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Russian Scientific Periodicals in the Directory of Open-Access Journals

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The current state of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is characterized and the quality criteria of its periodicals are discussed. Russian scientific journals included in the Directory, their topics, publishers, language, and licenses are comprehensively considered. Journal ratings based on generally accepted international scientometric indicators used by the Russian Science Citation Index, Scopus, and Web of Science are analyzed. Periodicals are ranked using bibliometric indicators.

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Original Russian Text © T.N. Domnina, 2018, published in Nauchno-Tekhnicheskaya Informatsiya, Seriya 1: Organizatsiya i Metodika Informatsionnoi Raboty, 2018, No. 10, pp. 26–40.

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Domnina, T.N. Russian Scientific Periodicals in the Directory of Open-Access Journals. Sci. Tech. Inf. Proc. 45, 219–234 (2018). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0147688218040032

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