SOURCE: Science Watch/ISI's Science Citation Index, 1991
That Moscow has remained so strong in its research paper output-- at least through the end of 1991--is perhaps attributable to the strict centralization of scientific facilities in the Soviet Union. Although St. Petersburg may run a distant second, Moscow is where the vast preponderance of Russian science is done. Note in the accompanying table that no other Russian or former Soviet Union cities made the top 25, while the United States had 14 cities, the United Kingdom and Japan each had three, and Canada had two cities on the list.
In its analysis, Science Watch also compared each of the 25 cities' scientific publication output with its 1981 record. It found that the Japanese city of Osaka, while ranking 10th on the 1991 list, had made the largest gain among the leading cities in productivity during the 1980s--its total of 5,408 papers ...
