Siberian Federal University

The Russian list of SIR 2012 rating includes 34 research-focused institutions and univerisities: Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow State University, Saint Petersburg State University, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, National Research Centre 'Kurchatov Institute', National Research Technological University, etc.

SIR's goal is 'embracing every institution around the world with meaningful scientific output' (Scimago, 2012). The rating includes 3,290 institutions to produce 80% research output.

The rating is based on Scopus's data and it has several indicators.

• the number of published research papers;
• international collaboration (the number of papers co-authored with international partners);
• normalized citation score average for a given institution;
• the ratio of papers published in the most influential scholarly journals;