Russian Index of Science Citation: Overview and Review

At early 2016 the new index was launched on Web of Science platform — Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI).

The database is free for all Web of Science subscribers except those from the former Soviet Union countries. This

database includes publications from 652 best Russian journals and is based on the data from Russian national

citation index — Russian Index of Science Citation (RISC). RISC was launched in 2005 but there is very limited

information about it available in English-language scholarly literature by now. The aim of this paper is to describe

the history, actual structure and user possibilities of RISC. We focus on the novel features of RISC which are

crucial to bibliometrics and unavailable in international citation indices.