V.V.Arutyunov

Russia, Moscow, VIEMS

 

 

 

ANALYSIS OF THE FUND OF THE MOST VALUABLE AUTHORS OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL PRODUCTION

 

 

 

Scientific and technical production (STP) is created by the stuff members of more than 200 organizations forming the system of the Geological Survey of the RF Ministry of Natural Resources. Creation of STP most frequently requested by other organizations including those from adjacent sectors - and such organizations account for about 30% of the total number of all organizations that request geological STP - takes on special significance in current economic situation in Russia.

 

Revealing and research of such STP created within the Ministry's Geological Survey is carried out using, amongst other mechanisms, automatized system of analysis of STP request frequency, which is currently being used in VIEMS.

 

In addition to its function of supporting managerial decision-making to coordinate geological research, this system helps get lists of chiefs of scientific-and-technical research ranged according to the number of requests for the research results.

 

Upon the results of scientific-and-technical research, it's been revealed that 1990-1999 saw the request for the reports compiled by approximately 10,000 chiefs of the research. Despite the fact that more than 200 organizations submitted their reports, STP from only 50 of them was most frequently requested. Among these 50 organizations, scientific-and-technical institutes (STI) accounted for 50% of the total number of the Ministry's geological STI. The above-mentioned STI are characterized both with high frequency of requests for the results of their research and significant values of such science-metrical indices as documents demand and request ratios and impact factors.

 

While ranging those who carried out the research by the number of requests for their reports within 5-500 request interval, it's been revealed that their number slightly exceeds 500, which is about 5% of the total number of chiefs of scientific-and-technical research in the field of geology and subsoil use. Obviously, these experts who create STP most frequently requested by other organizations including those from adjacent sectors, form the group of the most valuable authors within the Ministry. These authors should be looked after with care and their number should be increased despite all reorganizations of the structure both within the Ministry and the organizations under its authority.