Russian historians and foreign journals: some reflections of a specialist in Russian history

The article analyses the issue of estimating the research of Russian specialists in Russian history by means of international citing indexes. The author considers the structure of historical scientific journals indexed by Web of Science, the specifics of researches on “national” problems and selecting editorial boards and authors for foreign historical journals as well as thematic requests from their readers. The conclusion is made about the unsuitability of quality estimation of Russian historians’ researches on Russian history by means of mere calculation of their publications in foreign journals.