Three years on from Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, Russian researchers are absent from conferences and withdrawn from Western collaborations
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Three years have now elapsed since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Publication data show that Russian science is increasingly isolated as a result, suffering from falling co-publications with Europe and the US, and dwindling representation at conferences.
This isolation likely has multiple causes. The invasion triggered a swath of direct scientific sanctions from European and North American countries, including Russia’s ejection from the EU’s Horizon Europe research programme.
Other, broader restrictions, on visas, flights and money, have made in tricker for Russian scientists to travel.
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