Alexei Kouprianov

Research Fellow
Discuss Data Project

 

Room 3760
E-Mail:alexei.kouprianov@uni-bremen.de

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Fields of research

• History of Science and Education

• Digital Humanities

• Digital Fingerprints of Forgery in Big Electoral Data

• Statistics of COVID-19 Epidemics in Russia

Short CV

Education

Ph.D., History of Science and Technology, S. I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology (Moscow), 2005

MS, Biology, St. Petersburg University, 1992

​Professional Employment

2022–present: Guest Researcher, Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen

2020–2022: Independent Scholar.

2014–2020: Docent (Associate Professor), Department of Sociology, National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg (HSE StPb).

2007–2014: Docent (Associate Professor), Department of Humanities, HSE StPb.

2007–2008: Senior research fellow, Laboratory of Sociology in Education and Science, HSE StPb.

2003–2007: Senior lecturer, Department of Humanities, HSE StPb.

1999–2007: Research associate and Grant program coordinator, Program office “Promoting Social Studies of Education in Russia”, European University at St. Petersburg.

1997–2000: Junior research fellow, S. I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg.

Selected Publications

​Articles in peer-reviewed journals

Barchuk A., Skougarevskiy D., Kouprianov A., Shirokov D., Dudkina O., Tursun-zade R., Sergeeva M., Tychkova V., Komissarov A., Zheltukhina A., Lioznov D., Isaev A., Pomerantseva E., Zhikrivetskaya S., Sofronova Y., Blagodatskikh K., Titaev K., Barabanova L., Danilenko D. (2022) “COVID-19 pandemic in Saint Petersburg, Russia: combining surveillance and population-based serological study data in May, 2020–April, 2021.” PLOS ONE doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0266945

Demin, M. & Kouprianov, A. (2021). “Three centuries of German-language philosophy journals (1765–1953): a bibliometric analysis.” Scientometrics. 126(7) : 5651–5664.

Demin, M. & Kouprianov, A. (2020) “Dominanty, subdominanty i retsedenty: formalnyi analiz izmenenii kanona istorii nemetskoi filosofii v XIX veke”. [Dominants, Subdominants, and Recedents : A formal analysis in the canonical representation of 19th century German philosophy] Logos. 2020. 30(6) : 173–206. [in Russian]

Zhmud, L. & Kouprianov, A. V. (2018) “Ancient Greek Mathēmata from a Sociological Perspective: A Quantitative Analysis” Isis; an international review devoted to the history of science and its cultural influences. 109(3) : 445–472.

Demin, M. & Kouprianov, A. V. (2018) “Studying Kanonbildung: An Exercise in a Distant Reading of Contemporary Self-descriptions of the 19th Century German Philosophy” Social Epistemology. 32(2) : P. 112–127.

Kostina, T. V. & Kouprianov, A. V. (2017) “Kadrovaia politika popechitelei Kazanskogo uchebnogo okruga I dinamika vozrastnogo sostava professorov Kazanskogo universiteta v 1804–1884 gg.” [Kazan educational district curators' faculty policies and Kazan university professors' age dynamics, 1804–1884] Uchenye Zapiski Kazanskogo Universiteta. Seriya Gumanitarnye Nauki (Proceedings of Kazan University. Humanities Series). 159 (4) : 925–941. [in Russian]

Kouprianov, A. V. (2017) “Ot prosopografii universitetskoi professury do tsifrovogo sleda filosofskogo parokhoda: 'sredniie dannyie' i formal'nye podkhody v istorii nauki” [From prosopography of the university professors to the digital trace of the philosophers' steamboat: 'medium-sized data' and formal approaches in the history of science] Topos. Filosofsko-Kulturologicheskii Zhurnal. (1–2) : 111–137. [in Russian]

Kostina, T. V. & Kouprianov, A. V. (2016) “Growth or stagnation? Historical dynamics of the growth patterns of Dorpat University (1803-1884)”. Vestnik of Saint-Petersburg University. Series 2. History. (3): 31-45.

Fedotova, A. A. & Kouprianov, A. V. (2016) “Archival research reveals the true date of birth of the father of locust phase theory, Sir Boris Uvarov, F.R.S.” Evraziatskii Entomologicheskii Zhurnal (Euroasian Entomological Journal). 15(4): 321–327.

Kouprianov, A. V. (2014) “Beyond the Humanities: A Comparison of two Bibliometric Crises in the Domain of Soviet Biological Periodicals (1917–1950)” Russian Journal of Communication. 6(1): 52–66.

Kouprianov, A. V. (2011) “The «Soviet Creative Darwinism» (1930s - 1950s): From the Selective Reading of Darwin's Works to the Transmutation of Species.” Istoriko-biologicheskiie issledovaniia (Studies in the history of biology). 3(2): 8–31.
 

​Public data and code repositories

Kouprianov, A. (2021–2022) COVID-19.SPb.monitoring. Monitoring COVID-19 epidemic in St. Petersburg, Russia: Data and scripts. URL https://github.com/alexei-kouprianov/COVID-19.SPb.monitoring

Kouprianov, A. (2020–2022) COVID.2019.ru. Coronavirus epidemics in Russia: data and scripts. URL https://github.com/alexei-kouprianov/COVID.2019.ru

Kouprianov, A. (2021). COVID-19.SPb. Coronavirus epidemics in St. Petersburg, Russia: Data and scripts. URL https://github.com/alexei-kouprianov/COVID-19.SPb

Kouprianov, A. (2019). Marx.1905: Shapefiles of Russian Empire and Countries of Eurasia based on Marx' 1905 folio World Atlas for the use with historical datasets. URL https://github.com/alexei-kouprianov/GIS.projects/tree/master/Marx.1905

Fellowships and research grants

2022–2023: Hans Koschnick Special Scholarship, Forschungszentrum Osteuropa, Bremen University.

2017: Kone residential fellowship, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. Project title: “University of Helsinki before 1917 vs. other Universities of the Russian Empire, a Digital Study in Historical Dynamics”.

2015–2016: P. I., “Russian universities (1755-1884): a causal analysis of the faculty dynamics” Russian Foundation for Basic Research Grant No. 15-06-04531 (Together with Tatiana V. Kostina, Russian Acad. Sci. Archive, St. Petersburg).

2011: Research Associate, “Institutionalisation of scientific knowledge in Europe and Russian Empire / USSR”. Russian Foundation for Basic Research Grant No. 11-06-00466. P. I.: E. A. Vishlenkova, HSE Moscow.

1998: “Humans and Nature: a shift from utilitarian to theoretical attitude in the late eighteenth – early nineteenth centuries”. A personal grant from the Central European University (Budapest) within the Research Support Scheme, Grant No. RSS 759/1998.