Research performance of RAS institutions and Russian universities: A comparative bibliometric analysis

摘要

Recent years have witnessed an ongoing debate in periodicals and on the Web about the quality and productivity of research carried out by different Russian organizations. Much criticism has been aimed at academic science, which is increasingly often opposed to university science. This article attempts to evaluate the contribution of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) and Russian universities on the basis of a bibliometric analysis of the 2000-2009 publications included into the Thomson Reuters Web of Science and Essential Science Indicators.