The Integration of Ukrainian Humanities into the International Academic and Information Space: Challenges and Prospects

Abstract

The study outlines the most important global integration trends of the last decades in the scientific community. It characterizes state formation processes in the context of European integration aspirations and scientific integration of Ukraine. It states a significant increase of the requirements for scientific articles and their components, the rise of the role and number of English-speaking components, the increase in the visualization of the activities of scientists and scientific institutions in recent years. The study presents 2018–2019 statistics on the Ukrainian humanities scientific publications presented in the Scopus and Web of Science, leading global scientometric databases, as well as quantitative indicators of the publication activity in these databases of the members of the editorial boards of Ukrainian cultural editions. It identifies internal and external factors hindering the rapid ‘promotion’ of Ukrainian humanities to the international level. Based on the low level of Ukraine's presence in the global scientific and information space, the author concludes that the main tasks of Ukrainian humanities currently are to overcome the isolation from the European and global science development processes and to actively enter into powerful international scientific internet resources, i.e. Scopus and Web of Science. Implementing these tasks combined with balanced state policy in the humanitarian sphere will strengthen the authority of Ukrainian humanities and open the way to full integration into the global cultural processes.