation of the effectiveness of scientific organizations, their departments and individual employees; shows the means of accounting additional information; proposes criteria for evaluating the work of scientific teams and methods of assessing each of the criteria. Conclusions. It has been determined that the transition to specific quantitative assessments will require a clearer formalization of the above criteria, as well as the formation of unambiguous algorithms for their application. A proposal has been made to evaluate the work of a scientific unit as a scientific team, the composition of which can be interdepartmental or international, and possible criteria for evaluating its work have been considered. A proposal has been made to introduce different scales of evaluation for theoretical and applied areas of science. This approach is a generalization of the global and domestic experience of evaluating the work of scientific teams. Keywords: research team, evaluation criteria, scientometrics, citation index, h-index, expertise.