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Research performance of RAS institutions and Russian universities: A comparative bibliometric analysis

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Recent years have witnessed an ongoing debate in periodicals and on the Web about the quality and productivity of research carried out by different Russian organizations. Much criticism has been aimed at academic science, which is increasingly often opposed to university science. This article attempts to evaluate the contribution of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) and Russian universities on the basis of a bibliometric analysis of the 2000–2009 publications included into the Thomson Reuters Web of Science and Essential Science Indicators.

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  1. Yu. V. Mokhnacheva
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Original Russian Text © Yu.V. Mokhnacheva, T.N. Kharybina, 2011, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2011, Vol. 81, No. 12, pp. 1065–1070.

The authors work at the RAS Library for Natural Sciences, RAS Pushchino Research Center. Yuliya Valer’evna Mokhnacheva, Cand. Sci. (Ed.), is a senior researcher and acting head of a sector. Tat’yana Nikolaevna Kharybina is a senior researcher and head of the Central Library, RAS Pushchino Research Center.

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Mokhnacheva, Y.V., Kharybina, T.N. Research performance of RAS institutions and Russian universities: A comparative bibliometric analysis. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 81, 569–574 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331611060104

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