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In recent years, the significance of grant-based support in financing scientific studies has steadily grown; in particular, the list of grant-supported organizations has become broader. For example, in 2013, the Russian Science Foundation was created; it has already held its first competition, the winners of which have published their results, without limitation, on the pages of our journal. Under these conditions, it has become clear that the task of assessing the efficiency of the competitive support of individual scientists and various research and scientific-educational organizations is far from trivial. Today it is solved using scientometric instruments. The article published below suggests a specific method of determining the quality of a scientific product obtained under grant-based support and of comparing it with the quality of results obtained in the absence of grants, based on the analysis of the main bibliometric indicators—scientific productivity and citation rate.
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Original Russian Text © L.E. Mindeli, A.N. Libkind, V.A. Markusova, 2014, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2014, Vol. 84, No. 12, pp. 1080–1089.
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Mindeli, L.E., Libkind, A.N. & Markusova, V.A. The effect of grant-assisted financing on the efficiency of scientific studies in higher education. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 84, 432–440 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331614060124
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