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 2018 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 2018 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 2018 and planned for 2019.

Activity indicators	Planned  for 2019	Figures of 2018	Planned for  2019
Fundamental and applied researches
Funding volume for scientific research and experiment and designing activity on contracts and  grants (thous. roub.), including:	300 000	242 386	250 000
RSF, RFFR, RSSF	16 500	6670	11 000
STE of Ministry of Education and Science (state assignments, President’s grants)	53500	46249	40000
FPP of Ministry of Education and Science (Federal programs, decree  ¹ 220 and others.)	75000	51 140	45 000
Scientific and technical enterprises of other departments	10 000	-	5 000
International grants	5 000	5379	5 000
Scientific activity, design work and developments to orders from enterprises of real sector of the national economy	40 000	24 948	75000
Design activity and developments to orders from enterprises within  Government’s decree ¹ 218	100 000	90 000	50 000
Strategic Development Program (unit of Research activity)	-	18 000	18 000
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
Share of staff members, participating in customized research and designing  projects, %	15	12	12
Publication of scientific research results
Number of articles in  central Russian and international scientific periodicals (in the journals recommended by the SCADT)	700	735	735
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
Number of the scientific publications, indexed by Web of Science, Scopus	110	106	125
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
Cumulative impact-factor of articles (according to Journal Citation Reports)	150	123,2	150
Number of  short articles, transactions and articles in the local press	-	923	-
Number of monographs	70	57	-
Conferences and seminars
Number of the conferences and seminars held, including:	17	17	20
— international	7	7	12
— All-Russian	5	5	6
Student research activity
Share of scientific publications in co-authorship with students in the journals recommended by the SCADT (%)	14,0	14,5	14
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
Number of the reports made (at  conferences, workshops, contests),	2 000	2 032	2 000
including outside USU	400	373	400
Number of medals, diplomas, certificates, received at student contests, exhibitions and other events.	600	391	400
Training of highly qualified staff
Number of postgraduate students who defended theses in relation to the total number of graduates in 2015 (%)	30	12,3	22
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
Patent activity
Number of submitted applications for obtaining copyright protection documents of  intellectual property	75	46	55
Number of the patents received	45	26	40
Number of the registered programs for ECM, databases, integrated circuit topographies	20	17	15
Share of the staff members who are the authors of patents (registered programs for ECM) (%)	8	6,1	8