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Erisman</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.47470/0044-197X-2026-70-1-82-88</article-id><article-id custom-type="edn" pub-id-type="custom">escfbi</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">rfhealth-2143</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>МЕДИЦИНСКОЕ ОБРАЗОВАНИЕ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>MEDICAL EDUCATION</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Российская медицинская наука в зарубежных журналах: количественный анализ потока публикаций</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Russian medical science in foreign journals: quantitative analysis of the publication flow</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4036-6723</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Дьяченко</surname><given-names>Екатерина Львовна</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Dyachenko</surname><given-names>Ekaterina L.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Науч. сотр. Центра институционального анализа науки и образования, Европейский университет в Санкт-Петербурге, 191187, Санкт-Петербург, Россия</p><p>e-mail: edyachenko@eu.spb.ru</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Researcher, Center for Institutional Analysis of Science and Education, European University at St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, 191187, Russian Federation</p><p>e-mail: edyachenko@eu.spb.ru</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">edyachenko@eu.spb.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1494-7540</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Агафонов</surname><given-names>Юрий Геннадьевич</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Agafonov</surname><given-names>Iurii G.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Науч. сотр., Ереванский центр международного образования, Ереван, 0025, Республика Армения</p><p>e-mail: yagafonov@eu.spb.ru</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Researcher, Yerevan Center for International Education, Yerevan, 0025, Republic of Armenia</p><p>e-mail: yagafonov@eu.spb.ru</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">yagafonov@eu.spb.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4677-5050</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Губа</surname><given-names>Катерина Сергеевна</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Guba</surname><given-names>Katerina S.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Канд. социол. наук, директор Центра институционального анализа науки и образования, Европейский университет в Санкт-Петербурге, 191187, Санкт-Петербург, Россия</p><p>e-mail: kguba@eu.spb.ru</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>PhD (Sociology), Head, Center for Institutional Analysis of Science and Education, European University at St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, 191187, Russian Federation</p><p>e-mail: kguba@eu.spb.ru</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">kguba@eu.spb.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="ru"><institution>Центр институционального анализа науки и образования, Европейский университет в Санкт-Петербурге</institution><country>Россия</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>Center for Institutional Analysis of Science and Education, European University at St. Petersburg</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff-2"><aff xml:lang="ru"><institution>Ереванский центр международного образования</institution><country>Армения</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>Yerevan Center for International Education</institution><country>Armenia</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2026</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>04</day><month>03</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>70</volume><issue>1</issue><fpage>82</fpage><lpage>88</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Дьяченко Е.Л., Агафонов Ю.Г., Губа К.С., 2026</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2026</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Дьяченко Е.Л., Агафонов Ю.Г., Губа К.С.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Dyachenko E.L., Agafonov I.G., Guba K.S.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://www.rfhealth.ru/jour/article/view/2143">https://www.rfhealth.ru/jour/article/view/2143</self-uri><abstract><sec><title>Введение</title><p>Введение. В России в 2010-е гг. на государственном уровне ставились задачи повышения результативности и качества медицинских исследований, интеграции в мировую науку.</p><p>Цель работы — изучить динамику публикационной активности российских медицинских учёных в зарубежных журналах в 2010–2020 гг. Результаты интересны в контексте оценки выполнения упомянутых задач.</p></sec><sec><title>Материалы и методы</title><p>Материалы и методы. Метод исследования — количественный анализ массива метаданных публикаций российских учёных в зарубежных научных журналах за 2010–2020 гг. Источники данных — базы Web of Science Core Collection (22 953 статей российских авторов), Scopus (34 413), Medline (37 468). Объединённый массив данных стратифицирован по уровню научных журналов.</p></sec><sec><title>Результаты</title><p>Результаты. Статьи в зарубежных журналах составляют меньшую часть потока публикаций российских учёных по медицинским наукам, однако эта часть быстро росла в 2010-е гг., и к 2020 г. превысила 20%. Рост наблюдался на всех ступенях журнальной иерархии — от слабых и недобросовестных журналов до авторитетных и элитных. Заметного падения числа статей российских учёных в зарубежных журналах в 2022–2023 гг. не наблюдается.