Научные журналы библиотечно-информационной сферы в индексах цитирования

Abstract

The authors analyze the presence of the Russian journals in library and information sciences in the leading databases with the citation analysis function, i. e. Web of Science Core Collection (WoS CC), including Emerging Sources Citation Index, Scopus and Russian Index of Science Citation, as well as Russian Science Citation Index, EBSCO, LISA. About fifty Russian journals in these disciplines are revealed. The authors emphasize their insufficient coverage by the science citation databases. They suggest the following reasons for this situation: the limited number of journals in the library and information studies, non-compliance with formal requirements of citation databases, low quality of publications. The authors formulate the measures to improve the situation: to comply with international standards, to improve their quality so they could compete to foreign journals, as the international database generators and experts use international standards to select science journals for indexing.