Elibrary.ru

The Scientific Electronic Library platform known as ELibrary.ru experienced a massive data scraping incident at the start of 2025. This event involved the extraction of personal and professional profiles belonging to over a million researchers and authors. The data includes full names along with detailed academic metrics such as publication counts, citation statistics, and the Hirsch index. Additionally, regional information and specific fields of scientific activity were harvested from public-facing profiles. This event highlights the vulnerability of academic repositories to large scale automated data collection tools.