Scientometric indicators are a quantitative characteristic of the productivity of a scientist, a group of scientists, a university, a country as a whole, a journal, etc.

There are a large number of scientometric indicators, the most famous are:

• h-index (Hirsch index), i10 index – calculated for scientists, university departments, universities in general, journals;
• impact factor – calculated for journals that are indexed by the scientometric database Web of Science and are included in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index databases;
• SJR, SNIP, CiteScore – scientometric indicators that are calculated for journals by the scientometric Scopus database.

All scientometric indicators differ in calculation formulas, but exist in order to be able to quantitatively assess the quality of science: publication, scientist, journal, etc. They are used to compile various ratings, assess the quality of work, award various prizes, grants, etc.

If we talk about the scientometric indicators of journals, then this allows to determine the level of quality and influence of a journal in the world, its readability and number of purchases, which in turn allows readers to choose which journal to read, which journals to subscribe to libraries, and to the authors of scientific publications in which journals to publish.

In the repositories, the author of scientific publications can place any of works, if the copyright belongs to the author. And also if it is not prohibited by a license agreement or other documents (this can be an on-line form on the publisher's website, which the author filled out and confirmed), which the author signed/confirmed in the publishing house when publishing any of scientific materials (article, monograph, conference abstracts etc.).

First of all, it is necessary to determine according to which resource of indexing scientific periodicals the quartile of the journal should be determined: Scopus or Web of Science

The Scopus quarter of a journal can be defined in several ways.

1. Go to the website https://www.scimagojr.com

If you are interested in the quartile of a particular journal, enter the name of the journal (in English) or its ISSN in the search field on this page (this will give a more accurate result), among the results shown, click on the name of the desired magazine and in the profile under the description in the table "Quartiles" the quartiles to which the journal belongs (Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4) will be presented.

It should be noted that one journal can simultaneously belong to several different quartiles: the quartile is assigned not to the journal as a whole, but to the headings that are presented in this journal.

If you need to find journals by topic and determine which quartiles they belong to, then you must follow the link

Select the required topic, for example, Economics, Econometrics and Finance, the system will offer all journals on this topic that are included in the Scopus database, the scientometric SJR of the journal and the highest quartile of the journal (if it has several quartiles) will be presented in the fourth column of the results table, by clicking on the arrow in the table header (to the left of SJR), you can sort the journals by quartiles from largest to smallest and vice versa.

2. Go to the Scopus website Sources tab  

In the upper left corner in the drop-down list, select the field by which the search will take place – “Knowledge Industry”, on the right, enter the desired subject area, for example, Economics, and below the left in the filter menu, select the required quartile. In the list of results, the system will offer a list of journals that are indexed in Scopus and belong to the required quartile.

Journal Quartile on Web of Science

In order to determine the quartile of the journal by Web of Science, you need to use a subscription to this resource. If the institution from which you are accessing has a subscription to the Journal Citation Reports resource, then you need to go to it in the top menu on the website https://apps.webofknowledge.com

Further on the left in the filter menu, you can select the required quartile and customize the search by category or by journals.

If the institution has a subscription to Web of Science, but does not subscribe to Journal Citation Reports, you can go to the page https://apps.webofknowledge.com  In the drop-down list to the right of the search bar, select "Publication name", on the left in the search bar, enter the desired title of the publication or keywords, on the results page open any article from the searched journal, on the left in the first block of information under the title of the article there will be a link "View Journal Impact Factor", if you click on it, a table will open in which Category® JCR will be presented and Quartile in a category.

In order to post your dissertation in the resource ProQuest Dissertation & Theses, you need to follow the link

In the Platform field in the drop-down list select "Dissertation/ETD Administrator"

In the Product field in the drop-down list, select "ProQuest Dissertation & Theses"

In the Category field in the drop-down list, select "Content"

Next, in the First Name, Last Name, Library/Company, Email, Phone Number fields, fill in your contact information.

