Abstract
Via search in the Scientific Electronic Library (http://elibrary.ru/), 260 national scientific articles on marine medicine were identified, which were included in the Russian Science Citation Index in 2006-2015. Annually, (26±3) were published. A polynomial trend reflects increasing number of the articles. In particular, 5,6% of the articles were devoted to general biology, 6,5% - to safety in emergencies, 7,9% - to clinical medicine, 20,9% - to preventive medicine, 23,8% - to life sciences, 19,7% - to psychology, 7,1% - to physical and special training, 8,5% - to other topics. Low scientometric indices of this array of articles on maritime medicine were reveled as well as low publication activity of respective institutions. The average number of publications per author was 0,40, the average numbers of citations per article and per author were 0,87 and 0,35, respectively, 31% of the articles have been cited at least once. It is necessary to increase the innovative component of publications and to establish a habit of peer citing. The ways of integration of articles and journals into international reference-bibliographic databases.