Scientific journal rinz. Lists of scientific journals rinz
The PhDRu portal has been publishing articles and notes about for almost three years now, which are published without or DOI; they do not have an active editorial board, but, nevertheless, many of them were present not only on the eLIBRARY.RU website, but also in the database (RSCI) . Our project even appeared dedicated to scammers who charge money from graduate students for pseudo-publications.
04/19/2017 Internet edition "Newspaper" a message from Gennady Eremenko was published, general director“Scientific electronic library” eLibrary.Ru, integrated with RSCI, which noted that “more than 300 “junk” journals were excluded from the RSCI”. He announced this at the international conference “International Scientific Publication - 2017: World Practice in Preparation and Promotion of Publications” taking place in Moscow.
Analyzing the practice of low-quality journals, experts identified several criteria by which they can be classified as "garbage":- the number of articles is large or growing rapidly;
- multidisciplinary journal;
- payment for publications, sale of publishing services is required;
- the journal publishes proceedings of correspondence conferences;
- pompous, illiterate descriptions of the mission of the magazines;
- fake reviews
and a number of others characteristic features. Separately, these signs can also occur in "decent" publications, however, the presence of several at once most likely indicates that the journal publishes a stream of articles without reviews and often coexists with “its” dissertation council and even has “its” people in expert advice VAK.
According to Eremenko, out of 6 thousand journals on the RSCI list, about a thousand can be classified as “garbage”, that is, a third of them are now excluded from the RSCI list:
“There are several times more journals that have very conditional peer review. Everyone understands what it is a big problem. Out of 6 thousand journals, God willing, only a thousand have normal peer review,” said Eremenko.
From now on, the compilers of the RSCI intend to monitor the publication activities of journals and collections of conference abstracts. Thus, journals that have existed for at least two years will now be able to be included in the index. Or new magazine must be published by a publishing house that has not proven itself with negative side. RSCI staff also posted recommendations “To help a young scientist: where is the best place to publish your article?”, available at the link: http://elibrary.ru/author_journals.asp And FAQ “Exclusion of journals from the RSCI, retraction of articles and open reviews: questions and answers”: http://elibrary.ru/retraction_faq.asp
If a journal is excluded from the RSCI, a graduate student can no longer include it in the list of publications (non-VAK) in which the provisions of the dissertation research were published. The expert commission of the dissertation council, on the basis of paragraph 25, may reject such publications as not meeting academic requirements. All articles that were published in excluded publications are removed from the researcher’s profile in the RSCI and from the calculation of his RSCI citation index. In the general catalog Library.ru "garbage" publications are preserved. Publications in these journals and citations from them will not be taken into account when calculating the bibliometric indicators of authors and organizations when compiling the ranking of the effectiveness of universities conducted under the auspices of the Ministry of Education and Science, as well as when submitting applications for grants.
The list of excluded journals is available on the eLibrary.RU website in the journal catalog, filter "Excluded from the RSCI": http://elibrary.ru/titles.asp?risc=2&sortorder=0
Speech by the General Director of the scientific electronic library eLIBRARY.RU Eremenko Gennady Olegovich "SCIENCE INDEX - comprehensive solution For scientific organizations on recording the publication activity of employees" at the conference “Scientific publication of international level - 2017: world practice of preparing and promoting publications” about the exclusion of journals from the RSCI
The journal can be posted on the eLIBRARY.RU platform, but not indexed in the RSCI. Links from journals not indexed in the RSCI are also not taken into account when calculating indicators. To be included in the RSCI, a journal must be published for at least two years (have a full set of issues for 2 years on eLIBRARY.RU). Two categories of journals are candidates for exclusion: fake journals (non-scientific) and journals that violate publishing ethics. Correspondence conferences are not included in the RSCI, including in the form of journals.
There is a list for excluding journals from the RSCI, and it is currently being updated. There is another category of journals, which is a category for exclusion; these are journals that violate publishing ethics. Magazines may be of good quality, but the editors decided that they needed to somehow improve their performance. We probably won’t exclude journals right away, but we will continue to work with them, and perhaps we will exclude them from the RSCI for some years. A huge number of some conferences, some collections have proliferated, published without any evaluation by reviewers. Such materials will also not be included in the RSCI.
