- •What is research? Name different kinds of research. Explain your answer.
- •2. Explain structure of science system in Kazakhstan since the period of its independence (1991) as it changed and transformed.
- •3. Specify distinctions in system of science funding in Kazakhstan before and after 2011 year
- •4) Explain the basic and main requirements to publication in scientific magazines.
- •5. Explain the meaning of an impact-factor, give an example of its calculation.
- •6.Explain the meaning of Hirsh index, give an example.
- •7 Explain classification of patents. Estimate and explain patenting conditions. Give an example.
- •8) The concept of "patent", the receipt of a patent for an invention, utility model, industrial design, the terms of patenting
- •10. Explain what kind of rights for the invention will give patent to you from position of the law on patenting in rk
- •9. Explain how to work with references, using End Note Web?
- •11. Explain by what criteria it is possible to estimate the magazine, using Journal Citation Report?
- •12) Explain the meaning of ethical standards of scientific research, give examples.
- •13. Explain which kind of activity National scientific council provides in rk?
- •14. Explain how to carry out searching of any field of scientific research, using Thomson Reuters. What type of the information can be received?.
- •15 What is iaea (International Atomic Energy Agency)?
- •16. Explain an education system in Kazakhstan, provide the historical review of its development. Compare features of the western and Kazakhstan education.
- •17. Give an assessment to activity of the international funds for science funding.
- •20)Give an assessment to grant system of science funding in Great Britain.
- •21. Compare activity of the international funds Soros and crdf what is the difference between them?
- •22.How to prepare paper for publication in journal with if?
- •23 Give an assessment to work of the international organization intas.
- •24. Explain distinction between the manuscript and the review article. Show the basic structure of research article.
- •25. Give an assessment to work of the International scientific and technological center in rk.
- •26. Give critical evaluation to the Law of rk science.
- •27. Explain distinction in activity of the organizations at mes rk leading scientific activity in Kazakhstan.
- •28)Compare systems of scientists' accreditation in Kazakhstan (before and after 2010) and abroad.
- •29. How it is possible to carry out information search including Hirsh's index by using Thomson Reuters?
- •30. Explain distinctions in process of publication of article in the magazine with an impact-factor and the republican magazine.
- •31 Estimate a concept of scientific research from the point of view of Thomson Reuters.
- •33. Estimate an index of the scientist's publication citing from Scopus position.
- •34. Explain what is Bologna Process. Critically estimate its influence on an education system in rk.
- •35. Give an assessment from the point of view of advantages and shortcomings of reforming of an education system of Kazakhstan during independence.
- •36. Estimate the author's responsibility for the publication and his right.
- •37. Give an assessment to the European framework programme (fp) of researches and technologies development.
- •38.Estimate research activity of the scientist using Scopus.What information can be obtained, give an example.
- •39 Estimate research activity of the scientist, using Web of Science. What information can be obtained, give an example.
- •40. Estimate the system of scientific research financing in rk, being guided by the new Law about rk science.
- •42 Develop searching for the patent investigation.
- •44. Formulate the cover letter for a grant. What are the features of it?
- •45) Create the application for a grant of the international fund. What are the features of it?
5. Explain the meaning of an impact-factor, give an example of its calculation.
Impact factor (IF) is a numerical indicator of the importance of a scientific journal. Since the 1960s, it has been calculated annually by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), which in 1992 was acquired by Thomson Corporation and is now called Thomson Scientific, and is published in the journal Journal Citation Report. In accordance with IF (mainly in other countries, but more recently in Russia), the level of journals is assessed, the quality of the articles published in them, provide financial support to researchers and take employees to work. Impact factor has, though a great, but ambiguously estimated influence on the evaluation of the results of scientific research.
The calculation of the impact factor is based on a three-year period. For example, the impact factor of the magazine in 2014 I2014 is calculated as follows: I2014 = A / B, where: A - is the number of citations during 2014 in journals tracked by the Institute of Scientific Information, articles published in this journal in 2012-2013; B is the number of articles published in this journal in 2012-2013.
There are several nuances in the calculation: the Institute for Scientific Information excludes certain types of articles (messages, letters, errata lists, etc.) from calculations, and for new journals the impact factor is sometimes calculated only for biennia.
6.Explain the meaning of Hirsh index, give an example.
The h-index is an author-level metric that attempts to measure both the productivity and citation impact of the publications of a scientist or scholar. The index is based on the set of the scientist's most cited papers and the number of citations that they have received in other publications. The index can also be applied to the productivity and impact of a scholarly journal as well as a group of scientists, such as a department or university or country. The index was suggested in 2005 by Jorge E. Hirsch, a physicist at UCSD, as a tool for determining theoretical physicists' relative quality and is sometimes called the Hirsch index or Hirsch number.
The definition of the index is that a scholar with an index of h has published h papers each of which has been cited in other papers at least h times. Thus, the h-index reflects both the number of publications and the number of citations per publication. The index is designed to improve upon simpler measures such as the total number of citations or publications. The index works properly only for comparing scientists working in the same field; citation conventions differ widely among different fields.
Formally, if f is the function that corresponds to the number of citations for each publication, we compute the h index as follows. First we order the values of f from the largest to the lowest value. Then, we look for the last position in which f is greater than or equal to the position (we call h this position). For example, if we have a researcher with 5 publications A, B, C, D, and E with 10, 8, 5, 4, and 3 citations, respectively, the h index is equal to 4 because the 4th publication has 4 citations and the 5th has only 3. In contrast, if the same publications have 25, 8, 5, 3, and 3, then the index is 3 because the fourth paper has only 3 citations.
f(A)=10, f(B)=8, f(C)=5, f(D)=4, f(E)=3 → h-index=4
f(A)=25, f(B)=8, f(C)=5, f(D)=3, f(E)=3 → h-index=3