Analysis of scholarly articles’ publication speed with SciAct CRIS-system

Abstract

One of the most important competitive advantages of researchers / research organizations is their individual visibility in professional community depending on scientific importance of results obtained. Under hard competitive conditions, however, not only results as such are essentially important for the visibility but also the amount of publications reflecting them. This amount depends, amongst other factors, on scholarly journals’ publication speeds. In Russia, an annual amount of publications accounted in the WoS / Scopus is adapted as the main criterion for institutes of the RAS on the state task fulfillment, thus making the speed of research results publishing critically important. The article reflects the results of the statistical analysis of publication speeds of materials for the authors affiliated with the Boreskov Institute of Catalysis (BIC), Siberian Branch of the RAS. The statistical analysis of journal publication speeds is performed with the aid of the CRIS-system SciAct. The system embraces more than 20 modes of scientific activities and accounts journal articles, conferences proceedings, patents, dissertations, etc. It contains profiles of authors, organizations and journals and allows preparing various reports and accounts in one click. With array of more than 8 thousands of BIC articles 1960–2019 in 712 scholarly journals, the authors determined the minimal, maximal and median values of their publication speeds. Results obtained allow recommending journals with median articles’ publication speed of 1–2 months to the staff of physical-chemical research organizations. The approach and its results are useful for research planning.