Comment on What is the Real Motivation Behind the Islamic Science Citation Index? by vasiliy vlassov

This is a blue story. It is not about Iran only. Many societies who feel that they are underrepresented in the SCI want to have their own citation index. Of course, different motives are intertwined. E.g. in Russia there is a long (at least 70 Soviet years) period of isolation, when publications in Soviet journals were possible only. So, the mostly publishing-in-Russian is continuing and Russian language periodicals are underrepresented in SCI (etc.). Naturally the idea of creating the Russian index (elibrary.ru) is blossoming. It helps to self-esteem, but slow the reintegration of Russia to international science…