Ivan Kislenko is a postdoctoral fellow at the Scholarly Communication Research Group employed in the project Investigating the Relationship between Science Diplomacy and Global DGT: The Role of Inclusive Metascience Observatories (IMSO4DIPLO) since December 2024.
He defended his doctoral dissertation The Idea of Global Sociology in the International Sociological Agenda: Unity and Diversity of Interpretations and obtained a double PhD degree in Sociology from Higher School of Economics (Russia) and Ghent University (Belgium) in 2022.
Ivan Kislenko was a research assistant at the Centre for Fundamental Sociology (Higher School of Economics), visiting researcher at the Centre for Social Theory (Ghent University) and was awarded with the Fulbright Research Fellowship to work at George Mason University (United States, 2021-2022). In the period of 2022-2024, he was also a visiting postdoctoral fellow at the University of Graz (Austria), Lund University (Sweden), Slovak Academy of Sciences (Slovakia) and Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich (Germany).
His research interests are global social theory, studies of social sciences and humanities (SSSH), historical sociology as well as sociology of science and history of Soviet scientometrics.
Selected publications:
Kislenko I & Kulczycki E. (2025). The Matilda Effect in Soviet scientometrics? Nalimov, Mulchenko, and the origins of Naukometriya. Quantitative Science Studies (online first).
Kislenko I. (2025). Goodbye, Global East? Failed Strategic Essentialism and Wrong Epistemological Equation Through the Lens of Russia’s War Against Ukraine. Problems of Post-Communism (online first).
Kislenko I. (2024). Between North and South: Decolonial Isolationism of Russian Social Science in the State of War and Beyond. European Societies, vol. 26(3), p. 740-772.
Kislenko I. (2021). Debates on Global Sociology: ‘Unity and Diversity’ of Interpretations. The American Sociologist, vol. 52(3), p. 579-590.
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