Russian Science Citation Index (Russian: Российский индекс научного цитирования) is a bibliographic database of scientific publications in Russian.
It holds around 13 million publications by Russian authors and information about citing publications from over 5000 Russian journals.
[citation needed] The Russian Science Citation Index has been developed since 2005 by the Scientific Electronic Library eLIBRARY.RU.
The information-analytical system Science Index is a search engine of this database; It offers a wide range of services for authors, research institutions and scientific publishers.
It is designed not only for operational search for relevant bibliographic information, but is also as a powerful tool to assess the impact and effectiveness of research organizations, scientists, and the level of scientific journals, etc.