Topical issues of scientometric and bibliometric researches in health resort study
The article is dedicated to an urgent problem. There is a necessity to increase the publication activity of scientific teams and research associates who work in balneology. There is some information about journals on resort study in the databases of Web of Science, Scopus, and RSCI with indication of the impact factor. The article also provides a bibliometric feature of journals on resort study, publication statistics RSCI FSBI PSSRIRS FMBA of Russia in medical and non-medical journals during the period from 2005 to 2012, and a comparative analysis of the publication activity of the leading health-resort scientific research institutions of Russia. There have been published objectives to enhance scientometric indicators for a scientific institution, a certain select scientist and editors of professional journals.