Abstract—The study is based on the idea of introducing the necessary practical, productive component and optimization into the creative process of producing scientific publications. The productivity of a research team is considered as a relative assessment of its publication activity. The problem of distributing tasks among members of the research team in order to maximize labor productivity is formulated both substantively and formally. An appropriate distribution of tasks can be determined by solving an optimization problem. In this problem, the lower limits are formed based on the publication plan for the current state assignment, the upper limits are based on the maximum job load of team members, and the objective function is the ratio of the team’s publication activity assessment to the total number of workload hours. The proposed approach is illustrated by calculations based on accumulated statistics. Calculations based on current criteria for assessing publication activity revealed that the most productive research, according to the assessment scale of the Ministry of Education and Science, will be primarily in the direction of publishing Level I articles from the “White List of Scientific Journals,” while to ensure a high performance indicator for scientific activity according to the current scale of the V.A. Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ICS RAS) has found that preparing presentations for Scopus conferences and publications in Tier IV journals is the most preferable approach. However, recommendations are highly dependent on the allocation of employee time to various tasks. Calculations based on actual data show a significant increase in labor productivity in one of the ICS RAS laboratories as a result of applying the proposed approach.