Controlling of academic researchers and educators in the field of social sciences and humanities in the Russian Federation: pro - and contra
Analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of modern controlling of research practices of academics and educators, whose activities relate to the sphere of social and humanitarian knowledge, the paper concludes that it is necessary to link the system of scientometry with such a phenomenon as «national scientific school». The paper reveals serious problems caused by the formal use of controlling tools, and offers the existing rules and regulations revision for building a system of adequate representation of Russian leading research schools of social science and humanities as well as their leaders who produce advanced ideas, methodological approaches and develop domestic science. The author emphasizes the importance of research practices aimed both «outside», at the development of global science, and «inside», at improving the national scientific system. The importance of social and humanitarian knowledge in the basis of the spiritual and moral potential of the development of the Russian state is explained.