Steep and Thorny Way of a Scientist in Russia

Prof. Valentine Ananikov participated in the plenary panel discussion HR Challenge for the Society held in the framework of VII Russian National Congress of Young Scientists and Specialists on November 30 – December 1 2016 in MEPhI. He presented a succinct description of the young researcher’s carrier in a Russian university and pinpointed key pitfalls on this way. He also touched upon a sensitive issue of picking up candidates for professor and senior executive positions, which is normally done on a basis of two indices – Hirsch number and impact factor; however, it is actually impossible to gain a high h-index if papers are published in Russian journals because there is none with a high impact factor. The situation is ridiculous and to fix it we need own internal expert community whose ranking will be underpinned by actual results.

The Congress will become a communication hub for young top managers of R&D and commercial projects, laboratories and research teams and representatives of development institutes and authorities.