Russian Scientific Journals Research Articles

Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs: What is new in international publications in 2015?

Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are one of the classes of drugs that are most needed by modern medicine. Hundreds of new articles on the efficiency and safety of NDAIDs are published in Russian and foreign scientific journals every year. It is difficult for the practitioners to keep track of so a large amount of constantly changing information. So we have decided to present to our readers a concise overview of some of the most interesting, in our opinion, and the newest papers that discuss different aspects of using NSAIDs.

Realization of Copyright in Russia in the Sphere of Scientific Articles: The Experience of Applied Sociological Analysis

In this paper we on the basis of expert interview method generalize and analyze real social practices of Russian scientific journals linked to the realization of copyright allocation when publishing scientific articles. It was found that conclusion of written copyright agreement is performed only in exceptional cases and there are three types of such cases. The analysis of copyright allocation between an author and a journal showed the dependence of the allocation on the journal’s policy. As a rule, practically all the property rights, except for the right for author’s copy, are passed to journal. We also analyze the conditions for allocation of journal’s issues in the Internet. We have established that policy of Russian journals often includes granting of open access to articles. Main types of violations committed by Russian authors in respect of journals are generalized. The authors of the paper come to the conclusion that despite the fact the legislative framework concerning turnover and protection of intellectual property in the Russian Federation is by and large formed, the everyday practice in this area demonstrates significant stagnation in implementation of legally set standards. The realization of copyright in the sphere of publication of scientific articles in Russian journals in everyday practice is mainly regulated by the system of informal standards. Among them there are still the standards applied in the Soviet times.

How pseudoscience snowballs

In recent years, both Russian and Western scientific journals have started to publish on a mass scale not just incorrect but ignorant articles on human neurophysiology and psychophysiology. Seminars, symposia, and conferences literally spatter with unprofessional and pseudoscientific papers. Many researchers use sophisticated equipment without being able to interpret the results. The wrong data become the basis for new research, forming a snowball of pseudoscience. Why does this happen? Why now?

General Principles of Scientometric Evaluation of Scientific Journals in the Humanities

Analyses the main approaches to the evaluation of scientific publications and publications in the humanities in particular from the bibliometric perspective. The author states the main factors affecting the quality of bibliometric and expert evaluation of scientific periodicals and particular articles. The issues of statistical evaluation of citation, its specificity in the humanities are specially addressed in relation to possibilities of promoting Russian scientific journals in global scientific informational systems.

1182 – Rcts schizophrenia quality in russian speaking patients: a systematic review of quetiapine comparison trials

The systematic review help determinated of RCT’s quality at Russian speaking patients. Were search the Russian Scientific Journals in Consilium medicum Database for RCTs comparing quetiapine with any other pharmacotherapy or placebo in the treatment of patients with schizophrenia. Effect sizes were combined in a fixed-effects model. To quantify heterogeneity was used the Q test. Funnel plots, regression tests were used to evaluate publication bias. Analyses were performed using RevMan 5. Methodological quality of controlled trials was assessed by Jadad score. From 25 relevant trials only 5 trials were finally included in the review; None of that trials were identified in main Western data bases. All studies were randomized; None of the authors reported about study blinding; Only 2 studies reported about withdrawals and dropouts; None of the studies reported voluntary participation. Median Jadad score - 3 (57%). Quality of the study in most trials was low, and sample sizes were small. Mean quetiapine dose was slightly lower than in Western studies. Quetiapine at Russian speaking patients with schizophrenia was more effective and better tolerated than haloperidol but had no differences in those parameters between risperidon and olanzepine. Was found: low quality of RCTs in Russian speaking patients; comparative antipsychotics had similar profiles of tolerability and safety for positive, negative symptoms and patient’s compliance. Coming RCTs must be thoroughly planned for studying in initial criterion safety and tolerability of all antipsychotics for schizophrenia treatment. We need further long-term studies for side effects monitoring.

