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Pillar Universities in Russia: The Rise of "the Second Wave"

Digital Libraries 2018-09-05 v1 Social and Information Networks

Abstract

The problem of identifying the leading universities in a country is rather easy to solve, one may focus, for example, on highly cited papers or other indicators of excellence. Sometimes it is more challenging to find the universities of "the second wave" which deserve to receive additional support because it may help them to become the most prominent ones, "the first". We study progress of the initial phase of such universities, named "pillar" in Russian education system. The first results, measured by 'short-distance bibliometrics', seem to be encouraging.

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@article{arxiv.1809.00248,
  title  = {Pillar Universities in Russia: The Rise of "the Second Wave"},
  author = {Tatiana Lisitskaya and Pavel Taranov and Ekaterina Ugnich and Vladimir Pislyakov and .},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.00248},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

10 pages, 4 figures. To be published in Proceedings of the 23d International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators (STI 2018, Leiden, Netherlands)