Publication activity: evaluating the role of material stimulation

The article looks into the interdependence between material stimulation and publishing activities of academic staff at the medical educational institution. The authors analyzed the data on academic publications by research staff of the medical university for three years. In order to evaluate the scope of the academic product original method was developed for indicator normalization depending on the type of academic product and its quality considering impact-factor and publishing house presenting the result of the research. Direct dependence between the quantity of prepared academic products and the salary size at the department. The research also found no connection between “salary” component in the unit of academic product and the size of salary at the department. Therefore one can make a conclusion on insufficiency of purely material stimulation of publishing activities and the need for identifying other factors influencing the development of academic products by researchers. Article materials can serve as the basis for creating methods of evaluating publishing activities of university academic and teaching staff.