Received 28.03.2023, Revised 23.06.2023, Accepted 25.07.2023

Decision-making support system for determining the fitness of scientific and educational activity objects to scientific and educational fields and specialties

Oleksandr Melnykov

The task of assigning the object of scientific and educational activity (teacher, department, student group, etc.) to a certain scientific and educational field of knowledge or specialty is considered. It is noted that solving this problem is important during the accreditation of educational programs, when choosing a reviewer for a scientific article or a student competitive scientific paper, sometimes - when choosing a supervisor for a qualification work, etc. The task of creating an information system (decision-making support system) was set and solved, which would contribute to the formation of performance indicators and check the compliance of these indicators with the fields of educational activity or scientific specialties. At the same time, the list of results of the object's activity can be contained in scientific publications, in keywords used by the scientist to describe his scientific interests, or in the topics of qualifying student papers. The main information resources are the database of categorized scientific publications from the Dimensions system and information about scientists in the Google Scholar system. The classification systems ANZSRC-2008, ANZSRC-2020, ISCED-F and the standard adopted in Ukraine are used. Examples of the work of the developed system are described, the calculation of indicators according to various formulas (absolute values of the number of occurrences found; the share of each value in relation to the sum of all indicators of the object under study; the frequency of entry into the thematic collection for each field or specialty; the share of each frequency of entry to the sum of all particles of the object under study); analysis of the results of calculations both in each position (keyword pair or scientific publication) of the researched object, and the general indicator (which, in turn, can be calculated either as an arithmetic average or as a sum of values); "reduction" of the results ("cutting off the tails") either by the minimum level or by the maximum number of positions, with the possibility of normalizing the total (bringing the sum to one); translation of the distribution by branches and specialties of the ANZSRC to the ISCED-F table or to the standard adopted in Ukraine; calculation of indicators for the entire group of objects and ranking of objects in this group by the chosen industry or specialty

scientific and educational activity, categorization, ranking, Google Scholar, Dimensions, ANZSRC, ISCED-F, field of knowledge, specialty
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Melnykov, O. (2023). Decision-making support system for determining the fitness of scientific and educational activity objects to scientific and educational fields and specialties. Information Technologies and Computer Engineering, 20(2), 109-116. https://doi.org/10.31649/1999-9941-2023-57-2-109-116

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