Abstract
In early 2016 a new database was launched on the Web of Science platform—Russian Science Citation Index. The database is free to all Web of Science subscribers except those from the post-Soviet states. This database includes papers from 652 selected Russian journals and is based on the data from national citation index—Russian Index of Science Citation (RISC). RISC was launched in 2005 but it is scarcely known to the English-language audience. The paper describes the history, current structure and user possibilities of RISC. We focus on the novel features of RISC which are crucial to bibliometrics and are unavailable in the international citation indexes.
Highlights
History and main objectives of Russian Index of Science Citation (RISC)Modern research evaluation increasingly implies the bibliometric analysis of research output of scientists, organizations, etc., which is traditionally performed using the Web of Science, Scopus or Google Scholar data (Wouters et al 2015)
We focus on the novel features of RISC which are crucial to bibliometrics and are unavailable in the international citation indexes
At the same time an option of limiting citation analysis to the RISC Core was added to the RISC web interface
Summary
History and main objectives of RISCModern research evaluation increasingly implies the bibliometric analysis of research output of scientists, organizations, etc., which is traditionally performed using the Web of Science, Scopus or Google Scholar data (Wouters et al 2015). At the same time an option of limiting citation analysis to the RISC Core (includes RSCI and Russian journals indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection or Scopus) was added to the RISC web interface. The Science Index service allows authors (since 2011) and organizations (since 2012) to actively maintain their publication and citation lists by themselves
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