Citation Approaches of Russian Media Researchers in the Context of Internationalisation of Russian Science

Section: Theory of Journalism and Media

The article contains the results of the metadata analysis of 2011 scientific articles on media and communication published by researchers with Russian affiliation in journals indexed in the international database Web of Science (WoS) in 2017–2021. The analysis of references revealed differences in approaches to source selection in the case of all articles and those published in foreign journals in WoS, excluding ESCI (221 publications). In the latter, foreign sources are cited significantly more often, while in general foreign literature is still quite rare and used only to a limited extent by domestic researchers. Among Russian sources most recent articles are usually cited, which may be due to close ties within a small community of authors, as well as the recent formalisation of domestic media and communication research as a separate discipline. There is a clear tendency to cite domestic colleagues, in case of Russia this phenomenon is closely related to some isolation of scientific journals in Russian, the language barrier and not particularly developed personal ties with foreign researchers.

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To cite this article: Anisimov I. V., Makeenko M. I., Trishchenko N. D. (2024) Podkhody rossiyskikh issledovateley media k tsitirovaniyu v kontekste povysheniya mezhdunarodnoy vidimosti otechestvennykh nauchnykh publikatsiy [Citation approaches of Russian media researchers in the context of internationalisation of Russian science]. Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seriya 10. Zhurnalistika 4: 3–23. DOI: 10.30547/vestnik.journ.4.2024.323