Analysis of the demand for the research results of Russian scientists in the field of biometric methods and means of information security
The paper discusses four stages in developing the concept of information security and also considers the increasing attention in Russia and the world to the issues of information security in information systems and the information and telecommunication networks. It notes the present-day importance of biometric methods and the information security tools in the sphere of the information security ensuring, the importance that is defined, among other things, by a large share of the Russian national standards applicable in the field in comparison with the total number of standards in the field of information security. The author studies results of the analysis of the demand for the research results of Russian scientists in that field on the basis of data on the publication activity and citation of the results of the work Russian scientists reflected in the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI). There is a continuous growth of publications in that area in 2012-2018, when in comparison with the 2009 the publications in the field of information security in 2018 exceeded in more than three times the ten percent share in the number of all publications of Russian scientists. The article also marks the change in the dynamics of demand for these research results in recent years. In contrast to the publication activity, the peak for citation of the results from works of Russian scientists was passed in 2016; in the subsequent two years there was a non-positive tendency of reducing the citation and demand for the results of works in the considered thematic area.