Rehabilitation problems in Top Rated Databases

• Published in: Voprosy kurortologii, fizioterapii i lečebnoj fizičeskoj kulʹtury Vol. 98; no. 1; p. 5
• Main Authors: Razumov, A N, Ponomarenko, G N, Sokurov, A V, Smirnova, L M, Serebryak, T V, Ermolenko, T V, Ivanova, N V, Kurganskaya, I G, Dovgan, I A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Russia (Federation) 2021
• Subjects: Bibliometrics; Humans; Publishing; Russia; Russia; publishing houses; medical rehabilitation; scientometric indicators
• ISSN: 0042-8787
• DOI: 10.17116/kurort2021980115

Development of medical rehabilitation technologies are the investments into «human capital». The effectiveness criterion of the scientific institutions work dealing with the problems of rehabilitation is the scientific publication activity of their employees in this subject in high-ranking international databases (DB). Purpose of the study. Analysis of the state of the scientific publication flow in the field of rehabilitation. Data from the Web of Science and Scopus databases for November 2019, depth from 1991 to 2018 were used. It was revealed that the high level of the publication rating of Russia, which was noted in 1991-1992, has not yet been achieved in the Scopus database for medical rehabilitation. Measures have been identified to enhance it by increasing the growth rate of the Russian publication flow. It also noted the necessity to reduce Russia's dependence on the monopoly of foreign publishing corporations by creating domestic Russian resources and borrowing the experience of foreign colleagues. The necessary measures should be taken at the level of authors, scientific organizations, the scientific community and the State in order to increase the Russian scientific publication flow in the direction of «Rehabilitation» in foreign top-rated databases. Authors of interdisciplinary articles need to correctly present metadata indicating the relation of the work to the problem of rehabilitation. The necessity is substantiated not only to increase the share of Russian scientific journals in international databases, but also to create domestic high-rating databases, as well as to harmonize the existing regulatory legal acts in regards of terms and definitions in the field of rehabilitation, to bring the headings of the Universal Decimal Classification aligned with the headings of high-ranking international databases. Given the high social significance of the «Rehabilitation» area, it is necessary to include it in the priority list and funded areas at a level corresponding to global trends.