Evaluation of research activities of universities of Ukraine and Belarus: a set of bibliometric indicators and its implementation

TL;DR

This paper introduces a new set of bibliometric indicators to compare research activities of Ukrainian and Belarusian universities, highlighting their sensitivity and normalization advantages over existing ranking metrics.

Contribution

The authors developed and applied a novel set of bibliometric indicators for comparative university research assessment in Ukraine and Belarus.

Findings

Identified leading universities in Ukraine and Belarus.

Demonstrated the sensitivity of one indicator to rapid research activity changes.

Showed the normalization benefits of the proposed indicators across scientific fields.

Abstract

Monitoring bibliometric indicators of University rankings is considered as a subject of a University library activity. In order to fulfill comparative assessment of research activities of the universities of Ukraine and Belarus the authors introduced a set of bibliometric indicators. A comparative assessment of the research activities of corresponding universities was fulfilled; the data on the leading universities are presented. The sensitivity of the one of the indicators to rapid changes of the research activity of universities and the fact that the other one is normalized across the fields of science condition advantage of the proposed set over the one that was used in practice of the corresponding national rankings.