“I think we did absolutely the right thing by excluding RSCI (Russian index) from our database. scientific citation) 344 scientific journals that raise questions for us. This happened at the conference of the publishing community “International Scientific Publishing - 2017”. Today one “scientist” called me and said: because of this decision, I am now forced to publish not for 100 rubles, but for 500. Indeed, in some journals, market relations between editors and published scientists have completely replaced real science. And it’s all the more offensive to real scientific journals that respect both scientists and their brand. We will ruthlessly exclude such publications if we receive information about such monetary relations. And we have in mind about 700 more scientific journals, the activities of which we intend to understand. I think this will give both editors and scholars pause. It will also have a positive impact on the reputation of the RSCI.”
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Why was the decision made to exclude a group of journals from the RSCI?
The Russian Science Citation Index was created not only as national register publications of Russian scientists, but also as an assessment tool scientific activity. That is, the RSCI has two main tasks: a) collecting information from all sources in a single database about all publications of Russian scientists, and b) calculating statistical indicators for assessing the publication activity of scientists and scientific organizations based on the citation of publications.
The RSCI copes quite successfully with solving the first problem. Now more than 6 thousand Russian journals are indexed there. Total publications of Russian scientists in the database exceeded 11 million, and every year one and a half million new publications are added (of which approximately 800 thousand are publications for the last year, the rest are archival). Of these 800 thousand, approximately 450 thousand are publications in scientific journals, the rest are monographs, articles in collections, conference proceedings, patents, dissertations, etc.
But with the solution to the second problem in last years More and more difficulties arise. This is due to the rapid growth in the number of journals published in Russia, which in words position themselves as peer-reviewed scientific publications, but in reality simply provide paid services on the publication of the author’s works without any peer review. Anything can be published in such a journal, including any anti-scientific nonsense, since there is no input control There is no quality of publications from a scientific point of view. There is no control over the reasonableness and validity of citations in articles. For example, you can easily make at least a hundred references in each article to your previous works or the works of your co-authors, even if they are not thematically related to the content of this work and are not mentioned at all in the text. Increasing your bibliometric indicators in this way is, as they say, a matter of technique.
To combat this problem, the RSCI proposes to use various modifications of indicators, including those taking into account self-citation, citation by co-authors, contract citation, etc., but the methods for calculating them are becoming more and more complex and using them in practice is not always advisable. And not everything can be corrected with indicators alone.
The saddest thing in this story is that the metastases of such unscrupulous practices have begun to affect quite decent journals, the founders of which are universities and scientific organizations. Moreover, many scientists and teachers have already begun to be quite tolerant of publications in such journals. This does not cause any indignation or rejection among their colleagues.
You can easily predict the further development of the situation if you do nothing. The share of non-peer-reviewed publications in the RSCI will increase, which will lead to the fact that the indicators calculated from the RSCI database will no longer be able to be used to evaluate scientific activity, since, due to artificial manipulations, they will no longer reflect the real picture of the scientific significance of scientists and scientific organizations and magazines. As a result, the RSCI will be excluded from all regulatory documents related to the assessment and monitoring of scientific activities. It will be replaced either by the recently formed core of the RSCI, or in general only by international scientific citation databases. Then those who today protest against the exclusion from the RSCI of unscrupulous publications in which they had the imprudence to publish will really have serious problems. After all, many of them have no publications at all in prestigious international journals.
To avoid such a pessimistic scenario, it is necessary to introduce restrictions on the inclusion of non-peer-reviewed publications in the RSCI and exclude journals that have already been included there that do not meet the criteria of scientific and publishing ethics. The fact that this will be done was first announced a year ago at the conference “International Scientific Publishing - 2016: Solving the Problems of Publishing Ethics, Reviewing and Preparation of Publications.” During the year, work was carried out to analyze and evaluate journals indexed in the RSCI for their compliance with generally accepted criteria for a scientific peer-reviewed publication. As a result of this analysis, they were selected, which were recently excluded from the RSCI.
The practice of excluding journals from science citation databases is not new. Journals are excluded from both Web of Science and Scopus. For example, those that do not meet the rules of publishing ethics, artificially inflate their indicators, or are of too low quality have recently been removed from Scopus.
How is the exclusion of journals from the RSCI technically carried out, what happens to the indicators of scientists who published in excluded journals?
