Vadim N. Gureyev

State Public Scientific Technological Library, SB RAS · Laboratory of Information and System Analysis

The paper presents a review of function capabilities and coverage of sources in open bibliographic databases that can be useful in the limited access to proprietary information systems. Databases were primarily evaluated with regard to their usefulness for researchers and research libraries who solve the problems of information and patent search, b...

In the last decade, an assessment of research activity and information support of Russian scientists were mainly based on commercial databases Web of Science and Scopus, which were subscribed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Currently, one may use only preview modules of both systems that lack functional possibilities for search, al...

The paper aims to detect publication contributions of editorial board members (EBMs) to academic journal ranking as exemplified by Russian LIS serials divided into three groups according to their authority. To reveal the EBMs' contribution in each group, papers by EBMs in their parent journals as well as other sources were studied with comparative...

In the current context of information risks of losing access to commercial international information resources, the problem of intensive development of Russian academic journals is of particular importance. One of the unsolved problems includes extremely low presence and visibility of journals' archives in the digital information space. At the same...

The authors compare the models of publishing processes in Russian and international academic journals. It is shown that current publishing process beginning with manuscript submission and ending with publication is significantly more attractive in international journals as compared to obsolete Russian approaches. In the context of the increased sig...

The report discusses current requirements to preparation, storing and presentation of metadata on scholarly output of researchers at scientific organization. The authors (a) underline the need for permanent modernization of internal databases in response to growth in the number of new data fields describing the paper; (b) justify the necessity to p...

The first part of this paper presented the current knowledge on two very significant respiratory diseases with high pandemic potential, COVID-19 and influenza. The second part reviews other pathogens that cause acute respiratory viral infections, ARVI, including parainfluenza viruses, adenoviruses, pneumoviruses and specifically respiratory syncyti...

The article gives a review of scientific publications and regulatory documents connected with reclamation activities at the sites of waste storage in the mining industry in the Russian Federation. The environmental, economic and social impacts of mining are discussed. The role of reclamation in the recovery of the disturbed lands and ecosystems is...

Acute respiratory viral infections are the most common human diseases. Symptoms of the infection vary from a slight cold to critical condition requiring artificial lung ventilation and support of cardiovascular system. Main risk factors of severe disease include high viral load, co-infection with other pathogens, age from 0 to 2 years and older tha...

Acute respiratory viral infections are the most common human diseases. Symptoms of the infection vary from a slight cold to critical condition requiring artificial lung ventilation and support of cardiovascular system. Main risk factors of severe disease include high viral load, co-infection with other pathogens, age from 0 to 2 years and older tha...

Vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 and other viral infections requires safe, effective, and inexpensive vaccines that can be rapidly developed. DNA vaccines are candidates that meet these criteria, but one of their drawbacks is their relatively weak immunogenicity. Electroporation (EP) is an effective way to enhance the immunogenicity of DNA vaccines,...

Aiming to increase Russian journals’ authority and enhance their readership, and consequently, journals’ rankings, detection of reasons for Russian authors’ transition to foreign journals is important. Recent studies demonstrated that up to one-third of Russian authors orients toward top-tiered foreign serials and do not intend to change their publ...

The report describes the experience of the authors as peer-reviewers in Russian and foreign academic journals on Library and Information Science. Shortcomings in the manuscripts are classified. Differences between the results of peer-review in Russian and foreign journals are detected. Some recommendations to enhancement of peer-review process in R...

The paper considers issues of the development, filling, and maintenance of databases of research papers published by authors employed in a given research organization. Such databases should show relationships between entities within the database and links to metadata elements in external databases to enable functional search of bibliometric informa...

The authors discuss the problem of publications by editorial board members in their parent journal with relation to bibliometrics and publication ethics. This issue is of the same nature as self-citedness. However, while self-citedness is classified, its motivation factors are defined, and recommendations are provided for the ethical thresholds, th...

Academic papers are rightly believed to be the only visible and therefore measurable result of research activity. This feature of papers became the main reason for the broad use of bibliometric assessment of science. Its high popularity was caused by significantly increased functionality and usability of bibliographic systems tools. At the same tim...

