Comparative analysis of the scientific output of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia

Gzoyan, Edita; Hovhannisyan, Lusine A.; Aleksanyan, S. A.; Ghazaryan, Nariné; Hunanyan, Simon R.; Bourghida, Ahmed; Sargsyan, Shushanik A.

doi:10.1007/s11192-014-1452-y

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“…Several bibliometric studies investigated the development of science in the former Soviet countries (Allik 2003(Allik , 2008(Allik , 2015Fiala and Willett 2015;Gzoyan et al 2015;Kozak et al 2015;Zavadskas et al 2011). However, these studies usually consider only selected countries and analyze publications from all fields as a whole output or focus on natural/computer sciences, while social and behavioral sciences were given little attention.…”

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Bibliometric analysis of publications from post-Soviet countries in psychological journals in 1992–2017

Lovakov

Agadullina

2019

Scientometrics

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For several decades the Soviet academic psychology community was isolated from the West, yet after the collapse of the Soviet Union each of the 15 countries went their own way in economic, social, and scientific development. The paper analyses publications from post-Soviet countries in psychological journals in 1992-2017, i.e. 26 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Over the period in question, 15 post-Soviet countries had published 4,986 papers in psychology, accounting for less than one percent of the world output in psychological journals. However, the growth of post-Soviet countries' output in psychological journals, especially that of Russia and Estonia, is observed during this period. Over time, post-Soviet authors began to write more papers in international teams, constantly increasing the proportion of papers in which they are leaders and main contributors. Their papers are still underrepresented in the best journals as well as among the most cited papers in the field and are also cited lower than the world average. However, the impact of psychological papers from post-Soviet countries increases with time. There is a huge diversity between 15 post-Soviet countries in terms of contribution, autonomy, and impact. Regarding the number of papers in psychological journals, the leading nations are Russia, Estonia, Lithuania, Ukraine, and Georgia. Estonia is the leader in autonomy in publishing papers in psychological journals among post-Soviet countries. Papers from Estonia and Georgia are cited higher than the world average, whereas papers from Russia and Ukraine are cited below the world average. Estonia and Georgia also boast a high number of Highly cited papers.

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Bibliometric analysis of publications from post-Soviet countries in psychological journals in 1992–2017

Lovakov

Agadullina

2019

Scientometrics

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“…This is also true for the other two journals, Journal of Contemporary Physics and Journal of Contemporary Mathematical Analysis. Their inclusion can be explained also by the fact that traditionally these scientific directions are quite strong in Armenia (Gzoyan et al, 2015) and the management of the journals is internationally active.…”

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Scientometric Implosion that Leads to Explosion: Case Study of Armenian Journals

Sargsyan

Gzoyan

Mirzoyan

et al. 2020

Journal of Data and Information Science

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AbstractPurposeThe purpose of this study is to introduce a new concept and term into the scientometric discourse and research—scientometric implosion—and test the idea on the example of the Armenian journals. The article argues that the existence of a compressed scientific area in the country makes pressure on the journals and after some time this pressure makes one or several journals explode—break the limited national scientific area and move to the international arena. As soon as one of the local journals breaks through this compressed space and appears at an international level, further explosion happens, which makes the other journals follow the same path.Design/methodology/approachOur research is based on three international scientific databases—WoS, Scopus, and RISC CC, from where we have retrieved information about the Armenian journals indexed there and citations received by those journals and one national database—the Armenian Science Citation Index. Armenian Journal Impact Factor (ArmJIF) was calculated for the local Armenian journals based on the general impact factor formula. Journals were classified according to Glänzel and Schubert (2003).FindingsOur results show that the science policy developed by the scientific authorities of Armenia and the introduction of ArmJIF have made the Armenian journals comply with international standards and resulted in some local journals to break the national scientific territory and be indexed in international scientific databases of RISC, Scopus, and WoS. Apart from complying with technical requirements, the journals start publishing articles also in foreign languages. Although nearly half of the local journals are in the fields of social sciences and humanities, only one journal from that field is indexed in international scientific databases.Research limitationOne of the limitations of the study is that it was performed on the example of only one state and the second one is that more time passage is needed to firmly evaluate the results. However, the introduction of the concept can inspire other similar case study.Practical implicationsThe new term and relevant model offered in the article can practically be used for the development of national journals.Originality/valueThe article proposes a new term and a concept in scientometrics.

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“…As a result, both state enterprises and private entrepreneurs are not interested in going through the time-consuming and financially risky processes of design, development, and testing of new products. The extensive infrastructure of industrial research institutes inherited from Soviet times has shrunk considerably with many institutes closed, downsized, or merged with others, and their innovation capacity is very low (Gzoyan et al, 2015).…”

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Azerbaijani Engineers in the Global Economy: Transnational Professionals Versus “Button-Pushers”

Sayfutdinova

Ergun

2018

Journal of Developing Societies

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This article examines the changes in the engineering profession in Azerbaijan after the inflow of foreign investment into Azerbaijan’s oil industry since 1990s. The integration of Azerbaijan’s oil industry into global economy has led to a significant reshaping of the engineering profession, both within and outside of the oil industry. Multinational companies, which have been the main agents of this integration, have introduced advanced technologies and helped many Azerbaijani engineers to gain access to the international labor market, often serving as credentializing institutions. At the same time, the presence of these multinational companies have also opened the way for new inequalities. They have indirectly created an important division within the engineering profession—a division between internationally mobile engineers from the oil industry and engineers in other industries. Outside of the oil industry, engineering work has in many cases been reduced to routine tasks of assembly and operations, while research, design, and manufacturing were made redundant in the context of the oil-driven development promoted by Azerbaijan’s government.

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Comparative analysis of the scientific output of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia

Cited by 16 publications

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Bibliometric analysis of publications from post-Soviet countries in psychological journals in 1992–2017

Bibliometric analysis of publications from post-Soviet countries in psychological journals in 1992–2017

Scientometric Implosion that Leads to Explosion: Case Study of Armenian Journals

Azerbaijani Engineers in the Global Economy: Transnational Professionals Versus “Button-Pushers”

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