Editors Of Scientific Journals Research Articles

Evaluación de la adecuación de los estudios de casos clínicos enfermeros a través de la lista de comprobación Case Report

Case report is a narrative description of the problem of one or several patients. The CARE checklist (Case Report) is the consensus document for reporting clinical case reports and through adaptations to the different CARE disciplines is used to define standards for authors in scientific journals; however, the specificity of the nursing process makes it difficult to adjust nursing case reports to CARE. The aim was to analyze the publications of clinical cases with a nursing perspective in scientific journals, as well as the quality standards and evaluation systems used. Few journals reviewed agreed to publish nursing case reports or stated standards for authors to adjust to CARE. Preliminary results indicated average or poor adherence to CARE, with the most reported elements being: Keywords, patient information and introduction. Adherence was lower for the elements: Timeline, therapeutic intervention, follow-up and outcomes, and patient perspective. The characteristics of the nursing process implies a low adherence to CARE, so it is necessary to unify criteria to guide researchers, authors, reviewers and editors of scientific journals, as well as to improve the rigor and quality of the reports. Currently, there are no specific guidelines for reporting clinical case reports with a nursing perspective available. These normative gaps could be solved by developing a CARE extension adapted to the methodological characteristics of the nursing process.

A reviewer-reputation ranking algorithm to identify high-quality papers during the review process

With the exponential growth in the number of academic researchers, it is crucial for editors of scientific journals to identify the highest-quality papers. While several measures exist to evaluate a paper’s impact post-publication, the challenge of determining the potential impact of a manuscript during the review process remains an understudied issue. In this paper, we propose a reviewer-reputation ranking algorithm to identify high-quality papers based on paper citations, where a reviewer’s reputation is computed from the correlation between their past ratings and the current number of citations received by the papers they have evaluated. During the review process, reviewers with high reputation scores are given more weight to determine the quality of papers. We test the algorithm on an artificial network with 200 reviewers and 600 papers, as well as on the American Physical Society (APS) data set, including in the analysis 308,243 papers and 274,154 mutual citations. We compare our approach with two existing methods, demonstrating that our algorithm significantly outperforms the others in identifying manuscripts with the highest quality. Our findings can help improve the impact of scientific journals, thereby contributing to academic and scientific progress.

Features of Scientometric Results of a Russian Scientific Journal: the Case of the Scientific Direction “Economic Sciences” of the Bulletin of Chelyabinsk State University

The article presents the results of the use in the academic community of articles of the scientific journal Bulletin of Chelyabinsk State University in the direction of “Economic Sciences”. The study is based on data from the RSCI information system for 2018–2022. The total number of citations for each issue, individual articles, and the H‑index for issues and by year were calculated. The main trends and patterns in citing articles have been identified, including a three-year delay, passion for the topic of digitalization, inattention to articles by young authors and to international topics. The results of the study may be useful to editors of scientific journals for comparing the indicators of their journals with the one studied in this article, as well as for improving editorial policies.

Analysis of the characteristics of innovation in highly cited papers: A case study of highly cited papers published in comprehensive agricultural science core journals in China

Background: This paper aims to deepen the understanding of innovation in academic papers among scientific and technical (sci-tech) journal editors and authors and to promote the production of excellent papers and the improvement of academic quality of sci-tech journals. Methods: This research conducted a thorough analysis on the innovative features of 57 highly cited papers published on comprehensive agricultural science core Chinese journals from 2011 to 2020, as retrieved from the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) database. The CNKI database was also used for auxiliary retrieval and verification of related information. Results: The innovative features of highly cited review papers include the application of new technologies, use of novel ideas to solve urgent major problems, and summarization for the latest international research progress. The innovative content of highly cited research papers includes achieving significant new results, opening up broad new fields, creating widely applicable new methods, and using new breakthrough methods. Conclusion: Innovation is the soul of scientific research and its resulting papers. When sci-tech journal editors select topics and review papers around these features of innovation, it can contribute to the production of high-quality, high-impact papers and enhance the academic quality of the journals.

