From JINR Annual Report

The activities of our scientific centre are huge and diverse. The precise work of the Press Office, the pages of JINR magazines and newspapers reflect the main events, introduce guests and new projects. But not all events in departments become an informational occasion for publications, many of them are most often mentioned only in the Annual Report, as part of digital indicators. Only in this final multi-page document is the work of services and departments visible that annually provide new opportunities for each of the Institute's employees.

Publishing Department

In 2024, 63 titles of publications and 38 titles of office materials were issued in the Publishing Department. Service materials from 2024 are produced in an updated design.

Theses of reports and papers of the 30th International Seminar on Interaction of Neutrons with Nuclei ISINN-30 (Sharm el-Sheikh, 14-18 April, 2024), materials of the International Conference "Current issues of radiation biology. Modification of radiation-induced effects" (Dubna, 16-18 October, 2024), collections of annotations from the 74th International Conference "Core-2024" (Dubna, 1-5 July, 2024) and the International Conference "Mathematical modeling and computational physics" (MMCP 2024) (Yerevan, 21-25 October, 2024) were published as electronic publications.

Among the books published in 2024, it is worth stating the following: V.I.Komarov "Physics among friends and colleagues", M.V.Chizhov "Weak interactions of elementary particles", "Leonard Malov: to the 85th anniversary of birth", "Gary Efimov: to the 90th anniversary of birth", "Department of nuclear spectroscopy and radiochemistry. 1958-2005: memoirs, documents, photographs" (author-compiler Ts. Vylov), A.O.Alekseev, T.V.Alekseeva, A.N.Afanasieva and others, "Astrobiology" (collective monograph edited by A.Yu.Rozanov, E.A.Saprykin), V.A.Bednyakov "Baikal-GVD project at JINR from 2013 to 2023".

The UC textbook "Introduction to experimental nuclear physics and nuclear electronics" (I.Vankov, D.Kamanin, Yu.Panebrattsev) in three volumes went out of print.

JINR annual reports for 2023, as well as JINR report for the past seven-year period "Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. 2017-2023: summary of scientific achievements and research infrastructure development" were published in Russian and English.

A collection of poems by the outstanding physicist, the first director of JINR D.I.Blokhintsev was published. On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the birth of Academician A.N.Sisakyan, the second edition of the collection of his poems "Smile of thought" was published.

Work has started on the new scientific electronic journal Natural Science Review. The magazine logo, cover design, curtains have been developed and 7 articles included in the first issue of the magazine have been edited.

In 2024, 6 issues of the journal "Physics of elementary particles and the atomic nucleus", including 237 articles, were published. The proceedings of the International Meeting "Dimuon Physics at LHC" (Dubna, 23-24 June, 2022) were published in Issue 1. Issue 3 contains the proceedings of the 10th International Conference "Distributed computing and grid technologies in science and education" (Dubna, 3-7 July, 2023). Issue 4 includes materials from the 25th International Baldin Seminar on High Energy Physics "Relativistic nuclear physics and quantum chromodynamics" (Dubna, 18-23 September, 2023). Issue 6 contains proceedings of the 35th International Meeting on High Energy Physics "From quarks to galaxies: clearing the dark sides" (Protvino, 28 November - 1 December, 2023). 6 issues of the journal "Particles and nuclei, letters", containing 203 articles, were published. The papers of the 28th International Conference on Charged Particle Accelerators (RuPAC'23) (Novosibirsk, 11-15 September, 2023) were published in Issue 3. Issue 4 contains materials from the 27th International Conference of Young Scientists and Specialists (AYSS-2023) (Dubna, 30 October - 3 November, 2023).

The newsletter "JINR news" and the JINR weekly "Dubna: Science, Commonwealth, Progress" are published.

As part of the exchange of scientific publications, JINR publications were sent to organizations cooperating with the Institute from around the world: JINR preprints and messages, the newsletter "JINR news", JINR annual reports, Review of Particles & Nuclei and the journal "Particles and nuclei, letters".

196 articles containing the results of the investigations of Dubna scientists were sent to the editorial offices of journals, to various conferences, symposia, meetings and schools held both in JINR Member States and in other countries. Articles of JINR employees were sent to the journals "Nuclear physics", "Izvestia of the Russian Academy of Sciences", "Instruments and experimental techniques", "Nuclear physics and engineering", "Crystallography", "Surface. X-ray, synchrotron and neutron investigations", others.

