Professors of St Petersburg University have been presented the prestigious scientific award — Scopus Award Russia 2018
Professor Galina Shirokova became the most frequently cited scholar in the Business and Economics category. Professor Igor Tantlevskii, the Head of the Department of Jewish Culture at St Petersburg University, became the first in the Art and Humanities category. The solemn ceremony of awarding Scopus Award Russia 2018 was held on November 8 in Moscow.
Awards were given in 11 subject categories. The winners were selected depending on the number of author’s publications indexed in the Scopus database in 2015–2018, as well as the average number of citations per publication and weighted citation index.
Professor of St Petersburg University Galina Shirokova is the author of 33 publications in Scopus, 18 of which were registered in this database in 2015–2018. The latest publications of the scholar were devoted to the business potential during the economic crisis and student start-ups. Currently, Professor Shirokova is a research supervisor of the Aspirantura programme in Economics and Management, and the Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at the Graduate School of Management, St Petersburg University. She is also a member of the editorial boards of a number of international and Russian scientific publications. These include the Academy of Management Perspectives, the Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Management and Organization Review, and others.
The Scopus Award is established by the largest scientific publishing house Elsevier. The most published and cited authors of scientific works in Latin America, Asia and European countries becomelaureates and prize winners. The number of published articles is indexed using the world’s largest database Scopus. It includes more than 19,000 scientific, technical, and medical journals from 5,000 international publishers.
Professor Igor Tantlevskii, the Head of the Department of Jewish Culture, St Petersburg University, is the author of 20 monographs and over 160 articles in Russian and English. Professor Tantlevskii is the co-chairman of the Academic Board of the International Association of Jewish Studies and Culture; the editor-in-chief of the international peer-reviewed journals Judaica Petropolitana and The Jewish Speech; a member of the Expert Council of the Higher Attestation Commission under the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (in theology);and an expert of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Federal Agency for Scientific Organisations and other Russian and foreign expert communities. At St Petersburg University, the scholar gives courses on: the history and culture of Ancient Israel and Judaea; Biblical studies; Dead Sea scrolls; Jewish apocrypha and pseudepigrapha; Jewish philosophy; Jewish theology; and the history of Judaism in antiquity.
Scientists of St Petersburg University became winners and laureates of Scopus Award Russia in previous years. They include: Alla Lapidus, the Director of the Center for Algorithmic Biotechnology, St Petersburg University; Elena Grigorenko, the Head of the laboratory of interdisciplinary studies of human development; Sergei Nazarov, Chief Research Worker (the Department of Theory of Elasticity), St Petersburg University; and Professor RuslanValiev, the Head of the Laboratory for Mechanics of Advanced Bulk Nanomaterials for Innovative Engineering Applications, St Petersburg University. In 2014, St Petersburg University also won the Scopus Award Russia for outstanding success in joint research activities with colleagues from the EU in 2009–2013.