Changes in the Publication Field of Russian Scientific Works in Modern Conditions

The article examines the issue of how forced restrictions imposed by the sanctions manifest themselves when Russian authors choose journals to publish their scientific papers. It specifies changes in the list of journals that publish works by researchers from several well-known Russian scientific organizations (three research institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences and three universities). They specialize in the Physics subject area and are located in three leading scientific centers of the country (Moscow, St. Petersburg and Novosibirsk). A comparison of arrays of publications in academic journals selected in the Russian Science Citation Index database using the same queries for 2020 and 2023 is carried out (separately for each of the organizations).It is shown that the volume of publication arrays for all the participants was significantly smaller in 2023 than that in 2020. The range of journals selected for publication is narrowing. We can see an obvious reorientation of authors towards journals published in Russia. A list of publishers (in descending order of the number of publications in their journals) is drawn up for each of the years and for each of the organizations. Almost in all cases, when considering the period from 2020 to 2023, Russian publishers begin to rank first in these lists instead of well-known foreign ones, but the latter ones still remain there, albeit with a significantly smaller number of publications. At the same time, the suites of Russian journals also often consist of fairly highly rated ones. Therefore, after conducting an analysis of journals indexed in the international WoS and Scopus databases, we have find out that the total number of such journals remained quite large in 2023.

scientific journals, physics, Russian publications, publishers, publication field, sanctions, impact