Data on leading Russian universities performance in 2015-2018

This dataset includes the data on educational, scientific and research, international, financial and economic performance and public recognition of 93 Russian leading universities in the period 2015-2018. Leading universities refers to federal, national research and flagship universities, together with universities-participants of the Russian Academic Excellence Project (Project 5-100). These data were gathered from materials, published in the monitoring of higher education institutions performance, held by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Web of Science (citation-based research analytics tool InCites) and Scopus (citation-based research analytics tool SciVal) databases, materials from international ranking agencies QS, THE, ARWU and presented in Excel format. Researchers can use this dataset for socio-economic studies in comparative analysis of higher education system development level in different countries.