Analysis of Bibliometric Indicators of the Journal “Vestnik IzhGTU imeni M.T. Kalashnikova”

Abstract

The analysis of bibliometric indicators of the journal showed that the place of the journal in the overall SCIENCE INDEX rating for 2019 improved as compared to 2018, but the journal is still in the 2nd quartile (2583rd place out of 6000 journals included in the RSCI). According to the subject area “General and complex problems of technical and applied sciences and branches of the national economy”, which includes 84 journals, “Vestnik IzhGTU imeni M.T. Kalashnikova” takes the 52nd place. The rating in terms of “public expertise” is still low and amounts to 2.19, which is apparently due to the insufficient recognition of the journal in the scientific community. The SCIENCE INDEX rating, calculated by bibliometric indicators, is 0.098. According to the indicator “the number of citations of the journal in the RSCI without self-citation” (303), the journal is close to the 1st quartile. The “two-year impact factor for the RSCI core” is very modest - 0.044. The two-year and five-year self-citation rates of the journal are 23.1 and 18.6%, respectively, and they are declining every year. The two-year self-citation rate in 2019 was 43.1%, which corresponds to the 1st quartile for the considered subject area. The five-year Herfindahl index for citing journals 866 is at the level of journals included in the RSCI core. The Herfindahl index for organizations of authors 3489 shows the insufficient number of publications by authors from other organizations. The ten-year Hirsch index is 21, the indicator corresponds to the 1st quartile for the considered subject area. The average number of citations in lists of the cited literature in 2019 was also quite high against the background of the compared journals and amounted to 16. The half-life of papers cited in the journal in the current year was 4.3 which corresponds to the 1st quartile.