METHODICAL APPROACHES TO THE ANALYSIS OF THE RESULTS OF RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

The value of scientific medical information and its impact indicators (researcher’s publishing activity, citation, impact factor, Hirsch index, etc) is considered. Sources of relevant indicators are specified. Data on scientometric indicators of Russian and international scientific cardiology journals are presented.

Shock wave therapy of ischemic heart disease: Some aspects of publication and advertizing in Russia

Abstract A long-term net benefit from shock wave therapy of ischemic heart disease is not immediately understandable from the viewpoint of general pathology. A physical impact, if powerful enough, can damage cells, especially if they are pre-damaged by ischemia and incapable of mitosis such as myocardial cells. Alteration on a subcellular level can be invisible by light microscopy. Potential adverse effects such as induction of atherogenesis and plaque instability, as a result of angiogenesis in atherosclerotic plaques, cannot be reproduced in experiment. Nonetheless, the method is already in practical use in Russia. Scarcely substantiated recommendations were given in articles published in Russian scientific journals and in advertizing.

A survey of poverty research in Russia: Does it follow the scientific method?

This paper presents the first critical review of the literature on poverty published in Russia between 1992 and 2006. Using a dataset of about 250 publications in Russian scientific journals we assess whether the poverty research in Russia satisfies the general criteria of a scientific publication and if such studies could provide reliable guidance to the Russian government as it maps out its anti-poverty policies. Our findings indicate that only a small proportion of papers on poverty published in Russia in 1992–2006 follow the universally recognized principles of the scientific method. The utility of policy advice based on such research is questionable. We also suggest certain steps that could, in our view, improve the quality of poverty research in Russia.

Does Poverty Research in Russia Follow the Scientific Method?

This paper presents the first critical review of literature on poverty published in Russia between 1992 and 2006. Using a dataset of about 250 publications in Russian scientific journals we assess whether the poverty research in Russia satisfies the general criteria of a scientific publication and if such studies could provide reliable guidance to the Russian government as it maps out its anti-poverty policies. Our findings indicate that only a small portion of papers on poverty published in Russia in 1992-2006 follow the universally-recognized principles of the scientific method. The utility of policy advice based on such research is questionable. We also suggest certain steps that could, in our view, improve the quality of poverty research in Russia.

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THE BRITISH LIBRARY LENDING DIVISION: THE FIRST TEN YEARS

The British Library Lending Division came into being in 1973 when the National Central Library was integrated with the stock and services of the National Lending Library for Science and Technology at Boston Spa. The original buildings have been added to by specially designed accommodation. The loan/photocopy service, based on the use of a pre‐paid three‐part request form, has been supplemented by computer requesting, links through database operators such as DIALOG, and the telephone for urgent requests. Road/rail transport links with many parts of the country have been introduced and now account for over half of all items dispatched. A rapid growth in demand in the first seven years was followed by a decline and then a levelling off in 1982/83. The proportion of demand accounted for by International Services increased from 9% in 1973/74 to 21% in 1982/83. The Division has developed close connections with IFLA and the European Communities. As a result of a British Library Ad hoc Working Party on Union Catalogues, which reported in 1982, the Division's stock records and union catalogues are being automated. The British Union Catalogue of Periodicals ceased to be issued and its bibliographic function was replaced by Serials in the British Library, issued by the Bibliographic Services Division from 1981. Certain libraries with large or important stocks were designated to serve as backup collections; from 1979 more requests went to backups than were provided with locations. The British Library Reference Division has not only supplied photocopies as a backup but begun to lend items held in the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books and the Science Reference Library. Close relations have been maintained with users and with relevant organizations. The acquisitions policy established in 1973 has changed little, though music scores were added in 1974, and rationalization of resources with Reference Division has resulted in a small drop in the number of serials acquired. The British National Book Centre activities of the NCL were merged with the donations activities of the NLLST to form the Gift and Exchange Section. Until 1982 the service was free but economies on staff and resources led to a restricted and priced service. Courses in the use of the scientific literature were extended to other subjects but had to be terminated as an economy measure in 1980. For similar reasons the ad hoc translating service was discontinued at the end of 1981. The cover‐to‐cover translations of (mainly Russian) scientific and technical journals sponsored by the NLLST have continued as part of the Division's extensive publication programme, which now recovers all its costs. Cost recovery increased from a quarter to a half of all expenditure over the period. The Division has kept up with relevant developments in automation and electronic publishing.

