During the information search revealed that there is no published analysis reflecting the actual status of pharmacoeconomic and clinical-economic research, but there are databases that allow you to do so. The platform for searching research data was scientific electronic library “eLIBRARY.RU”. This portal is Russia's largest internet library of scientific publications, with rich search capabilities and the timely receipt of necessary information.

A search was carried out during the period from 2005 to 2015 of research papers on Russian and foreign pharmacoeconomic and clinical-economic research was carried out as at 1 September 2016 on the words “pharmacoeconomic*”, “clinical and econom*” with the appropriate endings. The criteria for inclusion in this analysis were general accessibility and availability of full text scientific material on the portal.

Over the last ten years the number of publications increased by 4 times. The leading destinations included cardiovascular, pulmonary, oncological and endocrinological diseases. According to published reports pharmacoeconomic and clinical-economic studies carried out in fifty-two subjects of the Russian Federation on the basis of sixty-three Universities. In addition to researchers from the Russian Federation, has placed the representatives from eleven countries. Only one third of the published studies are generally cited. Among the methods of pharmacoeconomic analysis of the most popular in published studies is the analysis of “cost–effectiveness”, which is used in about 45 percent of the available studies.

As a result, 1,425 articles were identified and analyzed. With the aim of providing concrete data that clearly illustrate the situation with the Russian scientific, pharmacoeconomic and clinical-economic writings to date all studies were classified according to the following parameters: geographical, temporary, local and nosological. In the framework of the analysis highlighted the authors whose works are most RISC (Russian Science Citation Index) with leading positions in the number of publications.