Publication Activity Analysis of Scientific Practical Journal “Intelligent Systems in Manufacturing”

Abstract

The analysis of publication activity of the journal as at 2021. Since January 2019 journal “Intelligent Systems in Manufacturing” has been reorganized and today it has 2 sections for engineering sciences: “Instrumentation” and “Informatics”. Since that time, the journal has been publishing 14 articles per issue having 9 pages each on average. The editorial board consists of 22 scholars, among them 4 foreign scholars and 4 scholars from other regions of the Russian Federation. Blind peer view of articles is applied to enhance the quality of an article, peer views are published on the portal E-library, and the number of the rejected articles has increased due to low scientific merit up to 20 per cent. The journal site and the information of the journal in Russian Science Citation Index have been upgraded. Article content has been enhanced by means of complementary parallel headlines and information in English: article headline, authors, abstract, references, picture captures, and tables. Abstract and conclusion informative value are subjected to restricted requirements, requirements to references became as follows: at least 15 references to articles published during last 3 - 5 years including foreign ones. Publication activity of the journal in 2020 compared to 2018 has significantly increased according to majority of indicators: 2-year impact-factor for RSCI has become 1.5 times higher, a 2-year impact-factor for RSCI taking into account to citation of all references has also become 1.5 times higher: a 2-year impact factor for RSCI core has become 3 times higher. A 5-year impact factor for RSCI does not intensively respond to the changes happened during the last years, however, it is increasing. A 5-year-factor for RSCI core has the tendency to 1.5-time increasing. Percentage of a 2-year self-citation factor of the journal is not stable and exceeds 50 per cent. A 2-year self-citation factor among the authors is hardly decreasing and accounts for 70 per cent revealing the major disadvantage.