Потенциал аграрного университета: научные школы, наукометрические измерения актуальности исследований, ответы на вызовы времени.

The paper pursues the goal: at a specific object of observation, the scientific school of the regional agrarian university, to consider the prospects in the context of responding to the challenges of the time, characterized by turbulence of world economic relations. Working hypothesis: based on measuring and assessing the potential of the scientific school, to identify the relevance of research, the state and priorities in the scientific support of the agrarian economy. Assets are completed scientific developments, publi-cations based on materials 38 defended dissertations, 49 monographs, 19 educational publications for the period of functioning of the school. Materials published in the pe-riod 2000-2023 in the library systems RePEc and the Russian National Electronic Li-brary Elibrary. The method of content analysis determined the demand for scientific products, the use of resources Publications that aroused the greatest interest among consumers of scientific products (readers) identified sensitive research for the agrari-an economy form the basis for planning scientific research. Topics of dissertation and final qualification works are formed in accordance with the priorities of the socioeco-nomic policy of the region and the scientific and pedagogical activities of the universi-ty. The significance of the research is that the methodology for analyzing the infor-mation of scientometric systems for assessing the potential of scientific schools, choos-ing promising areas of development is proposed and demonstrated. The work is ad-dressed to research and educational organizations, teachers and students of agricul-tural educational institutions, practitioners of the sphere of production, employees of public administration.