Technically, the magazine is not going away. Licensing agreements with publishers are not terminated, moreover, the publisher can, if desired, continue to provide information about new issues. But all articles from excluded journals and citations from them are no longer taken into account when calculating bibliometric indicators in the RSCI. To assess publication activity on the platform, the site now has three different levels:
1) RSCI core. This includes all publications in journals currently indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, Scopus and RSCI (Russian Science Citation Index on the Web of Science platform) databases. In addition, the core will include the best monographs and proceedings of the most respected scientific conferences, selected based on strict peer review. The RSCI core is recommended for assessing the highest quality component of the array of publications by Russian scientists.
2) RSCI. After clearing out unscrupulous publications, this will include only publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals, as well as non-journal publications that meet the requirements of publishing and scientific ethics. Recommended for analyzing publication activity across all scientific directions, including those where the level of domestic research does not yet reach the world level.
3) Scientific digital library. Various publications that are related to scientific activity, but are not scientific in the strict sense of the word, can be additionally posted here, including abstract, popular science, information and socio-political magazines, as well as magazines that cannot be classified as peer-reviewed. These publications do not participate in the statistical assessment of scientific activity in the RSCI.
Accordingly, the main bibliometric indicators (number of publications, number of citations and Hirsch index) are now calculated separately for each category, which makes it possible to compare them and understand the publications in which sources they are formed. All these indicators are presented on the page for analyzing the scientist’s publication activity. In the lists of author publications and citations, you can now also display publications or links separately for each category.
Why couldn’t it have been possible to leave the already loaded issues of excluded journals in the RSCI or to exclude only articles by individual authors who were inflating their indicators?
The logic behind the operation of scientific citation databases is based on the fact that they do not select individual publications. They are physically unable to do this with such input streams of publications. The selection takes place at the level of scientific journals, and the evaluation of individual articles is carried out by the editors of scientific journals. Journals are a kind of distributed specialized centers for examining incoming manuscripts and selecting the highest quality and scientifically significant works for publication. If this most important function of the editorial office of a scientific journal stops working, the entire coherent system of bibliometric assessment in scientific citation databases collapses. Therefore, the global practice is that entire journals are added to the database and no longer indexed, rather than individual articles. It is assumed that if experts have selected a journal for inclusion in indexing, then they trust all publications in this journal, since the editors of the journal guarantee their quality at an acceptable level.
All journals excluded from the RSCI for at this stage, from the very beginning of their publication, carried out their activities with obvious violations of scientific publishing ethics, therefore all their issues were removed from the RSCI. Is this fair? If we analyze the composition of the authors who published articles in journals excluded from the RSCI, it turns out that 80% of them published no more than three articles in these journals, and half - one article at all. If these authors have other publications, then one or two articles will not have much impact on their performance. At the same time, there is a category of authors for whom the exclusion of these journals will be much more noticeable - about 4 thousand scientists have published 10 or more articles in them. There are also anti-heroes here, who have 100 or more publications and several thousand citations in the excluded journals. A detailed analysis of the publication activity of these scientists confirms their use of publications in these journals for the purpose of artificially inflating their indicators. When an author has more than 500 publications in 2016, and these publications already have more than 1,400 citations, and at the same time the core of the RSCI is zero, and the H-index is approaching 70, then this speaks not only of a massive violation of publication ethics, but also in general about the loss of common sense in the pursuit of indicators.
Now let's assume that all these publications would remain in the RSCI and imagine two scientists with a high H-index. The first has published throughout his life in highly rated scientific journals, and his H-index truly reflects his real scientific level. The second one followed the path of least resistance and in a couple of years built up the same H-index for himself through publications in dubious journals and proceedings of correspondence conferences. It turns out that with a formal approach, both of these scientists equally apply for the same positions, titles, bonuses, grants, etc. Is this fair? The interests of which of these scientists should be supported by the RSCI in this situation? It seems to us that the answer is obvious.
How to determine whether a journal is peer-reviewed and whether it will be excluded from the RSCI in the future?
