Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, and the Russian Rectors’ Union have announced the winners of the 2021 Research Excellence Awards Russia.
The Awards program, first held in Russia in 2005, aims to support scientific research in Russia and honour its outstanding scientists. This year’s event, hosted yesterday, had a special mission to celebrate achievements of the country’s researchers and research organizations. Announced by Presidential decree, 2021 is the Year of Science and Technology in Russia; the Awards were hosted by the Russian Rectors’ Union and is supported by Russian Academy of Sciences, the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), Russian Science Foundation, and the Russian Research Institute of Economics, Politics and Law in Science and Technology (RIEPL).
The winners selection methodology is based on several criteria of research output and citation data drawn from Elsevier’s Scopus – the world’s largest expert curated abstract and indexing database of scientific literature.
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