Measuring Excellence in Russia: Highly Cited Papers, Leading Institutions, Patterns of National and International Collaboration

P. 651–662.

Pislyakov V., Shukshina E.

In this study, we aim to discover Russian “centers of excellence” and explore patterns of their collaboration with each other and with foreign partners. Highly cited papers serve as a proxy for “excellence” and co-authored papers as a measure of collaborative efforts. We find that at the moment research institutes (of the Russian Academy of Sciences as well as others) remain the key players, in spite of recent government initiatives to stimulate university science. The contribution of commercial sector to high-impact research is negligible. More than 90% of Russian highly cited papers involve international collaboration, Russian institutions often not playing a dominant role there. Patterns of national (“intra-national”) collaboration differ significantly across different types of organizations, the strongest ties are between three nuclear/particle physics centers. We draw a co-authorship map to visualize collaboration between Russian centers of excellence.

 

Keywords: collaboration, визуализация, научное сотрудничество, highly cited papers, centers of excellence, visualization, высокоцитируемые статьи, центры превосходства

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Proceedings of STI 2012 Montréal. 17th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators

Vol. 2. , Montréal: Science-Metrix; Observatoire des sciences et des technologies, 2012.