Specificity of the Motivation for High-Quality Publications in Russia

Abstract

This theoretical study divulges the specificity of the Russian stakeholders' motivation to increase the number of articles in Scopus/WoS by Russian researchers. The research toolkit covers the stakeholder approach, PRISMA recommendations for systematic literature review, methods of deduction, comparison, and qualitative content analysis. We concluded that Russia is quite specific on this topic and found three primary Russian specifics: a unique stakeholder - the unified state bureaucracy; two unique motivational drivers of the researcher stakeholder - professional development and favourable academic environment; three unique motivational drivers of the university management stakeholder - political pressure reduction, power, and effective management.