The article is devoted to a fragment of history of Lithuanian science – to investigations of scientific schools in various branches of science at Vilnius University in 1980–2000 years. The paper submits for consideration a phenomenon of research school and its social-communicative model, was used for identification of scientific schools in Lithuania; bibliometrical methods: analysis of dissertations, research papers and citations, used for its realization. The results of investigations and papers, dealing with them, are given. The analyzed results revealed, that science of Lithuania had lost important possibility for improving of the management of scientific activities, prestige and populiarization of Lithuanian science trend of scientific investigations, when the investigations of scientific schools were stopped. Article in English