What is the cost of bibliometric games to taxpayers?

The paper shows how editors of hybrid journals, high IF OA-Journals and Low-IF OA-Journals behave in the conditions of the publication race going on under the slogan "Publish or Perish", by launching "bibliometric and citation games

Is sustainable development of scientific systems possible in the neo-liberal agenda?

This paper discusses the evolution of large scientific systems in general and the system of formal scientific communications in particular in the context of their gradual transition to private hands. This in turn results in increased 'phony' research fronts, fueled by the interests of big business, pools of inaccessible hi-impact Anglo-American journals whose authors cite each other (author's citation cartels), and non-transparent global university rankings, which can be manipulate

Benchmarking methodologies used for comparative analysis of scientific and educational systems on the example of central and Eastern European countries

The article basing on the known methodologies of territorial benchmarking (EIS-, GCI-and KA-methodologies), there has been built a series of education, research and innovation scoreboards for Central and Eastern European countries, using simulation calculationsyesBelgorod State Universit

Aggregate ranking of the world's leading universities

The paper presents a methodology for calculating the aggregate global university ranking (Aggregated Global University Ranking, or AGUR), which consists of an automated presentation of the comparable lists of names for different universities from particular global university rankings and a simple procedure of aggregating particular global university rankingsyesBelgorod State Universit

Construction IF-scoring rule within the framework of new generation of metric citations

Basing on the scoring rule approach, there was designed a citation metrics, allowing for not only the number of author’s articles published and their citations but also the impact factors of journals in which the articles were published as well as the impact factors of journals with articles citing the autho

Multicriterial threshold binarization of clustered matrices as exemplified by export sector’s competitiveness of the Subsaharan African economies

The paper offers the methodology of the matrix clustering consisting of multicriteria threshold binarization of the initial matrix of states of objects and clustering the resulting binary matrix into submatrices with different densities of zero and unit elements. Using hand calculation, the methodology was fine-tuned on the export competitiveness indicators of all the Sub-Saharan African countries for the Fresh Food sector of the Trade Competitiveness Map databas

Universal innovation scoreboards on the example of Arab countries of the mediterranean partnership with the European Union: simulation calculations

The paper includes several constructed universal innovation scoreboards on basis EIS, GCI and KA-methodologies for the Arab countries of MEDA and several countries of comparison that allowed to carry out a series of simulation calculations aimed to assist the lagging Arab countries in reaching of target characteristics of more developed countries of comparison. The trend diagnostic chart of competitiveness of the Arab countries of MEDA and four countries of comparison as of 2010 was constructedyesBelgorod State Universit

Lexical-Semantic Analysis of English Phraseological Units with Phytonym Component

This article devoted to the lexical-semantic analysis of English phraseological units with phytonym component. The subject of this paper is a lexical and semantic analysis and characteristics of such phraseological units. Special attention is given to lexical and semantic features of phytonyms functioning. The use of the term “phytonym” is define

English Nouns’ Valency in Terms of Phraseology

This article deals with the analysis of the noun used in the English phraseology as it has the highest phraseological activity. The subject of special attention is a study of phraseological units with a phytonym component. The group of phraseological units with a phytonym component is the most frequently used one. Some phytonyms demonstrate unusual cultural connotations typical to this languag

The focus of the Russian corporate business for sustainable development

The article considers the current state of implementation of the UN global sustainable development goals in the Russian economy. The main problems faced by Russia in forming a national system of indicators of sustainable development in accordance with global indicators are gaps in data and methodology. At the same time, the sustainable development goals become business guidelines for many companie