Going Open Access: The Attitudes and Actions of Scientific Journal Editors in China

This study aims to investigate the attitudes and actions of scientific journal editors in China towards open access. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 17 Chinese editors from various scientific journals during September and October of 2022. The results indicate that the editors generally possess knowledge of open access and have implemented an appropriate open access model for their respective journals. However, the Chinese-language journal editors expressed a lack of motivation to adopt open access, unless there is a reform in the mechanism of academic publishing or a policy is imposed. On the other hand, the English-language journal editors acknowledged that they have no other choice but to adopt open access. This study helps us learn about Chinese editors’ understanding and attitudes towards open access, the current status of open access in China’s scientific journals, and the mechanisms of academic publishing in China.

Structural Characteristics of Specialized Scientific Journal Periodicals

The relevance of the article lies in the need for the authors to convey the results of private, local research to the scientific community in the most efficient way, and the possibility of their scientific interaction. The empirical basis of the study was the data of the Russian scientific electronic library elibrary, in which all Russian, as well as many foreign scientific journals are registered. The purpose of the article is to reveal the possibilities of publishing the results of research by Russian and foreign authors on the topic “Mass communication. Journalism. Mass media" in domestic journals. The study was carried out from general to specific in accordance with the GRNTI codifier. To determine the location of the number of magazines in the thematic group “Mass Communication. Journalism.” “Mass Media" in the general list of journals they were arranged in descending order. By the number of journals (198), this topic ranks 44th out of 71. The possibilities for publishing research results in the field of mass communication are quite wide: authors can publish in journals on the following topics: philological, philosophical, sociological and political sciences. The characteristics of scientific journals in the elibrary on the topic “Mass Communication. Journalism. Mass media". When making decisions about which journals to publish their research, authors should be guided by the qualitative characteristics of these journals. The scientific electronic library (SEL) elibrary allows you to obtain information on many characteristics. The article examines an example of a scientific journal included in the core of the RSCI on the topic “Mass Communication. Journalism. Mass media" — magazine of the Baikal State University (Irkutsk) "Issues of the theory and practice of journalism." The number of articles, the number of authors, their geography, the number of citations, the two-year impact factor of the RSCI, the ten-year H-index of the journal, the percentile of the journal in the Science Index ranking are given. The research will be useful for real and potential authors and for the editors of other scientific journals of any subject, and especially the subject of “Mass Communication. Journalism. Mass media". The main conclusion for publishers should be a conclusion about the place of their own journal in the rankings and its numerous indicators, for authors — the optimal decision on choosing a journal for publishing an article.

What platforms and editors need

The CRAFT-OA project (Creating a Robust Accessible Federated Technology for Open Access) aims to improve the conditions for publishing open access (OA) diamond journals. CRAFT-OA involves a consortium of 23 partners from 14 European countries, all of whom are engaged in institutional publishing and its infrastructures, and committed to sustaining and developing capacities in the field. Over the course of 36 months, CRAFTOA will deliver technical and community tools, training events, training materials, information, and services for the Diamond OA institutional publishing environment. It will also foster communities of practice with the capacity to sustain the project improvements over time.Within the framework of the EU project CRAFT-OA, we are conducting ten semistructured interviews with institutional platform service providers and editors of scientific journals across Europe. The interviews are a supplement to the quantitative DIAMAS survey and are designed as guided interviews, so that detailed answers and clarifications are possible. The content covers topics such as hosting, submissions and reviews, production, metrics, indexing, archiving, finance, and quality management. The non-representative interviews offer in-depth insights into the needs of editors and platform service providers. The thematic evaluation of the interview will allow us to incorporate the concrete needs and problems of the editors and platform operators into the CRAFT-OA project to improve the conditions for publishing OA diamond journals.During the PUBMET conference, we will be able to present the first results of our interviews and outline trends in the needs of publishing platforms and editors. The detailed analysis is still pending, but a first review shows that indexing, financing and the production of certain formats pose the most problems for both platform operators and publishers.

Analysis of academic norms and copyright cognition of scientific and technological journals: Questionnaire survey based on authors and editors

Background: Clarify the connection and difference between academic norms and copyright, to provide a reference for constructing an academic ethics system. Methods: This study designed a questionnaire through expert interviews and adopted a closed-question approach. The questionnaire adopts closed-ended questions, with single-choice questions and multiple-choice questions. Publish questionnaires on the Questionnaire Star platform and disseminate them through WeChat Moments, WeChat Groups, WeChat Side-text, and QQ. A total of 256 people submitted questionnaires. Results: Among the participants, 128 (50%) were editors, 89 (34.77%) were teaching and research posts, and 39 (15.23%) were graduate students. Most of the interviewees are not clear about the concept of academic norms and copyright, especially the senior teaching and research workers. However, most of the interviewees can sensitively detect that the case has academic misconduct, but it is not clear whether the case of academic misconduct violates academic norms or copyright. Conclusions: Editors of scientific and technological journals should particularly grasp the concepts of both, accurately grasp academic norms when reviewing manuscripts, propose reasons for using or not using manuscripts, build a defense line for purifying the academic environment, and provide better publishing platforms and management services for researchers.

