USING THE ELIBRARY.RU DATABASE TO ASSESS SPATIAL DIFFERENTIATION OF SOCIAL GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH IN RUSSIA
Journal: Географический вестник = Geographical bulletin
Year: 2022

Social geography in Russia, as well as throughout the world, is experiencing strong competition from regional research areas of other social sciences. This is reflected in the reducing share and also absolute number of publications in the field of social geography; in a decrease in the number of dissertation councils and the number of dissertation defenses in specialty ‘Economic, Social, Political and Recreational Geography’; in the elimination of specialized departments and laboratories; in the