Determination of the baseline value of the target of the national project «Science» related to the publication activity of the Russian Federation in priority areas

Abstract

One of the seven target indicators of the National Science Project (NSP) is “The place of the Russian Federation by share in the total number of articles in the areas defined by the priorities of scientific and technological development in publications indexed in international databases”. The purpose of this study was to assess the basic value of this indicator for disciplines related to priority areas, according to the Strategy of scientific and technological development of the Russian Federation. The volumes of publication flows of the Russian Federation in 112 disciplines are compared with a similar indicator of countries ranked fifth in the number of publications in the subject area under consideration, indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (WoS CC). A 5–10 fold lag of the Russian Federation was recorded for the most part of the priority areas identified by the passport of the NSP.