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Russia’s Scientific Collaboration with the Post-Soviet States: Assessment on Web of Science Publications

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This article explores the state and dynamics of scientific collaboration between Russia and the states of the former Soviet Union except for the Baltic countries, by studying the publication activity of researchers with regard to their joint scientific articles indexed in the Web of Science. Statistical data on the number of bilateral joint publications by authors from the Russian Federation and the above-mentioned FSU countries for 2000–2017 were analyzed, as was the distribution of these publications by years, research areas, and main sponsors and organizations with which the authors were affiliated. Four groups of countries were identified demonstrating the dynamics of the development of research and publication collaboration with Russia that can be defined as actively growing, positive, stagnating, or collapsing. The key research areas of Russia’s scientific collaboration with the post-Soviet states as a whole and with each of them separately were established as were the organizations with which most authors of joint articles are affiliated, the main areas of collaborative research, and their principal sources of funding. Using the indicators of scientific citation, we assess the comparative demand of the scientific community for joint publications broken into partner countries and key research areas. The significant role of universities in maintaining scientific collaboration in unfavorable political and economic conditions was shown.

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  1. The distribution is presented for publications with the specified research direction, the share of which is 99.94% of the total number of publications for the period under review.

  2. The total number of scientific publications indexed in the WoS Core Collection in the studied period exceeds the maximum limit for analysis of 100 000. Because of this, some publications may remain unaccounted for, and not all publications may be displayed in the registered publications.

  3. It would be logical to expect that with a constant ratio between the numbers of published works of different scientific significance the Hirsch index would be increasing with an increase in the total number of published articles. However, there is no reason to believe that this dependence will be linear. Thus, under an equal scientific value of works by authors from two different countries, the index value will be higher for a country with a larger total number of publications, but it will not be possible to compare these values directly, unless the country with a greater number of articles has an equal or lower index value.

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Aleksander Aleksandrovich Kravtsov, PhD (Econ.), is a Senior Researcher of the Primakov National Research Institute of the World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences.

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Kravtsov, A.A. Russia’s Scientific Collaboration with the Post-Soviet States: Assessment on Web of Science Publications. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 89, 351–369 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331619040051

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Keywords:

  • international scientific collaboration
  • joint publications
  • international publications
  • post-Soviet states
  • CIS
  • Web of Science
  • scientific citation
  • Hirsch index.