Publication ethics principles became one of the main aspects of conducting scientific research and presenting its results. Publication ethics challenges cover a wide range of problems of varying importance that involve all participants of publication processes: authors, academic authorities, peer-reviewers, editorial board members, publishers, and...

The paper briefly reviews pathogens causing acute respiratory viral infections (ARVIs), including influenza viruses; coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2; parainfluenza viruses, adenoviruses, pneumoviruses, and specifically respiratory syncytial virus and metapneumoviruses, enteroviruses, rhinoviruses, and bocaviruses. This review presents modern da...

The paper summarizes experience of the authors as peer-reviewers of more than 100 manuscripts in twelve Russian and foreign academic journals on Library and Information Science in the last seven years. Prepared peer-reviews were used for making a list of the most usual critical and special comments for each manuscript that were subsequently structu...

The relevance of the study is caused by the increased necessity to solve ecological issues in Russian Arctic regions considering their importance for the development of the country. The task complexity lies both in the presence of cumulative environmental damage and the topicality to elaborate sustainable approaches to natural resource development...

The authors review the papers delivered at the Third Scientific Conference “Scientometrics, bibliometrics, open data and publications in science” held within the framework of the Sixth World Professional Forum “The Book. Culture. Education. Innovations” (“Crimea–2021”) (June 5–13, 2021, Republic of Crimea, Russian Federation). The Conference key to...

Editorial board members (EBMs) of academic journals play a critical role in the verification of the quality of published papers and dissemination of knowledge. This results in increased interest in the work and scholarly output of EBMs themselves, including publications in parent journal. This paper tries to specify various publication relationship...

The phenomenon of academic mobility attracts the increased attention of researchers in recent years due to complicating scientific interactions, escalation of research migration flows and enhanced significance of mobility for scientific progress, dissemination of knowledge, and career development of researchers. The rapid increase in the number of...

The authors use an example of Russian journals in Earth sciences to analyze the availability of altmetrics for additional evaluation of different features of serials. The set of altmetrics aggregated by Plum Analytics on the Scopus platform was studied. We demonstrate the availability and applicability of the altmetrics like abstract views, full-te...

A review of studies on the question of the mobility of Russian scientists in the recent period of Rus-sian history is provided. The main stages and trends in the development of academic mobility over the past three decades are shown. The geography of migration flows, which involve employees of Russian research organizations and universities, is gen...

The study aims to detect publication contributions of editorial board members (EBMs) to ranks of academic journals as exemplified by Russian Library and Information Science serials. We failed to find any relationship between journal rank and a share of EBMs papers in a parent journal. Citation analyses of papers by EBMs as well as citations of a pa...

Revealing research fronts and detecting research priorities are one of the most significant problems in the science of science and scientific policy due to the crucial importance when planning research. Bibliometric approaches are the main tool when detecting research trends and fronts providing the basis for further expertise of research priority....

Ключевую роль в процессах верификации качества публикаций и распространения знаний играют члены редакционных коллегий научных журналов. Это вызывает повышенный интерес к их работе и публикационной активности, в том числе в собственном издании. Предпринята попытка выделить типы возможных публикационных отношений журнала и членов его редколлегии и да...

The authors attempt to determine publishing contribution of editorial board members (EBM) into the rating of their parent journals as exemplified by Russian journals in library and information sciences divided into low-, middle-, and top-rank groups. To determine this contribution, we studied EBM scholarly input to their parent journals vs. to othe...

Various models of editorial board members’ publishing in parent journal are examined. Editorial membership makes an important stage of the academic career; hence, this requires careful bibliometric examination of editor researchers’ publication strategies. We examine the popular approaches of editors-in-chief toward publications by their editorial...

Identifying research priorities and trends is one of the most important strategic tasks of scientific organizations. Its accomplishment enables to distribute limited funds more efficiently and to establish an interest balance between various stakeholders in research activity; it also makes research organization and its structural divisions more com...

Editorial board members (EBMs) of academic journals have been frequently studied for better understanding the principles of their functioning, impact on editorial policy, publication ethics, and entire scientific progress. One of the promising trends is to quantitatively evaluate the contribution of EBMs to the scholarly output of parent journals....

