e-Science in Russia:
social impacts
Sergey Parinov,
CEMI RAS, SU-HSE
Moscow, Russia
Advanced form
of research
results
depositing
Efficient
scientometrics
in real time
Accurate and realistic
research results
assessment
Driving Forces
• International “Open Access to Research”
movement, euroCRIS activity, ERA ideas
• Russian Government Regulation №284 on
state assessment of research results
• Reforming of Russian Academy of
Sciences
– More transparency
– Right motivations
– Objective assessment of research results
e-Science mechanism
4. Promoting and using of research results,
developing electronic citation network
submitting to journals
3. Integration of IRs,
professional social networking
personal i-robot
5. Accumulating of online statistics,
building of scientometric indexes
for scientists, labs, institutes
2. Mandating of scientists
to deposit all their results in IR
6. Using of online indexes
to assess results of
research and to motivate
researchers
1. Establishing of institutional repositories (IR).
Its registration at Socionet, ROAR, OAI, etc.
Existed research e-Infrastructure at
Socionet (http://socionet.ru/)
• Integration mechanism with inputs as OAIPMH, RSS and other
• Professional information space (navigation
and searching)
• Online workbench to manage series of
materials, personal i-robots, social
networking, IRs, OAI, etc.
• Online statistics from 01.01.2007 and
many types of scientometric indexes (for
authors, departments, organizations, etc.)
e-Science Challenges
• Benefits from online integration of all
research actors (involving journals,
foundations, certification and attestation
services, etc.)
• Accurate and complex assessment of
research performance, impact and financing
(at individual and institutional levels)
• Limitation of current forms of professional
interaction in Sciences in achieving higher
efficiency
New “live” status of
online research materials
• Authors can modify electronic version of their
deposited articles (e.g. in IRs) during all
professional life
• Possible problems with:
– Using of “number of articles” indicator
– Adjusting of citations after deposited articles changed
• We have to create a new model of research
results depositing which will fit this situation
Limitation of current model of
citation in Sciences
• We can not build good indexes of research
results using because of citation model
defects (e.g. lack of quality attributes,
weak standardization, and etc.)
• We have to improve the situation and build
an advanced model of electronic citations
Limitation of a form of research
results publishing/depositing
• Scientific article as a form of research
results depositing has some limitation
preventing of efficient scientometrics (and
efficient research results using ?)
• We have to build an advanced model of
research results online depositing
• We need an explicit form of research result
and a mechanism of its competing for citing
… so e-Science is …
• Working in parallel:
– writing traditional research articles and its
publishing in scientific journals
– online depositing of research results, e.g. in
Research Wiki, that gives efficient scientometrics
• Scientific journals as thematic collections of
selected qualitative research papers
• Research Wiki as overall results of Sciences
cross linked by “smart/alarm” citations and
covered by efficient scientometrics system
Initiatives for euroCRIS
and its members
• We are forming an informal “community of
interests” on new models of research results
depositing, including advanced electronic citation,
contact person - Sergey Parinov
• We are building an international consortium “CRIS
for advanced interactions in Sciences” to apply for
EC and other funding; please contact me, if you
are interested
• euroCRIS could establish a new Task Group
“CRIS and online models of professional
interactions in Sciences”