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Rejection of the Priority of International Science Citation Indices in the Evaluation of Scientific Activity Results in China

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The fundamental changes in the evaluation of the results of scientific activity introduced in modern China are characterized in detail and analyzed. The main change consists in the rejection of the priority of international science citation indices in the evaluation of scientific activity. The specific reasons for the change in China’s attitude to international citation indices are considered, including the lopsided reflection of publications of scientists from different countries in the indices. Significant attention is paid to the Russian angle on these problems. The relevance of assessing the work of scientists by international science citation indices for the Russian scientific community and related state authorities is substantiated. A number of proposals for Russia on improving the system for assessing the results of scientific activity are formulated.

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  1. SCI and SSCI are citation indices included (among others) in the American Web of Science database.

  2. Clarivate Analytics is a multinational information-analytical corporation (United States–Canada–Hong Kong), which has owned the Web of Science global indexing and citation system since 2016 [10].

  3. If a journal falls below a certain level by the number of references in the index of the Web of Science Core Collection it is transferred to the ESCI. If the number of references to a journal continues to decline, then it is removed from WoS.

  4. Resolution of the General Meeting of the RAS on June 22, 2020 On the Main Results of the work of the RAS in 2019 and on the Priority Areas of Its Activity, Meeting of the Presidium of the RAS on June 30, 2020. https://yandex.ru/video/preview/?FilmId=13256439632675458592&reqid=1594036299624720-81305707479959846200130vla10557.

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This paper was written within the framework of the state assignment no. 0003-2019-0001 Scientometric and Bibliometric Analysis of Scientific Directions and Innovative Technologies, Including Models of International and Russian cooperation and the grant 20-07 no. 00014 on the subject Development of Methods for Using Scientometric Data to Solve Goal-Setting Problems and Research Management.

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  1. All-Russian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (VINITI), Russian Academy of Sciences, 125315, Moscow, Russia

    R. S. Giliarevskii & E. V. Melnikova

  2. Moscow State University, 119991, Moscow, Russia

    R. S. Giliarevskii

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Giliarevskii, R.S., Melnikova, E.V. Rejection of the Priority of International Science Citation Indices in the Evaluation of Scientific Activity Results in China. Sci. Tech. Inf. Proc. 47, 194–199 (2020). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0147688220030107

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