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A Series of HSE Working Papers "Science, Technology, Innovation" — Six Months

At the end of September, 2012 Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge (ISSEK) launched "Science, Technology and Innovation" (STI) working paper series in the framework of the Higher School of Economics “Working Papers of the Basic Research Program” (HSE WP BRP). Currently it is one of the youngest among all HSE WP BRP series, nevertheless the most popular among them.

HSE Working papers

Higher School of Economics staff has the opportunity to publish working papers in two HSE working paper repositories:

All working papers in “Working papers of the Basic Research Program” repository are posted not only on HSE corporate portal, but also in SSRN (Social Science Research Network) — one of the world's largest electronic repositories of scientific publications in social sciences.

Since 2012, HSE publishes its series’ of research papers at the SSRN platform. Since April 2013, the Higher School of Economics (HSE) ranked 1st among all Economics Departments & Research Centers registered in SSRN by contributing authors. HSE ranks 36 in the total number of publications (531), and 38 by number of downloads of publications (59643) among all Economics Departments & Research Centers registered in SSRN as of May 1st 2013.

HSE Basic Research Program working paper series launched by ISSEK

The working Paper Series was initiated by Leonid Gokhberg and Dirk Meissner end of September 2012 in due course of the increasing number of papers prepared by Laboratory for Science and technology Laboratory for Science and Technology Studies (LST), Laboratory for Economics of Innovation (LEI) and Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge (ISSEK) staff.

The pioneering paper in “STI” series was "Exploring Innovation Modes of Russian Companies: What Does the Diversity of Actors Mean for Policymaking?" (Leonid Gokhberg, Tatyana Kuznetsova, Vitaly Roud) posted in SSRN October 4, 2012. By May 2013, “STI” series has 11 preprints, 10 of them were prepared by ISSEK staff. During April 2013, 5 working papers were added to “STI” series. As of May 16, ISSEK staff uploaded 16 papers in SSRN (see Table 1).

All papers submitted to the series are edited by Mario Cervantes, OECD and Dirk Meissner, HSE. The editors organize a reliable review of the submitted papers. Only original research is considered for publication in the series. The WP series editors strongly encourage WP authors to further develop WP to full journal articles. If the series continues its successful development in the years coming it might be accompanied by an STI journal edited by one of the leading publishing houses.

The series contributes to an improved understanding of STI in the following fields:

  • Trends analysis in STI, Education and Information Society (globally and in Russia CIS)
  • Elaboration of theories, models, and implementation of empirical studies
  • Special STI monitoring studies
  • Advancement of theory, methodology and practices of statistical measurements in the areas of STI, Education, and Information Society
  • Methodologies for Long-term forecasting (Foresight) and setting priorities for STI and socio-economic development
  • Corporate Foresight
  • Management of public research institutes
  • Public funding of research
  • Evaluation of research and innovation
  • Methodologies for the elaboration of strategies, programmes, roadmaps of innovation-based development for companies, sectors and regions
  • Design and development of information-analytical and knowledge formalization systems
  • Advancing national statistics, methodological support to federal statistical surveys in STI, Education, and Information Society
  • Measuring business and innovation climate and assessing economic trends in various sectors.

Table 1. Ranking of ISSEK staff papers in SSRN on number of paper downloads (as of May 16, 2013)


