Comparative Analysis of Russia's and China's Recent Approaches to Assessment of Scientific Work Results
The article deals with issues of assessing results of scientific work, which is the sphere of scientometrics' professional competence. The author observes China's recent practice on the subject, especially innovations, including the denial of international citation indices' supremacy. National peculiarities of assessing scientific work results in Russia are also analyzed in the article, comparing stances taken by the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education as well as by the Russian Academy of Sciences on the matter. The author highlights various common traits and distinctions between the approaches practiced by Russia and China. The importance of creating a Russian scientometric system, which would provide a better protection for the national sovereignty and security, is also noted here.