On a Modern Philosophy of Evaluating Scientific Publications

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Problems arising in the development of the scientific information environment are considered. Emphasis is on the building of international databases for periodical publications and monographs, evaluation of publications and journals, and objective citation. The activity of the S. P. Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics and the journal Prikladnaya Mekhanika (International Applied Mechanics) in this field is exemplified. Suggestions on how to ensure objective citation in articles are discussed

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On the evolution of the scientific information environment

Guz

2006

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“…6] were widely discussed at that time. Note that issues of citation were detailed in the publications [12,[28][29][30][31][32][33][34], which discuss the evolution of the global scientific information environment. The reason is that "citation indicators become more and more popular and are more and more actively used in various fields to assess scientists' work" [33].…”

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On non-objective citation to scientific publications on mechanics and control systems

Aliev

Larin

2011

The problem of non-objective citation to scientific publications on mechanics and control systems that arose with the advent of the global scientific information environment is discussed. Examples demonstrating the importance of this problem are presented. It is concluded that non-objective citation is not always due to the language barrier Keywords: citation analysis, parametrization of the set of stabilizing controllers, linear quadratic control problemIntroduction. The problem of priority to scientific results is far from new (see the dispute between Gauss and Legendre on the authorship to the least-squares method in [55]). However, the related problem of citation has attracted much attention only in the second half of the 20th century. The ethics of citation and other sociological issues [11, Ch. V, Sec. 6] were widely discussed at that time. Note that issues of citation were detailed in the publications [12,[28][29][30][31][32][33][34], which discuss the evolution of the global scientific information environment. The reason is that "citation indicators become more and more popular and are more and more actively used in various fields to assess scientists' work" [33].Moreover, "…Prof. Eric Thomas, chair of the Research Policy Committee, underlines that since 2008, bibliometric-based indicators will be used for assessing and funding university research. This aspect of using citation indicators affects the basis of funding planning in science and education" [32].In this connection, the problem of objective citation was naturally given particular relevance. This is evidenced by the discussion reviewed in [30] and took place in July, 2007 on the iMechanica academic communications website hosted on a server at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. The discussion was titled Objective Citation-A Proposal from the Timoshenko Institute.This discussion confirmed the following theses formulated in [28]: (i) the problem of non-objective citation exists and is of current importance; (ii) the problem of non-objective citation is a vulnerability of the scientific information environment; (iii) no approaches have yet been developed to ensure objective citation. These theses were illustrated in [28] by two examples that [30] "show how the International Journal of Solids and Structures published (in 2002 and2006) results that are less general than those published in International Applied Mechanics 20 to 35 years ago (1971)(1972)(1973)(1974)(1975)(1976)(1977)(1978)(1979)(1980)(1981)(1982)(1983)(1984)(1985)(1986) and gave no references (citations) to them.These examples are indicative of how the authorship of scientific results is distorted even in the new millennium." This is supported by the publications [15,17,20,24,44,[46][47][48] which give various examples of non-objective citation. Cases of making no references to Rayleigh's classical result and to the more general results are mentioned in [17,44], etc. We will not address these publications here, but instead refer the reader to the websites of the jour...

“…For example, the papers [1,3,6,7] and some others were published in 2005. Modern approaches to the evaluation of publications in periodicals were outlined in [5].…”

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Presentation of the monographs of the S. P. Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics to the scientific community

Guz

Rushchitsky

2006

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This paper presents information on 220 monographs published by scientists of the S. P. Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) and available in the Library of Congress (USA), and on ways (reading rooms and catalog numbers) of familiarizing oneself with them. The Library of Congress Online Catalog makes it possible to obtain information on these monographs via the Internet at any center of science in any country. This allows the scientific community to access the results presented in these monographs and resolves the problem of presenting them to the world's scientific community Introduction. Large-scale fundamental and applied research studies conducted at various centers of science throughout the world might appear to be one of the characteristic features of the now-departed 20th century. The results of these studies were published in numerous scientific and technical periodicals and monographs. Of special interest are monographs written after analysis, understanding, and generalization of scientific results originally published as papers and reports. Such monographs have been issued in various languages, mostly in English, and collected at a number of the world's major libraries.However, science generally, and mechanics specifically, is international by its very nature. After publication, any new scientific result is not only a property of its authors, but also is naturally the subject of a specific research area-it becomes a fragment of this subject in its development. Therefore, scientific activity was always organized so as to make new results available to all of the scientific community. In so doing, many objectives were pursued, of which three are noteworthy:(i) detailed presentation of new results in view of their possible influence on the further development of science, (ii) validation of new results, and (iii) prevention of duplicate research. Monographic issues may be thought of as adequately presented to the world's scientific community and as readily available if scientists in any country can obtain information on these monographs and familiarize themselves with their content with the help of modern information systems. Only when monographs are accessible in this sense, we may say that the findings presented therein are the province of the world's science. In this situation, in particular, submissions of or no references to scientific results that have already been published can no longer be justified by the so-called "inaccessibility" of source materials and can only be considered unethical behavior by representatives of the scientific community.Considering this situation, we have to recognize that presenting main monographs to the scientific community is an urgent task not only for relatively new centers of science, which strive to popularize their findings, but also for the oldest centers of science, which have issued a great many monographs over all the years of their existance. Thus, the said task is also urgent for the S. P. Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics,...