Students setting the bar for excellence

The BRICS countries Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa are notable for their increasing participation in science and technology. The governments of these countries have been boosting their investments in research and development to become ...

With the growth of competition between nations in our knowledge-based world economy, excellence programs are becoming a national agenda item in developing as well as developed Asian countries. The main purpose of this paper is to compare the goals, ...

In this study, we discover Russian "centers of excellence" and explore patterns of their collaboration with each other and with foreign partners. Highly cited papers serve as a proxy for "excellence" and coauthored papers as a measure of collaborative ...