| Abstract: |
The paper focuses on the current state of economic science in Russia with a
particular emphasis on the role of Russian journals in accumulation and
dis-semination of knowledge. We compare important quantitative characteristics
of Russian and international journals in the field of economics. We also
attempt to establish correspondences between the impact-factor of the Russian
Science Ci-tation Index on the one hand and the impact-factors of RePEc and
Web of Sci-ence databases on the other hand. Using the EconLit database we
analyze publications of Russian econo-mists, who can be regarded, according to
a number of criteria, as most active re-searchers, in international journals.
Among our main conclusions are low quality of Russian economic journals and
low recognition of them in the world, a lim-ited number of Russian economists
who are actively publishing in international journals, with most of them
concentrated in few institutions such as New Eco-nomic School, Central
Economics and Mathematics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and
Higher School of Economics. Overall, our analysis confirms the widely held
view that economic science in Russia is progressing rather slowly and remains
poorly integrated into the world’s science. |