In 2023, Science Funding Will Be Over 3.2 Billion Rubles

11:36, December 14, 2023

The Vice-Rector for Research spoke about some of the results of scientific activity at the university

The funding of research activities at the Ural Federal University this year will reach over 3.2 billion rubles, according to the Vice-Rector for Research Alexander Germanenko, who summarized some of the results of the university's research activities at a meeting of the board of directors of the Ural Federal University. For example, this year's investments in R&D will be the largest in comparison with previous years. In 2018 the total expenditures on R&D amounted to 1.93 billion rubles, in 2019 the amount reached 1.99 billion, in 2020 - 2.32 billion, in 2021 - 2.34 billion, in 2022 - 3.15 billion. According to the forecasts of the Research Division, in 2023 the funds earned by scientists will exceed 3.2 billion rubles.

"Scientists attract funding from various directions. The sources include funds from industrial partners, the Priority 2030 program, support from the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia, the university's funds, grants, and scholarships (Russian Science Foundation, Ministry of Industry and Trade, Government and the President of the Russian Federation), implementation of projects under state orders, and others. Most of the R&D funds - 79 percent - are allocated to four institutes: the Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, the Institute of Physics and Technology, the Institute of Chemical Engineering, and the Institute of New Materials and Technologies," explains Alexander Germanenko.

By the end of 2022, scientists have written more than 12 thousand scientific publications, of which 3,099 are in journals indexed in international citation databases. In 2022, more than half of the publications are publications of the first and second quartile. This year (the data will be supplemented for another six months), more than 2 thousand articles have already been indexed in international databases, adds Germanenko.

Scientific work is carried out in close cooperation with the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Institutes of Mathematics and Mechanics, Physics of Metals, Organic Synthesis, Solid State Chemistry, High-Temperature Electrochemistry, Plant and Animal Ecology, and others.

"Scientific institutions and organizations of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences have been closely and fruitfully cooperating with the Ural Federal University for many years. This year scientific research was actively conducted in many areas. These include the creation of materials for hydrogen and solar energy, the development of bases for medicines, joint expeditions, and excavations, research in the field of amphibians and fungi, and much more," says Victor Rudenko, a member of the UrFU Supervisory Board and Chairman of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

A total of 17 research laboratories at the Ural Federal University have been established and are currently operating jointly with the institutes of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 12 scientific projects carried out in these laboratories are funded by the Priority-2030 program.

Scientific journals are also published jointly with the institutes of the UB RAS. For example, publications indexed in international citation databases: Voprosy onomastiki (Problems of Onomastics), Ekonomika Regiona (Economics of Regions), R-Economy, Ural Mathematical Journal. Today UrFU publishes a total of 23 titles - printed and online: Quaestio Rossica, Changing Societies & Personalities, Journal of Tax Reform, Analitika i Kontrol (Analytics and Control), Antichnaya Drevnost' i Srednie Veka (Antiquity and Middle Ages), Chimica Techno Acta, International Journal of Energy Production and Management, "Table of contents. Izvestia. UrFU. Series 2. Humanities and Arts" and others.

"12 journals were indexed in international databases, and 17 journals were included in the list of peer-reviewed journals of the Higher Attestation Commission. Seven journals were included in the Russian Science Citation Index on the RSCI platform. The white list of journals, created to assess the performance of scientific organizations according to formal criteria, included 14 titles," Germanenko explains.

Also in 2023, there was a significant increase in R&D output in the interests of industrial partners, including KAMAZ PTC, JSC Khiagda, JSC Uralmashzavod, Uralmash - Mining Equipment LLC, and PJSC TMK.

Anna Marinovich

Reference

In addition to the Impact Factor or Impact Index, rankings of journals in each subject category are divided into quartiles by both JCR and SJR. These quartiles rank the journals from highest to lowest based on their impact factor or impact index. There are four quartiles: Q1, Q2, Q3 and Q4. The most prestigious journals within a subject area are those occupying the first quartile, Q1.

Q1 is occupied by the top 25 percent of journals in the list; Q2 is occupied by journals in the 25 to 50 percent group; Q3 is occupied by journals in the 50 to 75 percent group and Q4 is occupied by journals in the 75 to 100 percent group.

The news article was translated by UrFU International Marketing Office.
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