... () relied on this logic. Among other things, the Decree set the task of ensuring the achievement of the following indicators: education – at least five Russian universities should make it in the top one hundred world’s leading universities according to world ranking by 2020; science – an increase in domestic expenditure on research and development up to 1.77% of GDP by 2015, and an increase in the proportion of publications by Russian researchers in the total number of publications in the international scientific journals indexed in the
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database up to 2.44% by 2015. Where are we now and how easy is it to achieve ...
... Mason University, I had already published two books with a university press and several--I forget how many-- journal articles, so I had already over fulfilled my quota. I was thus able to go up for promotion and tenure in my fourth year.)
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Getting to this many publications by one’s sixth year may sound like a lot, but it really is not. Assistant Professors begin their first year with a Ph.D. dissertation already or (more rarely any more) almost completed. The dissertation ...
... there are no more illusions about the high quality education and high quality social sciences in the best universities and institutes in Russia, and consequently the high... ... situation is very, very complex: we are hindered by the inertia (the nature of our education and the rejection of Western standards), while simultaneously new times present... ... challenges. “An impalpable presence” of Russian scientists in the Western scientific journals is, of course, part of a much broader problem with Russia's competitiveness...
