Russian medical studies on the map of national and world science, 1993–2020: The findings of WoS data scientometric analysis

The authors discuss the findings of the empirical bibliometric analysis of the dynamics of 1993–2020 national and international publications on cardiovascular system (С&CVS) and medicine and health (M&H) in SCI-E database (WoS). The study revealed that by 2020, the share of Russian M&H publications was almost as twice (10.9%) as the share of the same publications in the world M&H array. The share of Russian funded C&CVS publications was growing at heady rate, from 3.0% in 2010 up to 24.9% in 2020. The citation analysis of C&CVS publications evidences that the impact of competitive financing is much higher than that of the Open Access system. The Cardiology journal leaded in the Russian publications in 2020 and in 2016 and was publishing foreign articles intensively. The Russian cardiologists were active authors in the most prestigious international journals in 2016: 7% of publications in European Journal of Heart Failure and 6.2% in Atherosclerosis journal. The findings of the study can be used for planning science policy in medicine and health.

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