Moskovkin Vladimir – (Belgorod National Research University, Russia)
Xingyuan Sun – (Belgorod National Research University, Russia)
The article presents the calculation of the scientists’ rankings based on standard indicators of Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI) without binding these indicators to the journal publication is erroneous, as in this case, it reveals an excessive number of citations of textbooks and monographs coming from the dissertations and their abstracts. This conclusion is drawn from calculations by E.V. Balatsky rating for 2016 which formalized a known criminal scheme of wrapping of the citation and h-index, which uses two different groups of journals, one of which publishes articles of the members of the conference organizing Committee, and secondly, is the journal used for the wrapping links of the members of the organizing Committee. The article presents also a comparative correlation-regression analysis of Russian economists’ rankings of E.V. Balatsky for 2015 and 2016., which showed a bad consistency, which indicates significant differences in their calculation methodologies.
Highlights:
• titled scientists at the top of the rankings are winning through a huge number of links to their monographs and textbooks, coming mainly from theses
• the tradition of preferential citation of a certain range of award-winning scientists comes from the Soviet era
• in Soviet times, there were no "Publish or Perish" races for a number of publications and h-index, but was the desire to publish good paper in domestic or foreign academic respectable journal
• 117 scientists and economists from the rating 2016 didn’t take part in the rating 2015, that shows the fundamental differences in both methodologies
• the calculation of the rankings of scientists based on standard RSCI indicators without tying these indicators to the journal publications is incorrect, as in this case, we find an unusually large number of citations of books and monographs from theses and their abstracts
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