Russian Library of Science: Current State and Perspectives

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1 PLEIADES PUBLISHING Russian Library of Science: Current State and Perspectives Nikolai Avanesov

2 The number of Russian journals according to РИНЦ Now

3 Selection of Russian journals for indexing services Indexing Number of journals Future (2023) Web of Science Core Collection Emerging Sources Citation Index 172 Web of Science Russian Science Citation Index 773 РИНЦ >

4 Key figures (Clarivate Analytics): 2017 World Russia articles articles (1.91%) 172 titles indexed in JCR articles with at least one Russian author in all journals (41%) articles with at least one Russian author in Russian journals 4

5 Publications of Russian authors in journals indexed in Scopus and WoS Russian journals Foreign journals 5

6 Publications of Russian authors in journals indexed in Scopus and WoS (in %) Russian journals Foreign journals 6

7 PLEIADES PUBLISHING GROUP What is Russian Library of Science? 7

8 Publishers of Former USSR-based journals in English Begell House 17 Turpion 6 OTHERS 21 Springer Nature 36 Pleiades 181 OTHERS: American Mathematical Society (5), Walter de Gruyter GmbH (5), Elsevier (5), Taylor & Francis (3) Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (1), AIP (1), Wiley (1), Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (1) 8

9 Approach to publishing ELSEVIER and others Pleiades Publishing High impact factor policy Package policy 9

10 Russian Library of Science PLEIADES PUBLISHING ALLERTON PRESS 181 Russian Library of Science 36 Published by Springer Nature Distributed by Springer Nature 10

11 Overall original journals (most of them in Russian) Pleiades in Russian Library of Science base added 181 integrated 11

12 Publishing strategies 1. Completely new title (base journal). 2. A new journal is formed by merging original Russian-language journals (integrated journal). 3. The volume of an existing journal is increased by adding issues or articles from other journals (added journals). 12

13 Integrated journal 6 issues 6 issues 6 issues 13

14 Added content +3 issues 9 issues +2 issues 14

15 Journals of the Russian Academy of Sciences University journals Industry-based journals Journals of Research Centers Other journals 19 % 2 % 3 % 10 % 66 % International journals 15

16 PLEIADES PUBLISHING GROUP What we managed to do for the last 10 years? 16

17 All translated journal titles of the Soviet period are preserved. 89 new titles added. There s no gap between the time of publication of Russian and Englishlanguage versions of the journals. 17

18 Distribution: all articles are available at together with other journals and collections 18

19 Sample performance: English-language journal SpringerLink downloads, 2016 Russian-language journal elibrary downloads, 2016 Fluid Dynamics Механика жидкости и газа 1178 Russian Journal of Organic Chemistry Журнал органической химии

20 Number of journals with WoS Impact Factors:

21 Average WoS Impact Factors: 0,7 0,525 0,502 0,49 0,46 0,467 0,461 0,442 0,51 0,55 0,585 0,635 0,7 0,35 0,354 0,

22 Top journals according to impact factors PHYSICAL MESOMECHANICS 2,380 BIOCHEMISTRY-MOSCOW 1,724 POLYMER SCIENCE SERIES C 1,400 REGULAR & CHAOTIC DYNAMICS 1,383 JETP LETTERS 1,363 ASTROPHYSICAL BULLETIN 1,290 JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL PHYSICS 1,255 ASTRONOMY LETTERS 1,160 THERMOPHYSICS AND AEROMECHANICS 1,156 PETROLOGY 1,136 GEOTECTONICS 1,134 COMBUSTION EXPLOSION AND SHOCK WAVES 1,114 COLLOID JOURNAL 1,112 HIGH TEMPERATURE 1,064 PLASMA PHYSICS REPORTS 1,049 22

23 Various conveniences for authors: Color Illustrations Supplementary materials 23

24 All journals are members of the Committee on Publication Ethics 24

25 Abstracting/Indexing 117 journals are getting Impact Factors (IF) 1 journal will get an IF in journals are accepted for Emerging Sources Citation (ESCI) Index 23 journals were submitted for ESCI evaluation 25

26 Editor s Pick: Free access option to the best articles in 15 journals: 26

27 Number of articles published

28 Full text downloads

29 Why full text downloads decreased? Percentage of Russian authors publishing their articles outside of Russia-based journals (according to WoS) 60 % 45 % 54 % 59 % 30 % 34 % 15 % 0 %

30 30 Top 10 journals in terms of full-text downloads (2016) Journal Downloads 1 Russian Chemical Bulletin Theoretical and Mathematical Physics Russian Journal of Organic Chemistry Mathematical Notes Biochemistry (Moscow) Combustion, Explosion, and Shock Waves Fluid Dynamics Russian Journal of Applied Chemistry Siberian Mathematical Journal Functional Analysis and Its Applications

31 Forms of peer review Journals single blind double blind open 31

32 Number of reviewers per journal Journals from 10 to 50 reviewers from 50 to 100 reviewers from 100 to 300 reviewers > 300 reviewers 32

33 Reviewers that are not members of the editorial board Journals from 5% to 50% from 50% to 70% from 70% to 90% from 90% to 100% 33

34 Rejection rates Journals 23 0 from 5% to 20% from 20% to 40% from 40% to 60% from 60% to 75% 34

35 Distribution of Journals over quartiles in JCR (all Russia-based journals) Q1 2 % Q2 4 % Q3 20 % Q4 74 % 35

36 Halfway to the main goal Translation journals International journals 36

37 International authors: 18,45 % 23,14 % 25,7 % 27,8 %

38 Future International journals in which expat community from the Former USSR is properly represented International authors with proportional representation of Russia International peer reviewers International editorial boards Editorial management system and faster publications 38