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Abstract
An analysis is provided of the results of a study of the scholarly productivity of Russian doctors of science in the middle generation who work within the Russian Academy of Sciences system. We show that the scholars’ achievements on the international versus domestic Russian arenas are not only different, but are also only weakly related. This gives reason to conclude that the competencies and social capital of scholars that facilitate their achievements inside the country and abroad are different, and sometimes even alternatives to each other. We also reveal that scholarly citation indexes are insufficient to evaluate domestic Russian achievements by scholars, while the evaluation of their international achievements is much more accurate.
Notes
1. Notes have been renumbered for this edition.—Ed.
2. The authors wish to thank the Regional Public Fund for the Support of National Science for providing the electronic addresses of stipend winners for the purpose of this study.
3. The Hirsch index is equal to k if a scholar has at least k articles, to each of which exist at least k citations. For example, the average physicist, chemist, or biologist in our sample has a Hirsch index of 8 in the Scopus system, which means that the person has published at least eight articles, each of which has been cited in the literature at least eight times.
4. In translating to z-scores, the indicator is standardized to a mean of 0 and standard deviation of 1.
5. To interpret this model, here and henceforth, an outwardly paradoxical feature of linear-structural modeling must be taken into account: the existence of an association between a factor and a variable may improve the model’s fit to the data even if this association is not significant.