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Project publication output by quartiles (only journal articles included)
| Physics | SSH | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Journal quartiles | First wave (%) | Second wave (%) | First wave (%) | Second wave (%) |
| Q1 | 630 (49.8) | 579 (59) | 42 (8.4) | 48 (13) |
| Q2 | 298 (23.6) | 166 (16.9) | 93 (18.7) | 72 (19.5) |
| Q3 | 225 (17.8) | 137 (14) | 110 (22.1) | 141 (38.2) |
| Q4 | 112 (8.9) | 100 (10.2) | 253 (50.8) | 108 (29.3) |
| Total | 1265 (100) | 982 (100) | 498 (100) | 369 (100) |
Descriptive statistics of principal investigators’ research performance and project publication output
| Physics | SSH | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 2017 | 2014 | 2017 | |
| Q1 papers (N) before | ||||
| Mean (SD) | 22.3 (58.4) | 17.5 (22.5) | 0.319 (0.845) | 1.22 (2.72) |
| Median [Min, Max] | 11 [0, 422] | 10.5 [0, 114] | 0 [0, 5.00] | 0 [0, 15] |
| Q1 papers (%) before | ||||
| Mean (SD) | 40.7 (24.1) | 48.4 (27.3) | 6.82 (18.4) | 16.2 (24.5) |
| Median [Min, Max] | 34 [0, 92.5] | 50.9 [0, 100] | 0 [0, 100] | 0 [0, 87.5] |
| Q1 papers (N) after | ||||
| Mean (SD) | 5.48 (5.77) | 7.06 (5.44) | 0.447 (0.875) | 1.17 (1.99) |
| Median [Min, Max] | 4 [0, 38] | 6 [0, 31] | 0 [0, 4] | 0 [0, 8] |
| Q1 papers (%) after* | ||||
| Mean (SD) | 46.6 (29.9) | 55.9 (27.7) | 9.29 (21.0) | 11.4 (18.3) |
| Median [Min, Max] | 50 [0, 100] | 55.9 [0, 100] | 0 [0, 100] | 0 [0, 80] |
Principal investigators’ publications by journal quartiles (only journal articles included)
| Journal quartiles | Physics | Social science and humanities | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First wave (%) | Second wave (%) | First wave (%) | Second wave (%) | |
| Q1 | 2563 (53.7) | 1437 (52.4) | 30 (12.3) | 50 (24.3) |
| Q2 | 710 (14.9) | 452 (16.5) | 13 (5.4) | 30 (14.6) |
| Q3 | 800 (16.7) | 600 (21.9) | 57 (23.4) | 65 (31.5) |
| Q4 | 703 (14.7) | 253 (9.2) | 144 (59) | 61 (29.6) |
| Total | 4776 (100) | 2742 (100) | 244 (100) | 206 (100) |
Descriptive statistics of principal investigators’ research performance in the five years before they received funding
| Physics | SSH | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 2017 | 2014 | 2017 | |
| All Scopus publications in the 5 years before submitting (N) | ||||
| Mean (SD) | 41.5 (64.5) | 33.4 (31.1) | 2.6 (4.39) | 4.95 (4.68) |
| Median [Min, Max] | 25 [2, 466] | 25 [0, 153] | 1 [0, 29] | 4 [0, 27] |
| Journal papers indexed by Scopus (N) | ||||
| Mean (SD) | 35.3 (61.8) | 31.0 (29.2) | 2.12 (4.03) | 4.8 (4.7) |
| Median [Min, Max] | 21 [1, 450] | 22 [0, 150] | 0 [0, 28] | 4 [0, 27] |
| Journal papers indexed by Scopus (%) | ||||
| Mean (SD) | 82.2 (14.2) | 91 (17.3) | 39.3 (44.1) | 89.4 (27.1) |
| Median [Min, Max] | 84.6 [41.7, 100] | 96.3 [0, 100] | 0 [0, 100] | 100 [0, 100] |
| Conference papers indexed by Scopus (%) | ||||
| Mean (SD) | 14.6 (13.5) | 4.96 (9.16) | 4.02 (16.7) | 0.488 (3.12) |
| Median [Min, Max] | 12.5 [0, 52.9] | 0 [0, 56.3] | 0 [0, 100] | 0 [0, 20] |
| Other Scopus papers (%) | ||||
| Mean (SD) | 3.29 (6.02) | 1.59 (2.89) | 9.84 (22.8) | 2.79 (8.97) |
| Median [Min, Max] | 1.16 [0, 50] | 0 [0, 11.1] | 0 [0, 100] | 0 [0, 33.3] |
Descriptive statistics on projects’ publication output between the two waves of grant competitions
| Physics | SSH | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 2017 | 2014 | 2017 | |
| All publications (N) | ||||
| Mean (SD) | 24.5 (17.4) | 21.9 (11.2) | 46.2 (27.1) | 56.2 (26.7) |
| Median [Min, Max] | 18 [3, 94] | 19 [5, 67] | 46 [5, 111] | 49 [14, 111] |
| Journal papers indexed by Scopus (N) | ||||
| Mean (SD) | 11 (7.83) | 12 (5.61) | 5.3 (4.46) | 9 (6.12) |
| Median [Min, Max] | 9 [0, 43] | 11 [3, 37] | 4 [0, 18] | 9 [0, 40] |
| Journal papers indexed by Scopus (%)* | ||||
| Mean (SD) | 51.1 (24.8) | 61.5 (23.3) | 16.0 (17.4) | 19.8 (14.9) |
| Median [Min, Max] | 50 [0, 100] | 62.8 [9.09, 100] | 10.2 [0, 80] | 16.2 [0, 81.3] |
| Non-Russian Scopus journal papers (N) | ||||
| Mean (SD) | 9.24 (6.79) | 10.5 (5.66) | 2.22 (2.75) | 3.63 (3.09) |
| Median [Min, Max] | 8 [0, 41] | 10 [1, 37] | 1 [0, 14] | 3.00 [0, 11] |