International scientific collaboration of post-Soviet countries: a bibliometric analysis

One of the major characteristics research is role and scope international collaboration. Patterns such collaboration are often complex determined not only by pure academic rationale, but also political, economic, geographic cultural factors. The post-Soviet region has several features, which make it a unique unit for analysis scientific Based on bibliometric data period 1993–2018 with 5-year lag, we analyze how patterns countries changed after collapse Soviet Union. Our results show that in observed significantly their collaboration, these changes country-specific. analyzed moved away from each other, choosing own strategy. We observe dramatic decrease between significant growth Western countries. With that, declined rapidly many