General Principles of Scientometric Evaluation of Scientific Journals in the Humanities

Abstract

Analyses the main approaches to the evaluation of scientific publications and publications in the humanities in particular from the bibliometric perspective. The author states the main factors affecting the quality of bibliometric and expert evaluation of scientific periodicals and particular articles. The issues of statistical evaluation of citation, its specificity in the humanities are specially addressed in relation to possibilities of promoting Russian scientific journals in global scientific informational systems.