Introduction.The ability to build a scienceintensive economy in Ukraine depends on the implementation of strategic approaches to the formation and implementation of a unified government science and technology policy. One of the main conditions for the implementation of effective government policy is to amend, in terms of qual ity and quantity, the applicable laws and regulations with documents of scholarly research focus.Problem Statement. АActual task is to assess the sciencecentric orientation of legislative acts as a quantita tive criterion of "knowledge intensity" of the national legislation.Purpose. To obtain scientometric evaluation of sciencecentric orientation of the national legislative acts.
Materials and Methods.The main methods of research are as follows: the scientometric (slang) method for the analysis of texts of legal acts and the statistical methods for structuring and comparative analysis of legisla tive acts as statistical units.Results. A survey of the statistical base of legislative acts of the supreme government bodies in 1992-2018 has revealed inconsistency in the managerial decisions of the top government authorities. In addition, there have been established periodic, stable statistical relationships between the intensity of scientific lawmaking and the expenditure on scholarly research and R&D activities. The original scientometric approaches to assessing the sciencecentric orientation of the national legislation have been developed.Conclusions. Within the period of independence, the main problems of public administration regarding sci ence and technology sphere in Ukraine have been as follows: competition for executive powers between the Cabi net of Ministry and the Presidential Administration; the focus of the Cabinet of Ministers on the redistribution of expenditures on science; the absence of strategic (longterm) approaches to the formation and implementation of a single R&D policy at the government level. It is necessary to reform the system of legislation of Ukraine for the sake of its sciencecentric orientation, in particular, because of the urgent need to harmonize it with the legislation of the European Union in the field of science, technology, and innovation.