Content planning for a social networking site of scientific journal

More and more academic journals are using social media these days. Social media activity requires planning, and the effectiveness of attracting the target audience depends on how well the content is selected. This paper discusses how to develop a content plan for a social networking scientific journal. The basic concepts are disclosed: content, content plan, target audience, tangible and intangible actions of the target audience. The results of a sociological survey of potential target audience of scientific journal are given. The majority of survey participants indicated that they would like to see the content of the social network of a scientific journal to be more diverse and attractive. To increase diversity and attractiveness it is proposed to divide the content in the social network of a scientific journal according to three objectives: to broadcast the values of the journal, to demonstrate the expertise of the editorial board, to sell the services of the journal. With the proposed content builder, scientific journal editors can start and maintain a successful social media campaign and effectively engage with the target audience.

EDITORIAL. El dilema del Editor ante las circunstancias actuales de la comunicación científica.

Recently the scientific community has been the subject of much controversy due to some facts that have arisen. One was the withdrawal of journals by the Web of Science for not carrying out adequate peer review processes and publishing articles lacking in scientific rigor in exchange for high publication costs. In fact, it can be verified that it is common to find works that appear accepted just two or three days after the date of receipt, making it doubtful of an adequate review. Many advocate “Open Science” as the freedom to commu-nicate results without the consent of referees or the sometimes very rigorous requirements of scientific journals. Another example case was that of a researcher sanctioned by his Uni-versity for considering the excessive authorship of works published by the said individual in a very short time, which seems to be doubtful. It is common to find cases of researchers advising working groups from various countries outside their country of origin, perhaps only as statistical analysts or offering their recognized names to stimulate the citation of an in-stitution or country. It would then be appropriate to ask the question: What would be the number of publications that an author may have so that it is not suspected of gratifying or convenient authorship, for himself or for the institution to which he belongs? On the other hand, it is known that authorship of papers may be obtained in high-impact journals through payments or citations that do not correspond to the topic dealt with in the work. Indeed, we have discovered some contributions with out-of-context citations in Investigación Clínicathrough a rigorous analysis of the references. Worse still, it is the communication, carried out by any individual who is not an expert in a field, through the most popular social net-works, of concepts that deeply permeate public opinion in general, being transmitted as if they were proven facts and therein the danger, in the specific case of Medicine, damage to health. For all of the above, the Editors of scientific journals must be very vigilant and ready to discuss the advantages or inconveniences of modern initiatives, the influence of social media in disseminating information, and knowing how to interpret their impact on public health. On the other hand, Journals have to balance the role of citations and impact indexes in the projection of Science individuals, as some academic institutions in European (Spain) or Asian (China) countries are doing.

Impact of war on editors of science journals from Ukraine: Results of a survey

Background: The war influences every step of the publishing process from the organ-izational structure of the journal and its business model to the psychological and financial well-being of its staff. Objectives: The main aim of our research was to collect and analyse data on how the war has changed the operation and daily lives of those who work in editorial services and how significantly it has impacted their job and work. Methods: The surveyed population comprised the staff on the scientific journals listed in the Ukrainian electronic register of the state scientific institution, namely the Ukrainian Institute of Scientific and Technical Expertise and Information. The participants were asked to complete a questionnaire designed to collect data on the background and activities of the journal during wartime. Results: Among a total of 160 respondents (a response rate of 13.2%), 85 (53.1%) expe-rienced changes in editorial structure and work, particularly evident in fewer articles (mentioned by 71, or 44.4%, respondents), a switch to working remotely owing to relo-cation of staff (38, or 23.8%, respondents), changes in the frequency of publication (34, or 21.3%, respondents), changes in the topics covered in the articles (25, or 15.6%, respondents), and staff cuts (16, or 10%, respondents). Conclusions: Ukrainian editors continued their work despite severe psychological difficulties and financial dependency. The editors expect greater support from the international community and suggestions on practical strategies to deal with the challenges without significant losses. Continuing surveys to identify problems arising from the changing conditions were also recommended.

