“…Publications marked "articles" were taken into account. This is especially important, since a Department of Hematology at the Pavlov University was also included into the study, and so without the filtering, publications by students and postgraduates occupied at the University, in general, could give a distorted characteristic of publications from the local researchers [7]. The list of publications was limited to keywords defining the field of research (Table 1), thus allowing to filter out most of the publications, first of all, by other branches of the I. Pavlov St. Petersburg Medical University that were not related to the specific area of Hematology/Oncology/Transplantation.…”