printPatterns of Russian Sociologists Collaboration:
Bibliometric Analysis (Part 1)
Maltseva D.V.
Cand. Sci. (Sociol.), Head of the International Laboratory for Applied Network Research, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia dmaltseva@hse.ru
Kim A.V.
Junior Researcher, HSE University, Moscow, Russia. avkim@hse.ru
Kapustina L.V.
Research Assistant, HSE University, Moscow, Russia. lkapustina@hse.ru
Grant of the Russian Science Foundation No. 21-78-00077.
Maltseva D.V., Kim A.V., Kapustina L.V. Patterns of Russian Sociologists Collaboration: Bibliometric Analysis (Part 1). Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya [Sociological Studies]. 2025. No 12. P. 50-65
The article presents the results of a bibliometric analysis of collaboration patterns among Russian sociologists in 2010–2021, focusing on co-authorship. Co-authorship networks reveal key trends, the structure of collaboration, and highlight significant researchers. Russian sociology is characterized by the non-linear development of its professional community and high centralization resulting in inequalities between central and regional scientific schools. This study analyzes co-authorship data from 75,232 sociology publications indexed in the electronic library eLibrary database. The bibliometric network analysis methodology constructs various types of collaboration networks, covering 37,790 unique authors. In the first part of the article, the data is examined at both macro and micro levels, revealing a trend toward increased co-authorship: solo articles dropped from 80% to 52% over 12 years. Despite the overall low publication activity of most authors, a small group of highly productive authors emerges employing different collaboration strategies to produce a large pool of works.
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