Accounting of Scientometric Indicators for Management of Scientific Activity

While managing scientific activity, scientometric indicators of scientists are increasingly being taken into account. Usually they are used for solving the following tasks: 1) preliminary screening of candidates for the various competitions for positions or awards; 2) rating and related incentives for the best scientists; 3) preliminary screening of requests for funding scientific projects; 4) evaluation of scientific experience of executors, which is considered as a part of integrated indicator of request quality. The aim of the article is critical analysis of the main scientometric indicators, which are used for evaluation of scientist activity and also revealing methods for detection and neutralization of winding up classic scientometric indicators. Methods of taking into account additional information are revealed, such as number of co-authors, magazine status, scientific experience, contractual quotation, etc. Scientometric pitfalls are determined, which are related to hidden and informal references and errors in list of references. Method of filtration of winding up Hirsch index is described by ways of statistical approximation of distribution of quotations.