LEADING RUSSIAN SCHOLARS IN THE REALM OF GENERAL AND SPECIAL PSYCHOLOGY AND PEDAGOGY: BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF PUBLISHING ACTIVITY AND CITATION
The issue of rationality of using the methods of bibliometry (science metrics, statistics, and mathematics) while comparing productivity and scientific authority of specialists in pedagogy and psychology is a debatable one: there are active partisans and unwearying opponents of such digitalization of analysis of creative scientific activity.The article presents the materials of a bibliometric analysis of publishing activity and citation of well known modern pedagogues and psychologists on the basis of the data of the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI). The authors compare scholars’ ratings based on the number of publications, the number of citations and the Hirsch index (h - index). The article singles out the factors facilitating active citation and a high h - index: high scholarly reputation of the corresponding journals and publishers, belonging to actively developing scientific schools, and work at the leading universities and academic research institutes.The materials presented in the article do not only reflect the scientific contribution of the leading specialists but also show methodological and paradigmatic tendencies of development of the Russian science on the whole. Specifically, it has been found that the scholarly rating scores of the psychologists, as a rule, are higher than those of the pedagogues. It is also interesting that the high publishing activity and citation are typical of the scholars working in the sphere of special psychology and pedagogy. Science - metrical ratings may be calculated not only for concrete scholars but for research teams or scientific institutions as well. Thus, the materials under consideration show that the absolute majority of the specialists with a high h - index work at academic institutes and leading metropolitan universities (Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Education, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Saint Petersburg State University, Moscow State Pedagogical University, Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, etc.).The materials of the article can be used while discussing the criteria of effective scholarly activity of university faculty.