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Russian Scholarly Papers in Open-Access Megajournals

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The quantity, research topics, and growth rates are assessed for Russian scholarly papers published in open-access megajournals. Russian papers published in PLoS ONE in 2006–2019 are analyzed on the basis of international scientometric indicators. The results are reported of the international coauthorship survey of Russian researchers to define its impact on citation indices. Affiliations are presented for authors with papers in megajournals. Funding of publication charges is discussed for Russian researchers who publish papers in open-access journals.

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  1. Data on the number of published papers was obtained from the Scopus database in March 2020.

  2. Data on the number of published papers was obtained from the Directory of Open Access Journals in March 2020. URL: https://doaj.org/

  3. Our editorial process at Scientific Reports [Electron. resource]. 2020. URL: https://www.nature.com/srep/about/editorial-process

  4. About OSA Continuum [Electron. resource]. 2020 URL: https://www.osapublishing.org/osac/journal/osac/about.cfm

  5. Adams C. PLoS One PloS Blogs [Electron. resource]. 2011, SPARC website. URL: https://sparcopen.org/our-work/innovator/plos-one/

  6. Funding for Open Access Articles [Electron. resource]. 2020– URL: https://www.springernature.com/gp/open-research/funding/articles)

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Domnina, T.N. Russian Scholarly Papers in Open-Access Megajournals. Sci. Tech. Inf. Proc. 47, 181–193 (2020). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0147688220030065

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