Russian Authors and Their Publications in the Web of Science (2008–2023)

The dynamics of Russian papers in the Web of Science database for the period 2008–2023 were studied. The results showed that the share of Russian papers on hard science in this international information platform has held steady at around 2% during this period. The number of Russian authors publishing annually in this field increased by 2.8 times from 2008 to 2023. Moreover, in the last two years (2022 and 2023), more than 150 thousand Russian researchers have annually become authors of papers in this field. The total number of authors (both Russian and non-Russian) of Russian papers in hard science in 2023 exceeded 320 thousand people. At the same time, on average, each year there were 1.7 non-Russian authors per Russian author in each paper. In the case of the SSs, this ratio was also in favor of non-Russian authors—1.5 non-Russian authors for every Russian author. It was only in the humanities and arts that this ratio was in favor of Russian authors: for every Russian author there were slightly more than 0.3 non-Russian authors.