The role of scientific publications in assessing academic research institute performance

О. И. Левченко

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Publications by academic institute’s researchers inform scientific com-munity on the research findings. At the same time, they make an important organization’s reporting unit. The number of publications, citations in national and foreign science citation databases are the indicators of research performance. The rankings of journals where the articles are published, play the key role. It is important to choose the serial for publication in compliance with the reporting requirements, appropriate publication period, dates of issue and access to full texts. The author discusses the experience of the Information and Library Center of Osipyan Institute of Solid State Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISSP RAS) as a subsidiary research division. The Division acquires, keeps record of s and analyzes data on researchers’ publications and the serials where the papers are published. The author discusses the publications control system used for ranking and assessing contributions by individual researchers and research units to the research programs and government orders to the Institute. The author argues that today the publication performance reporting requirements do not conform to the governmental decrees on the moratorium on using indicators of foreign scientometric databases that have quitted the Russian market. She also emphasizes the need to develop Russian indexes of science citation based on RSCI to reflect global science information. The author analyzed the accessibility full texts published in the national research serials based on the websites of Russian Scientific Journals and National Periodicals Platform. She concludes that the situation for 2024-early 2025 is rather challenging. As of mid-February 2025, no 2024 issues of journals in physics where the Institute’s researchers are published, are loaded to the Russian Scientific Journals website, while the National Periodicals Platform comprises only half of the 2024 yearly set. This would negatively affect the information support of the studies and organizational reporting. While discussing the journals as the source for further studies, the author advises to transfer gradually to the hybrid — and further to digital publishing model to speed up scientific communications, to introduce current research fin-dings to the scientific discourse, and to embrace the most recent achievements of Russian science.

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