SCIENTOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS OF JOURNALS PUBLISHING ARTICLES ON TUBERCULOSIS, ACCORDING TO THE RISC DATA FOR 2016
The international scientific community is currently facing the need for scientometric information providing a great interest in global Science Citation Index. The Russian national scientometric base is the RISC system, created on the basis of the NEB elibrary.ru. The aim of this study is to examine the priorities of publications in the thematic direction on the issue of "Tuberculosis". In accordance with SRSTI classification, the RISC system presents six editions on the search on "Tuberculosis". They are original and not represented in the leading foreign Web of science and Scopus bases. A comparative analysis was performed on standard scientometric indicators reflecting the extent and frequency of publications, number of citations and authors self-citations, indexes of Herfindal- Hirschman as well as IF factors. An integrated assessment on a uniform scale was carried out taking into consideration the distribution of a large range of indicators and qualitative evaluation. The data obtained revealed the leading position of the “Tuberculosis and Lung Disease” journal. The journal is the most relevant being of the greatest interest for the international scientific community.