[Digital twins in surgery: achievements and limitations].

Objective: To review the possible options for digital twin technology in surgery, as well as to build a patent and publication landscape for identifying technological and academic leaders of the frontier.

Material And Methods: Scientometric and patent analysis was performed.

Results: Possible options for digital twin technology in surgical practice were reviewed.

[Achieving global academic leadership: an analysis of the highly cited segment of surgery publications].

In the Strategic Academic Leadership Program, the number of publications included in the 1% of the most cited ones in the Web of Science Core Collection database over previous 10 full years is used as an indicator of research potential of universities and scientific centers. The purpose of this study was to analyze the segment of Highly Cited Papers and Hot Papers on surgery using the Essential Science Indicators (ESI) analytical application. According to ESI data, relevant for March 2020, highly cited publications on medicine have formed 2.

[Analysis of the internationalized highly cited segment of national surgery publications].

The internationalized segment of manuscripts on surgery published in top-rated journals indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (WoS CC) was analyzed. Presence of national publications in surgical journals of different quartiles was estimated. It was shown that 59.

[Evaluating justification of choice for priority directions in the field of biomedicine in the national project 'SCIENCE'].

The purpose of the present research was to analyze the validity of the choice for biomedical disciplines fixed by the passport of the national project 'Science' for the following priority of the Strategy for the scientific and technological development of the Russian Federation: 'the transition to personalized medicine, high-tech medical care and health saving technologies ...

[The problems of expertise of biomedical projects and assigning them status of breakthrough and world-class].

There was a sharp increase in the number of scientific fields, research fronts, publications and patents in biomedicine in the last five years, which complicates the work of the experts on the selection of projects for priority funding. The approaches to the identification of perspective directions of research used in the world were examined. An attempt was made of formalization of the concepts of "breakthrough research" and "world level research" in relation to the Russian biomedical projects.