Publications in Megacollaborations: Strengthening the Positions of Russian Universities in the World

The article analyzes various scientometric indicators of organizations, particularly in dependence on the number of publication authors, as well as publication productivity of Russian organizations in comparison with the leading countries in the number of publications in 2012-2019: USA, China, UK, Germany, Canada, etc. Special attention is paid to Russian universities, including Project 5-100 participants. Particular emphasis is placed on publications with more than 100 authors, since such publications indicate the organization's involvement in global scientific networks and are more noticeable to the world scientific and educational community. The analysis is carried out using InCites of the Web of Science Core Collection. All types of publications for the period 2012-2019 are analyzed. The article provides an overview of the literature on the development of international scientific cooperation and the current state of international scientific collaborations. The study reveals an expansion of Russian scientific and educational organizations that have publications in the abovementioned database, and a gradual increase in their publication productivity. At the same time, the publication productivity of organizations that have publications with more than 100 authors is gradually decreasing due to the increase in the number of such Russian organizations, but it still remains higher than in some countries leading in publication activity. It is shown that publications with more than 100 authors in almost all broad scientific fields receive more citations, particularly in physics, where large scientific teams are common practice. The analysis also shows that, in Russia, besides physics, international cooperation within large scientific teams is also widespread in other scientific disciplines, and publications made in such cooperation are one of the drivers of Russian universities and Russian science in the world scientific and educational environment.

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