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Publication patterns in Russia and the West compared Anton Oleinik
Received: 19 November 2011 / Published online: 9 March 2012 Ó Akade´miai Kiado´, Budapest, Hungary 2012
Abstract The institutional environment of science differs across countries. Its particularities have an impact on outcomes of scientific enterprise in terms of authorship patterns and patterns of citations. The paper analyzes scholarly papers produced by faculty and graduate students affiliated with six universities, two of them operate in the Russian institutional environment of science and four others—in the Western European and North American. The citation analysis of papers included in two major databases, eLibrary (Russian) and Web of Knowledge (international), shows that the lists of predictors for the number of references to a scholarly article significantly differ in the Western and Russian cases. Keywords
Institutional environment of science Citation analysis Russia eLibrary
Introduction Interactions between scientists are not organized in the same manner regardless of time and place. The question is less about the nationality of the particular scientists than about the overall context of their interactions. The concept of institutional environment borrowed The author is indebted to two Scientomterics anonymous referees and the editor of this journal, Prof. Tibor Braun, for a number of helpful comments and suggestions. He would also like to thank the participants of two seminars at which earlier versions of this paper were presented: a meeting of the Anti-Corruption Policy Laboratory at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow (May 18, 2011) and an international conference ‘Zwanzig Jahre seit dem Ende der Sowjetunion: Wandel, Kontinuita¨t und neue Fragen’ in Berlin (December 1, 2011). Three vice-rectors of the Higher School of Economics, Prof. Valery Radaev, Dr. Andrei Yakovlev and Dr. Maria Yudkevich, kindly accepted the role of key discussants (Dr. Yudkevich played this role in the framework of an internet discussion in late December 2011). Sheryl Curtis of Communications WriteTouch contributed to the improvement of the style. A. Oleinik (&) Department of Sociology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL A1B 5S7, Canada e-mail: [email protected] A. Oleinik The Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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from institutional economics appears relevant when trying to make sense of various rules of the game in science. The institutional environment ‘determines the framework within which agents process transactions’ (Me´nard 2005, p. 89). The institutional environment of science provides the framework for scientific interactions. When using this concept, one can avoid dangers of both cultural relativism (everything is culturally specific) and functional universalism (particularities of an activity dictate how it tends to be carried out everywhere). Elements that constitute the institutional environment—formal rules, informal codes of conduct and enfo
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