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| Russian Science Citation Index | |
|---|---|
| Name | Russian Science Citation Index |
| Native name | Российский индекс научного цитирования |
| Producer | Clarivate |
| Country | Russia |
| Launched | 2005 |
| Languages | Russian language, English language |
| Disciplines | Science, Technology, Medicine, Humanities, Social science |
Russian Science Citation Index
The Russian Science Citation Index provides a bibliographic and citation database tracking scholarly publications from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and other Commonwealth of Independent States members, used by institutions such as the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow State University, Saint Petersburg State University and funding bodies including the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Russian Science Foundation, Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation for assessment, ranking and bibliometric analysis.
The index aggregates records from journals, conference proceedings and monographs associated with publishers like Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley-Blackwell, Taylor & Francis and Russian houses such as Nauka (publisher), Biblio-Globus to provide citation data interoperable with platforms such as Web of Science, Scopus (database) and national repositories including eLIBRARY.RU. Institutions using the index include Higher School of Economics, Tomsk State University, Novosibirsk State University, Kurchatov Institute and evaluation agencies like Expert Council under the President of the Russian Federation.
Origins trace to collaboration between Russian Academy of Sciences bibliographic initiatives and international providers following projects involving Clarivate and legacy projects linked to Institute of Scientific Information (ISI). Early milestones intersect with events such as the expansion of Web of Science coverage, joint efforts with eLIBRARY.RU and policy shifts driven by decrees from the Government of Russia and directives of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. Key figures and institutions in its evolution include leaders from Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, administrators at Higher Attestation Commission (VAK), and editorial offices of journals like Doklady Akademii Nauk and Vestnik Tomskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta.
The database indexes titles across publishing houses such as Nauka (publisher), Springer, Elsevier, Wiley-Blackwell, Taylor & Francis and regionally significant periodicals like Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk, Vestnik Moskowskogo Universiteta, Prikladnaya Matematika i Mekhanika, Problemy Prognozirovaniya spanning fields represented by institutions like Lebedev Physical Institute, Sechenov University, Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University and research outputs from projects tied to Skolkovo Innovation Center and Roscosmos. Coverage includes bibliographic metadata, abstracts, references and cited-by links for authors affiliated with Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Bauman Moscow State Technical University and regional academies.
Indexing protocols follow standards influenced by practices used in Web of Science, Scopus (database) and metrics used by bodies such as the European Research Council. Citation counting, author disambiguation and journal inclusion criteria engage editorial boards at Russian Academy of Sciences and rely on cross-referencing with identifiers like DOI and ORCID records associated with researchers at Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia, Saint Petersburg State Polytechnic University and Far Eastern Federal University. Metrics provided mirror indicators like total citations, h-index calculations for scholars at Lomonosov Moscow State University and journal-level measures applied by Higher Attestation Commission (VAK).
The index interoperates with national platforms including eLIBRARY.RU, institutional repositories at Moscow State University, Saint Petersburg State University and international systems such as Web of Science, Scopus (database), CrossRef and registration agencies like Russian Science Foundation. Collaborations involve publishers like Nauka (publisher), Elsevier, Springer Nature and organizations such as Clarivate to synchronize metadata, citation links and journal evaluation frameworks used by Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation and accreditation bodies such as Higher Attestation Commission (VAK).
Scholars at institutions including Higher School of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences and Saint Petersburg State University have debated the index's transparency, selection criteria, and potential bias favoring journals indexed by major Western publishers like Elsevier or Springer versus regional titles such as Nauka (publisher). Controversies intersect with national policies from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, disputes involving Higher Attestation Commission (VAK) journal lists, and concerns raised during evaluations at Tomsk State University and Novosibirsk State University about gaming citation metrics and pressure on researchers at Sechenov University and Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University.
The index informs evaluation practices at the Russian Academy of Sciences, funding decisions by the Russian Science Foundation, promotion and accreditation processes managed by the Higher Attestation Commission (VAK), and institutional rankings for Moscow State University, Saint Petersburg State University, Novosibirsk State University, Tomsk State University and technical schools like Bauman Moscow State Technical University. It is used alongside international measures from Web of Science, Scopus (database) and policy instruments from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation to shape hiring, grant allocation and publication strategies at research centers including Kurchatov Institute, Lebedev Physical Institute and Skolkovo Innovation Center.
Category:Bibliographic databases