Scientific reviews are a publications type, which is very important for the world scientific community. This article considers reviews positions in the world publication flow (within the database «Wed of Science Core Collection» (WoS CC) array) for six natural sciences research areas (physics, chemistry, mathematics, geology, biology, computer science) during the period 2010–2019 for the leading countries of the world and Russia. The article considers additionally this type documents citation specialties depending on the research area.By means of the WoS CC database, bibliometric parameters of publication flows of scientific reviews for the six mentioned research natural sciences areas were determined: the number of records, it’s percentage in the total publication flow, the place of Russian reviews in the world flow, the average citation rate, the proportion of not cited records, the period of active citation. The dynamics of changes for these parameters over time (2010–2019) is considered.The article establishes the following features of scientific reviews, as a specific publication type:the percentage of reviews in both the world and Russian information flow is relatively small, it significantly depends on the research area, but over time it increases for all research areas;the trends of changes for the Russian reviews flow over time and in all research areas, follows world trends;Russian reviews occupy places, in terms of quantity, from 6–9 to a place in the fifth ten in the world array of WoS CC documents (depending on the year and research area), but they show a large spread in average citation terms. Sometimes, Russian reviews average citation is approaching and even exceeds the world average citation for some years and some research areas (and sometimes significantly);the non-cited reviews publications share is significantly lower than even for articles (the most cited type of publications);the reviews active citation period reaches 9–10 years and is significantly longer than (from some publications opinion) for scientific publications in general.
The scientific document’s (published in USSR (until 1991) then in Russia) flow included in the SCOPUS database Subject Area «Pphysics and Astronomy») for the period 1980-2020 is considered. It is shown that the flow dynamics development, in general, corresponds to the dynamic’s development of this branch world flow, and the share of the Soviet / Russian part of it, without ever falling out of the “top ten”, is increasing, reaching the third place among all participants by 2020. The number of documents types included in this flow varies from three to ten, but more than 90% of the total is always document types: the journal article and conference proceedings, publication. From so these two types of documents are considered below. The analysis revealed a quantitative increase (after 2018) in the share of conference proceedings, with a corresponding decrease in the share of journal publications. The point of view was verified that this is a purely Russian feature associated with taking into account the results of scientific work, however, a similar trend was revealed in the world publication’s flow and in the publications flows of a number of another countries, although in the Russian publications flow it is more pronounced. In general, this phenomenon requires a special additional study. Next, the citations of journal articles included to the Russian document’ flow were analyzed. Citations for three publications flow (1980, 1990 and 2000 years) were analyzed separately. This analysis showed a noticeable decrease in the number of uncited documents in the flow of 2000, which indicates a general interest in Russian publications increase. At the same time, it was found that a twenty-year period is not enough to get a complete picture of documents citing for a certain year of publication, included to this interval. A separate analysis of the citing for published documents with and without foreign co-authorship was carried out. `It has been established that the uncited documents percentage among documents with foreign co-authorship is significantly lower, and the average citation is significantly higher. The citing documents authors affiliation for citing Soviet/Russian publications was also analyzed. It was found that more than 80% of citing documents do not have authors with Russian affiliation. At the same time, among the first three affiliation countries for the citing documents authors of all publications of the three years under consideration are the USA and Germany, as well as (once) Japan and China.
The article considers the system of information support of Russian scientific research in the field of natural sciences process. It’s gradual creating and development based on the creation of hybrid scientific library, using both the local (located directly in the library) traditional collection, and collections of electronic full-text media available remotely to the library patron and being a virtual part of the whole library collection.The article deals with the use of scientific journals (mainly foreign) as the most important part of the scientific resources required by Russian scientists’ access. The analysis is based on the Library for Natural Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (one of the leading scientific libraries in Russia) example.The mentioned process started in the last centuries 1990s, and, as shown in the article, passes through several stages. From the very beginning, the process required for the libraries to unite into associations for the electronic resources joint use. These associations took, in accordance with international experience, the form of library consortia. At the first stage, consortia were created to bring together several libraries to access the electronic resources of a single foreign library.This system turned out to be viable, but rather cumbersome for a library (for effective work a library has to be a member of several consortia, which turned out to be non-technological). At the next stage, a single consortium was created with the support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research — Scientific Electronic Library RFBR. Further development required the direct state on the one of the Ministry of Higher Education and Science projects basis support. This process went through several development stages (using as a project operator consortium NEICON, the RNPLS&T and again RFBR — at another level of organization and funding).As a result, by 2020 the providing mainly information support for the work of the main mass of scientific and educational institutions in the specified field system was created and debugged on the practical level. By the early 2020s, the work had entered a more or less stable working mode.The issues requiring an urgent solution are the lack of an insurance copy of resources purchased abroad, which creates an uncertain situation in the event of the relationship with the resource owner termination, and the absence, in full, of a similar access to Russian scientific resources system, if their publication rights, in part, have been transferred to foreign publishers.