The paper reviews two recent monographs by Vladimir S. Lazarev, a well-known expert in scientific information, scientometrics, and bibliometrics as its application area – “Nobel Class Citedness Level and the Notions that Designate Characteristics and Properties of Cited Scientific Documents”; “Citedness as the Means of Representation of Value and Q...

Detection of perspective research areas in academic studies is of key importance for successful development and enhancement of the competitive performance of research organizations, universities, and the country. This task is usually solved by the expert community; however, the use of results of bibliometric analysis can give significant support to...

The methodological and technical aspects of identifying research fronts and trends in the development of science are considered. Based on the literature data, a comparison of scientometric methods for finding research fronts was carried out: analysis of publication activity, direct citation analysis, co-citation analysis , bibliographic coupling, a...

The report discusses opportunities of a university or scientific organization library in detecting research fronts and research priorities. As such tasks require the use of bibliometric approaches, the involvement of academic libraries in their solution is believed to be logical and necessary. The paper describes current tools for the detection of...

Information literacy and acquaintance with publication ethics including issues on authorship, copyright, plagiarism, and conflict of interest in changed conditions of organization and distribution of research and development information has become a key competency influencing the effectiveness of scientific work and the academic career of a scienti...

This report presents a bibliometric approach to identifying research fronts in scientific organizations, based on a multiplex analysis of the flow of publications of authors from the analyzed organization. A model for more accurate subject clustering of publications of a scientific organization based on the GRNTI classification is proposed and test...

Detection of research priority is of key importance for the development of research organizations, universities, country, and society. The paper briefly reviews a range of issues accompanying the processes of research priority setting. These issues are primarily discussed in biomedical papers due to their utmost importance in the system of healthca...

Unfair authorship is one of the most common violations of the publication ethics. These violations comprise «guest», «donated» and «invisible» authorship when the author line indicates the persons that actually are not the authors, or, instead lacks actual executors of studies. This phenomenon is characteristic for the world as a whole; however, th...

Twenty two science Russian periodicals in informatics and library studies are selected for the bibliometrical analysis of key journal indicators, including publication activity of the same journals’ editorial staff. For the first time for domestic journals, the study reveals hidden self-citation when editorial members include links to their journal...

The phenomenon of scientific mobility, actively developing in recent decades, attracts increasing attention of researchers in view of its importance for the development of science, dissemination of scientific knowledge, making informed decisions in the management of science and training of qualified personnel. Based on an extensive analysis of the...

The relevance of the research is caused by the environmental risks in relation to the technogenic thawing of permafrost soils in the waste storage sites of mining enterprises in the Far North. The main aim of the research is the analysis of world experience on the problems of the permafrost degradation, the filtration channels in fractured tectonic...

FREE FULL TEXT is available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SVZ7DXRJH7NDECFGWKTY/full?target=10.1080/00987913.2020.1730145 Currently, a broad set of bibliometric indices for evaluation of journal quality, the level of its internationalization, and interactions between serials are available. However, some cases require one to obtain more pre...

The manual presents the main methodological approaches to working with cell cultures: management of cell cultures, their passirovanie, counting cells per unit volume, preparation of antibiotic solutions, dispersing solutions and nutrient media for working with cell cultures, contamination of cell cultures and methods of its detection, cryopreservat...

Рассматриваются методологические и технические аспекты выявления исследовательских фронтов и тенденций развития науки. На материале литературных данных проведено сравнение наукометрических методов для поиска исследовательских фронтов: анализа публикуемости, прямого анализа цитирования, анализа социтирования, метода библиографического сочетания и ко...

The bibliometrical approach toward revealing priority science vectors in research organizations based on the multifactor analysis of staff publications is discussed. Using the content analysis and citation analysis methods, the author suggests to formulate inquiry profiles within organizational subject scope in the Web of Science, a scientometric d...

Examination of geographic distribution and publication activity of journal editorial members makes a new scientometrical approach towards assessing periodicals and related disciplines. The findings of the analysis of Russian journals in information and library sciences demonstrate: the location of the major expert communities in Moscow, St. Petersb...

