PUBLISH OR PERISH?

... 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 WEB of Science database up to 2.44% by 2015. Where are we now and how easy is it to achieve the above targets? In the social sciences (engaged in by institutions of two departments – social sciences, global issues,...