The problems associated with the evaluation of world-class competitiveness of Russia's science, as illustrated by clinical medicine

The main vectors for reforming Russia's scientific-technological and innovative spheres, which are reflected in program documents that were adopted in late 2011 and early 2012, are discussed in the article. The authors propose to formalize the concepts that were used in these documents, such as world-class research competence and world-leading science and technology sectors. Using the Field Normalized Citation Score (NCSf) as a bibliometric indicator for the analysis of different research areas of Russia's clinical medicine, the authors show the degree of variance between individual research areas within the same national subject field in terms of their correspondence to world-class excellence. The authors also emphasize the necessity of developing Russia's national methodology for auditing Russian science, which will take its Russian-language segment into account where the world's recognized methodologies are not always adequately applicable.