“Native scientists” and “citizens of the world”: regarding the scientists’ productivity

“Native scientists” and “citizens of the world”: regarding the scientists’ productivity


Gavrilova E.V.

Moscow State University of Psychology and Education g-gavrilova@mail.ru

Ushakov D.V.

Institute of Psychology, Russian Academy of Sciences dv.ushakov@gmail.com

Yorevich A.V.

Institute of Psychology, Russian Academy of Sciences yurev@orc.ru

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Gavrilova E.V., Ushakov D.V., Yorevich A.V. “Native scientists” and “citizens of the world”: regarding the scientists’ productivity. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya [Sociological Studies]. 2016. No 9. P. 105-116




Abstract

This article aims at describing empirical results dealing with scientific achievements of the Doctors of Science in their middle age, who are working in the Russian Academy of Sciences. It was revealed that international scientific achievements show a weak negative correlation to scientific achievements in Russia. These results let us assert that scientific competence and social capital that determine scientific achievements in both – international and Russian sciences – are different and somewhere alternative. The results also revealed that the citation index is an insufficient predictor for scientific achievements in Russia, whereas international scientific achievements yield more precise outcome.


Keywords
Russian science; reference lists; Russian Science Citation Index; Scopus; mainstream; international science
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