Periodicals and non-periodicals published at JINR in the database of the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI) were submitted on the platform of the electronic library system of the Scientific Electronic Library.

The publishing department carried out orders for printing photographs, as well as posters - poster reports of the Institute employees for presentation at scientific forums. For conferences and meetings, information materials were printed - programmes, notebooks, badges, diplomas and certificates.

At the request of laboratories and other departments of JINR, binding, copying and scanning of scientific, technological and engineering documentation were carried out. More than 120 thousand different forms were printed.

The employees of the Publishing Department continued to master the technology of making hardcover books. The equipment for this multi-operation process (a roofing machine, a device for inserting a book unit into a binding cover and a press-barbing machine) was purchased in 2023. In 2024, 3 hardcover editions were published.

A new equipment - the Konica Minolta Accurio Press 2100 monochrome printing system was purchased. This machine is designed to print black and white products, it will replace the obsolete and outdated Czechoslovak offset printing presses.

Science and Technology Library

In 2024, the number of readers of the Science and Technology Library was 1602 people. There is an electronic system for registering the issuance and return of literature. The amount of literature issued is 3142 copies. As of 1 January, 2025, the library fund amounted to 429,660 copies, of which 195,489 - in foreign languages.

At the request of readers, 132 publications were received by interlibrary loan, 15 applications from other libraries were completed. For all sources of acquisition, 1,033 copies of books, periodicals, preprints, theses and abstracts were received, 11 of them - in foreign languages. All received publications were recorded in the central catalog, catalogs of the branch, as well as in the automated information and library system Absotheque. 100 issues of express bulletins "Books", "Articles", "Preprints" with information on 4156 titles were published. Electronic versions of the bulletins are available on the STL website in the section "New additions" and are sent by e-mail. You can subscribe in the section "Services" on the STL website: http://ntb.jinr.ru/ntb_mail/newslist.html.

For the service of Chief Scientific Secretary, bibliographic lists of publications of JINR staff members were compiled weekly with annotations and links to the full texts of publications. Exhibitions of new receipts of books, preprints, periodicals, theses and abstracts were regularly updated. They presented 639 editions. 10 thematic exhibitions were organized, at which 610 publications were presented.

Electronic catalogs of journals, articles, preprints, books, theses and abstracts are available at: http://lib.jinr.ru:8080/OpacUnicode/index.php?url=/. In the electronic catalog, readers can order the necessary literature through their personal account, as well as view their readers' forms.

"Bibliographic index of the papers of JINR employees for 2023" (1722 entries) was prepared by the Science and Technology Library and issued by the Publishing Department. An electronic version of the index with links to the full texts of publications is available on the STL website (section "Services"). The JINR employee work database is available on the Internet through electronic catalogs.

3 biobibliographic lists were prepared. 2718 preprints, monographs, conference materials, JINR annual reports were scanned and posted in the electronic catalog.

58 titles of periodicals were received by Russian subscription.

Thanks to the National Electronic Subscription of the RCSI, JINR employees received electronic access to the journals of such publishers as Wiley, American Physical Society, American Mathematical Society, Nature, Science journals, journals and books of Springer Publishing House, to the Questel database, to the EBSCO book collection, to journals of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Test access to IEEE Electronic Library (IEL) resources was opened.

Within the framework of the project "History of JINR and Dubna on the pages of books, magazines and central newspapers", 119 new bibliographic descriptions were introduced. The information retrieval system "Literature on JINR scientists" (includes 1083 entries) is available for users in the section of the STL website "Publications on JINR".

In 2024, the Automated Information and Library System Absotheque introduced: books - 350 titles, magazines - 1090 issues, preprints - 313 titles, theses and abstracts - 123, book articles - 556 and journal articles - 3785 titles.

As of 1 January, 2025, the number of bibliographic descriptions in the AILS Absotheque was 356,648 records.

At the request of JINR Directorate, inquiries were made and statistical tables were compiled on indicators of the publication activity of JINR as a whole, as well as together with scientists from other countries and organizations on the databases Web of Science, Scopus, RSCI.

