The Quartile Index Calculation for the Leading Russian Universities and its Pairwise Correlations with Other Scientific Metrics

Abstract

The historical survey of the foundation and development of the quartile index in different fields of knowledge, as well as that one of the percentile index in scientometrics, was conducted. The calculations of three types of such indices, based on the CiteScore, SNIP and SJR impact factors for 45 leading Russian universities at the levels of 2019 and 2020, were carried ou