Russian Science Citation Index on the WoS platform: a critical assessment

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2019, Pages 1162-1168

  Kassian, Alexei ^a,b   Melikhova, Larisa ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF LINGUISTICS   (Russian Federation)

^b RUSSIAN PRESIDENTIAL ACADEMY OF NATIONAL ECONOMY AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION   (Russian Federation)

^c Dissernet   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Dissernet; Disseropedia of Russian Journals; Plagiarism; Predatory journals; Publishing ethics; Russian Science Citation Index

Indexed keywords

EID: 85071304180     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/JD-02-2019-0033     Document Type: Article

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