METHOD OF REVEALING CREATIVE PERSONS IN SCIENTIFIC TEAM

Abstract

An approach is developed to quantify the creativity of scientific and pedagogical staff using the Russian Science Citation Index in terms of their professional performance, including scientometric indicators. The problems of conducting surveys and testing large audiences of respondents are analyzed. Variants of possible criteria and indicators used to assess employees’ professional activities, including identifying their creative contribution to the collective indicator, are considered. The concept of intellectual products of educational and scientific institutions is defined, since their creation, development and publication are one of the requirements for employees. The article shows the interrelation of the respondents’ personal intellectual abilities, including creative ones, and their contribution to the institution scientific potential. The authors substantiate that it is advisable for faculty members to use such categories as educational, methodological, scientific activities, advanced training. The interrelation of distributing the employees’ contribution to the institution scientific potential with the Gauss law is considered. The authors propose to apply the Pareto principle, according to which “20% of efforts give 80% of the result, and the remaining 80% of efforts is only 20% of the result” to assess the creativity level. About a quarter of the employees are proven to produce about three-quarters of the entire intellectual potential of the university or a scientific institution. A threshold equal to 0.44 is justified, according to which the Pareto principle is implemented when evaluating each employee’s contribution. The developed analytical apparatus and illustrative material revealing the essence of the developed method are presented. Conclusions are drawn and directions for future research are outlined.