Analyzing publication activity to explore vectors of institutional scientific cooperation

The author explores one of the aspects of data analysis of the publication activity of scientific institution researchers. In particular, she discusses the possibility of assessing the interest that research centers, research and scientific-production organizations take in the research projects by scientific organizations. For this purpose, the author proposes to use databases of publication activity of researchers as the information source. The author refers to the data on copublishing by partner organizations, which enables to evaluate the interest of these organizations in cooperation on the projects within their specialized focus. To obtain estimates, the statistical approach and multicriteria analysis were applied.