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Key bibliometric facts

• Works: 3; Citations: ~20–21; h-index: 2 (OpenAlex / indexing snapshot)
• Top topic area: antimicrobial stewardship / antimicrobial consumption in Russian hospitals and outpatients
• All papers are collaborative Global-PPS survey analyses; several are open-access

Primary sources: the three Global-PPS reports/publications listed below.

Primary evidence (selected)

1. Longitudinal hospital Global-PPS dataset (2020) — multicentre, methods and stewardship indicators described; largest citation within this corpus (17 citations) indicating this paper is the group's most-used contribution.
   Source:
   2020 Global-PPS Russian hospitals
2. 2021 point-prevalence multicenter follow-up (published 2023) — cross-sectional snapshot with quality-indicator analyses; lower downstream citation uptake (3 citations).
   Source:
   2021 Global-PPS Russia (2023)
3. Outpatient prescribing Global-PPS (data year 2024, published 2025) — pooled outpatient prescribing rate ≈9.6%; highlights broad-spectrum outpatient prescribing and heterogeneity between units.
   Source:
   2024 Outpatient Global-PPS (2025 pub)

Critical appraisal — strengths, limitations, blindspots

• Strengths: contribution to applied surveillance (Global-PPS) datasets; open-access publication increases transparency; participation in an established international protocol (Global-PPS) improves methodological comparability (Global-PPS methods).
• Limitations: small personal corpus (3 papers) dominated by collaborative, multi-author surveillance reports (limits inference about independent theoretical or mechanistic contributions); modest citation impact (total ≈20–21 citations) and h-index = 2 indicate limited independent influence to date (Citation distribution).
• Blindspots: no clear institutional affiliation listed in OpenAlex profile snapshot; author-level metadata (ORCID, lead PI roles) are not visible — reduces ability to assess leadership vs. contributor roles in collaboration (OpenAlex author record shows works_count=3, cited_by=21, h_index=2).
• Scope: topical focus is practice-oriented (stewardship/surveillance) rather than mechanistic microbiology or clinical trials; this is valuable for public-health surveillance but carries the usual cross-sectional/point-prevalence limits (cannot infer causal effect of interventions from prevalence snapshots).

Highest-leverage steps to strengthen scientific profile

1. Lead and publish independent analyses that test specific stewardship interventions (pre/post or controlled designs) rather than descriptive prevalence only.
2. Register and use ORCID, provide institutional affiliation and clear contribution statements to clarify PI/lead roles.
3. Share cleaned PPS datasets and code (open data + reproducible workflows) to increase reuse and citations.
4. Target higher-impact specialty journals for mechanistic or multicentre interventional work; combine surveillance with resistance-genotype data to increase novelty.