Vladímir Moskovkin

Introduction The contemporary global academy is facing a phenomenon that can be characterized as a pandemic of “predatory” rankings. In an environment of total university dependence on global metrics, academic integrity is undergoing an unprecedented erosion.

This version is not peer-reviewed. You are already at the latest version The Webometrics University Ranking website ceased to function in 2025 due to an inability to obtain citation data from Google Scholar. Since then, Webometrics University Ranking data has been published on the Figshare server, but the values of the three individual indicators have not been ranked. From July 2025 onwards, the Openness indicator values for citations have been calculated using OpenAlex via the ROR identifier.

You are already at the latest version The article proves the priority of the author to obtain in 1994 one of the first mathematical descriptions of the Laffer curve, which is also claimed by the Georgian economist Vladimir Papava, who published the same result in 1996. The author proved for the first time that in a free market, the total profit deducted to the budget from all enterprises of a certain territory is proportional to the product of the tax rate and its natural logarithm.