TitleAuthorsDate of upload to SSRNNumber of downloadsNumber of downloads per day1
Working papers in "Science, Technology and Innovation" (STI) series
Innovation Concepts and Typology — An Evolutionary Discussion  WP BRP 05/STI/2013 Kotsemir, Maxim; Abroskin, Alexander; Meissner, Dirk20.02.20132643.070
Conceptualizing the Innovation Process — Trends and Outlook WP BRP 10/STI/2013 Kotsemir, MaximMeissner, Dirk12.04.20131724.914
Public Sector e-Innovations: e-Government and Its Impact on Corruption WP BRP 04/STI/2012Proskuryakova, Liliana; Abdrakhmanova, Gulnara; Pitlik, Hans26.01.2013420.378
Exploring Innovation Modes of Russian Companies: What Does the Diversity of Actors Mean for Policymaking? WP BRP 01/STI/2012Gokhberg, Leonid; Kuznetsova, Tatiana; Roud, Vitaliy04.10.2012320.142
New Challenges for STI Policy from the Internationalization of R&D: The Case of Russian-German R&D Cooperation WP BRP 02/STI/2012Gershman, Mikhail08.12.2012300.188
Intelligent Data Systems to Aid Decision-Making at Tenders for Oil and Gas Fields Development WP BRP 07/STI/2013Khripunova, Anna; Vishnevskiy, Konstantin; Karasev, Oleg; Meissner, Dirk08.04.2013270.692
Statistical Patent Analysis Indicators as a Means of Determining Country Technological Specialisation WP BRP 09/STI/2013Khramova, Ekaterina; Meissner, Dirk; Sagieva, Galina11.04.2013240.667
User Innovation — Empirical Evidence from Russia  WP BRP 08/STI/2013Zaytseva, Anna; Shuvalova, Olga; Meissner, Dirk08.04.2013230.590
Key Features of the First Phase of the National Cluster Program in Russia  WP BRP 11/STI/2013Kutsenko, Evgeniy; Meissner, Dirk19.04.2013110.393
Monitoring Innovation Activities of Innovation Process Participants (2011: R&D Organisations) WP BRP 06/STI/2013Gokhberg, Leonid; Kuznetsova, Tatiana; Roud, Vitaliy; Zaichenko, Stanislav22.03.201370.125
Working papers in other HSE WP BRP series
Foresight Evaluation: Lessons from Project Management WP BRP 01/MAN/2012Sokolova, Anna; Makarova, Ekaterina26.03.2012660.158
Other publications
Social Structure and Agency as Time-Scaled Dynamical System: The Case of Scientific Capital (Applied Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 6, 2012, No. 133, pp. 6601-6625)Katchanov, Yu. L.; Shmatko, Natalia08.10.2012740.335
Social Management of Research Team Efficiency (Russian Academy of Sciences Working Papers Series)Shmatko, Natalia; Katchanov, Yurij08.03.2012450.103
Publication Activity of Russian Researches in Leading International Scientific Journals (Acta Naturae, 2012, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 14-35)Kotsemir, Maxim26.01.2013440.396
Patterns of Researchers’ Social Mobility and Scientific Capital: Russian Case Applied Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 6, 2012, No. 133, pp. 6601–6625Shmatko, Natalia05.09.2012340.134
(Dynamics of Russian and World Science Through the Prism of International Publications) Foresight-Russia, 2012, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 38–58Kotsemir, Maxim08.05.201320.222

Notes: 1. all the data are relevant for May 16, 2013.

2. When calculating the indicator “Number of downloads per day” date of upload of paper to SSRN as well as day of analysis were counted as full days.

Strong positions of “Science Technology and Innovation” series in SSRN

In spite of its short history “Science, Technology and Innovation” (STI) series launched by ISSEK has already become very popular in SSRN. Its positions among other HSE Basic Research Program working paper series is very strong (see Table 2).

Table 2. Basic info on the Working papers Series from the HSE Basic Research Program in SSRN (as of 16 May 2013)

SeriesNumber of downloads as of 15 May, 2013Number of working papers as of May 2013

Average number of downloads per working paperWeighted average of per day downloads for all working paper in the series1Average number of downloads of all working paper in the series per day2Date of upload of the first working paper3
Economics10972937.80.2982.0806.12.2011
Humanities6623320.10.3751.4101.02.2012
Science, Technology and Innovation6491159.03.4122.8804.10.2012
Sociology5791734.10.1181.1812.01.2012
Financial Economics5601343.10.2571.4218.04.2012
Political Science5121146.50.2501.1316.02.2012
Education3861135.10.2260.8516.02.2012
Management263929.20.4500.6326.03.2012
Law2591814.40.2440.5611.02.2012
Psychology1141011.40.1060.2518.02.2012
Public Administration94423.50.1090.2001.02.2012
International Relations38219.00.0890.1625.09.2012
Notes: 1. Weighting was done on the total number of downloads for each working paper. When calculating the indicator “Number of downloads per day” for each working paper date of upload of paper to SSRN as well as day of analysis were counted as full days.
2. This indicator is counted as ratio of total number of downloads of all working papers in the series to the number of days since uploading the first working paper in the series. Date of upload of paper to SSRN as well as day of analysis were counted as full days.
3. Date of upload was taken according to information from “personal page” of each working paper in SSRN..
4. All the data are relevant for May 16, 2013.

