Scientometric Analysis of the State of Modern Russian American Studies Based on the Data of the “American Yearbook”

The author analyzes the content of the journal “American Yearbook”, which is the leading Russian periodical on the history of the United States. Each issue of the yearbook contains a bibliography of studies on the history of the United States and Canada, starting from 1966. Through a science-metric analysis of these data the author attempts to trace, what issues are most popular among russian americanists, and which topics of US history are receding into the background. Thereby, the author tries to analyze modern americanstic studies as a scientific project, to identify the main trends and changes taking place in the scientific environment of
russian americanistic studies, to analyze the degree of infl uence of external factors on the development of academic science and the vector of its further movement.