Publication activity of JINR employees

According to the Scopus international database as of 22 January, 2025, the indicators for 2024 are the following:

• total publications: 1401 (includes collaborative publications without JINR affiliation but belonging to JINR);
• total citations: 1,434;
• average number of citations per document: 1.02;
• Hirsch index: 13.

Grants

In 2024, the employees of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research received financial support from the Russian Science Foundation (RSF) and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation for the implementation of a number of scientific projects.

The Russian Science Foundation funded JINR research projects in the following competitions: "Implementation of basic scientific research and exploratory scientific research by individual scientific groups" (7 projects), "Implementation of basic scientific research and exploratory scientific research by small individual scientific groups" (7 projects), " Implementation of basic scientific research and exploratory scientific research by international scientific staffs" - DFG (Germany), VAST (Vietnam) and BRFFI (Belarus) (1 project), " Implementation of initiative research by young scientists" (3 projects), "Implementation of research by scientific groups under the supervision of young scientists" (2 projects).

The Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation financed the project of FLNP "Development and construction of a component of experimental stations based on pulsed or permanent neutron sources".

Personnel

The JINR staff as of 1 January, 2025, amounted to 5047 people (without temporary staff members).

JINR employs: Academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences V.A.Matveev, I.N.Meshkov, Yu.Ts.Oganessian, G.V.Trubnikov, B.Yu.Sharkov, A.Yu.Rozanov (part-time), Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences V.L.Aksenov, A.V.Belushkin, L.V.Grigorenko, D.I.Kazakov, V.D.Kekelidze, E.A.Krasavin, G.D.Shirkov, a full member of the Academy of Sciences of Mongolia O.Chuluunbaatar, as well as 35 professors, 25 associate professors, 214 doctors of sciences, 623 candidates of sciences.

In 2024, 510 people were hired at JINR, 533 people were dismissed during this period due to the end of their term of work and for other reasons.

Awarding

In 2024, JINR employees were awarded for their fruitful work at JINR and for international cooperation, as well as on the 300th anniversary of the founding of the Russian Academy of Sciences:

• state awards of the Russian Federation: Order of St. Alexander Nevsky - 1 employee, Order of Friendship - 1, Order of Honor - 1, Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" I degree - 1, Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II degree - 3, Zhukov Medal - 1;
• awards of the President of the Russian Federation: Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation - 1, Letter of Thanks of the President of the Russian Federation - 1;
• awards of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Jubilee Medal "300 years of the Russian Academy of Sciences" - 24, prize named after V.I.Veksler - 3;
• awards of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia: Gratitude of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation - 10, 8 employees were awarded the title "Honorary Worker of Science and High Technologies of the Russian Federation", Certificate of Honor of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation - 10;
• Rosatom State Corporation awards: Badge of Honor "E.P.Slavsky" - 1, Badge of Honor "Academician A.P.Aleksandrov" - 1, Badge of Honor "Academician I.V.Kurchatov" II degree - 1, Badge of Honor "Academician I.V.Kurchatov" IV degree - 4, Badge of Honor "For contribution to the development of the nuclear industry" I degree - 1, Badge of Honor "For contribution to the development of the nuclear industry" II degree - 7, Badge of Honor "Honorary Builder of the Nuclear Industry" - 1, Certificate of Honor of Rosatom State Corporation - 15, Gratitude of Director General of Rosatom State Corporation - 9;
• awards of the Moscow Region: Letter of Thanks from the Governor of the Moscow Region - 1, Certificate of Honor of the Moscow Regional Duma - 3, Letter of Thanks from the Moscow Regional Duma - 3, Certificate of Honor of the Ministry of Investment, Industry and Science of the Moscow Region - 3, Letter of Thanks from the Minister of the Construction Complex of the Moscow Region - 2;
• Dubna city district awards: Honorary Diploma of Head of Dubna city district - 47, Gratitude of Head of Dubna city district - 20, Honorary Diploma of the Council of Deputies of Dubna city district - 36, Gratitude of the Council of Deputies of Dubna city district - 12;
• JINR awards: JINR Honorary Diploma - 5, JINR Certificate of Honor - 59, JINR Letter of Thanks - 59, the title "JINR Honorary Employee" was awarded to 11 employees.

2 employees were awarded Certificate of Honor of the State Committee for Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus, the Badge "Honorary Donor of Russia" - 1.

A total of 370 JINR employees were awarded.

Article prepared by Maria KARPOVA