Integrated score of publication performance of leading organizations of EMERCOM of Russia (2005–2019)

Relevance. To improve the quality of publications while maintaining their growth rate, employees of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russia have approved a methodology for assessing the integrated score of publication performance of organizations.

Intention. Analysis of the integrated score of publication performance of the leading educational and scientific organizations of the Russian Emergencies Ministry for 10 years (2010–2019).

Methodology. The object of the study was the annual indicators of the integrated score of publication performance of the Russian Emercom as calculated by the staff of the Scientific Electronic Library [https://www.elibrary.ru/].

Results and Discussion. A low average annual integrated score of publication performance was revealed in the Emercom of Russia. For an educational organization in the Russian Emercom, it amounted to (55.67 ±5.8) points, for a research organization – (29.0 ± 1.5) points (p < 0.01). The average annual integrated score of publication performance for the same period at Omsk State Technical University turned out to be 6 times higher (306.4 ± 19.0) than the average for educational institutions of the Russian EMERCOM (p < 0.001). It turned out that the EMERCOM of Russia had few highly rated publications on computer and information sciences, physical and chemical branches of knowledge, and quite a lot of publications on social sciences. Most likely, the latter are not a priority in the state assignment for research and development of the EMERCOM of Russia. Shown are the ways to increase the integrated score of publication performance of the EMERCOM of Russia organizations.

Conclusion. The slogan of researchers “print or die” in modern conditions is becoming less and less relevant. Russian and world science were flooded with insignificant and sometimes false publications. The fractional calculation of the integrated score of publication performance will make the authors think before including anyone in gift co-authorship or creating “fake” affiliations. This methodology will help improve the quality of domestic publications, and printing weak articles will become irrelevant.

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