Information Resources for Evaluating the Development of Research Direction—‘Fullerenes’

Abstract The intent of the paper is to evaluate the progress of R&D in the field of fullerene science in Russia in comparison with the world trends. With that end in view we use the databases (DBs) of Scientific and Technical Network International (STN) and also less known Russian DBs: of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (applications and grants received, research teams, titles and abstracts of the papers, published by projects participants); of ROSPATENT (patents), and of the Russian Higher Certification Commission (dissertation abstracts). Together with bibliometric statistics, institutional structure and socioeconomic problems of the scientific field development are considered. Keywords: Fullerenesresearch and developmentbibliometric analysissocioeconomic appraisal Acknowledgments The work was partially supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant 03‐06‐80434).