The CIANO training project is aimed at providing representatives of different disciplines with the opportunity to learn from each other's experience and jointly understand the stages of preparing complex publications. This involves a review of contemporary scholarly literature based on a formalized analysis of large arrays of publications.

The European University at St. Petersburg has investigated which countries and universities produce globally sought-after knowledge about Russia, and on the basis of more than thirty thousand academic articles, has developed a scientometric rating of universities and research institutes.

The Center for Institutional Analysis of Science and Education has prepared an analytical report titled “Russian Historians: Portrait of an Academic Profession" . The report is the result of a joint study by CIASE and the Scholarly Electronic Library eLibrary (similar surveys have been conducted for sociologists, economists, political scientists and lawyers).