The dynamics of scientific research in the area of food science in Eastern Europe

Abstract

Based on scientific metrics (the number of published works, their citations, the Hfactor, the Scopus database), it was conducted the analysis of the development of food science research in Eastern Europe (EU, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria) and post-Soviet countries (Russia, Ukraine, Moldova). There have been presented the main information channels of the global information area in this research domain, as well as the most important information channels of Eastern Europe. It is shown that if the first are represented by the journals of the first quartile (in accordance with the SJR data), then the latter are represented, in the best case, by the 2-nd quartile journals. Leading countries in this area of research on the total number of publications and the H-factor have been identified. It is analyzed the dynamics of the number of publications (per million inhabitants) for EU countries surveyed and the post-Soviet countries. It is shown that in all countries there is a positive dynamics, but the publication activity is significantly higher in the EU countries (21 million people per year in Poland, ~ 8 in Bulgaria and Romania, ~ 2 in Russia, Ukraine and Moldova, data of 2017).