The level of research in advanced composite materials in the countries of the former Soviet Union

Dickenson, R. P.

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“…A recent paper uses bibliometric analysis to compare the productivity of Russian researchers with those from other post-Soviet countries (Alimova & Brumshteyn, 2020). A number of publications analyze research output from post-Soviet countries in selected fields of studies, such as modern composite materials (Dickenson, 1996), computer science (Fiala & Willett, 2015), nanotechnology (Karaulova et al, 2016;Terekhov, 2017), psychology (Lovakov & Agadullina, 2019), and higher education research (Lovakov and Yudkevich 2021). With limited academic freedom and extremely scarce resources as starting points, researchers in post-Soviet countries continued to create new knowledge; they have been building on well-established scientific traditions while at times paving new paths in nontraditional disciplines in social sciences (Temkina & Zdravomyslova, 2003;Weinberg, 2017).…”

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A big picture: bibliometric study of academic publications from post-Soviet countries

2021

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The world’s largest community of scientists disintegrated following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. With extremely scarce resources and limited academic freedom as starting points, researchers in this region have been creating new knowledge; they have been building on rich scientific traditions in selected disciplines and, at times, paving new paths in non-traditional disciplines. At present, the cumulative contribution of post-Soviet countries to global research output is only three percent, indicating that these countries are not key players on the global research scene. This study uses bibliometric methods to offer novel empirical insight into the quantity and impact of academic publications; it also looks at the quality of journals in which the output is published. The findings reveal that fifteen post-Soviet countries differ considerably in terms of how much they have prioritised research, as well as the quantity, quality, and impact of their publications. The research productivity across the region has not been high and, taken together, these countries have produced publications of considerably lower quality and lower impact when viewed in the context of global research output. At the same time, researchers from post-Soviet countries tap into international collaborative networks actively, resulting in an exceptionally large proportion of publications from this region being internationally co-authored. In the historical context of Soviet research being known as one of the least collaborative globally, this finding indicates that researchers in the region are attractive to international collaborators and may be seeking such partnerships due to relatively modest research capacity at home.

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Quantitative mapping of scientific research—The case of electrical conducting polymer nanocomposite

Lee

2011

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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This study aims to understand knowledge structure both quantitatively and visually by integrating keyword analysis and social network analysis of scientific papers. The methodology proposed in this study is capable of creating a three-dimensional "Research focus parallelship network" and a "Keyword Co-occurrence Network", together with a two-dimensional knowledge map. The network and knowledge map can be depicted differently by choosing different information for the network actor, i.e. country, institute, paper and keyword, to reflect knowledge structures from macro, to meso, to micro-levels. A total of 223 highly cited papers published by 142 institutes and 26 countries are analyzed in this study. China and the US are the two countries located at the core of knowledge structure and China is ranked no. 1. This quantitative exploration provides a way to unveil important or emerging components in scientific development and also to visualize knowledge; thus an objective evaluation of scientific research is possible for quantitative technology management. drug reactions [32,33], biotechnology [34,35], environmental science [36], condensed matter physics [37], severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), tsunami [38,39], and Parkinson's disease [40]. Also, citation-based analyses together with keyword analysis have been investigated. For example, Kajikawa utilized citation analysis on SCI papers together with clustering papers and analyzing keywords to understand structural change of sustainable energy [41], biomass and bio-fuels [42] and organic LED [43]. The development of electrical conducting polymer nanocompositeNanocomposites can be considered solid structures with nanometer-scale dimensional repeat distances between the different phases that constitute the structure. These materials typically consist of an inorganic (host) solid containing an organic component or vice versa [44]. Nanocomposite usually combines nano-dimensional phases with distinct differences in structure, chemistry, and properties. The mechanical, electrical, thermal, optical, electrochemical, catalytic properties of the nanocomposite will differ markedly from that of the component materials [44]. Polymer nanocomposite with nanoparticles added into polymer matrix can enhance its performance, often to a very dramatic degree, by simply capitalizing on the nature and properties of the nanoscale filler, for example, reinforcing a polymer matrix with much stiffer nanoparticles [45][46][47].The electrical properties of nanofilled polymers are exciting areas of research because of the possibility of creating nanocomposites with synergistic and hybrid properties [48]. For example, nanotube/polyphenylene vinylene composites have shown significant increase in electrical conductivity [44]. A large number of new electrical conducting polymer nanocomposites with a synergetic or complementary behavior can be obtained with applications in electronic or nanoelectronic devices, because of the interaction between electron donor and acceptor. Some useful applicatio...

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Garg

2003

Scientometrics

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The level of research in advanced composite materials in the countries of the former Soviet Union

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A big picture: bibliometric study of academic publications from post-Soviet countries

A big picture: bibliometric study of academic publications from post-Soviet countries

Quantitative mapping of scientific research—The case of electrical conducting polymer nanocomposite

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