In the Subject field, you must indicate what you want to propose your thesis for inclusion in the database, for example, "Suggest Dissertation"

In the Description field, describe that you want to place your dissertation in the specified database, then give a brief description of the dissertation (abstract) and how it is attractive to the world scientific community.

Send a request, then the appropriate manager should contact you (this can take from several days to several months), if the dissertation is not interesting for indexing, then you will be informed about this, if you are interested, the manager will send you further instructions.

Adding Posts to the ResearcherID Profile

You must go to the site

Register or log in with your username and password

On the left of the menu on a gray background "My Publications", in the first block you must click on the "Add" link, you will be redirected to a page where you will be offered 3 ways to add articles to your profile.

Method 1. Web of Science

If you have publications that are indexed in the Web of Science, you need to go to the site

Use your username and password to log in (this must be done from an institution that has a paid subscription to Web of Science).

Use the search engine to find your articles in the database. Go to the article page by clicking on the article title in the search results.

In the top horizontal menu you need to find the "Tools" tab, select "ResearcherID" from the drop-down list. This article will be added to your ResearcherID profile.

Method 2. EndNone

Click on the Go to EndNote link

In the top menu, click on the "Collect" button, a submenu will appear at the bottom, depending on what you choose:

• Online Search

In step 1, select the directory where your works can be presented, click the Connect button.

In step 2, select the Author search field from the drop-down list on the right and type your last name in the search field on the left. Click the Search button

In step 3, from the search results, select your publications using the checkboxes to the left of the links. In the menu above the search results, find the drop-down list "Add to group ...", select in this list under the ResearcherID item – My Publications

The selected articles will be added to your ResearcherID profile automatically.

• New Reference

You will be presented with a form for adding publications manually. Here you can enter information about any of your publications, even if it is not indexed anywhere. The data on such a publication will be displayed in the profile, but will not be taken into account when calculating scientometric indicators.

After filling in all the necessary fields, click the Save button, this publication will appear in the menu on the left in the item "All My References", you need to click on this menu item and add this publication to the ResearcherID group item – My Publications as in the previous option "Online Search"

The selected articles will be added to your ResearcherID profile automatically.

• Import References

You can import a file with your links, having previously made the export of links from other resources. One of the most common export formats is BibTex (export is possible, for example, from Google Academy). Further in the "Import Option" you can select the format that you export, for example, BibTex. In the "To" field, select the ResearcherID group – My Publications.

The selected articles will be added to your ResearcherID profile automatically.

Method 3. Upload RIS file

Click on the link "Upload an RIS file (from EndNote, RefMan or other reference software)". You will be redirected to a page where you will be offered to download a file and import your links. Beforehand, you need to export your publications from other sources (if any) EndNote, RefMan, etc.

Add posts to your ORCID profile

You must go to the site

Register or log in with your username and password

In your profile on the right, the last tab at the bottom is called "Works" (the arrow on the left should point down, if it points to the right, click on it), to the right of the same menu is the "Add works" button, if you hover over it, a drop-down list will appear. Further, depending on what you choose:

• Find and link

You will be presented with the "Import of Works" window, below are the resources from which you can import your publications automatically. The most common are:

• CrossRef Metadata Search. You can import all your articles that have DOIs from CrossRef. Follow the link, the system will offer you publications by your main name in ORCID, and you can also perform an additional search yourself using the search bar at the top of the page. Each article will have a green ADD TO ORCID button. Jobs will be added automatically.
• ResearcherID. If you have a ResearcherID profile (Web of Science author profile), you can link the two profiles and automatically import your publications. Please note that you can link your ORCID in the ResearcherID profile and export from it automatically without going into the ORCID profile.
• Scopus – Elsevier. If you have publications that are indexed by the scientometric Scopus database. You can link your Scopus profile to your ORCID (then users in the Scopus database will be able to find you by our ORCID number). Follow the prompts: let Scopus access your ORCID account, use search and find your profile. Confirm linking and export. Scopus entries will be imported into the ORCID profile.

