Eastern Europe and China
"Academician" may also be a functional title and denote a full member of the National Academy of Sciences in those countries where the academy has a strong influence on national scientific life, particularly countries that were part of, or influenced by, the Soviet Union. In such countries, "Academician" is used as an honorific title (like "Doctor", "Professor", etc.) when addressing or speaking about someone. Countries where the term Academician is used in this way include China, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
However, since the reforms of late USSR dismantled the de-facto monopoly of the state on forming academies and allowed the creation of voluntary academies. While some of the newly created academies did improve the relatively rigid structure, the prestige and meaning of the title has been substantially undermined, as the title Academician could be awarded by associations of pseudoscientists or organizations that see their sole purpose of the existence of selling the title for money. Therefore, it became customary and almost compulsory to list which academy gave the title to assert its meaningfulness.
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