The Influence of Prioritizing the Publication Activity in Scientists’ Evaluation on the Results of the Science Reform

The paper considers the consequences of focusing the attention of the Ministry of Education and Science only on stimulating the scientists’ publication productivity when assessing the activities of science on the ability of research institutions in the era of digitalizing all components of social development to adequately and timely respond to all sorts of global socio-economic challenges, in particular to the sanctions imposed against Russia. For this purpose, an analysis of their website content in dynamics is given, both reformed sites and those that retained their status after starting the Russian science reform in 2013 using the example of agricultural scientific institutions based on the monitoring carried out in 2017 and 2022. The content of the sites refers to the so-called information scientific and educational resources, the demand for which is also determined on the basis of an extensive survey and questionnaire of businesses in 22 regions of the country, and educational and scientific institutions available on the sites. The trends in both qualitative and quantitative development of these resources are shown, based on their triune role: digitalizing the scientific activity itself with the possibility of effective communication among the scientific community; digitalizing the education system of all layers of the society to stimulate scientific and technological progress; digitalizing the system of transferring scientific and educational knowledge to the economy. Researches show that all groups of scientific organizations have completely ignored the demanded social order in connection with the imposed sanctions on digital tools for introducing scientific innovations into business.