Russian geopolitical studies through the prism of bibliometry

Abstract

<jats:p>The article presents the results of a study of publications by Russian authors on geopolitical issues, indexed in the Scopus scientometric database from 1991 to 2017. Since 2013, there has been an active growth in the research of Russian authors on the studied topics in international publications, which by 2017 already provided 10% of the entire array of publications. Particular emphasis is placed on the subject-territorial analysis of articles published in 2013-2017. The main topics of publications and geographical objects are identified, the most relevant and promising areas of geopolitical research in Russia are named. The analysis revealed plots and events for which there was an increase or decrease in research interest at different time periods in Russia and the world. The authors of the study also analyze the degree of international collaboration of Russian geopolitical authors and draw a conclusion about the correlation of publications written by international authors’ groups with their citation. The main research methods were subject-territorial and bibliometric analysis of publications of Russian authors on geopolitical issues, using SciVal tools.</jats:p>