On Paper Citation by Web of Science and Scopus From Translated Russian Journals
Detailed analysis is given of the presentation and citation policies regarding papers from English-translated Russian journals indexed in the bibliographic databases Web of Science and Scopus. The change in the Web of Science accounting policies on the citations of Russian publications is traced for the period 1960–2013. We also consider similar features of the Scopus database. Considerable losses in the account of the actual paper citation from Russian scientific journals are revealed that make it impossible for the data collected directly from the systems analysis of these databases to be used to evaluate results achieved by individual authors, research groups and Russian science in general. It is only through sophisticated search using special database tools and by considerably recalculating all the available data that correct citation indexes can be obtained for Russian journal publications. Solution of the correct account of citations to articles from the translated Russian journals is possible with Digital Objects Identifier (DOI), and this approach has already been successfully demonstrated by the MathNet database system.