Russian Scientific Publications for the COVID-19 Period | Mikhail Gorbunov-Posadov | 2020

Russian Scientific Publications for the COVID-19 Period

Mikhail Gorbunov-Posadov, orcid https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7044-8287

"Abstract. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world of scientific publications: rapid publication and simplified access for articles about the virus, the jump in popularity of preprints, open access to scientific publications for a time of self-isolation in the world and in Russia. There is an impressive differ- ence between the number of readers for Russian scientific articles in open access and in paid access. The paradox of the lack of open access to the journals of the Russian Academy of Sciences. CyberLeninka is a scientific electronic library based on the open science paradigm. Impressive growth in readership of CyberLeninka: 52 million readers in 2019, 250 million articles read. Online meeting of the dissertation council. eLibrary news: opening the API, but no direct access to the list of publications that cite this topic. Comprehensive publication activity score from the Ministry of education and science: stifling Russian scientific journals, lowering the prestige of monographs, ignoring newly emerging journals."