Abstract
The article is focused on the problem of noncompliance between the key scientometric indicators of Russian economists in the electronic database of the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI). It is shown that the number of publications, number of citations and h-index don't have are not related to each other statistically, which undermines the whole system of the individual contribution assessment in science. Such a situation leads to the appearance of pseudo-leaders between economists, which enjoy undeserved prestige. In addition, the syndrome of systematic data manipulation arises; it destroys academic ethics and distorts traditional academic values. This effect is specific to RSCI, because in Western databases of scientific information there is a strong relationship between aforementioned scientometric indicators. It is still difficult to find filtration procedures for bibliometric parameters, thus it is necessary to use labor-consuming manual methods of data processing.
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