The Civilizational Approach and the Study of Civilizations in Library and Scientometric Analysis

The article presents the possibilities of library and scientometric analysis in determining the structure, the­matic coverage, leading scientific institu­tions and educational organizations, au­thors and editorial teams of the scientific field of the study of civilizations and the methodology of the civilizational approach. The contribution of Russian authors in the development of this approach and especially the staff of the Russian Academy of Scien­ces, in particular the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Rus­sian Academy of Sciences, is clarified. A comprehensive study of a particular sub­ject area is carried out on the basis of the eLibrary Scientific Electronic Library tool­kit. In the article considerable attention is paid to a new type of search using artificial intelligence (“neuropoisk†), identifying its advantages and disadvantages, as well as defining the subject area of the “civilization­al approach†using the keyword search. The importance of publications on library sci­ence, bibliography and book studies in the development of this topic is analyzed, the prospects for the use of library and sciento- metric analysis are determined.