Abstract:

Postgraduate education in Russia is different from other countries. And the system of scientific degrees in Russia is unique. But all these systems are aimed at development of scientific researcher in some scientific area. And researchers receive scientific degree after thesis defending. And all researchers in any countries publish results of their researches in articles and conference proceedings. The aim of our study is to investigate the publication activity of postgraduates in Russia and other countries of Europe and North America. We study dynamics in publication activity before and after thesis defending.

To make analysis we used information from resources: Web of Science, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, and eLIBRARY.RU. In Russia major publication quantity is in Russian language in Russian journals. Information on Russian journals is collected in Scientific Electronic Library (eLIBRARY.RU).

The results showed the difference in publication activity of PhD and Russian candidates of scientific degree. Russian postgraduate had 10 publications on average to the time of thesis defense. While the applicant of PhD had only 3 publications on average to the time of thesis defense.
Two out of three Russian candidates of scientific degree don’t make any researches and publications after thesis defense. About 10% of Russian candidates of scientific degree proceed to make active researches and publications. They work on the second thesis to receive degree of doctor of science. In Europe and North America every fifth of PhD’s doesn’t make publication after thesis defense.

Keywords:

Postgraduate education, publication activity, PhD.