VLADIMIR KRUK

GENNADY TIMCHENKO

ANATOLY ANTSUPOV

SERGEY KANDYBOVICH

ALEXANDER KHARITONOV

The paper presents quantitative analysis of doctorate dissertations defended by Russian psychologists during the last 77 years. The objectives of the study were: establishing dynamic tendencies in the amount of dissertations defended yearly; estimation of the number of doctorate dissertation defended in various regions and in various scientific specialties; identification of the age and gender differences among the dissertation authors; evaluation of the frequency of typical dissertation research matters and the most frequently studied categories of subjects. The main conclusions are the following. Evolutional exponential growth of average amount of yearly defended dissertation was identified. 53 % of the dissertations were defended in Moscow, 17.2 % in Leningrad - S-Petersburg, and 29.8 % in other cities. More that 70% of doctorate dissertations were defended on four specialties: 19.00.01 - 27.0 %, 19.00.07 - 23.0 %, 19.00.05 - 12 %, 19.00.13 - 9.7 %. 690 dissertations were defended by men and 623 ones by women, 52.5 % and 47.5 % respectively. During the last 3 years, approximately 80% of doctorate dissertations were defended by women. Average age of the applicant at the time of defense was 48.3. The matters of personality performance, groups, learning, thinking, and acmeology were studied most of all. The most frequent respondents were schoolchildren, preschoolers, college and university students and teenagers. A number of interesting quantitative aspects of the doctorate dissertations was identified and partly explained, that resulted in deeper evaluation of the Russian psychology current state.