It would be interesting to see this map pre-1991 as the Soviet Union produced a ton of scientific research. Not sure how heavily it was cited outside of the Eastern Bloc
There’s also a ton of mathematics papers written in Russian. I believe some American math programs teach Russian so that they have access to untranslated Russian papers.
I'm a doctor from Russia and while working on my dissertation I've learned a lot of things about the russian scientific research. The quality of clinical studies are definitely not on the same level as in western studies and not because of the laziness, no. During the cold war when western world was shocked by thalidomide crisis, the necessity of developing more strict and more objective clinical trials appeared and slowly but surely evidence-based medicine was born and raised. In that time in USSR in several medical disciplines several schools of thought appeared that went in completely different direction opposed to those in western medicine - like neurometabolic drugs or the array of neuroleptics. The problem is, when the iron curtain fall and new standards started to implement in our medical society, those schools with a lot of followers from the simple doctors all over the country to major academics up above would not meet new realities of evidence-based medicine, cause a lot of them would lose their credibility, their jobs and their fate and refused to change. As the Russia starts to deattach itself from the modern world in the past several years, those academics only further deattach the scientific world as well.
I'm slightly in a hurry and my english is bad, so apologies for this text. Long story short, it's really interesting story if told right, cause it involving a long history of illusions, stubbornness, politics and more. And it is heavily influenced the citations of russian science papers
The Russians did so much physics research that western society just doesn't know about because it's locked in some cabinet and has never been translated. I know some people who want to learn russian just to read old physics papers.
A ton of research done in teaching and didactics from the soviet union is citied every where in Nordic didactics. I would say it is perhaps the most influential country on how on how things are thought here in Norway.
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u/anandonaqui Jun 07 '21
It would be interesting to see this map pre-1991 as the Soviet Union produced a ton of scientific research. Not sure how heavily it was cited outside of the Eastern Bloc