Dynamics of the Russian segment of science piblications (based on Web of Science Core Collection and Scopus data)

The findings of the study of Russian publications array of 2010-2019 are presented. The dynamics for the ten-year period (2010-2019) is demonstrated. For completeness, two of the most authoritative international polythematic resources, i. e. Web of Science Core Collection (WoS CC) and Scopus, were analyzed in parallel. The dynamics of Russian publications is presented in two versions: all types of publications indexed by the systems, and selected types of publications (research articles, reviews, book chapters, and letters). The positive dynamics of the share of Russian publications within the global array was determined, as well as the increase in Russia’s rating positions in terms of the number of publications in the period 2010-2019, were determined. The publications with Russian participation are represented in all 153 science areas (the WOS CC classifier "Research Areas"), however, the barrier of 1% of the total segment of Russian publications reflected in the WoS CC was cleared just in 42 areas. It is demonstrated that in the recent years, along with the decreasing tendency for the share of publications in physics and chemistry within the Russian publication array, there has been an increase in the rate of publications in the technical, social sciences and the humanities. The Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), a WoS CC member since 2015, promotes intensively the works in the humanities and social sciences to the world publishing space. Despite the decrease in the rate of physics and chemistry in the Russian publication segment, these areas remain the undisputed leaders in the share of publications in WoS CC.

Russian Publications in «Informatics»: Trends of Development

This article considers the current state and evolution of the Russian publication flow in the field of Computer Science in the Web of Science (WOS) database. In this article, we use the term "Informatics" for "Computer Science". The study analyzes the Russian flow to determine its position in the world Computer Science publication flow and its compliance to the National project "Science" requirements.We analyzed the Russian publication flow in 2010–2019 and compared it with other countries. The structure of the flow by the document type and its temporal dynamics was studied as well as the impact on citation metrics. Compliance of the flow characteristics to the requirements of the Ministry of Higher Education and Science of the Russian Federation (Ministry) requirements was analyzed.The analysis indicates an increase in the number of Russian computer science publications within 2010-2019,which outstrips the increase in the total number of world publications in Computer Science. This allowed Russia to move from 34 to 15 positions in the world rating in the studied research area. However, this position is not sufficient to achieve the goal of the "Science" National Project, namely, at least, the fifth position in the world rating.According to the methodic requirements of the Ministry, four types of documents were studied: Journals Articles, Conferences Proceeding Papers, Book Chapters, and Reviews. All journals have been classified into the WOS journal quartiles. Our analysis shows that the percentage of publications in the journals of higher quartiles (first and second) increases constantly and made 42 % in 2019.An increase in the number of the Conference Proceeding Papers was the highest among the studied document types.The number of citations of the published documents was studied for each document type. It was shown thatthe citing of the Journal Articles is by the order of magnitude higher than that of the Conference Proceeding Papers. This result indicates the very low interest of the Scientific Society to the Conference Proceeding Papers as compared with the Journal Articles. We conclude that an increase in the number and relative share of the Conference Proceeding Papers together with their low citation results in the low numbers of the overall citation of the Russian publication flow in comparison with other countries neighboring Russia in the world rating.The "Quality Coefficient" was calculated according to the Ministry’s methodic requirements. It was shown that the contribution of Conference Proceedings Papers to this coefficient is much lower than Journals Articles despite the number of the Conference Proceeding Papers is significantly higher.As a result, the flow of Russian publications in the field of Informatics demonstrates significant, though insufficient, growth within the analyzed period. Special attention should be paid to the document type structure of the flow.

Contract theory as a unified discipline (On the occasion of the Russian publication of “Contract Theory” by Patrick Bolton and Mathias Dewatripont)

The article is devoted to the Russian edition in 2019 of perhaps the most important textbook on the theory of contracts in the last twenty-thirty years. From the very moment of its publication, in 2005, “Contract theory” by Bolton and Dewatripont has become the definitive English text on the topic for graduate students in all leading economic universities of the world. The translation of the book into Russian is an important event, since this textbook is unique: it provides the most general systemic overview of the huge field of contemporary economics, called contract theory, and which has evolved greatly for the last 30 years. The article gives the general overview of the book and briefly describes the evolution of the theory of contracts and general approach to the analysis of exchange of goods and services in the economy on the basis of this book and other literature. The article focuses on reviewing general ideas and concepts introduced by contract theory and the main models and methods that have made this domain a unified science.

Array of publications on rehabilitation: analysis of international high-rated databases

For the effective development of the social state, it is necessary to take measures to improve the quality and life expectancy of citizens on the basis of improving health-saving technologies, which requires proper scientific support. The purpose of the work is a retrospective and prognostic study of the Russian publication scientific stream on rehabilitation and scientometric indicators for a reliable assessment of its dynamics. A high (third) place of Russia in the international publication rating from 53 countries in 1991 under the «Rehabilitation» subsection in the Web of Science database was revealed, which was replaced by a substantial, fourfold, downgrade in subsequent years, and an increase in the array of publications in this field of knowledge in the last 5 years, which, however, did not lead the country to the number of leaders. The growth of the national publication stream in 2018 to the 20th place among 100 countries in the Web of Science database and the 15th place among 152 in Scopus is associated with the results of the implementation of government measures. It is proved that the share of scientists in the global array of publications registered in highranking databases is a more objective indicator of publication activity than their country’s place in the ranking. Improving the quality of scientific support for the development of rehabilitation technologies in the context of an increasing proportion of elderly and senile people, growth of diseases with a long life span, increasing demands on the level of self-care and mutual care of the population due to urbanization and small families will contribute to the formation of a socially stable society and increase national security of Russia. A prognostic model is proposed for changing the volume of Russian publications on rehabilitation, according to which the 1991 level in the Scopus database is expected in 2020, and in the Web of Science — only in 2028.

