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Measuring excellence in R ussia: Highly cited papers, leading institutions, patterns of national and international collaboration
Author(s) -
Pislyakov Vladimir,
Shukshina Elena
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of the association for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.903
H-Index - 145
eISSN - 2330-1643
pISSN - 2330-1635
DOI - 10.1002/asi.23093
Subject(s) - excellence , political science , general partnership , german , proxy (statistics) , strategic partnership , library science , government (linguistics) , public relations , public administration , computer science , geography , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology , machine learning , law
In this study, we discover R ussian “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 coauthored papers as a measure of collaborative efforts. We find that currently research institutes (of the R ussian Academy of Sciences as well as others) remain the key players despite recent government initiatives to stimulate university science. The contribution of the commercial sector to high‐impact research is negligible. More than 90% of R ussian highly cited papers involve international collaboration, and R ussian institutions often do not play a dominant role. Partnership with U.S. , German, U.K. , and French scientists increases markedly the probability of a R ussian paper becoming highly cited. Patterns of national (“intranational”) collaboration in world‐class research differ significantly across different types of organizations; the strongest ties are between three nuclear/particle physics centers. Finally, we draw a coauthorship map to visualize collaboration between R ussian centers of excellence.