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The effectiveness of research in animal husbandry through the prism of publication activity

Recently, the effectiveness of research is largely determined by the indicators of publication activity. According to these indicators it is customary to evaluate individual scientists, research teams, research centers, educational institutions and even states. Various international scientometric systems are used for the analysis, among which Web of Science and Scopus are the liders. The Strategy of scientific and technological development of our country, approved by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation (dated December 1, 2016 No. 642), the priorities of the scientific and technological development of the Russian Federation for the innovative development of the domestic market of products and services, the stable position of Russia in the foreign market are determined. The purpose of the work was to determine the effectiveness of research in animal husbandry through the prism of publication activity in the scientometric systems Web of Science and Scopus. As a result of the analysis the share of publications of Russian scientists in journals and publications included in the international scientometric systems Web of Science and Scopus including in animal husbandry has been determined. A significant lag in the publication activity of domestic scientists in the analyzed systems from colleagues of leading Western countries has been established. Among the total number of publications reflected on the Web of Science platform for 2010–2020, 857 468 pieces or three quarters of the total set of scientific articles, preprints and monographs in the world are devoted to the problems of animal husbandry, which indicates the importance of this branch of science for the world economy.

Migration patterns of scientific personnel in Belarus and Russia

The paper presents an approach to studying cross-border mobility of scientists basedon the analysis of bibliometric information. The initial information was compiled by publications of Belarusian and Russian scientists in journals indexed by the Web of Science database. The basic hypothesis of the study is based on the assumption that if a scientist hasbeen published for several years as an employee of the domestic (i.e. Belarusian, Russian)organizations, and then had an affiliation with foreign institutions, then it has signs of migra-tion abroad and carries out scientific activities outside of Belarus/Russia. For the Republicof Belarus, all areas of science are considered without restrictions; migration activity of Russian scientists is analyzed in mathematical and social sciences. The results of applying the bibliometric approach made it possible to form five patterns of scientific personnel migration. For example, Belarusian scientists are mostly characterized by pendulum migration and episodic contacts, to a lesser extent – traditional migration; forRussian scientists in the field of mathematical and social Sciences – circular and irrevocablemigration. In addition, during the reviewed time interval (from 2008 to 2019), no large-scale“brain drain” was detected from both Belarus and Russia.

Decision Theory and Utility Management

SINCE Girshick presented his elementary survey of statistical decision theory in the December 1954 issue of the REVIEW, a tremendous amount of research has been published by behavioral scientists in journals that fall outside the focus of most workers in educational research. The new mathematical psychologists who have made important methodological contributions to the understanding of problems in decision theory and utility measurement have not been very much concerned with problems of immediate or practical interest to the educational psychologist, the curriculum specialist, the counselor, or the school administrator. Once many of the methodological problems have been resolved and a substantial amount of experimental work has been done to ascertain the suitability of the somewhat esoteric models in decision theory to the understanding and to the potential solution of certain educational problems, there will probably be little use of decision theory by research specialists in education. In the writer's estimation, at least 10 or 15 years will elapse before any marked application of decision theory will be made to the types of educational problems faced by most educational researchers. In view of the substantial overlap of the field of decision theory with (a) the problems of statistical inference, considered by Clark in Chapter I and by Michael in Chapter II; (b) the problems in psychophysics, signal detection, and information theory as well as general developments in scaling and measurement theory, presented by Schiffman and Messick in Chapter VII; (c) statistical learning models, detailed by Weitzman in Chapter VIII; and (d) computer technology, as described by Baker in Chapter X, the writer decided with somewhat mixed feelings that his presentation should be drastically curtailed in length and in scope relative to what he had initially planned to undertake. Nevertheless, a detailed survey was made of pertinent literature since about 1950. For the most part, references since 1954 have been included. Probably the most important contribution of this chapter will be to furnish the reader with a bibliography of slightly more than 100 carefully selected references which furnish what may be considered an appropriate base for the acquisition of an understanding of decision theory and utility management in the behavioral sciences. These references were selected on the basis of extensive consultation with several mathematical psychologists who have specialized in the study of decision theory.