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Russian journals in global informational and analytical resources

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The Russian segment of scientific journals, which is largely associated with the Russian Academy of Sciences, is considered within the global informational and analytical resources Scopus and Web of Science and the respective bases of statistical data Scimago and Journal Citation Reports. Special attention is paid to analysis of the indicators of Russian journals in foreign informational resources, as well as to problems of the thematic attribution and clustering of journals proceeding from the subject categories of Scopus and Web of Science, the OECD rubricators, and the State Rubricator of Scientific and Technical Information (SRSTI). A question is posed concerning the assessment and ranking of journals using bibliometric indicators that constitute the basis for making administrative decisions on the development of Russian scientific periodicals.

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  1. Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Novosibirsk, Russia

    I. V. Zibareva

  2. Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia

    I. V. Zibareva

  3. All-Russian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, Moscow, Russia

    N. S. Soloshenko

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Inna Vladimirovna Zibareva, Cand. Sci. (Ed.), is head of the Information Center of the Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, RAS Siberian Branch, and a senior teacher in the Department of Natural Sciences and a researcher at the Research and Educational Center for Energy-Efficient Catalysis of Novosibirsk State University. Nataliya Sergeevna Soloshenko, Cand. Sci. (Ed.), is head of the Acquisition Department of the RAS All-Russian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (VINITI).

Original Russian Text © I.V. Zibareva, N.S. Soloshenko, 2016, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2016, Vol. 86, No. 9, pp. 824–838.

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Zibareva, I.V., Soloshenko, N.S. Russian journals in global informational and analytical resources. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 86, 357–370 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331616030059

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