Summary: | The article analyses results of a national massif of publications on social sciences, indexed in Web of Science and Scopus data bases. There were discrepancies revealed between structures of global and national publication flows, multidirectionality in forming vectors of research agenda in Russia and in the world. The probability of reaching rates of publication activity in 2015, set by the President's Decree, representatives of majority of sociological disciplines is estimated as exceptionally low. It is recommended to update the research agenda of domestic scientists in accordance with international trends in developing scientific knowledge. It is suggested to use international bibliometric data bases to identify current trends on the basis of a trend with «medicination» of sociological research.
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