A complication of academic research, the emergence of new subject areas at the intersection of different scientific disciplines, increase in international collaboration are accompanied by an increase in the number of co-authors resulting in the problem of author attribution requiring the development of new approaches to detecting authors’ roles and...

FULL TEXT: https://www.rfbr.ru/rffi/ru/books/o_2099699#1 A study “Influenza viruses. Methods” comprises two parts. The first part includes a contemporary view on influenza viruses structure and reproduction, epidemiology and immunopathogenesis of influenza infection, preventive vaccination, and etiotropic drugs. The second part describes detailed p...

FREE FULL TEXT is available at https://rdcu.be/b2QRG. Unfair authorship in scientific publications is one of the most common types of violations of publication ethics, which is associated either with the unfair inclusion among authors of persons who do not meet the criteria for authorship, or, conversely, with the concealment of the real performers...

Unethical authorship implying addition in byline authors who fail to satisfy authorship criteria is believed to be one the type of plagiarism and is widespread type of violation of publication ethics. Academic and publishing communities developed different approaches to prevent and eliminate unethical authorship including the development of additio...

In the last few years, scientific mobility phenomenon has attracted greater attention of some researchers working in different subject areas due to the increased significance of migration of scientists in the new context of computerization, globalization of science, and an increase in the number of cross- and multidisciplinary studies. This paper b...

Scientific challenge: A study of the current state of library and information sciences via bibliometric analysis of scientific journals and their editorial board members, i. e. geographic distribution and bibliometric analysis of their scholarly output resulting in additional approaches to evaluate serials and scientific area. Purpose: Bibliometric...

Among a variety of types of scientists' misconduct, the problem of authorship is of special significance. Detection of such inappropriate types of authorship as guest, gift or ghost authorships implying fictive participation of one researcher or the absence in the byline of another researcher who had taken part in a study is one of the topical issu...

Peer-review is the basis for the publication process and has to warrant the high quality of conducted study and published materials. Most decisions regarding the funding of studies and career progress of researchers are based on peer-reviewed papers which highlights the significance of refereeing. Furthermore, it gains critical importance in the co...

This paper describes the how the scholarly output of researchers impacts upon their career development. Bibliometric approaches were engaged to study the frequency of publications of prominent scientists from the Novosibirsk Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences during their career. This included their thesis d...

!!!FREE TEXT is available at: https://rdcu.be/bnqgh !!! Information experts and objects of academic publishing have been paying greater attention to the analysis of the composition and research activities of editorial boards in recent years. The results of studies on the geographical and gender distribution of editorial board members in scientific...

The phenomenon of academic mobility which is actively developing in recent years attracts increased attention of researchers due to its significance for the development of science, the spread of knowledge, and making informed decisions when managing science and training specialists. The report describes main approaches and methodological aspects of...

The paper presents a ten-year bibliometric study of “Seismic Technologies” journal published by Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics. In the study, we used both generally accepted bibliometric methods including citation analysis, detection of a share of uncited papers, distribution of citations per years, analysis of the level of...

Precise identification in bibliographic systems is a basic condition to data exchange and carrying out complete and verifiable bibliometric analysis of scholarly output and research capacity of scientific organization or university. Such an analysis can be conducted at different levels - the whole organization level, department, laboratory, researc...

Altmetrics was developed in 2010 and have attracted the high interest of publishers, researchers, and generators of information databases. Altmetrics quickly obtained high popularity and have become one of the additional assessment tools for evaluation of scientific work. Currently, they are represented on the websites of large publishing houses, b...

The correlation between the scholarly output dynamics and researchers’ career dynamics, e.g. promotion to a higher post, thesis defence or election to the academy of sciences, is analyzed. By the example of the heads of the Novosibirsk research center institutes of the RAS Siberian Branch, we demonstrate that, as a rule, career promotion result in...

Bibliometric evaluation of academic journals is the basis for its further complex assessment, and the accuracy of its results influences significantly the viability of decisions taken by editors or experts. The paper introduces several possible approaches to journal evaluation and is exemplified by “Seismic Technologies”. We used both generally acc...

