Scientific Journal of KubSAU

The article presents innovative models and methods to diagnose the researcher’s synergic interaction with the scientific community (social mega-environment). It is known that the researcher’s interaction with the social mega-environment has two main directions: scientific collaboration and using the scientific community’s social and cultural potential; the former appears as scientific publications, while the latter appears as scientific citations. It is also known that synergic interaction is the interaction leading to the increase in activity results (according to the “1+1>2” scheme). In the article, the researcher’s synergic interaction is understood as his/her collaboration-based research activity that leads to obtaining the results impossible without this interaction. The theoretical significance of the research results is in the possibility for the further development of the sociology of science, as well as for the further development of the models of the individual’s interaction with the social environment; the practical significance is in the possibility to analyze the factors contributing to the success in the research activity of academic researchers and research teams (i.e. applicable for monitoring the research activity)

The research purpose is identification and justification of the scientific team’s recognition citation-based criteria. Such parameters of the educational environment as modality, latitude, social activity, social coherence, intensity, maturity etc. are assessable on the basis of the primary information about the scientific team’s research activity results. The authors of this article prove that the data about cross-citations within a scientific team is the primary information about the scientific and pedagogical team members’ recognition of their social system (such information is obtainable from modern scientometric databases, e.g. Russian Science Citation Index). The new scientific results of this research are the identified citation-based criteria for the scientific team’s recognition. The theoretical significance of these results is the possibility of using them as a scientific basis for further research in the sociology of science and for the development of the small social systems functioning models; the practical significance is the possibility to analyze the factors for the success of scientific and pedagogical teams’ research activity (i.e. applicability for the research activity monitoring systems). The research methods are: the methods of set, relations and graph theory, the methods of qualimetry, mathematical statistics (including the scree-plot method) and linear. The research methodology is based on the sociological approach (viewing the scientific and pedagogical team as a well-established social system), the qualimetric approach (declaring the necessity for the multicriterial diagnostics of scientific and pedagogical team’s recognition) and the probabilistic and statistical approach (viewing the scientific and pedagogical team’s recognition citation-based diagnostics as a statistic measurement)