The main criteria by which one can determine whether a journal is peer-reviewed and whether it meets the requirements of the Russian Science Citation Index are given in sufficient detail in. Many similar recommendations can be found on the Internet. First of all, you need to rely on common sense and not fall for dubious advertising that promises everything quickly, cheaply and with guaranteed result. If you still have doubts, ask more experienced colleagues whether this journal is authoritative in your scientific field.
Yes, you can try to retract an article from the journal, revise it and send it to one of the peer-reviewed publications. In this case, it is necessary to indicate that the article was published earlier, but was withdrawn and revised. This will allow you to avoid later problems with text duplication when checking for incorrect borrowing.
Will work continue to clear the RSCI of unscrupulous publications and how?
This work is very important and will certainly continue. According to our estimates, among the six thousand journals indexed in the RSCI, at least 1000 journals do not conduct any review of incoming manuscripts at all, that is, only a third have been excluded from the RSCI so far. Also, numerous correspondence conferences and collective monographs will be excluded from the RSCI - very dubious genres of scientific publications that have recently become widespread in Russia, and in fact are in a fast way publish the article without any peer review.
How will new journals be included in the RSCI now?
Now there will no longer be automatic inclusion of new journals in the RSCI. Each journal will go through an internal evaluation system. If a new journal is created by a reputable publishing house that already has journals in the RSCI, and is not involved in any stories related to violations of publishing ethics, then it will begin to be indexed from the first issue.
If the publishing house is new or there were questions about its previous publications, then the journal may begin to post issues on the website, but they will not be immediately taken into account in the RSCI.
It is possible to significantly reduce the time it takes to consider the inclusion of a journal in the RSCI if the journal provides texts of reviews of them along with descriptions of articles. These reviews will be posted on the article description page. This will not only confirm the fact of reviewing articles, but also evaluate the quality of this review.
Can a journal already indexed in the RSCI switch to a model with open posting of reviews?
Yes it is possible. To do this, the journal publisher must finalize agreements with publication authors and reviewers, obtaining their consent to post reviews in the public domain. What might be the interest of authors and reviewers in this?
First, it may be important for the author, as well as for the journal, to have public evidence of peer review of their work. Secondly, posting reviews can become an incentive, a kind of catalyst for colleagues to discuss the results of their work and search for new directions for further research.
For a reviewer, open reviews are essentially a publication of the results of his hard work. And if the editors choose the option of disclosing information about the reviewer of this article, then this also means respect from colleagues and recognition of his qualifications by the scientific community. Experienced editors know that some reviewers write very interesting and detailed reviews that are useful not only for the author of the manuscript under review. Their publication may provide a new perspective on the interpretation of the results obtained and new approaches to solving the problems raised in the study.
How will the process of posting open reviews be technically organized?
Review texts are posted on the publication description page. Access to them is open to all scientists registered in the Science Index system. Along with the text of the review, the editors provide information about the reviewer (full name and ID of the review author) and the date of the review. The editors of the journal themselves determine whether this information will be publicly available or not.
The editors also decide independently whether all reviews are opened or only the most interesting ones will be shown. If the decision to publish an article was made by the editorial board independently, without the involvement of external experts, then the text of this decision may be provided instead of a review. It is also permitted to publish not the full text of the review, but individual excerpts from it. The review may be adjusted or compiled by the editors from several reviews. In addition, in some cases it may be of interest to publish the authors' responses to reviews.
Scientists registered in the Science Index system can also write their reviews and evaluate the level of this work after its publication. In addition, they are given the opportunity to discuss the results of their work and discuss with the authors of the publication.
How can I retract an article if it has already been published in a journal?
Withdrawal of an article (retraction) is carried out upon an official request from the editors of the journal. In this case, the initiator of retraction can be either the team of authors or the editors themselves. The most common causes of retraction are:
Detection of plagiarism in a publication;
Duplication of an article in several publications;
Detection of falsifications in the work (for example, manipulation of experimental data);
The discovery of serious errors in the work (for example, incorrect interpretation of results), which calls into question its scientific value.
To retract an article, the editors must indicate the reason for retraction (in case of detection of plagiarism, indicating the sources of borrowing), as well as the date of retraction. Examples of retracted articles can be viewed or. Retracted articles and references from them are excluded from the RSCI and are not included in the calculation of indicators.