Author perceptions of positive and negative behaviors among library and information science journal editors

This study was conducted to explore author perceptions of positive and negative behaviors among LIS journal editors. The researchers solicited input from authors regarding their understanding of editors' roles, the importance they attribute to specific editor behaviors, the frequency with which they encounter them, and the impact of specific behaviors. Study participants also reported changes they wish to see in editor behaviors. The findings suggest that authors encounter what they perceive to be positive editor behaviors far more often than negative ones. However, the data also suggests room for improvement. Behaviors relative to the consideration of authors and to editorial intervention appear to be the categories most in need of attention. The researchers introduce the ethics of care as a potential framework for addressing behavioral changes that study participants wish to see, and more generally, as a guiding principle for editorial practice. Study results might help to form the basis of a typology of LIS journal editor behaviors, which in turn might inform the development of prescriptive guidelines for training new editors or for improving the performance of those who already serve in that capacity. Future research directions are proposed.

Lessons learned from a decade as an editor of scientific journals

Lessons learned from a decade as an editor of scientific journals

Perceptions regarding open science appraised by editors of scholarly publications published in Spain

AbstractPillars of open science are often included within the editorial policies of scholarly journals, including policies on open access publication, availability of underlying research data, preprints and open peer review. The aim of this paper is to examine and analyse perceptions and editorial practices related to open access, preprints, open research data and open peer review, from the perspective of editors of scientific journals published in Spain, to gain an insight into editorial policies related to open science. Results and data were obtained by a combined method of online interviews and an online questionnaire. The online survey was sent to editors from journals indexed in the Dulcinea directory, which at the time of the study included 1875 academic journals. A total of 420 responses (22.4%) were obtained. The results indicated that 92% of the journals were open access journals, 2% of the journals conducted open peer review, 15% of the journals had instructions to allow archiving preprints, and out of 375 responses, only 59 journals (16%) reported having a policy on underlying research data. Based on these results, there is a trend in favour of open access, but the perceived barriers to open peer review outweighed the advantages. There is also some reluctance to allow preprints to be made available. This concern might be because editors want authors and readers to read and cite the contents published in their journals, rather than their preprint versions.

Open peer review: the point of view of scientific journal editors

Academic journals have been incorporating several elements of open science: open access (since 2000), later, the deposit of research data of the articles published, the dissemination of preprints before the publication of the paper and, finally, the open peer review (OPR). While open access is well-established and the inclusion of research data is increasingly widespread, the OPR is just at the beginning of its incorporation as a real alternative to the double-blind model, which is the most widespread and consolidated.
 The objective of our article is to analyse the opinion of the editors of Spanish scientific journals about the advantages and disadvantages or barriers for the implementation of the OPR. This is a qualitative study that has been carried out from the open answers of a questionnaire sent to the 1875 editors of the Spanish academic journals that appear in the database Dulcinea and that obtained a response of 22.4%. Regarding the limitations, the study is based on the opinions and experience of the editors of Spanish scientific journals, which are mostly published by academic institutions and are in the field of social sciences and humanities.
 The results focus on delving into the advantages and disadvantages. Among the encouraging factors, the editors point out that to have open reports is very useful for the scientific community, that it recognizes the role of the reviewer, makes it possible to control the arbitrariness of some reviewers, and that it promotes the reviewer-author dialogue. The main barriers discussed are the following: a possible lack of objectivity and rigor, resistance to change a consolidated system (“double-blind”), knowing the author benefits established authors and harms novices, more difficulties for finding reviewers, increases costs and can lengthen the review process.

Institutional support by Higher Education Institutions to Editors of Scientific Journals

