Abstract
The article is devoted to the experience of using the scientometric system of the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI) for recording and evaluating scientific publication activities of the National libraries of the Russian Federation whose statutes provide for the conduct of research work. The author examines many years’ experience of the foreign countries and Russia in the application of different systems of science citation indexes for the assessment of performance of the research activities of scientists and organizations. The features and capabilities of the most authoritative scientometric systems (Web of Science, Scopus, RSCI) are described. In this regard, there is raised the problem of the use of scientometric systems in Russia and bringing their data at the government level to monitor the activities of scientific institutions. The article provides the list of basic normative legal acts on the assessment and monitoring of the performance of research organizations, developed by the government authorities (including the Ministry of culture of the Russian Federation), in which the scientometric systems indicators are included as criteria for assessing the scientific potential of the institutions. There are analysed the advantages of RSCI as a system of scientometric recording of publications of Russian scientists (only 10% of them are covered by the foreign systems of Science Citation Indexes), as well as its capabilities for objective evaluation of the performance of organizations and determination of the dynamics of their scientific activities in comparison with all scientific and research-educational institutions of the Russian Federation and organizations in their reference groups. There are described the features of interaction of the National Library of Russia with RSCI, presented the main results of this cooperation and projected the future directions of its development.
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