Scientific Journal SPATIAL ECONOMICS - Russian Spatial Economics: a Bibliometric Analysis

In the section	Surveys
Title of the article	Russian Spatial Economics: a Bibliometric Analysis
Pages	111-134
Author 1	Alexander Nikolaevich Demyanenko Doctor of Geography, Professor, Chief Researcher Economic Research Institute FEB RAS 153 Tikhookeanskaya Street, Khabarovsk, Russia, 680042 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Author 2	Nikolay Alexandrovich Demyanenko Consultant Khabarovsk School of Management Khabarovsk, Russia This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Author 3	Vadim Nikolaevich Ukrainsky Senior Lecturer Pacific National University 136 Tikhookeanskaya Street, Khabarovsk, Russia, 680035 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Abstract	The article gives a brief overview of bibliometric methods in science studies. In the empirical part of the paper the authors explore the hypothesis that spatial economics, while existing as a relatively independent and developing field of study, remains a fragmented one. A database of publications in the area of spatial economics extracted from the Scientific Electronic Library was used to study several indicators characterizing development dynamics of the field of spatial economics in the last 10–15 years, its level of fragmentation and the corpus of journals favored in the field. Publications were selected for inclusion in the study with three search queries: «regional economy», «economy of the region» and «spatial economics». Using a cross-citation matrix the study revealed and described communications network between leading Russian journals in the field of spatial economics. The authors conclude that studies on spatial economics are very ambiguous and fragmented, in spite of impressive growth rates of domestic publications on this topic
Code	332.01+001.8
DOI	10.14530/se.2012.3.111-134
Keywords	spatial economics ♦ regional economy ♦ economy of the region ♦ scientific schools ♦ scientificdirections ♦ science of science ♦ science-dimension ♦ bibliometric methods
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For citation	Demyanenko A.N., Ukrainsky V.N., Demyanenko N.A. Russian Spatial Economics: a Bibliometric Analysis. Prostranstvennaya Ekonomika = Spatial Economics, 2012, no. 3, pp. 111-134. DOI: 10.14530/se.2012.3.111-134. (In Russian).
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Financing	The article was implemented with the financial support of the Russian State Regional Scientific Fund, project No. 11-02-00566a