Russia in the global array of scientific publications

Selecting the most relevant platform for monitoring the Russian publication array against the global background, including the analysis of publication flows in various scientific categories, is a pressing task. The objects of the study were the Russian and global publication arrays in the OpenAlex and The Lens databases in comparison with the Web of Science Core Collection (WoS CC) for the period 2014–2023, with a special emphasis on the period 2019–2023. It was found that OpenAlex has a number of advantages over The Lens, since Russian publications are significantly underrepresented in The Lens. A comparative analysis of the dynamics of the shares of Russian publications by subject categories in OpenAlex and The Lens against the background of WoS CC showed that during 2019–2023, the gap between the shares of Russian publications in the global array in these resources relative to WoS CC for most intersecting subject categories narrowed. The data on the share distribution of Russian publications in 2021–2023 in OpenAlex correlate with the indicators in WoS CC, which gives hope for high relevance of search results using OpenAlex.