Anna Skripchenko studied Sociology at the Universities of Saint Petersburg and Bielefeld. In her MA Thesis she analysed the organizational effects of quantification in general and the effects of the use of bibliometric inficators in University Management in particular. Since January 2017 she is a research assistant in the Project "Surviving in adverse environments: NGOs in the political system of contemporary Russia", funded by German Research Foundation (DFG) (Dr. Evelyn Moser) at the Forum Internationale Wissenschaft.