MIL-OSI Russia: NSU entered the top 5 Russian universities in four scientific areas of the Expert Analytical Center rating

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Source: Novosibirsk State University – Novosibirsk State University –

Novosibirsk, May 16, 2025: Analytical center “Expert” published ranking of scientific productivity of universities for 2021-2024. The rating is a ranking of Russian universities only by publication activity indicators. The study analyzed scientific publications of 143 universities included in 17 subject ratings and 7 thematic sections.

In 2025, NSU is represented in all subject areas except management. Novosibirsk State University confirmed its leadership in the leading specialized areas: physics (1st – 2nd place), chemical technology (4th – 5th place), fuel (3rd – 6th place), and also entered the number of leaders in archeology (4th – 5th place).

— Over the past 5 years, the scale of NSU’s own research activities has grown to a level comparable to educational activities. Now this is the second basic process at the university. Since 2018, the number of NSU’s own scientific publications has increased by 30%. Thus, in 2024, there were 1,767 publications in SCOPUS publications, the number of citations in SCOPUS was 1,991. NSU will continue to open laboratories, develop promising research, innovation and technological areas, including on the basis of the infrastructure of the new campus, which is being built as part of the national project “Youth and Children”, — commented NSU Rector, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Mikhail Fedoruk.

In physics, NSU occupies a leading position due to citations per article (1st place in the Russian Federation), the number of articles in Q1 journals (high-ranking journals, according to this indicator, NSU occupies 3rd place among Russian universities, the number of publications in Q1 journals at NSU increased by 19% in 2024) and the level of citations of such articles (3rd place among Russian universities).

In the subject area “Chemical Technologies”, NSU’s high position is mainly due to two indicators: the number of publications in general (5th place in the Russian Federation), including in Q1 journals (5th place in the Russian Federation).

NSU’s leading positions in the subject area “Fuel” are predetermined by the level of journals in which articles are published (1st place in the Russian Federation). As for archeology, NSU is in 1st place in the Russian Federation in terms of the level of journals in which articles are published, and in 3rd place in terms of the Hirsch level of publications and average citation of articles.

In addition, NSU is among the top 10 in the following areas: earth sciences, mathematics, energy (including renewable energy), and chemistry.

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