Also in late XIX century in the USA the first attempts were made to systematize published scientific works and creating their databases. In our country, work in this direction began to be carried out after the end of the Great Patriotic War. Patriotic War in the 50s of the twentieth century. IN modern form The list of scientific publications was compiled in 2006.
RSCI list
RSCI stands for “Russian Science Citation Index”. It is a list of scientific periodicals that have ever cited or published the works of Russian scientists, as well as their colleagues from the countries of the former USSR. The database archives are free to use, publicly available and posted on the website https://elibrary.ru/.
Order publication of an article
First of all, the list of RSCI journals is intended to make it easier for students and scientists to find information that interests them on a particular topic. However, it also performs another important function: by analyzing RSCI journals, you can obtain important statistical data on the number of published works.
List of periodicals from the RSCI core
When the system was just being formed, journals included in the RSCI did not undergo any verification. To be included in the list, the publisher simply had to submit an application to the system administration. This led to the fact that many publications appeared on the list that did not have any significance for science.
In order to facilitate the search for periodicals, the creators of the index set the goal of creating a list of journals within the RSCI that have the most high value. For this publication, they undergo a special examination. It is being carried out jointly with another similar project created by the American company Thomson Reuters. The set of verified publications that are reliable sources of information is called the “core” of the project. https://elibrary.ru/titles.asp?corerisc=checked
Garbage magazines
Garbage publications mean those that publish the works of scientists for money, without proper scientific review. De facto, they charge money without justification. Many go to publish their work in such a publication in order to receive scientific degree, since this requires published work.
Order publication of an article
Since the control over periodicals entering the database is quite weak, such garbage magazines sometimes appear in it. RSCI is working to identify them and exclude them from the list. A list of journals excluded from the RSCI is maintained. A list of all journals, conferences and books excluded from the RSCI can be found at the link: https://elibrary.ru/books.asp?show_option=excluded&booktype=&sortorder=1&order=1
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The database includes publications in a wide variety of areas. Among them:
- RSCI journals in economics. The list contains 2148 such publications https://elibrary.ru/titles.asp.
- RSCI journals on pedagogy and psychology (screen). They are listed in the RSCI 1921 and the pedagogical publication “Psychological Science and Education” is recognized as the most relevant according to the results of the examination.
In addition to these, the index contains publications on many other branches of knowledge.
Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI) is a national information and analytical system that accumulates more than 2 million publications of Russian authors, as well as information on the citation of these publications from more than 2,000 Russian journals. It is intended not only for operational support scientific research with relevant reference and bibliographic information, but it is also a powerful tool that allows you to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of the activities of research organizations, scientists, the level of scientific journals, etc.
Detailed rules for working in this system are presented on the RSCI website: http://elibrary.ru/.
Instructions for authors on working in the SCIENCE INDEX system: http://elibrary.ru/projects/science_index/author_tutorial.asp/.
This instruction intended for authors of scientific publications included in the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI) database. The instructions describe how to register as an author and work in the SCIENCE INDEX information and analytical system, which is an analytical add-on to the RSCI and offers whole line new services for authors, research organizations and scientific publishing houses. The instructions also describe in detail the author's algorithm for correcting and maintaining the list of his publications and citations in the RSCI up to date.
List of journals included in the RSCI by:
In 2005, the Federal Agency for Science and Innovation (Rosnauka) announced a competition "Development of a system statistical analysis Russian science based on data from the Russian Citation Index", which was carried out within the framework of the federal target scientific and technical program "Research and development in priority areas of development of science and technology". In the spring of 2005, having won this competition, the Scientific Electronic Library (SEL) signed with Rosnauka signed a contract and became the lead executor of the project to create the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI). Thus, it began. new period in the history of the electronic library, associated with the comprehensive development of domestic electronic resources for science and education, the systematic promotion of Russian scientific publications on the Internet, the creation of a national bibliographic database of scientific periodicals, the development of tools and services for analytics, scientific and bibliometric research and measurements of scientific activity .
