Questions concerning the economic grounds for ranking scientific-research studies in the field of hydraulic construction

Abstract

Experience accumulated in the Soviet Union and abroad relative to the solution of speciRc problems in the Reid of technical progress has demonstrated that the greatest success is achieved by concentrating efforts and facilities to conduct scientiRc-research studies in the most important directions.Problems associated with the unification of methods of selecting scientiRc-research studies and the economic basis for the grouping (ranking) of these studies with respect to their national-economic significance are rather widely discussed in the literature, which sheds light on problems of the scientific knowledge. The methodological principles proposed for the selection of subject matter are quite different. On only one principle are the overwhelming majority of authors [1][2][3][4]7] in agreement: quantitative assessment of the individual parameters (indicators) of the scientiRc-research study must be made by the method of expert evaluation. The principle of conversion from qualitative to quantitative indicators via rating indices, which make it possible to allow for a variety of factors, is assumed to be the basis of this method.