Measuring excellence in Russia: Highly cited papers, leading institutions, patterns of national and international collaboration

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2321-2330

  Pislyakov, Vladimir ^a   Shukshina, Elena ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY HIGHER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

collaboration; Russia; visualization (electronic)

Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PAPER;

CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE; COLLABORATION; GOVERNMENT INITIATIVES; HIGHLY-CITED PAPERS; INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS; RUSSIA; RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES; WORLD-CLASS RESEARCHES;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EID: 84924022102     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23093     Document Type: Article

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