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Trends are analysed in the annual number of documents published by Russian institutions and indexed in Scopus and Web of Science, giving special attention to the time period starting in the year 2013 in which the Project 5-100 was launched by the Russian Government. Numbers are broken down by document type, publication language, type of source, research discipline, country and source. It is concluded that Russian publication counts strongly depend upon the database used, and upon changes in database coverage, and that one should be cautious when using indicators derived from WoS, and especially from Scopus, as tools in the measurement of research performance and international orientation of the Russian science system.
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The authors wish to thank Dr Alexander Libkind from the All Russian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information of the Russian Academy of Sciences (VINITI) for his comments on an earlier version of this paper. They are also grateful to two anonymous referees for their valuable comments on an earlier version of our manuscript.
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This paper is partly supported by the Russian Foundation of Basic Research (Grant: 17-02-00157)
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Moed, H.F., Markusova, V. & Akoev, M. Trends in Russian research output indexed in Scopus and Web of Science. Scientometrics 116, 1153–1180 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-018-2769-8
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