Russian Science Citation Index (Russian: Российский индекс научного цитирования (РИНЦ)) is a
bibliographic database
A bibliographic database is a database of bibliographic records, an organized digital collection of references to published literature, including journal and newspaper articles, conference proceedings, reports, government and legal publications, p ...
of
scientific publication
: ''For a broader class of literature, see Academic publishing.''
Scientific literature comprises scholarly publications that report original empirical and theoretical work in the natural and social sciences. Within an academic field, scienti ...
s in Russian. It holds around 13 million publications by Russian authors, and information about citing the publications from over 5000 Russian journals. The Russian Science Citation Index has been developed since 2005 by the Scientific Electronic Library eLIBRARY.RU. The information-analytical system Science Index is a
search engine
A search engine is a software system designed to carry out web searches. They search the World Wide Web in a systematic way for particular information specified in a textual web search query. The search results are generally presented in a ...
of this database; it offers a wide range of services for authors, research institutions and scientific publishers. It is designed not only for operational search for relevant bibliographic information, but is also as a powerful tool to assess the impact and effectiveness of research organizations, scientists, and the level of scientific journals, etc.
Purpose
From 5000 Russian academic journals, only about 500 are indexed in foreign databases (approx. 10%). Those are mainly translated journals. So far, the vast majority of Russian scientific publications remain "invisible" and are not available online. The Russian Science Citation Index makes it possible to objectively compare Russian journals with the best international journals.
Functionality
In Russia, this database is one of the main sources of information for evaluating the effectiveness of organizations involved in research. It allows to appraise:
* Scientific capacity and effectiveness of research, and
* Publication activity
through the following indicators:
* The number of publications (including foreign scientific and technical journals, and local publications from the list of
Higher Attestation Commission
Higher Attestation Commission (russian: Высшая аттестационная комиссия, uk, Вища атестаційна комісія, abbreviated Cyrillic: ВАК, Latin: VAK) is a name of a national government agency in Russia, ...
) of researchers from a particular scientific organization, divided by the number of researchers,
* The number of publications (registered in the Russian Science Citation Index) of researchers from a particular scientific organization, divided by the number of researchers, and
* Citation of researchers (registered in the Russian Science Citation Index) from a particular scientific organization, divided by the number of researchers.
See also
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List of academic databases and search engines
This article contains a representative list of notable databases and search engines useful in an academic setting for finding and accessing articles in academic journals, institutional repositories, archives, or other collections of scientific and ...
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Science Citation Index
The Science Citation Index Expanded – previously entitled Science Citation Index – is a citation index originally produced by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and created by Eugene Garfield. It was officially launched in 1964 and ...
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Scopus
Scopus is Elsevier's abstract and citation database launched in 2004. Scopus covers nearly 36,377 titles (22,794 active titles and 13,583 inactive titles) from approximately 11,678 publishers, of which 34,346 are peer-reviewed journals in top-l ...
External links
Scientific Electronic Library*
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Science and technology in Russia