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Citation indexes of scientific works

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At present, scientometric assessment is an attribute of both the practice of the internal management of scientific establishments and the system of state and private financial support. Note that the attitude of scientists to scientometrics and its use for determining the efficiency of scientific activity varies, from seething resentment to (significantly less often) willingness to offer proposals on correcting scientometric instrumentation and the practice of its use. The author of the article published below is an advocate of the latter strategy. With account for the drawbacks of the existing indicators, he shows how we can make them more adequate to the targets for the sake of which they are developed.

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    Aleksandr Sergeevich Kholodov

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Original Russian Text © A.S. Kholodov, 2015, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2015, Vol. 85, No. 4, pp. 310–320.

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Kholodov, A.S. Citation indexes of scientific works. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 85, 122–131 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331615010025

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