Bibliometrics and hunting the predators

Abstract

Brief review of the International scientific-practical conference "Information support of science and education: Scientometrics and bibliometrics" held in Moscow on September, 2017, is presented. Some issues of bibliometric analysis are discussed. The authors focus mainly on the papers on bibliometric analysis instruments and technologies and researcher productivity. Explosive growth of publications, expansion of electronic media and open access publications (golden version) have given rise to the infringement of publication ethics, and emerging of predatory publishers and journals. Among other conference topics were the following: global and domestic trends of research, quality of Russian science publications, correlation between subscription costs and scientometric factors, RSCI analysis, etc. Special attention is given to paper by V. G. Bogorovs “Web of Science - the world of international science journals: Regional and global science citation indexes”, who discussed the criteria of selection for the Web of Science Core Collection.