The fundamental changes in the political and economic domains in Russia in the late 1990s affected the Russian scientific community profoundly. This paper focuses on the effects on the Russian higher education system. Today about 75% of the students study in the provinces. The new multi-channel...

The volume of scientific literature increases by a few million articles each year. The ?publish or perish? requirement or its ?publish, be cited or perish?, variant accelerates the growth of this collective memory, available in condensed or complete form in specialized databases and web...

Intra-European S&T coauthorships doubled in the last decade, but the collaborative network was surprisingly unaffected. The strongly voluntarist process in the European Union seems far from making collaboration unavoidable or homogeneous. We address the role of frontier regions in the...