Dostoevsky turned out to be the most cited Russian writer in world science

Fedor Dostoevsky, recognized master of psychological prose, became the most cited of Russian writers in the world scientific community. Psychologists, psychiatrists and neurologists refer to it, the Kommersant newspaper writes with reference to the research of Thomson Reuters.

The second place with a large margin from the leader was taken by Leo Tolstoy, in the third - Alexander Pushkin. The most popular works of Russian literature among scientists around the world were the “brothers of the Karamazovs”, “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina”.

These novels are noticeably inferior to the masterpieces of Shakespeare, Goethe and Dante. It can be assumed that Russian literature prevents the competitive level of the language barrier.

The ten mentioned Russian -speaking authors also included Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Anton Chekhov, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Turgenev and Maxim Gorky. The TOP-10 of popular works included “Crime and Punishment”, “Eugene Onegin”, “Notes from the underground”, “Idiot”, “Archipelago Gulag” and “Doctor Zhivago”. “Demons” took 11th place, “Master and Margarita” on the 13th, “Hero of our time” closes the second ten.

"The works of Russian classical literature, like most others, are most often cited in sociology and humanities: art critics, historians and linguists. However, these works also largely affect research in the natural sciences," the authors of the study say. For example, the "brothers Karamazov" quote chemists, and "war and peace" - mathematicians.