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Russian Science in
Global Research Networks
Andrey Yurevich 1
Irina Tsapenko 2
Abstract: The article 3 deals with the latest development of globalization processes in Russian
science. After the dramatic increase in the level of the internationalization of Russian
R&D in the early 1990s, recently we observe the decline of the intellectual emigration,
stabilization of indicators of international collaboration in publishing and patenting,
etc. The deceleration and steadier development of globalization processes are peculiar to
countries which are already integrated in global research network and may mean their
moving towards the “optimum of integration”.
Keywords: Russian science, globalization, migration of scholars, sourcing R&D, international
collaboration in publishing and patenting, e-science
The world science is undergoing intensive globalization.
While for the Western science this
process presents an extension of tendencies
that emerged long ago, for Russian science it
brought a number of relatively new phenomena
connected with a growing international
involvement of Russian science, its increasing
dependency on world science, enhancement of
contacts and gradual erosion of interstate borders,
progressive integration of Russian scientists
into international academic community,
etc. After the dramatic increase in the level of
the internationalization of Russian science and
scientifi c community after the fall of the “Iron
Curtain”, which isolated them from the world
science and scientifi c community, the globalization
processes in the country now show signs
of more stable development, peculiar to countries
which are already integrated in global research
networks.
One of the characteristic features of the
globalisation of science is the growing international
mobility of scholars. Emigration of
scientists, which is peculiar to the developing
countries, large part of whose professionals
(exceeding 80% in Guiana and Jamaica)
went abroad, affects the developed countries
as well. In the 1990s 83 000 researchers and
engineers left Europe for the USA 4 . After the
fall of the “Iron Curtain” the emigration of
Russian scholars achieved massive proportions.
The resettlement of Russian scholars to
other countries (mainly the US and Germany)
in the last few decades was perceived in Russia
either as a national tragedy and a threat to
national security, or as a potential source of
fabulous profi t, while its scope has been persistently
overestimated. It has been suggested,
for example, that about 70-90 thousands scholars
have been leaving the country for good an-
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