• Attach BibTeX

Import citations from BibTeX (.bib) files, including files exported from Google Scholar. Click on the "Select file" button and upload a file with your publications, which you must first export from a resource where your work is already presented, for example, Google Academy. The posts will be automatically added to your ORCID profile.

• Link manually

Advantages of using Google Academy scientists:

• Creation of a single list of your own publications. Due to the fact that Google Academy is a search engine, and not a database, it contains all scientific publications that are indexed (presented) on the Internet.
• Calculate your scientometric indicators without reference to scientometric databases (Scopus, Web of Science) and understand your citation level, Hirsch index, be able to compare yourself with other scientists.
  
  
• Add to your profile those publications that are not represented on the Internet.
  
  
• Use the link manager, Google Academy allows you to export links, which can then be imported into other scientist profiles, such as ORCID, ResearcheID, etc., or used in used literature managers ENDNote, ReMan, etc.
  
  
• Create your own network of colleagues and co-authors you can exchange information and monitor their publication activity.
  
  
• Scientometric indicators calculated by Google Academy are used for various rankings of scientists.

You must follow the link

In the upper left corner in the drop-down list, select the field by which the database will be searched, you must select "Name" or "ISSN" (search by ISSN will give the most accurate result).

If you are searching by title, use the English title of the journal.

If you are searching by ISSN, you should search by two ISSNs: ISSN print and ISSN on-line, since only one of them can be represented in the database.

Once the search field is selected, enter your query in the field to the right and click the "Search for sources" button.

If the journal is not indexed in the Scopus database, then below in the results field you will see the inscription:

Result: 0

No sources found.

Check your search terms and filters, or try a different combination of search criteria.

If the required journal name appears in the Results field, this does not mean that the journal is being indexed in the system at the moment. You should click on the name of the journal and go to the journal profile. The first thing to pay attention to – on the left under the name of the journal there is a column "Years of coverage of Scopus", if there is indicated the year of the beginning of indexing and "up to the present", then the journal is relevant and indexed in the scientometric Scopus database.

You can also refer to the "Scopus Contents" tab (below on the same page) and make sure that the journal archives are presented for the current year.

In order to find out if the journal is indexed in the scientometric database Web of Science, you need to follow the link

In the “Search Type” drop-down list, you must select what to search for “Title Word” (words from the title), “Full Journal Title” (full name of the journal), “ISSN” (the most accurate result will be given by searching by ISSN).

Further on the left in the field "Search our Master Journal List" you must enter data about the desired journal (name or ISSN).

If the journal is not indexed in Web of Science, then the following message will appear on the screen:

No matches found for the query.

If the journal is indexed in the Web of Science, below you will see a description of the journal, for example,

NATURE

Weekly

ISSN: 0028-0836

E-ISSN: 1476-4687

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, MACMILLAN BUILDING, 4 CRINAN ST, LONDON, ENGLAND, N1 9XW

Coverage

By clicking on the "Coverage" button, you will see in which Web of Science databases this journal is included. Let’s note that the Web of Science Core Collection only includes journals that are indexed by databases:

• Arts & Humanities Citation Index
• Science Citation Index Expanded
• Social Sciences Citation Index
• Emerging Sources Citation Index

And the impact factor is assigned only to those journals that are included in the databases:

• Science Citation Index Expanded
• Social Sciences Citation Index

In scientometric databases Scopus and Web of Science, 3 types of scientific publications are indexed: journals, books (monographs) and their chapters, proceedings of scientific conferences and industry publications.

If a scientific event means a scientific conference, then you should make sure whether it is indexed by the specified databases.

For Scopus

Follow this link

In the upper left corner in the drop-down list, select the field by which the database will be searched, you must select "Name" or "ISSN" (search by ISSN will give the most accurate result).

If you are searching by title, use the English title of the journal.

If you are searching by ISSN, you should search by two ISSNs: ISSN print and ISSN on-line, since only one of them can be represented in the database.

In the list of filters on the left panel, you can also narrow your search by checking the box next to the "Conference Proceedings" item.

Once the search field is selected, enter your query (conference name) in the field to the right and click the "Search for sources" button.

