Development of electrochemical methods in Kazan

A sixty-year period of progress in the electrochemical methods of research and analysis in Kazan is surveyed. The importance of the interplay of ideas arising and developing in the cooperation of individual research groups wo rking in the field of voltammetry is pointed out. This interplay facilitate d the formation of scientific schools. The main avenues of inquiry in the h eld of electrochemical methods of analysis are outlined. Attention is drawn to the role of bibliometric and cognitive characteristics of scientific ac tivity in the field of electrochemical methods of analysis.