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THE DYNAMICS OF THE SCIENCE CENTRICITY OF GOVERNMENT LEGISLATION ACTS IN UKRAINE IN 1991—2023

S.H. BOUBLYK 1
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8463-9981
O.A. MEKH 1
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8550-8641
L.P. BOBROVNYK 2
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7174-8978
1 Dobrov Institute for Scientific and Technological Potential and Science History Studies of the NAS of Ukraine
2 Ukrainian Drahomanov State University, Kyiv, Ukraine

Nauka naukozn. 2023, 4(122): 39—69
https://doi.org/10.15407/sofs2023.04.039 

Section: Vital Problems of Modern Science
Language: Ukrainian
Abstract: The article contains results of an analysis of the science centricity of government legislation acts in Ukraine by legislation branch, covering the period of 1991—2023. This theme is topical due to the necessity of methodical improvements in contextual analyses of government legislation acts for purposes of scientometric studies of their science centricity. The research novelty consists in technical improvements and testing of a scientometric approach to comprehensive analysis of the science centricity of government legislation acts throughout the еra of Ukrainian Independence. The main research methods are scientometric (slang) method for contextual analysis of documents, linguistic-legal and statistical methods. The main sources of statistical data are open online databases displayed on the official web-portal of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine «Legislation of Ukraine». A set of criteria for the inclusion of government legislation acts in the category of R&D-intensive documents was constructed. The Science Centricity Index (SCI) of Legislative Acts was determined; the notions «science centricity of a legislation branch» and «branch feature of legislation act» were introduced. The cyclical nature of the dynamics of SCI was revealed for all the Ukrainian governments existing throughout the еra of Ukrainian Independence (1991—2023), divided for research purposes into two time periods coinciding with the president cadences L. Kravchuk and L. Kuchma (1991—2005), V. Yushchenko, V. Yanukovych and V. Zelenskyi (2005—2023). Methods for approximating the structure of legislation branches were elaborated depending on research objectives. Based on the revealed statistical tendencies, the legislation branches were grouped into priority and conventional ones. The science centricity of government legislation acts was determined to be conditional on the number of R&D-intensive documents in the legislation branch pertaining to education, science, culture. A correlation analysis of negative, uncertain and positive documents (government legislation acts) featuring R&D intensity allowed for outlining historical and individual specifics of the research policy of Ukrainian governments.

Keywords: government legislation acts, Index of Science Centricity of Government, research policy of government, normative and legal integration of legislation branches, R&D intensive document, backbone legislation branch.

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