Publication activity as an indicator of scientific status

The scientific seminar “Publication Activities and the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI)” was held at the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) by Pavel Arefyev, head of the eLIBRARY.ru analytical department. He spoke about the problems of modern science, the motivation of scientists and how to optimize publication flows when focusing on quantitative indicators. The speaker answered questions about scientometric indicators and about the RSCI system - a bibliographic database that contains a description of scientific forms of publications, journals, proceedings of conferences, monographs, dissertations, patents.