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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.
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U.S. News & World Report National University Rankings available at http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/mississippi-state-university-2423 (accessed on Oct 24 2011).
MacLean’s University Rankings available at http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/2010/11/10/our-20th-annual-university-rankings/ (accessed on Oct 24 2011).
Palmarès des meilleures universités de France available at http://www.latribune.fr/static/palmares-universites/masters.php (accessed on Oct 24 2011).
CHE Hochschulranking available at http://www.zeit.de/studium/rankings/index (accessed on Oct 24 2011).
Using as key words in the ‘Address’ field Higher Sch AND Russia* for the HSE (* refers to any character or their combination), Lomonosov AND Moscow for the MSU, Univ Mississippi for the University of Mississippi, Mem Univ for the MUN, Univ Nantes for the Université de Nantes and Univ Hannover for the Leibnitz Universität Hannover. The search was carried out in July–Sept 2011.
Using as key words in the ‘Name of the organization’ field VShE OR (Vysshaya Shkola Ekonomiki) for the HSE and (MGU Lomonosova) OR (Moskovskii Universitet Lomonosova) for the MSU. The search was carried out between August 22 and Sept 2 2011.
Cf. 49 versus 46 in the University of Mississippi case, 22 versus 11 in the MUN case, 16 versus 22 in the Université de Nantes case and 36 versus 26 in the Leibnitz Universität Hannover case.
t = 7.232, df = 1,848 significant at p < 0.001 (equal variances assumed).
Contributions published in other journals, namely in journals established and run by regional universities or national journals with no significant RINTs impact factor were excluded from analysis in this particular case.
The ‘East’ category includes such words as marksi* (* refers to any word or their combination), politekonom*, pravoslav*, tserk*, patriot*, oboron*, and such combinations as gosud* AND politik*, nats* AND ekonomik*, teor* AND stoimosti, gosud* AND regular* and some others. The ‘West’ category includes words spros*, antimonop*, ratsional’n*, konkuren*, makroekonom*, mikroekonomich*, liberal*, marzhinali*, modernizats* and categories estestv* AND monopl*, obshchestv* AND vybor*, chast* AND sobstven*, finansov* AND ryn*, fondov* AND ryn* and some others.
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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, Kontinuität 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.
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Oleinik, A. Publication patterns in Russia and the West compared. Scientometrics 93, 533–551 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-012-0698-5
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