Research Facts and Figures
Research activity of Ulyanovsk State University is carried out at all faculties and is an inseparable part of the uniform educational and research process.
Scientific and educational potential. Personnel training
139 doctors of science, of them 114 regular, 477 candidates of science, of them 384 regular work at Ulyanovsk State University. The team conducts research work within 24 areas of sciences corresponding to the type of specialists’ training and development of personnel structure of the university.
For the reporting period the scientists of university published 2000 scientific works, of them 583 — in the central Russian journals (recommended by the State Commission for Academic Degrees and Titles and equated to them), 92 — in the international journals indexed by Web of Sience, 119 - by Scopus, 67 monographs have been published. 16 patents and 28 certificates on registration of computer programs, databases, topology of integrated cicuits have been taken out.
USU hosted 16 conferences, seminars, schools of sciences, including 4 International and 9 All-Russian.
In 2016 USU graduate students and competitors defended 20 PhD and 3 doctoral dissertations.
Funding
Basic and applied scientific researches, developmental and technological projects at university are carried out within the State assignment of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation for performance of research work, federal target and departmental scientific programs, and also at the expense of grants and off-budget funds.
In 2015 USU implemented projects within:
- the decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 218 "About measures of the state support for development of cooperation of the Russian higher educational institutions and the organizations realizing complex projects on establishing hi-tech production" together with JSC SRC INR (chief executive — Svetukhin V. V.);
- the decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 220 "Grant of the Government of the Russian Federation for the state support of the scientific researches conducted under the guidance of the leading scientists in Russian educational institutions of higher education" (chief executive — O.G. Okhotnikov);
- the federal target program «Researches and Development in the Priority Areas of Development of the Scientific and Technological Complex of Russia for 2014–2020.»;
— The Russian Federal Property Fund in 2016 supported 14 projects, also in 2016 USU researchers carried out projects on 14 grants of the Russian State Scientific Fund.
For the first time in 2016 USU researchers received the funding for their researches in the framework of the RFP contest (scientific advisor — Sysolyatin A.A.)
Modernization and equipment procurement of the Research facilities in the framework:
- «New Personnel for Defense and Industrial Complex» programs;
- Programs of USU strategic development for 2014–2020.
In total in 2016 190,7 million rubles was allocated to carry out researches and develop USU instrument base.
In 2016 by the order of the enterprises and the organizations of real sector of economy 19 research and experimental design projects for the sum of 13,0 million rubles were implemented.
Material and technical base of research activity
The total balance cost of the research equipment of USU amounts to 191 million rubles. Generally the modern measuring and analytical equipment for conducting scientific researches is concentrated in the following divisions:
1. at S. P. Kapitsa Research Institute, including the Center of «Radiation-material science», laboratories of materials science and tests, probe and electronic microscopy, modeling of behavior of inorganic materials, solid-state electronics, chemical analysis laboratory, laboratory of molecular and cellular biology. More than 155 devices and measuring benches have been worked out by the division.
2. at the Competence Center «Aviation Technologies and Aviation Mobility».
3. at the Institute of Medicine, Ecology and Physical culture, including the Medical and Biological Research Center.
These divisions in 2016 implemented 96% of the applied sciences projects and more than 90% of total amount of research work.
The main source of developing the material and resource base (MRB) in 2016 was the USU Program of Strategic Development financed by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. The volume of expenses on development of MRB was 27,33 million rubles from this program. To implement research projects in the field of "Development of new technical solutions for complex modernization and development of production of reactor radionuclides” in JSC Research center of Nuclear Reactors the special equipment for the sum of 31,0 million rubles was purchased.
Table 1. USU scientific activity indicators in 2015 and planned for 2016.
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Activity indicators |
Planned for 2015 |
Figures |
Planned |
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Fundamental and applied researches |
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Funding volume for scientific research and experiment and designing activity on contracts and grants (thous. roub.), including: |
300 000 |
242 386 |
250 000 |
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RSF, RFFR, RSSF |
16 500 |
6670 |
11 000 |
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STE of Ministry of Education and Science (state assignments, President’s grants) |
53500 |
46249 |
40000 |
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FPP of Ministry of Education and Science (Federal programs, decree ¹ 220 and others.) |
75000 |
51 140 |
45 000 |
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Scientific and technical enterprises of other departments |
10 000 |
- |
5 000 |
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International grants |
5 000 |
5379 |
5 000 |
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Scientific activity, design work and developments to orders from enterprises of real sector of the national economy |
40 000 |
24 948 |
75000 |
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Design activity and developments to orders from enterprises within Government’s decree ¹ 218 |
100 000 |
90 000 |
50 000 |
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Strategic Development Program (unit of Research activity) |
- |
18 000 |
18 000 |
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Funding volume of research activity (design and experimental work) to general number of full time staff members of a structural division |
>400 |
209 |
218,75 |
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Share of staff members, participating in customized research and designing projects, % |
15 |
12 |
12 |
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Publication of scientific research results |
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Number of articles in central Russian and international scientific periodicals (in the journals recommended by the SCADT) |
700 |
735 |
735 |
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Number of the scientific publications in the journals recommended by the State Commission for Academic Degrees and Titles to general number of division full time staff members |
1 |
0,62 |
0,62 |
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Number of the scientific publications, indexed by Web of Science, Scopus |
110 |
106 |
125 |
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Share of the staff members who are the authors of research publications in the journals indexed by Web of Science, Scopus, % |
10,0 |
11,8 |
15 |
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Cumulative impact-factor of articles (according to Journal Citation Reports) |
150 |
123,2 |
150 |
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Number of short articles, transactions and articles in the local press |
- |
923 |
- |
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Number of monographs |
70 |
57 |
- |
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Conferences and seminars |
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Number of the conferences and seminars held, including: |
17 |
17 |
20 |
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— international |
7 |
7 |
12 |
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— All-Russian |
5 |
5 |
6 |
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Student research activity |
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Share of scientific publications in co-authorship with students in the journals recommended by the SCADT (%) |
14,0 |
14,5 |
14 |
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Share of the full time students participating in customized research projects with work payment and as co-workers in the projects, from the overall number of full time students of the university (%) |
1 |
0,52 |
1 |
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Number of the reports made (at conferences, workshops, contests), |
2 000 |
2 032 |
2 000 |
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including outside USU |
400 |
373 |
400 |
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Number of medals, diplomas, certificates, received at student contests, exhibitions and other events. |
600 |
391 |
400 |
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Training of highly qualified staff |
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Number of postgraduate students who defended theses in relation to the total number of graduates in 2015 (%) |
30 |
12,3 |
22 |
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Share of the graduates of the Postgraduate school who defended dissertations within one year after their graduation in relation to the number of the students enrolled on postgraduate courses (in corresponding year)(%) |
27 |
15,8 |
25 |
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Patent activity |
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Number of submitted applications for obtaining copyright protection documents of intellectual property |
75 |
46 |
55 |
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Number of the patents received |
45 |
26 |
40 |
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Number of the registered programs for ECM, databases, integrated circuit topographies |
20 |
17 |
15 |
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Share of the staff members who are the authors of patents (registered programs for ECM) (%) |
8 |
6,1 |
8 |
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