</p></sec><sec><title>Ограничения исследования</title><p>Ограничения исследования. Исследование ограничено используемыми источниками данных: проанализированы только журналы из Scopus, Web of Science и Medline, что исключает часть мировых медицинских изданий. Кроме того, к российским отнесены все статьи с хотя бы одной аффилиацией автора с российской организацией, что не всегда отражает реальное происхождение исследований.</p></sec><sec><title>Выводы</title><p>Выводы. Российские авторы стали чаще публиковать результаты в зарубежных журналах, в том числе ведущих. Это свидетельствует о прогрессе в решении упомянутых задач повышения результативности исследований. Однако рост числа статей в слабых и недобросовестных журналах — негативный побочный эффект оценки учёных по публикациям, что требует корректировки используемых ранее подходов к стимулированию учёных публиковаться.</p><p>Соблюдение этических стандартов. Исследование не требует представления заключения комитета по биомедицинской этике или иных документов.</p></sec><sec><title>Участие авторов</title><p>Участие авторов: Дьяченко Е.Л. — концепция и дизайн исследования, написание текста; Агафонов Ю.Г. — сбор и обработка материала, написание текста, редактирование; Губа К.С. — концепция и дизайн исследования, редактирование. Все соавторы — утверждение окончательного варианта статьи, ответственность за целостность всех частей статьи.</p></sec><sec><title>Финансирование</title><p>Финансирование. Работа поддержана Европейским университетом в Санкт-Петербурге в рамках конкурса перспективных исследований.</p></sec><sec><title>Конфликт интересов</title><p>Конфликт интересов. Авторы декларируют отсутствие явных и потенциальных конфликтов интересов в связи с публикацией данной статьи.</p></sec><sec><title>Поступила</title><p>Поступила: 02.09.2024 / Поступила после доработки: 17.04.2025 / Принята к печати: 17.12.2025 / Опубликована: 04.03.2026</p></sec></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><sec><title>Introduction</title><p>Introduction. In Russia in the 2010s, at the state level the tasks of improving the efficiency and quality of medical research and integration into the world science were set.</p><p>The purpose of our work is to study the trend in publication activity of Russian medical scientists in foreign journals in 2010–2020. The results are interesting in the context of assessing the fulfilment of the mentioned tasks.</p></sec><sec><title>Materials and methods</title><p>Materials and methods. Research method — quantitative analysis of the metadata array of publications of Russian scientists in foreign scientific journals for 2010–2020. Data sources — Web of Science Core Collection (22,953 articles by Russian authors), Scopus (34,413), Medline (37,468). The combined data set is stratified by the level of scientific journals.</p></sec><sec><title>Results</title><p>Results. Articles in foreign journals account for a smaller portion of the publications by Russian scientists in medicine, but this portion has been growing in recent years and exceeded 20% by 2020. The growth in the number of foreign articles was observed at all levels of the journal hierarchy, from reputable journals to weak and more questionable ones. In reputable journals, no noticeable drop in the number of articles by Russian scientists was observed in 2022 and 2023.</p></sec><sec><title>Research limitations</title><p>Research limitations. The study is limited by its data sources: only journals indexed in Scopus, Web of Science, and Medline were analyzed, excluding part of the global medical literature. Additionally, all articles with at least one author affiliated with a Russian institution were classified as Russian, which may not accurately reflect the origin of the research.</p></sec><sec><title>Conclusions</title><p>Conclusions. Russian authors began to publish their results more often in foreign journals, including leading ones. This indicates some progress in solving the mentioned problems of improving research performance. However, the growing number of Russian articles in questionable journals represents an adverse side effect of the evaluation of scientists by publications, which requires adjusting the previously used approaches to stimulating scientists to publish.</p><p>Compliance with ethical standards. The study does not require the submission of a biomedical ethics committee opinion or other documents.</p><p>Contribution of the authors: Dyachenko E.L. — the concept and design of the study, writing a text, editing; Agafonov Iu.G. — the collection and processing of the material, writing a text, editing; Guba K.S. — the concept and design of the study, editing. All authors are responsible for the integrity of all parts of the manuscript and approval of the manuscript final version.</p></sec><sec><title>Funding</title><p>Funding. The work was supported by the European University in St. Petersburg within the framework of the competition for prospective studies.</p></sec><sec><title>Conflict of interest</title><p>Conflict of interest. The authors declare no conflict of interest.</p></sec><sec><title>Received</title><p>Received: September 2, 2024 / Revised: April 17, 2025 / Accepted: December 17, 2025 / Published: March 4, 2026</p></sec></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>российская медицинская наука</kwd><kwd>публикационная активность</kwd><kwd>Web of Science</kwd><kwd>Scopus</kwd><kwd>Medline</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Russian medical science</kwd><kwd>scientific performance</kwd><kwd>Web of Science</kwd><kwd>Scopus</kwd><kwd>Medline</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Власова В.В., Гохберг Л.М., Дитковский К.А., Коцемир М.Н., Кузнецова И.А., Мартынова С.В. и др. Индикаторы науки — 2023: статистический сборник. 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