[Medical rehabilitation: domestic scientific publication stream].

The formation of a high-tech healthcare system is provided for by national projects. The expected effectiveness of the implementation of these projects is possible only with full-fledged scientific support, which is reflected in the publication scientific rating of Russia in highly rated international databases (DB). THE PURPOSE Of this work is to analyze the Russian scientific publication stream on medical rehabilitation against the background of the world array of publications and its forecast for the near future. MATERIAL AND METHODS The data of Web of Science and Scopus DB has investigated. Analysis of Russian scientific publications was carried out at various hierarchical levels of the DB: for Web of Science - across the entire DB (5 sections), under the section «Life Sciences and Biomedicine», under the subsection «Rehabilitation»; for Scopus - in the division of knowledge «Medicine» (SUBJAREA (medi)), as well as in the subject area «Rehabilitation». The publication scientific rating of Russia was evaluated against the background of the world rating. Analysis of DB information was carried out for the period 1991-2018. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION For the period 1991-2018, the highest quantity of domestic publications on rehabilitation in the international rating databases Web of Science and Scopus was in 1991: 5.5% (3rd place out of 53 in the world ranking) and 2.3% (6th place out of 64), respectively. The forecast of the dynamics of the quantity, taking into account the data of this period, showed that Russia has practically reached this high level in Scopus, and at the current rate of growth in the publication activity of Russian scientists, in the Web of Science, it can only reach it by 2028.