The weighted average of per day downloads of “STI” is several times higher than that of all other series of preprints Fundamental Research Program HSE: 3.41 (compare with 0.45 weighted average downloads per day for “Management” series). The “STI” series also has the highest average number of downloads per working paper among all 12 series: 59.0 downloads per paper.

The absolute total number of downloads of all working papers in the STI series is also very high: 649 (the third number among all HSE WP BRP series). Suffice to say that the paper ‘Innovation Concepts and Typology — An Evolutionary Discussion’ (WP BRP 05/STI/2013) working paper (Kotsemir, Maxim; Abroskin, Alexander; Meissner, Dirk) as of May 16, 2013, has earned more downloads than all 18 working paper in “Law” series together: 264 downloads vs. 259 downloads.

Moreover this paper was the most downloaded of all 162 working paper in HSE Basic Research Program repository. The other working paper of Maxim Kotsemir and Dirk Meissner Conceptualizing the Innovation Process — Trends and Outlook (WP BRP 10/STI/2013) ranked third with 172 downloads. These working papers are in SSRN RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days) TOP 10 Papers for many SSRN thematic electronic journals.

Strong positions of ISSEK staff in SSRN

The popularity of ISSEK authors’ working papers in the “STI” series helps them to hit strong positions among HSE authors in SSRN. Three ISSEK authors hit the top ten ranking of the 284 HSE authors the number of downloads for publication IN SSRN in April 2013: Maxim Kotsemir — 2nd place, Abroskin, Alexander — 3rd place and Meissner, Dirk 5th place (See Table 3). Oleg Karasev and Konstantin Vishnevsky take 19th place in the ranking. Their working paper Intelligent Data Systems to Aid Decision-Making at Tenders for Oil and Gas Fields Development (Series: Science, Technology and Innovation, WP BRP 07/STI/2013 (co-written with D. Meissner and A. Khripunova) was in SSRN RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days) TOP 10 Papers for two SSRN electronic journals: “Operations Strategy” eJournal and “Political Economy — Development: Public Service Delivery” eJournal. Working paper Public Sector E-Innovations: E-Government and Its Impact on Corruption (WP BRP 04/STI/2013) (Gulnara Abdrakhmanova and Liliana Proskuryakova) also was in SSRN RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days) TOP 10 for several SSRN eJournals.

Future development of “Science Technology and Innovation” series

The apparent advantage of publication of research results in the format of working paper is the ability of the author to initiate prompt discussion with colleagues, establish and maintaining contacts, including international and interdisciplinary research that definitely brings a new stage of development.

Author rankAuthor nameNew Downloads (for the last 12 months)Total number of downloads as of 1 May 2013Total number of downloads as of 1 April 2013Number of downloads during April 2013Number of papers as of 1 May 2013
1Sonin, Konstantin2 69814 36414 07129352
2Kotsemir, Maxim349349702793
3Fantazzini, Dean1 2329 3089 09920921
4Abroskin, Alexander243243571861
5Dirk, Meissner13113101315
6Geraskin, Petr4618727631091
7Shakina, Elena794960892683
8Bykova, Anna592756698585
9Boldyrev, Ivan227227178494
10Savelieva, Irina95161116454
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19Karasev, Oleg23230231
19Vishnevskiy, Konstantin23230231
19Lokshin, Michael3544 4344 4112344
20Sprenger, Carsten1681 3121 293195





NB: * Ranking was done for 284 HSE authors as of May, 1 2013.

ISSEK preprints are intended to inform about ongoing research work and initiate a constructive and fruitful discussion. The high frequency of downloads of ISSEK preprints provides evidence of the relevance of the respective research. Moreover discussions resulting from these preprints start to contribute to the initiation of joint research between ISSEK staff members and international colleagues reasonably. It can be expected that in the near future international co-authored high quality journal articles based on these preprints will be published.

Maxim Kotsemir