The Role of Translation in the Dissemination of Scientific Information

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the role of translation in the dissemination of scientific information. Science has traditionally depended for its progress on the activities of individual workers in many countries. An example of this is the discovery and development of the antibiotic penicillin. Prior to 1958, the National Science Foundation's activities in the scientific and technical information field were, in general, similar to those of other United States government agencies in that they were dictated largely by the Foundation's own particular mission and information interests. The problems confronting an American scientist in his attempt to keep abreast of the latest scientific achievements of his colleagues overseas, result from a combination of factors. The magnitude of the scientific information problem can be measured in terms of scientists, time, as well as on the basis of pieces of paper. At the present time, the Foundation is supporting the translations of 41 Russian scientific journals on a cover-to-cover basis and nine on a selective basis through some 20 professional scientific and technical societies.

PUBLISHED ENGLISH TEXTS OF FOREIGN PERIODICALS

I hope that no one here thinks that I have come along today to offer an alternative to the translation pools we heard about earlier this morning. On the contrary, I think that we need more pools and bigger ones. Nevertheless, although existing translation pools can be improved the point will eventually be reached when any further increase in the size and scope of a particular pooling system will result in it becoming so unwieldy that, from the user's point of view, it will be uneconomical either in terms of the cost of maintaining and using it, or in terms of the time taken to get an answer out of the system. To delay that time as long as possible I think we shall have to try to limit the rate of growth of these translation pools. One way of doing this would be to encourage the more extensive simultaneous publication of scientific texts in several languages. There is nothing new about this type of publication. For example, foreign authors may, if they wish, submit their manuscripts for publication in the regular English‐language journals. It is also common practice to find the papers of international conferences published in several languages and most people are familiar with the multi‐language Unesco publications and journals like Progressus which have been published in several languages for many years. In general, however, this practice has tended to be haphazard, but there is a notable exception in the case of the cover‐to‐cover translations of important Russian scientific journals. Here there has been a deliberate systematic approach and now there are about seventy of these publications appearing regularly. The rate of growth of these Russian cover‐to‐cover translations has been spectacular but this, I think, is the only peculiar thing about them. In point of fact the speed with which they have been launched merely reflects the speed with which we have all become uncomfortably aware of the high status of present‐day Russian research and technical development. The Russian translation situation, therefore, should not be regarded as an isolated or unusual phenomenon, and we should be prepared to see and encourage the growth of similar translating developments with other languages. We all know how quickly yesterday's underdeveloped countries can set up important scientific and technological research establishments, and, bearing this in mind, the necessity for a massive translating programme anologous to the Russian programme in a variety of languages which, hitherto, have not been very important for the communication of scientific information, may not be too far in the future. A detailed examination of the Russian translating situation will therefore be useful and may help us to decide how best to tackle the general translating problem.

Russian Scientific Journals available in English

Russian Scientific Journals available in English

Scientific Translations

As was mentioned last month in these pages, a Scientific Translations Center recently established in the Library of Congress will collect, catalog, announce, and make available for purchase foreign scientific translations from a large number of cooperating government agencies and laboratories, industrial laboratories, and scientific societies. Initially it will concentrate on translations of articles from Russian scientific journals with the possibility of eventually expanding the service to include enough languages to provide reasonably comprehensive coverage of the world's non‐English scientific literature. The Center was established by the National Science Foundation in collaboration with the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.