RESUMO As instituições de ensino superior públicas são responsáveis pela edição da maioria dos periódicos científicos no Brasil. Os professores dos programas de pós-graduação realizam voluntariamente a gestão do fluxo editorial. Este artigo discute o aporte institucional em termos financeiros, humanos, físicos e tecnológicos recebidos pelos editores, necessários ao atendimento das boas práticas editoriais. É uma pesquisa de natureza aplicada, com fins exploratórios e descritivos, realizada com 95 editores vinculados à Associação Brasileira de Editores Científicos. Os resultados obtidos apontam as lacunas existentes no aporte institucional recebido, principalmente quanto ao estabelecimento de critérios técnicos para a seleção, permanência e renovação do editor; à preservação digital; à insuficiência dos recursos financeiros para a autossustentação dos periódicos e até mesmo em relação à própria formalização dos periódicos junto às instituições editoras. As conclusões evidenciam que parte das necessidades dos editores não é suprida por uma questão de responsabilidade dupla: de um lado os editores, que iniciam esta atividade sem formação ou capacitação na área editorial, o que os deixa vulneráveis às próprias intempéries da função; de outro, as próprias instituições que, por não possuírem um enquadramento específico para a função, sofrem dos mesmos problemas de desconhecimento do aporte institucional necessário à editoria científica.

Journal quality criteria: Measurement and significance

The landscape of scientific communication imposes obvious requirements on its actors, which are not always unambiguously interpreted by the latter. The basic criterion of scientific communication is its quality. Since scientific journals serve as the main channel for rational debates based on facts, their quality level seems to be the most significant for the development of scientific knowledge. Today, scientific journals are undergoing a massive transformation: from changing the format of content presentation to becoming a body of collective communication. These changes cannot but affect the quality characteristics of journals. Since the changes are multilateral in nature, the scientific, editorial, and publishing communities have not formed an unambiguous opinion about which criteria of the journal characterize its quality aspects, and which can be attributed to “formal”, “technical”. In this article, the authors, based on Russian and international expert opinion, analyze the quality criteria for journals. Based on the data of the questionnaire developed by the authors, which considers the categories and criteria of the Scopus expert system, a survey of editors (n = 130) of Russian scientific journals was conducted. The questionnaire was completed anonymously, and the study participants were made aware of its objectives. The data obtained made it possible to analyze the editors’ ideas about the qualitative characteristics of a scientific journal and their influence on its promotion. A sufficiently deep understanding by the editors of the essence and specifics of the analyzed characteristics was recorded. At the same time, certain aspects require targeted work on their optimization and development. There is also an obvious need for further research on the topic, considering the subject field of journals traditions.

Use of peer reviewing indicators for planning the work of the editorial office of a scientific edition (on the example of a biological journal)

The peer review process is an extremely important and time-consuming step in preparing a manuscript for publication. It often takes longer than all other stages of article processing. Due to the complexity of peer reviewing, it becomes necessary to analyze it and determine the key points that you should pay attention to when planning the work of the editorial office. In this study, the authors used data obtained in the process of work with reviewers of the journals “Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seriya 16. Biologiya” and “Moscow University Biological Sciences Bulletin” in 2017–2021, as well as information on articles received by the editorial office in the same period time. The sample of peer reviewers consisted of 319 specialists from various fields of biology and related disciplines. The results of the analysis showed that the average time spent on the primary review was about 11 days, and the average time during which experts respond to the invitation was about 2 days. Reviews received by the editors over five years, on average, contain a little less than 3 000 characters, the volume of reviews does not correlate with the timing of the reviews and their quality. In recent years, the editorial office has managed to reduce the proportion of formal uninformative reviews to 6 %. Both women and men, employees of both universities and research institutes, scientists with candidate and doctoral degrees are equally involved in the work on articles. The important role of reviewers in improving the article and at the same time insufficient encouragement of this important work are emphasized. The results obtained can be useful to the editors of scientific journals when they plan the stages of reviewing articles.

