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SCIENTOMETRIC STUDY OF THE LEGISLATION

S.G. BOUBLYK
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8463-9981
G.M. Dobrov Institute for Scientific and Technological Potential and Science History Studies of the NAS of Ukraine

Nauka naukozn. 2017, 4(98):  65-83
https://doi.org/10.15407/sofs2017.04.065

Section: Scientometrics
Language: Ukrainian
Abstract: A scientometric study of the Ukrainian legislation over 1991–2016 is made in the context of science and technology policy setting and implementation. Results of the study are obtained by use of slang (classical) method, thematic concentration (linguistic statistical) method, and correlation analysis method. The notion of «science-oriented legislation» is conceptualized, the index of science-oriented legislation for Ukraine is computed for the period of 1991–2016, including by category of legislative act. It is demonstrated that statistical measures of science oriented legislation can be used to find a scientific solution for the problem of consistency between the enforcement of regulations and the change in legislative acts. Economic soundness of the index of science-oriented legislation is confirmed by setting its statistical correlation with the dynamics series of economic indexes of research and development (R&D) intensity: the gross domestic spending on R&D, the budgetary appropriations on R&D, and the share of gross domestic spending on R&D in GDP. The results confirm that scientometric methods can be effectively used in analyses of legislation as part of the scientometric methodology.

Keywords: science and technology activities, public science and technology policy, legislative act, science-oriented legislation, correlation analysis, slang term, index of science-oriented legislation.

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