A collapse in scientific publication activity in Russia

The Higher School of Economics published the yearbook "Science. Technology. Innovation." based on research conducted by the HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge. The 2024 results show a decline in publications in physics, mathematics, and materials science. Russia ranked 4th, 5th, and 4th in these fields in 2020, but has now fallen to 7th, 8th, and 8th place.
See page 58.

https://issek.hse.ru/mirror/pubs/share/1105778497.pdf

Editor-in-Chief's report on the continuation of the Review Journal of Chemistry

Editor-in-Chief Alexander Kabanov reports that Reviews and Advances in Chemistry will continue its work and accept articles from Russian authors despite the sanctions. The journal's website states that although the journal is published in English, it accepts manuscripts in Russian and assists with translation and language editing.

https://t-invariant.org/2025/12/summing-up-the-year-from-the-editor-in-chief-of-the-reviews-journal-of-chemistry-reach-and-doklady-shemistry/ 

https://link.springer.com/journal/13392/

 

Russia's spending on Research and development in 2024 is below 1% of GDP

The website of the Institute of Economic Forecasting, RAS published an article “Russian Economy: Challenged”. It indicates that spending on Research and development has been on a downward trend since the early 2000s, and by 2024, spending has dropped below what it was in the 1990s. How this relates to the government’s plans for a “colossal” increase in spending on science is not entirely clear.

Russian scientists express skepticism about the Russian government's plans to increase spending on science.

 The magazine "Science" writes: Russia’s plan for ‘colossal’ science spending boost faces skepticism
Government pledges to more than triple research spending by 2030

Сhemist Alexey Bobrovsky, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences says: “We’ve essentially reverted to the early 2000s, exacerbated by the isolation of Russian science” because of sanctions imposed as a result of the war in Ukraine. “Given the overall economic situation in Russia, such plans of the Russian state are too optimistic.”

Ivory zoo: telegram channel about science

 https://t.me/ivoryzoo/207

A very interesting telegram channel about the peculiarities of Russian science and survival in it.

Materials are published about Russian scientific life, competition, and how one cannot be food for more successful colleagues: 

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