A. V. Brushlinsky: The Attempt of Scientometric Analysis of Scientific Creativity

The article is devoted to the scientometric analysis of the scientific creativity of the prominent Russian psychologist A.V. Brushlinsky. A quantitative analysis of the corpus of A.V. Brushlinsky’s complete bibliography was carried out., divided into types of publications. The dynamics of his publication activity, the number and composition of co-authors have been established. Thematic analysis made it possible to identify the most frequent psychological terms and key phrases by periods of scientific creativity. The dynamics of citations of the scientist’s works was also examined, the most cited publications were identified, and a classification of citing publications was carried out according to institutional and content characteristics. Based on the results of the study, it was concluded that the used set of scientometric methods and procedures made it possible to supplement the scientific biography of A.V. Brushlinsky with quantitative indicators of his activity and, thus, can be recommended for a comparative analysis of the work of individual scientists.