The article aims at revealing the features and approaches in the auditing of public research institutions in Germany and France as leading EU member states. To achieve that goal the authors provide a comparative analysis of the assessment systems of scientific organizations in the countries mentioned. The choice of focusing on Germany and France was made because French and German research institutions had held leading positions in the international ratings of scientific organizations. The study reveals the common features of the evaluation system of scientific organizations in France and Germany, including the predominance of qualitative expertise carried out by international experts over the quantitative ones, based on the measurable indicators, as well as their distinctive features. The analysis raised the question on the main differences between the research evaluation systems in France, Germany and Russia. According to results of the study, it is possible to conclude that research evaluation systems in European countries and Russia have distinct objectives. While in Europe research evaluation system serves as a diagnostic tool in order to give recommendations on how to improve the effectiveness of a scientific organization, in Russia it uses to determine the outsiders, i.e. the research institutions that are lagging behind in comparison with the others in their respective reference groups that had been identified through the science-metric indicators. In conclusion the authors give recommendations on the possibilities of using the strengths of the European research evaluation systems in Russia.

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