The Group of Russian Chemical Journals, included to Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) Database from Web of Science (WOS) Core Collection (42 Journals) is analyzed, basing on their Thematic Affiliation (Subject Category) and their Indicators of Citing (Impact-factor) and Rank (Quartile) determined in WOS Database. The Relative Impact Factors have been calculated for every Journal from this Group. All Journals have been ranked according to this calculation, both for specific Subject Categories and for the Chemistry Thematic (which includes all “Chemical” Subject Categories) in a whole. The Journals, “most demanded” (from the “Citing” point of view) for every Subject Category, have been determined. The Average Relative Impact Factors of the Russian Journals for every Subject Category have been calculated, and all Categories, including Russian Journals, have been ranked, according to this Parameter. The Participation in the WOS Database for the “Chemical” Journals from different Countries have been examined. Russia Rank (from this point of view) have been determined, as eight, pay in Attention Account Journals Quartiles additionally.Comparison, done in the Article, between Russian Chemical Journals and analogical Group of Physical Russian Journals, included to Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) Database, shows, that chemical Journals look in a whole weaker (from bibliometric Parameter’s point of view) then Physical.
This article describes some aspects of Russian computer science publications flow analyzes. This analyzes holds by bibliometric methods for Web of Science data base Russian publications flow. The analyzes done shows the increasing of Russian flow for 2010 to 2019, outstripping the world this thermostatics publications flow. For this reason, Russia rises from 34 to 15 position in this scientific area world publication rating. But that is not enough for the national project «Science» goal achievement, which is fifth position in this classification, The list of document types was determined for further analyzes. This list concludes two main types: journals articles and conferences proceeding papers and, additionally, a little quantity of some other types documents. Further analyzes holds for two main types separately. All journals have been additionally dissipated to WoS journals quartiles. The Citation of published Documents was same way separately calculated for every from two main document types. Calculations shows, that the journals articles citing is in times more that Conference proceedings papers citing. This fact demonstrates clearly the very less interest for the scientific society to proceeding conference papers then to journal articles. “Quality Coefficient”, according the Russian Science Ministry Methodic, have been calculated for two main document type sets. Such calculation shows that this coefficient is much more for journals articles set, than for conference proceedings set despite of much less quantity of documents in the journals article set. It underlines the special attention which must be paid in future to this problem.
Various scientific publication’s arrays visibility (visibility) determines greater or lesser chances for attracting this field scientist’s and specialist’s attention and interest, their response, for the likelihood increasing publications author’s inviting for exchange views and for future joint research. Visibility also determines the general world scientific community’s picture (“image”) and the domestic science in this area development level, which, to a certain extent, forms its scientific world prestige. The article discusses the domestic publications in the field of science “Physics and Astronomy” (according to SCOPUS data for 1980–2020) array’s visibility dynamics development from this area specialist’s point of view. This arrays dynamic’s parameters are analyzed in terms of number of journals filling, the ratio of domestic and foreign journals, the number of publications on these components, their conditional “quality”, determined by these journals scientometric’s characteristics (divided into quartiles). It is shown that the array of publications increased during this period from 878 to 17913 (20,4 times), but the number of the array journals increased only 7.2 times (from 102 to 730), due to a significant average publications number by one journal title per year increase from 8,7 to 24.6 (i.e. 2,8 times).It is determined that the array underwent significant changes in the period of the 80–90s of the last century and came to relative number of parameters 2000-s stabilization – the annual publications per journal title number, the percentage of foreign and domestic sources used (journals), as well as the distribution of publications balance between these groups of journals. This balance is near to a 50/50 ratio with a significantly larger share of array’s foreign journals than domestic ones.The existence of a certain “core” of journals was revealed, which, which includes less than 40% in terms of the number of journals, and includes from ~ 80% to 90% of all annual publications, that points journals should be attracted, first of all, to the attention of library and information specialists, ensuring the convenience of work users.The conditional “quality” of the “core” journals array was assessed (according to the level of quartiles to which these journals are assigned, according to the SCOPUS database data for the corresponding years). This quality is defined as quite high – more than 60% of journals of 1–2 quartiles.
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