Russians are trying to bypass international scientometrics in their usual propaganda method. In the Tatarstan Business Newspaper published in Russian, an article by Sergey Anureyev appeared, who is more of a profiteer than a scientist, who was engaged in business and investment in Russia, and is also a doctor of economics at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation.
Despite the fact that he himself is a businessman and dealer, he accuses Scopus and Web of Science of speculation and greed. And reproachfully writes that they are private organizations. I see in this a clear contradiction and conflict of meanings.
Here is the advice he writes to Donald Trump (Google translation from Russian):
The "bomb" under scientometrics and ratings is now in the first and second positions of SJR. If in the almost thirty-year ranking the USA is still ahead of China, then in 2020 the latter came out on top in the annual ranking, and in 2023 it has already broken away from the USA by a third. What if Donald Trump with his "Make America Great Again" pays attention to this rating and decides to correct it? Correct it with his characteristic methods of the "common sense revolution": either by abolishing this rating or by revealing fraud in it. Trump has serious geopolitical "inconsistencies" with Britain and the European Union, and both private scientometrics companies are headquartered in London (one is partly in Holland). The USA has even more complicated political and trade relations with China, and here China has overtaken the USA in scientometrics. Trading stocks in New York makes these two scientometrics firms easy targets for Trump, and there's plenty to dig into even with a cursory glance at their balance sheets and stock prices.
