International Scientometric Databases Research Articles

Development program of the scientific journal “Tissue and organ regeneration”

The article describes the prerequisites and experience of creation, as well as the current stage of development of the new scientific journal “Tissue and Organ Regeneration”, determines its place in the publication landscape in Russia, justifies the need to develop a program for the development of the journal as a necessary stage for improving the quality of the content of the journal and its representation in the academic community.The implementation of the proposed program, in our opinion, will help optimize and increase the efficiency of the editorial board’s activities for the further scientific development of journal, and in the future will allow it to be included in Russian and international scientometric databases.

Trends in science and education in the context of geopolitical threats to cultural sovereignty

The article examines the issues posed by the head of state to the economy in its relationship with science. The author comes to the conclusion that ensuring independence, security and sovereignty is required not only in the financial sphere, but also in science, education, and upbringing. The factors influencing this process are highlighted and ways of solving the problem in the interconnection of national finance and economic science are proposed, which are necessary to strengthen national financial sovereignty, serve economic science, national interests, cultural values, strategic goals and the objectives of the Russian economy's recovery. The author reveals the relationship between the widespread use of international scientometric databases in their impact on the state, development and sovereignty of domestic science, the assessment of scientific results, the system for evaluating the effectiveness of scientific research in granting grants, demand, impact factor, rating, significance and authority of Russian journals, quartile, status and hegemony of foreign journals and indirect coercion to their quoting. Special attention is paid to indirect education or upbringing outside educational institutions, outside educational institutions in a complex relationship with science and education. The methods of overcoming information challenges and threats, increasing scientific, educational, and cultural sovereignty as a necessary condition for strengthening the state, and increasing national independence in the field of finance are proposed.

Olympic education as an object of scientific analysis based on international scientometric databases Scopus and Web of Science

Olympic education as an object of scientific analysis based on international scientometric databases Scopus and Web of Science

DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY FOR THE SCIENTIFIC EDITION “RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION AND PSYCHOLOGY”

Background. Russian scientific journals joined the international market of scientific publications quite late, which actualises the development of a strategy for entering this market and complicates the realisation of the strategy as such in the environment of tough competition on the part of experienced and stable players thereof. Purpose. The purpose is to elaborate a strategy for the development of the “Russian Journal of Education and Psychology” for its introduction to the international market. Materials and methods. The research sources are represented by statutory acts, statistical materials and results of the author’s empirical research. The research is based on the systemic approach; the strategy of the journal is based on the ideas of the positioning school; the main method of business planning is economic analysis. Results. The growth of competition in the domestic market, along with the gradual approximation of the Russian scientific journals evaluation system to the global practice and the universal quality criteria, proved to be the conditions inspiring the change in the strategy of the scientific edition “Russian Journal of Education and Psychology”. The detailed analysis of the internal and external environment of the journal made it possible to form a self-contained range of strategic alternatives among which the entry to the international market was the most appropriate way to meet the objectives of the publishing house and the interests of the proprietor (who is also the project customer). Securing the journal’s work in accordance with the requirements of the international scientometric databases, for its inclusion in the Scopus and (or) Web of Science, became a new strategic goal of the journal. The new goal changed the concept and mission of the journal with regard to the customer’s wish to preserve the edition’s traditional values. Changes in marketing and peer reviewing were identified as the main transformation areas for which new functional strategies were developed. The overall project plan envisages the solution of other targets as well, but it is the tasks connected with the journal distribution and the change in the work of the editorial board and in the business aspects of reviewing that became extremely significant in terms of their timing and involved financial costs. The project team comprising current employees is supposed to cope with possible risks with respect to project completion time, while the financial resources of the publishing house will allow it to overcome the financial risks of the project without any assistance. Even in case of failure to achieve the strategic goal, due to its high risk, the journal’s key performance indicators will be improved through the increased share of high-quality articles; by optimising and tightening the review process, active promotion of the journal in the national and foreign markets; by attracting a numerous audience (authors, readers) and expanding the number and diversity of stakeholders.