If the conference is not indexed in the Scopus database, then below in the results field you will see the inscription:

Result: 0

No sources found.

Check your search terms and filters, or try a different combination of search criteria.

If the desired conference name appears in the Results field, this does not mean that the conference is being indexed in the system at the moment. Click on the name of the conference and go to the publication profile. The first thing to pay attention to – on the left under the name of the conference there is a column "Years of coverage of Scopus", if it indicates the year of the beginning of indexing and "to the present", then the conference materials are indexed in the scientometric Scopus database.

Since the selection procedure for conferences is similar to the selection procedure for journals, publications that have been published for less than 2 years are not accepted for consideration for indexing in the scientometric Scopus database.

For Web of Science

Unfortunately, you can’t search for conferences of interest in the public domain. You need to use subscription access. On the Search tab in the drop-down menu (to the right of the search bar), select "Edition name", enter the desired conference in the search bar and click the "Search" button.

If the search results contain materials of this conference, then your publication will be indexed.

h-index, or Hirsch index is a scientometric indicator, is a quantitative characteristic of the productivity of a scientist, a group of scientists, a university or a country as a whole, based on the number of publications and the number of citations of these publications.

A scientist has an index h if h of Np articles are cited at least h times each, while the remaining (Np - h) articles are cited no more than h times each.

EXAMPLE

The author has 7 articles, each of which is cited:

1 - 20 times

2 - 10 times

3 - 10 times

4 - 7 times

5 - 6 times

6 - 3 times

7 - 1 time

h-index = 5

That is, the author has 5 works, each of which is cited at least 5 times, the sixth work is no longer cited 6 times, in order for the author's Hirsch index to become 6. In order for a given author's Hirsch index to become equal to 7, each of works must be quoted at least 7 times.

Having 7 publications, the maximum author's Hirsch index can be 7. In order for a given author's Hirsch index to become 8, it needs to publish another work and each of works must be cited at least 8 times.

Hirsch index (advantages)

• The number of citations and the Hirsch index indicate that the article is of high quality and interesting to the world community of scientists.
• In order for a scientist's work to be well cited, the article must be written in a clear, high-quality and interesting way, the research topic must be relevant and interesting at the global level.
• Thus, the assessment of the quality of work using the Hirsch index stimulates the scientist to improve level of work and the quality of publications.

Hirsch index (disadvantages)

• In different subject areas, due to the peculiarities of the research, the publication activity of a scientist is different (one scientist receives the results of experiments every month, another scientist once a year, therefore the first scientist will have more articles).

EXAMPLE

Scientist 1

Publishes many articles, each of which is cited 10 times, and has a Hirsch index of 10

Scientist 2

Publishes 3 articles, each of which is cited hundreds of times, and has a Hirsch index of 3

Conclusion

If to judge only by the value of the Hirsch index, then the level of Scientist 1 is higher, while the articles of Scientist 2 are more cited, which means better

• Each resource for indexing scientific periodicals calculates indices within its system: one scientist can have a Hirsch index for Scopus, Web of Science, Google Academy, RSCI, etc. and these can be completely different indicators, depending on where the scientist is published more. Thus, it is difficult to calculate an objective holistic indicator.
• Also, the disadvantages include the so-called "citation cartels", i.e. when scientists cite each other by agreement, and not based on the objective value of the article. Thus, the Hirsch index is artificially increased.

The impact factor is a scientometric indicator that is calculated only to assess the quality of scientific periodicals (journals), therefore, this scientometric indicator is not calculated for a scientist.

All scientometric indicators differ in calculation formulas, but exist in order to be able to quantitatively assess the quality of science: publication, scientist, journal, etc. They are used to compile various ratings, assess the quality of work, award various prizes, grants, etc.

ORCID ID (https://orcid.org ) – a unique international scientist identifier, which consists of 16 digits divided into 4 blocks, looks like https://orcid.org/0000-1111-2222-3333

This identifier is unique and solves the problem of finding scientists in the Internet and resources to index scientific periodicals. If the full name of a scientist can be translated into English in different ways, spelling errors can be made, there can be namesakes, etc., then the number is unchanged and will always uniquely identify the scientist.

