“Russian” scientometrics: national adoption strategies

Spoken Russian in the Russian National Corpus (RNC)

The RNC now it is a 120 million-word collection of Russian text, thus, it is the most representative and authoritative corpus of the Russian language. It is available in the Internet at www.ruscorpora.ru. The RNC contains texts of all genres and types, which covers Russian from 19 up to 21 centuries. The practice of national corpora constructing has revealed that it’s indispensable to include i...

Scientometrics

The paper provides an overview of the field of scientometrics, that is: the study of science, technology, and innovation from a quantitative perspective. We cover major historical milestones in the development of this specialism from the 1960s to today and discuss its relationship with the sociology of scientific knowledge, the library and information sciences, and science policy issues such as...

"The Russian Federation's National Security Strategy"] EDICT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION PRESIDENT On the Russian Federation's National Security Strategy

Reform of Russian Science as a Reason for Scientometrics Research Growth

Introduction After the USSR had fallen down in 1990, there was a steady stagnation of Russian science for fifteen years. Iron curtain that separated soviet researchers from the international science disappeared, but research funds sharply decreased due to the economic problems. As a result, the number of publications registered in Web of Science, stayed between 30 000 and 34 000 per year. Thus,...

Qualitative Scientometrics

When scientometricians are asked about the relationship between citations and quality, they often argue along the lines that citations could be seen as indicators of use and that that this implies usefulness and impact on other research, which in turn is an argument for using them as indicators of quality. This paper questions the implicit linearity of such a ‘one-dimensional model’ of represen...