SCOPUS" PUBLICATIONS OF THE LEADING RUSSIAN UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR CHANCES OF ENTERING THE TOP - 100 RANKINGS OF THE AND QS
Using the example of 43 «global», national research and federal Russian Universities, the share of Scopus publications in the top five of their total number in 2019, the share of publications in 2019 which were excluded from the Scopus Database Journals in 2020 out of the total number of publications in the top five journals and the share of publications from the first five Journals related to the status of «Conferences and Proceedings» are calculated. There has been identified a number of Universities with the highest values of these shares. It is shown that relatively high rates of Scopus publication activity have been achieved by Universities through the expense of paid low-impact publications in the Status of «Conference and Proceedings». When comparing the publication activity of the Leading Russian Universities with Universities belonging to the «Tails» of TOP - 100 QS and THE Ratings, it has been concluded that the main goal of the 5-100 Project is not fulfilled. The collected and calculated data were compared with similar data for 2016.