THE MODERN STATE OF PUBLISHING OF CHINGHIZ AITMATOV’S WORKS IN RUSSIA

Abstract

The matter of this article is the assessment of publishing of a particular work of an author. Special attention is given to the use of bibliometric methods for assessment of the modern book publishing state in Russia. The researcher provides recommendations about the number and types of metrics, the usage of which is demonstrated on an example of a document flow of a Kyrgyz author Chinghiz Aitmatov’s works. The assessment includes printed media from 2010 to 2020 and encompasses analyses of different metrics such as the number of distinct titles for each year, their distribution between publishers, editions and titles of literary works selected. The conducted study is interdisciplinary, and the results have applications to publication planning and literature bibliography. Research methods presented in this article may be utilized for an information resources assessment of fiction by literary researchers and librarians. The use of bibliometric analysis in a study of fiction literature works of a single author has proven to be effective for a contemporary book publishing state assessment.