BIBLIOMETRIC STUDY OF PUBLICATIONS OF EMPLOYEES OF THE BELARUSIAN NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY FULFILLED WITH THE USE OF THE WEB OF SCIENCE AND SCOPUS DATABASES AND EVALUATION OF THE EFFICIENCY OF THEIR RESEARCH ACTIVITIES: 2011– 2015

Abstract

The productivity of researchers, as well as the value and quality of scientific publications are considered as properties that indicate the efficiency of the research activities of an organization. The purpose of the present work was to perform a bibliometric study of productivity of Belarusian National Technical University (BNTU) researchers and of the value and quality of their publications. The study as a whole was aimed at assessing the efficiency of research activities of the BNTU. With the use of the Web of Science and Scopus databases we examined the productivity of the authors in 2011–2015 (including chronological structure of publications and their journal and publishers distributions, data on scientific cooperation, etc.), determined the average citedness of an article; the number of articles included in the 10 % most cited publications in the world in different subject areas of science and also the magnitudes of the «normalized citation» (the latter being compared with the ones for other universities) The growth of number of published articles and the high value of publications of the University were detected (as reflected in the Web of Science database), as well as the high value of a number of publishing journals. The obtained data as a whole attests to the leading role of laser specialists of the BNTU, and the productivity data attests to the Instrumentation Engineering Faculty as making the greatest contribution to the publications of the BNTU published in the most authoritative sources. The results of the study attests to a fairly high efficiency of research activities of the BNTU. A significant contribution to improving the mentioned efficiency are being made by the promotion of the University journals to the world information networks and by facilitating the creation of «visibility» of the specialists of the BNTU and the results of their research in the world information networks.