Scientific collaboration with Russia begins to unravel
Russian scientists are finding themselves isolated as Russia's invasion of Ukraine enters its second month.
The country's Mars rover project with the European Space Agency is on hold. Russian institutions have been suspended from CERN, the world's largest particle physics lab, in Switzerland. A prestigious math conference has been moved from St. Petersburg to a virtual meeting, and Russian scientific journals are being frozen out of key international databases.
High-profile scientific journals such as Science and Nature aren't rejecting research submitted by Russian scientists, but financial sanctions placed on Russia may make paying journal processing fees tricky. Ukrainian researchers are calling for a complete boycott of Russian institutions and academics.
But while welcoming the outpouring of support across the West for Ukrainian scientists, some academics think that shunning all Russian scientists could be counterproductive.
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