Rein Laul. 17 Studies on Beethoven Music

Рецензия посвящена впервые опубликованным на русском языке этюдам о музыке Бетховена Рейна Лаула одного из ярчайших представителей современной петербургской аналитической школы. Рассматриваемое исследование предстает как уникальный в своем роде труд, отмеченный не только виртуозной техникой анализа и изощренным аналитическим инструментарием, но органичным взаимопроникновением академическинаучного и эмоциональнонепосредственного начал. The review is dedicated to the first Russian publication of the sketches on Beethoven music by Rein Laul, one of the most prominent representatives of the modern Petersburg analytical school. The study in question appears as a unique work, representing not only the virtuoso technique of analysis and sophisticated analytical tools, but also the organic interpenetration of the academic and emotionally direct character.

Hyacinth Karpinsky’s translation of the “Tractatus de Processione Spiritus Sancti” by Adam Zernikaw

The anti-catholic Tractatus de Processione Spiritus Sancti by Adam Zernikaw was created in the late 17th century in Latin and was significant for interconfessional polemic between the Orthodox and the Catholic Church in the Russian Empire over the next centuries. In this paper we systematize information about the history of the tractate in Russia, including its significance for the Tractatus de Processione Spiritus Sancti by Theophan Prokopovich. Russian translations of Adam Zernikaw’s Tractatus are also considered. The earliest Russian translation was done in Kiev in the late 18th century by Hieronym Koptsevich into late Church Slavonic. In 1795, the Ober-Procurator Aleksei Musin-Pushkin commissioned Hyacinth Karpinsky to do another translation, this time into Russian, but the translator had died before the translation was finished. After that, the Synod ordered the members of the Moscow Ecclesiastical Censorship committee to finish it, but it became impossible due to Adam Zernikaw’s original Latin text getting mixed up with the Theophan Prokopovich’s work by the same name. Eventually, the first Russian publication of Tractatus de Processione Spiritus Sancti by Adam Zernikaw happened in 1902. Using different manuscripts of Hyacinth Karpinsky’s Russian translation, we analyze the language edits made by the translator and make suggestions on specifics of the development of a style of Russian-language religious literature in late 18th – early 19th centuries.

Analysis of inpatient care for HIV-positive patients with malignant lymphomas and hepatitis over 5 years (2011—2015) at the A.S.Loginov Moscow Clinical Research Center, Moscow Healthcare Department

The authors give their own data in the first Russian publication on 170 patients with lymphomas and hepatitis concurrent with HIV infection, on the distribution of therapy regimens by nosological entities and the number of deaths. Conventional protocols and programs were used for diagnosis and treatment. All the patients received highly active antiretroviral therapy. Lymphoma was treated according to the conventional programs using rituximab in people without hepatitis B. Aggressive lymphomas, such as diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, Burkitt lymphoma, and plasmablastic lymphoma, were identified in most patients. Hodgkin’s lymphoma is the matter of a separate study; it differs in its pathogenesis from other lymphomas. The rate of coinfection with hepatitis was high in the entire group of patients with lymphomas. The major prognostic indicators included low CD4 T-cell counts (less than 50), stage IVB lymphoma, and hepatitis. Complete remissions were achieved in 40% of patients. Forty-one (24%) patients died.

The “lost” Nollekens Relief of an imperial sacrifice from Domitian's Palace on the Palatine: its history, iconography, and date

Mainstream classical scholarship has long considered as lost a Roman “historical” relief, excavated in the earlier part of the 18th c. in the Palace of Domitian on the Palatine hill. Showing an emperor sacrificing, it is known as the Nollekens Relief after Joseph Nollekens, an accomplished British sculptor who came to possess it in the 18th c. Besides being a sculptor and painter, he was a sculptural restorer and dealer active between 1761 and 1770 in Rome, where he worked in the workshop of the sculptural restorer Bartholomeo Cavaceppi and in his own studio. The relief has been known chiefly from two engravings and a pen-and-watercolor drawing, all produced in the 18th c., but, rather than being lost, the relief has been hiding in plain sight in the Gatchina Palace near St. Petersburg. Its dimensions are 88 cm high x 139 cm wide. A recent visit to St. Petersburg established that the relief has been continuously in the Gatchina Palace since the late 1770s and that it had been damaged not only in antiquity but also during and after World War II. I also discovered that a cast of it existed by 1870 and that a photograph of the relief itself had appeared in an obscure Russian publication of 1914.