MENTAL HEALTH STATUS AND EMOTIONAL BEHAVIOR REGULATIONOF SCI-TECH JOURNAL EDITORS AND ITS IMPACT ON JOURNAL QUALITY

BackgroundPsychological fatigue is a common psychological phenomenon among college journal editors. Emotion regulation is a process in which individuals use various factors and means to regulate and control their own emotions. Emotion regulation is an activity that serves personal purposes and is conducive to their own survival and development. Emotion regulation is the strategy and means that individuals use to regulate emotions when facing positive and negative emotions. It includes conscious strategies and unconscious emotion regulation mechanisms commonly used by individuals. Emotion regulation plays an important role in mental health. By studying the current situation and causes of psychological fatigue of college journal editors, we can formulate corresponding management countermeasures. This paper analyzes the various psychological pressures existing in the editors of scientific and technological journals, and discusses how to adjust their own psychology. This can reduce the editor's mental illness, promote mental health, and invest in the editor's work with a better mood and abundant energy. Emotion regulation can prevent and eliminate the adverse factors causing psychological fatigue, so as to improve the enthusiasm and creativity of editors and improve the quality of university journals.Subjects and methodsOn the basis of consulting a large number of relevant literature, this study compiled a questionnaire of emotion regulation style of scientific and technological editors with certain reliability and validity by using open-ended questionnaire. The emotion regulation mode of editors was measured by questionnaire, and the emotion regulation mode of sci-tech journal editors was understood. On this basis, this paper studies the relationship between emotion regulation and the editing quality of scientific and technological journals. 85 editors of sci-tech journals were tested with the symptom Checklist-90 and compared with the Chinese youth norm. After the intervention of emotion regulation, 37 people were randomly selected from the above 85 people, and the editors of scientific and technological journals were investigated by 90 symptom checklist and Eysenck Personality Questionnaire.ResultsThe incidence of psychological problems of sci-tech journal editors was 15.79%. The incidence of psychological problems of responsible editors was significantly higher than that of General Editors (P <0.05). The five factor scores of somatization, compulsion, interpersonal relationship, depression and anxiety of sci-tech journal editors were significantly higher than the National Youth norm (P < 0.01). The editors of sci-tech periodicals have certain psychological problems, especially the psychological problems of responsible editors, which should be paid attention to by relevant departments and leaders. After the intervention of emotion regulation, the results show that the editor's mental health is good, and the stability of emotion is an important factor affecting his mental health. Therefore, editors of sci-tech journals should be good at controlling their emotions and maintaining their psychological integrity when facing various pressures. In the face of positive emotions, the emotional regulation methods used by journal editors from more to less are: emotional sharing, emotional disclosure, emotional maintenance, motivation, restraint and sublimation. The frequency of emotion used by editors is shifted from less emotional experience and less emotional stress to more emotional stress. Journal Editors mainly regulate positive emotions by means of emotional sharing and emotional disclosure, and regulate negative emotions by means of cognitive reappraisal and venting. There are professional, work intensity and gender differences in the emotional regulation of journal editors. There is a positive correlation between emotional sharing, motivation, restraint, emotional maintenance, emotional disclosure, distraction and cognitive reappraisal in positive emotion regulation and life satisfaction. However, there is a negative correlation between the ways of regulating the sublimation of positive emotions, the venting of negative emotions, depression, experiencing pain and relaxation and life satisfaction. Among the twelve emotion regulation factors that predict life satisfaction, the factors of positive emotion regulation and negative emotion regulation, such as venting, depression and experiencing pain, have significant predictive power on life satisfaction.ConclusionThe psychological health and emotional stability of sci-tech journal editors are related to the quality of journal editors. Correct emotion regulation and guidance can dispel the editor's psychological fatigue and promote his emotional stability. The emotional stability of sci-tech periodical editors can improve the editing quality of sci-tech periodicals. Therefore, the competent department of sci-tech periodicals should pay attention to the mental health status of periodical editors, eliminate psychological fatigue and stabilize their emotions through psychological intervention.

Import substitution of the software used in the educational process in Russian universities

The article aims to draw the attention of the faculty and academic as well as managerial staff of Russian higher education institutions to the necessity of switching the educational process to national software. The article presents the result of structural modeling of the problem under examination, namely import substitution of the software used in the educational process in Russian universities. The analysis of relevant scientific literature and the documentation available on the official websites of several Russian universities made it possible to describe the set of information and communication platforms used to run distance learning classes and secure other objectives of academic electronic and educational environment. Additionally, the examination of a wide array of educational and methodological literature provided by the leading national electronic library systems resulted in the description of the current state of the educational and methodological support for the use of national office software in the process of teaching informatics and the range of academic disciplines “Information Technologies” to higher education students studying humanities and social sciences. To conduct training sessions in these areas, the experience of using the Russian Р7-Office software package described in the article can be adopted in the educational process. To support the thesis that Russian office software and fonts can be used in educational and research work “here and now”, the author wrote this article in the PT Astra Serif font in the Р7-Office text editor. The work was saved without any loss of formatting as a Microsoft Word document with the Times New Roman font required by editors of scientific journals. Switching to the use of national software in the educational process poses a problem of varying degrees of seriousness to universities in other states, including strategic partners of the USA, the country under whose jurisdiction the copyright holders of most information and communication programs, office software reside.