Abstract:Characteristic features of contemporary scientific policy of Russia in the context of its instruments import are highlighted in the article. Instruments are analyzed as institutions according to the D. North interpretation. It was revealed that the main imports are the instruments those ensure the accountability of the academic community (academia). Grant funding system, scientometrics and academic excellence programs are these instruments. In the conditions of contemporary Russia the accountability of scienti… Show more
“…high-ranking participants, groups of researchers and lecturers) seeking to maximize their private efficiency (career growth acceleration, strengthening the status in the organizational hierarchy, increasing financial income, etc.) [24].…”
Section: Response To Rq1mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The current topic was underdeveloped about the external stakeholders of Russian universities -the government and the unified state bureaucracy. The government motivation for high-quality publications was of interest to 4 sources - [15], [17], [21], [24] and the motivation of the unified state bureaucracy was to 2 sources - [23], [24] (Figure 3. ).…”
Section: Rq2mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The unified state bureaucracy is unique to Russia. Kurbatova et al define it as a stakeholder comprising entities involved in the Russian vertical of power at three levels [24]: political, governmental, and institutional/departmental. These entities are the ones who change the focus of Russian science policy from maximizing social efficiency to maximizing private efficiency [24].…”
Section: On the Russian Unified State Bureaucracymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Kurbatova et al define it as a stakeholder comprising entities involved in the Russian vertical of power at three levels [24]: political, governmental, and institutional/departmental. These entities are the ones who change the focus of Russian science policy from maximizing social efficiency to maximizing private efficiency [24]. According to Kurbatova et al, this distortion is due to the absence of a full-fledged agency chain in contemporary Russia: voters -public politicians -rational bureaucrats [24].…”
Section: On the Russian Unified State Bureaucracymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These entities are the ones who change the focus of Russian science policy from maximizing social efficiency to maximizing private efficiency [24]. According to Kurbatova et al, this distortion is due to the absence of a full-fledged agency chain in contemporary Russia: voters -public politicians -rational bureaucrats [24].…”
Section: On the Russian Unified State Bureaucracymentioning
This theoretical study divulges the specificity of the Russian stakeholders' motivation to increase the number of articles in Scopus/WoS by Russian researchers. The research toolkit covers the stakeholder approach, PRISMA recommendations for systematic literature review, methods of deduction, comparison, and qualitative content analysis. We concluded that Russia is quite specific on this topic and found three primary Russian specifics: a unique stakeholder - the unified state bureaucracy; two unique motivational drivers of the researcher stakeholder - professional development and favourable academic environment; three unique motivational drivers of the university management stakeholder - political pressure reduction, power, and effective management.
“…high-ranking participants, groups of researchers and lecturers) seeking to maximize their private efficiency (career growth acceleration, strengthening the status in the organizational hierarchy, increasing financial income, etc.) [24].…”
Section: Response To Rq1mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The current topic was underdeveloped about the external stakeholders of Russian universities -the government and the unified state bureaucracy. The government motivation for high-quality publications was of interest to 4 sources - [15], [17], [21], [24] and the motivation of the unified state bureaucracy was to 2 sources - [23], [24] (Figure 3. ).…”
Section: Rq2mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The unified state bureaucracy is unique to Russia. Kurbatova et al define it as a stakeholder comprising entities involved in the Russian vertical of power at three levels [24]: political, governmental, and institutional/departmental. These entities are the ones who change the focus of Russian science policy from maximizing social efficiency to maximizing private efficiency [24].…”
Section: On the Russian Unified State Bureaucracymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Kurbatova et al define it as a stakeholder comprising entities involved in the Russian vertical of power at three levels [24]: political, governmental, and institutional/departmental. These entities are the ones who change the focus of Russian science policy from maximizing social efficiency to maximizing private efficiency [24]. According to Kurbatova et al, this distortion is due to the absence of a full-fledged agency chain in contemporary Russia: voters -public politicians -rational bureaucrats [24].…”
Section: On the Russian Unified State Bureaucracymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These entities are the ones who change the focus of Russian science policy from maximizing social efficiency to maximizing private efficiency [24]. According to Kurbatova et al, this distortion is due to the absence of a full-fledged agency chain in contemporary Russia: voters -public politicians -rational bureaucrats [24].…”
Section: On the Russian Unified State Bureaucracymentioning
This theoretical study divulges the specificity of the Russian stakeholders' motivation to increase the number of articles in Scopus/WoS by Russian researchers. The research toolkit covers the stakeholder approach, PRISMA recommendations for systematic literature review, methods of deduction, comparison, and qualitative content analysis. We concluded that Russia is quite specific on this topic and found three primary Russian specifics: a unique stakeholder - the unified state bureaucracy; two unique motivational drivers of the researcher stakeholder - professional development and favourable academic environment; three unique motivational drivers of the university management stakeholder - political pressure reduction, power, and effective management.
Introduction. Under the growing role of university science in Russia, special attention is paid to improving the quality of scientific publications of Russian university researchers in leading international and Russian journals. To understand the direction of scientific discourse on this issue, the authors explored scientific publications that address the tools to influence Russian university researchers to publish in journals indexed by Scopus or Web of Science.
Materials and Methods. Articles found up to 2022 in the Scopus or Web of Science databases were included in this review. A systematic approach based on PRISMA recommendations and the qualitative content analysis method were applied. The review sample covered 14 articles.
Results. The review results showed that the research topic is in its infancy, but there is interest in it. Three stakeholders were identified on this topic: the researcher, government bodies, and university management. The most mentioned tools of influence were: for the “researcher” stakeholder – the propensity for scientific work and participation in scientific projects, for the “government bodies” stakeholder – grants and government policy pressure, for the “university management” stakeholder – implementation of the rating system/scientometrics, initiation of incentive payments, support for collaboration, and competition stimulation. According to the review results, the main shortcomings of the system of influencing Russian researchers were bureaucratic management, scarce funding, pressure to publish, “academic capitalism”, and restrictions on academic freedoms. Most authors of the review sample commented that a number of tools to influence Russian researchers need to be improved or even replaced.
Discussion and Conclusion. This review contributes to improving research management in Russia, highlighting the features of stakeholders to influence Russian researchers for high-quality publications, the main shortcomings of the system of influence and recommendations to address these shortcomings.
The Russian economic science is challenged by the issues of representation of national studies in foreign science journals and level of publications in Scopus Q1 periodicals. The author compares the eLibrary.ru keywords related to regional economies to corresponding Elsevier’s JournalFinder data. She attempts to identify unified keywords to be used by Russian researchers in their articles in regional economies. Based on ScienceDirect database search service, the subject pertinancy of the term “region” is specified; the author concludes that it differs from that accepted in the Russian economic science. This conclusion is to explain the existence of publication barriers the Russian authors encounter in the high-rate foreign journals. Several limitations for using keywords in scientometric analysis are also revealed. The problem of term unification is particularly acute in the humanities as the English-language words are often used in their Russified version. The value of the study lies in the suggested methodology of analyzing publications in eLibrary.ru Russian Science Citation Index and Elsevier’s JournalFinder by keywords. Regional terms and word combinations are interesting and valuable for Russian scientists with the wide scope of variations, which would be the subject of further studies in classification and systematization. The scientometric analysis is in its initial phase and is to develop and improve its study instruments.
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