NEW FOREIGN-LANGUAGE PUBLICATIONS ON THE COSSACKS IN THE Russian Index of Scientific Quotation OF 2013-2014: STATISTICAL ANALYSIS AND BIBLIOMETRICS

Abstract

Aim of the article: it is for the first time the main trends in studying the topical issues of the modern historiography of the Cossacks are considered, on the basis of the analysis of the articles in academic periodicals from the Scientific E-Library of the Russian Index of Scientific Quotation funds over the last year. Method: the statistical analysis of the total amount and the publishing dynamics of the articles devoted to the problems of the Russian Cossacksand written in foreign languages over the years of 2013 and 2014. The analysis of the main bibliometrical publishing figures relaled to the Cossacks. The comparative analysis of the number, dynamics, and subject of the foreign-language articles devoted to the Cossacks. Results: there have been adduced the statistical data concerning the scholarly publications in journals, and the results of their analysis. A conclusion was made about the increase of the number of topical works devoted to the Cossacks. Then, there have been considered the foreign-language articles from the pre-reviewed periodicals from Russian Index of Scientific Quotation. Altogether there were 46 titles under analysis (out of 482 articles written on the subject). The author’s earlier hypothesis of this increase in number of the articles on the Cossacks in the second decade of 21 century having expotential nature has been partially proved. The sphere of applying the results: historiographical analysis, bibliometrics, scientific statistics, general history of science, the methods of statystical analysis of the subjects of topical scientific research.