Opportunities to Increase the Efficiency of Universities’ Research and Innovation Activities: Scientometric Evaluation of Researchers' Work under External Information Constraints

The development of research and innovation should be a strategic direction of state policy in the sphere of education. This imposes additional functions connected not only with fundamental and applied research, which is the traditional type of research work of universities, but also with the inclusion of universities' research activities into the unified innovation process of the creation and practical application of new knowledge to obtain new goods or services with new properties. The aim of the article is to determine the ability of international scientometric databases to assess the research and innovation activity of Russian universities. The key research method is regression analysis used to establish the relationship between the Hirsch index values for research papers in the Scopus and Google Scholar databases. The paper shows the possibility and expediency of using Google Scholar to evaluate the results of research and innovation activities of medical universities' faculty. This allows increasing the efficiency of the scientometric evaluation of researchers under external information constraints. This corresponds well to the principles of functioning of an entrepreneurial university. The advantage of Google Scholar is the consideration of Russian-language publications in the indexing.

Employing “Issue” and “Number” in the enumeration of scientific journal releases: A brief analysis of foreign practice

Introduction. Publishers of scientific journals use the terms “Issue” and “Number” to denote individual issues of their publications. There are discussions within the professional community of scientific editors about the legitimacy of using one term over the other.Purpose. To analyse the practice of foreign journals regarding the marking of their issues with the terms Issue (Iss.) and Number (No.) to justify a strategy for the correct use of these terms in Russian scientific journals that have English-language or parallel bilingual titles.Materials and Methods. Policies of 130 foreign scientific journals indexed in the international scientometric database Scopus were analysed. All journals are distributed as open-access, are published in different countries, and cover various subject fields. An examination was carried out on the Archive section found on the official websites of the chosen journals, along with their covers and layouts available on these sites, to monitor the practices used in marking the issues.Results and Discussion. It has been found that there is no unification of issue numbering in the global scientific periodical press. The term Issue is frequently used on the websites of scientific journals, while the term Number, or no letter designation at all, is more often used on covers and other layout elements. This trend is characteristic both for the entire sample and for groups of journals grouped by individual features of belonging: to one country, to one language group of countries, to one scientific specialty. The exception is publications of major publishing houses, which use one publishing platform and / or uniform requirements for the journal format (House Style Guide) for all their journals, and thus regulate the numbering of issues.Conclusion. The accumulated international experience can contribute to the development of a unified approach to the presentation of issue numbering in Russian scientific journals and, as a result, to changes in normative documents and methodological recommendations.

Sports branding as an object of scientific analysis based on the study of publications in the international scientometric database Web of Science Core Collection

Sports branding is a systematic process of communication with a mass audience, aimed at creating a special sports culture: understanding the need to maintain a healthy lifestyle; maintaining interest in sports activities; formation of a positive image of the country through large-scale events, etc. Branding technologies are currently actively used not only by sports clubs, individual athletes, public authorities, but also by non-profit physical culture and sports organizations. The study is aimed at systematizing modern scientific ideas about sports branding. Sports branding literature included in the Web of Science Core Collection database for the period 2005 to 2023 was examined. Bibliometric methods of information processing were used in the context of sports branding. VOSviewer software was used for visual analysis in terms of publication, author, country, journals, citations and keywords with construction of bibliometric maps, visualization of cluster density, weight - citations. After screening, a total of 388 publications from the Web of Science database were included. The constructed bibliometric maps made it possible to determine the most popular areas of research to study the problem under study: sports branding as an effective tool for forming the country's image; branding of sports events; social media as a tool for sports branding; the importance of brands in the professional sports industry; athletes personal branding. The use of the VOSviewer program, version 1.6.18, made it possible to provide a comprehensive analysis of the problem, to identify priority research areas in this area: the principles of using sports branding as a mechanism for constructing a territorial brand, as well as technologies for promoting sports brands in social media.

