Public health: average citation and citation rate

Data collected by the Division of Scientific Activity Monitoring are presented in the figure . The results showed that in terms of international cooperation within the "Public Health" subject area, average citation for Moscow (11.5) exceeds the worldwide indicators (8.9), as well as those for Russia (10.4); in terms of national and institutional cooperation, the indicator is higher (1.4 and 1.2, respectively) for Moscow rather than for Russia (1.2 and 0.9, respectively); as for single-author papers, average citation indicator is slightly higher for Russia (1.6) rather than for Moscow (1.5).

A similar pattern is observed for citation rate. In the same subject area, citation rate of international publications for Moscow (1.71) is higher than worldwide (1.29) and Russian (1.50) indicators; in terms of national and institutional collaborations, the rates for Moscow are higher (0.22 and 0.18, respectively) than for Russia (0.17 and 0.13, respectively), and for single-author papers, citation rate for Russia is higher (0.25) than for Moscow (0.19).

It is noteworthy that both citation indicators are constantly higher for international collaboration rather than for other types of cooperation in these three categories (worldwide, Russia, Moscow), while in comparison to the global average (equals to 1.00), citation rate of international publications for Moscow is higher by 71%, as well as by 50% for Russia.