Also, the ORCID profile can serve as a business card for a scientist; in profile, a scientist can:

• indicate all spelling options for your full name, in several languages, with initials, in full, etc.

• can provide other identifiers for the scientist, such as Scopus Author ID, ResearcherID, etc.

• specify information about your education, places of work, organizations sponsoring your research, etc.

• a complete list of their publications, even those publications that are not presented on the Internet can be added by scientists to their profile on their own.

ORCID ID is used to identify scientists in resources such as Scopus, Web of Science, ResearcherID, etc.

Jeffrey Bill's List is a list compiled by the American librarian and librarian Jeffrey Bill and originally contained information about unscrupulous publishers and magazines.

Unfairness can be understood as the publication of non-peer-reviewed unscientific content for money, as well as publishers that are scammers: they accepted money from scientists, and after the article was not published at all, fake of well-known journals, etc.

These lists are considered by the world's largest abstract scientific databases Scopus and Web of Science as the basis for their decision to remove one or another pseudoscientific journal from their database.

To date, you can also find a list of unscrupulous resources for indexing scientific periodicals. This refers to resources that are called scientometric, but the indicators are not calculated at all, i.e. are random, or the publisher needs to pay money to calculate the indicators, or depending on the amount paid, the indicator will be better or worse, etc.

The lists can be found at the link

All scientific journals can be divided into several categories:

1. By geographic location:

• Which are published in the country where the scientist works
• Foreign

More attractive are those that are foreign, since the published article can be read and used by more scientists from other countries.

2. By indexing in the resources of scientific periodicals

• Indexed

It should be noted here that there are resources for indexing scientific periodicals of different levels of trust and prestige, the most prestigious in the world are Web of Science Core Collection and Scopus

• Not indexed

The wider the indexing of a scientific journal, the more attractive it is for a scientist, since the publication of a scientist in indexing resources can be found by scientists and colleagues from all over the world.

3. By scientometrics

• Journals that are included in the scientometric databases and various scientometric indicators are calculated for them.

If the journal is indexed in Scopus, then these are SNIP, SJR, Hirsch index, CiteScore

If the journal is indexed in the Web of Science, then this is an indicator of the impact factor

• Non-scientometric journals

4. By type of access to full texts of articles

• Open Access – readers can read the full article for free. As a rule, in such journals publication is paid by the author.
• Closed access (subscription) – readers must pay for access to the full text of the article. As a rule, publication in such journals is free of charge. Also, magazines of this type can pay their authors a fee.
• Closed access with embargo period – closed access journal, but publications after the period set by the publisher become open access publications.
• Hybrid – a closed access journal, but if desired, the author can pay for open access for article.

If you have previously published in publications that are indexed by the scientometric databases Web of Science and/or Scopus, then you should transliterate the surname in the same way as you did in previous publications.

If you do not have such publications, then you can transliterate your surname in the same way as it is transliterated in your passport.

If you do not have a foreign passport, then you can use the national transliteration rules.

Please note that you must write your surname the same in all your English-language indexed publications in order to correctly calculate the scientometric indicators in your profile, as well as to prevent duplication of profiles.

We also recommend registering in the ORCID Register of Scientists and getting a unique international scientist identifier, which consists of 16 digits divided into 4 blocks, looks like https://orcid.org/0000-1111-2222-3333

This identifier is unique and solves the problem of finding scientists in the Internet and resources to index scientific periodicals. If the full name of a scientist can be translated into English in different ways, spelling errors can be made, there can be namesakes, etc., then the number is unchanged and will always uniquely identify the scientist. Also in your ORCID profile, you can specify all the spelling options for your full name, in several languages, with initials, in full, etc.

Scientometric databases Web of Science and Scopus will allow integrating the scientist's profile with the ORCID profile and search by the scientist's ORCID number.