What is a journal citation database or, in other words, a citation index? This is a specialized information product that collects and processes complete bibliographic information about journal articles, annotations and article lists of literature cited in articles. Such a database allows you to find both publications cited in a single article and publications citing this article. Thus, the user can conduct an effective large-scale search of a bibliography covering the entire front of publications on a topic or subject of interest to him. In addition to bibliographic and citation information, the RSCI includes information about the authors of publications and the organizations in which they work. This mechanism makes it possible to integrate publication and citation indicators across the entire vertical of a social institution of science: from a research fellow-author, a structural unit and institution where a circle of authors work, to ministries and departments or entire administrative-geographical regions. This kind of statistical information, in turn, will help to carry out an objective assessment of the activities of various scientific and educational organizations, scientific teams and individual researchers, and aggregate data on journal citations, the so-called impact factors, make it possible to build ratings of periodicals.
The main tasks that the RSCI project solves can be briefly formulated as follows:
creation of a multi-purpose search system for publications of Russian scientists, including at the first stage of development of the project articles from scientific journals (the number of journals is at least 1,500 titles)
development of mechanisms and tools for statistical analysis of domestic science
creation and formation Unified register publications of Russian scientists, an authoritative database that represents the most complete and reliable information about the publication flow of Russian scientists, regardless of the source, time, place and type of publication
Creation effective system navigation in the array of scientific information and providing Russian users with access to full texts publications through the mechanisms of the unified access system.
Why was there a need to create a domestic citation index, not limited to the use of foreign analogues (such as Web of Science by Thomson Scientific or Scopus by Elsevier)? There are several reasons for this:
Unrepresentative representation of Russian scientific periodicals in foreign products. Of the 3,000 Russian scientific journals, only about 150 are represented in foreign databases (i.e., no more than 5%). These are mainly translated magazines. Until now, the overwhelming majority of Russian scientific publications remain “invisible” and inaccessible online. There are both objective and subjective reasons: the language barrier, the level of journals, their accessibility, national characteristics of citation, the local isolation of certain areas of science, and others. We will eliminate a number of these reasons in principle. For example, translation of a journal or at least bibliographic descriptions into English language, publishing a journal in electronic form significantly increases the journal’s chance of being included in the list of indexes in the Web of Science or Scopus databases. This is, of course, important, and we strongly support movement in this direction, but what does this have to do with the scientific level of the journal, with the quality of the articles published in it?
Similar problems are faced not only in Russia, but also in other non-English speaking countries. For example, out of more than 4,000 Chinese scientific journals, only 30 are represented in SCI, i.e. less than 1 percent. To solve the problem of objective quantitative assessment of scientific results, China created its own citation index, the Chinese Science Citation Index, back in 1989, which now covers more than 1,000 leading Chinese journals. Similar projects exist in Japan (Citation Database for Japanese Papers, component national scientific information retrieval system CiNii), Taiwan (Taiwan Humanities Citation Index) and in Europe (for example, the Euro-Factor project).
Difficulty in using foreign databases for statistical analysis. And this is the main task of this project. There are a number of problems here, starting with the fact that the interface is not suitable for this, and ending with serious problems in identifying organizations and authors.
The lack of a full-fledged global search system for Russian scientific journals, including at least tables of contents of journals, not to mention full texts.
The need to stimulate Russian publishing houses, improve the level of journals and their competitiveness. The goal is not to push mediocrity forward by comparing frankly weak journals or science articles between themselves. On the contrary, the RSCI will provide an opportunity for an objective comparison of these journals with the world's best journals. In addition, the inclusion of the journal in the RSCI will contribute to its dissemination throughout the world and, accordingly, increase the citation rate of articles published in it.
Finally, the issue of price and availability of such systems is of no small importance. Unfortunately, the cost of foreign systems, even when subscribed as part of a consortium, is at least 10-20 thousand dollars per year, which for most Russian organizations Simply unacceptable.
Sometimes you have to come across the opinion that a national citation index is unnecessary or even harmful, that it is pointless to support Russian scientific journals, since there are a sufficient number of high-impact foreign journals where Russian scientists can publish their work, that all this will only lead to the isolation of Russian science and its final degradation. In our opinion, scientific journals, search engines, databases and others informational resources and services - all these are elements of the general information infrastructure of science and education in any developed country. It is impossible to develop science and education and bring it to the modern level without developing the information component, the role of which in increasing the efficiency of scientific research is actually only increasing, because new knowledge is born only as a result of understanding the experience already accumulated by mankind. Therefore, the creation of a national citation index reflects the level of development of a nation’s scientific culture, its information technology capabilities and intellectual potential.