This report represents the results of bibliometric analyses of well logging publications in the last 20 years to detect modern trends in the development of this subject area. Research activity in well logging is of wave-shaped form. At the same time, scholarly output has steadily increased from after 2005. List of leading countries is developed and...

The database of the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI), presented on the Web of Science (WoS) platform and operating since 2015, is designed to increase the citedness of Russian publications by the world scientific community, primarily by WoS users. RSCI includes the “core” of Russian journals on all trends of science, and the very presence of a...

Influenza is one of highly contagious acute virus diseases that primarily affects respiratory ways. Annual seasonal epidemics afflict approximately 15% population worldwide and lead to 250,000-500,000 deaths each year. That is why studies on influenza vaccines and vaccination that prevent spreading of the virus remain highly important. This paper p...

The paper describes study results in translated plagiarism detection in academic texts using ci-tation analysis. The method of comparison of References was proposed in early 2010-s and has concurrently developed in our and one foreign research team. The main feature of our ap-proach is searching the original source for suspected paper not in full-t...

Identification of organizations in bibliographic databases is still unsolved problem. While Eu-ropean countries have already formed authority files with all universities and research centers which is represented in unique organization profiles with complete information on their publi-cation activity, Russian organizations will have to carry out sim...

In the last five years the authors have studied applicability of citation analysis to the problem of detection of translated plagiarism. During these years we verified the efficiency of this method and carried out several applied studies. It enabled us to detect a number of illegal uses of borrowed foreign texts in several research areas. We showed...

The results of the works published in international journals for the recent 20 years have been given. Current trends in well logging have been revealed. A wavy activity and a steady increase in the number of publications in this sphere have been shown. A list of countries with the maximum number of investigations has been formed. Scientific relatio...

Translated plagiarism has widely spread in a scientific world and posed a serious problem due to the challenges in its automatic detection. However, in the last five years some progress has been observed in this area. The authors of this paper, as well as foreign research team from several universities independently of each other proposed an approa...

Translated plagiarism has widely spread in a scientific world and posed a serious problem due to the challenges of its automatic detection. The authors of this paper, as well as the foreign research team from several universities independently of each other, proposed an approach to detect plagiarism based on citation analysis, which supposed search...

Russian Science Citation Index database located on Web of Science platform and launched in 2015 is of significant interest for the analysis, since (1) it is a new product for evaluation of the results of Russian scientific studies, and (2) it was developed to enhance the quality of Russian serials and openness of Russian science worldwide. The aim...

Russian Science Citation Index database that was launched in 2015 and located on Web of Science platform is of great interest for analysis since it is new system for evaluation of research results of Russian scientists and is formed to enhance the quality of domestic journals and visibility of Russian science in the global scientific community. The...

Novosibirsk National Research State University is one of Russia’s most intensively developing higher education institutions, demonstrating the highest growth rates of publishing activity. This is largely due to the university’s participation in the Program of Improving the Competitiveness of Leading Russian Higher Education Establishments (Project...

In the last few years, analysis of editorial boards and their research activity attract increased attention of both scientometrists and academic publishing industry specialists. Research findings concerning geographic distribution of editorial board members, comparison of these data with geographic distribution of journal authors, correlation betwe...

The findings of bibliometric analysis of two lists: journals in the Russian Science Citation Index database on the Web of Science platform, and that of the top journals in the Russian Science Citation Index are discussed. It is stressed that of 624 RSCI journals, only the half holds top positions in the Science Index rating. Meanwhile over 6% RSCI...

This book aims to introduce key information on preparation of manuscripts to publishing and description of modern tools helping authors to correctly format and submit their paper. Besides, basic information on functioning of papers after their publication is presented, as well as bibliometric methods of their evaluation are described. This textbook...

The paper presents the results of laboratory trials of method using complex initial testing of antibodies to six agents of hemotransmissible infections: HIV, hepatitis B and C viruses, cytomegalovirus, Treponema pallidum and Toxoplasma gondii. The method is based on multiplexed dot immunoassay using plane protein arrays (immunochips) with the use o...