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Abstract
Recently, the Russian government has ordered evaluation and reform of the basic research system. As a consequence, the number
of research staff at the Russian Academy of Sciences will be reduced by 20% by 2007. The basis for research evaluation and
institute budgeting will be bibliometric indicators. In view of these changes we look at the Russian publication output and
argue that
(1) publication output and citedness have to be considered in relation to the level of expenditure on R&D (2) bibliometric indicators depend strongly on the database used (ISI’s databases are biased) and their interpretation can be
confusing; better coverage of Russian publications or a Russian Science Citation Index are needed. Also, research results
are communicated in more ways than paper publications.
(3) policy makers have misused ISI statistics to demonstrate “a low level” of Russian R&D.