CLUSTERING OF SCIENTISTS' PUBLICATIONS, CONSIDERING FINDING SIMILARITIES IN ABSTRACTS AND TEXTS OF PUBLICATIONS BASED ON N-GRAM ANALYSIS AND IDENTIFYING POTENTIAL PROJECT GROUPS

The article describes the solution to the problem of clustering scientists' publications, taking into account the finding of similarities in the annotations and texts of these publications based on n-grams of analysis and cross-references, as well as the tasks of identifying potential project groups for the implementation of research and educational projects based on the results of clustering. The selection of scientific partners in the world practice is done without a comprehensive assessment of their activities. Most of the well-known indexes for evaluating the research activities of scientists need to consider information about citations fully. The methods developed in the study for evaluating the scientific activities of scientists and universities, as well as methods for selecting scientific partners for the implementation of educational and scientific projects on a scientific basis, allow us to organize the influential work of universities qualitatively. In the article, a probabilistic thematic model is constructed that allows the clustering of scientists' publications in scientific fields, considering the citation network, which is an important step in solving the problem of identifying subject scientific spaces. As a result of constructing the model, the problem of increasing instability of clustering of the citation graph due to a decrease in the number of clusters has been solved. The main objective of this work is to address the challenge of selecting suitable partners for collaboration in scientific and educational projects. To achieve this, a method for choosing project executors has been developed, which employs fuzzy logical inference to harmonize expert opinions regarding candidate requirements. This approach helps facilitate the multi-criteria selection of potential partners for scientific and educational projects. In addition to the method, various software modules have been created as part of this research. These modules are designed for the automated collection of information on the publications and citation records of scientists through international scientometric databases. They also encompass a visualization module and a user interface that aids in evaluating the scientific activities of university teaching staff. Choosing partners for grants or strategic collaborations, especially in the context of a globalized and highly mobile scientific community, remains a pertinent issue. The approach described in this research involves clustering the scientific publications of potential project partners. Furthermore, it incorporates conducting comparative citation analyses of these publications and establishing proximity based on n-gram annotation analysis. These methods provide a scientific basis for making informed choices when selecting partners, which is crucial for initiating and advancing research projects. Consequently, the selection of partners for forming research project teams is an immediate and pressing task.

Contemporary Trends of Digitalisation of Management Processes in Higher Education: Data Analytics, Cloud Technologies and Artificial Intelligence Authors

The continuous development, improvement and diversification of digital technologies cause the issue of rethinking their use in education, in particular, in the context of digitalisation of management processes at higher education institutions. It is important to understand the current state and trends of digital technologies, which become the basis for digitalisation of management processes in higher education. For this purpose, the article has analysed Ukrainian publications in the Google Scholar search engine to identify scientific works dealing with the digitalisation of management processes in higher education, using Scopus AI, the tool based on artificial intelligence, to obtain a conceptual map of digitalisation technologies of management processes in education, studied publications in the Scopus international scientometric database to determine the significance of digital technologies described in these publications. The article analyses digital technologies currently used for management tasks in higher education, namely: data analytics, cloud technologies, and artificial intelligence technologies. The main advantages of the digitalisation of management processes in higher education are highlighted: effective administration, improvement of the decision-making process, improvement of the provision of educational services, improvement of teaching. Challenges and difficulties accompanied by digitalisation of management processes in higher education are presented: insufficient financing of higher education; lack of understanding of the educational process by the participants (from students to managers) regarding processes taking place in the modern digital society, as well as emerging or changing technologies; the need for competent management and teaching staff, a high level of digitalisation of society at the national level, orientation of educational process participants in a large number of digital technologies. As a result of the study, the current trends in digitalisation of management processes in higher education are summarised (continuation of the process of introducing digital technologies into the educational process in general and management processes in higher education in particular; integration of these digital technologies into learning management systems; introduction of updated digital technologies into the teaching process; improvement of education through digital transformation of management processes.

ANALYTICAL REVIEW OF MODERN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON THE PROBLEM OF TRAINING SPORTSMEN OF DIFFERENT GAME AMPLOYMENT IN COMMAND GAME SPORTS

ANALYTICAL REVIEW OF MODERN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON THE PROBLEM OF TRAINING SPORTSMEN OF DIFFERENT GAME AMPLOYMENT IN COMMAND GAME SPORTS

Challenges of Open Science: Problems of Metadata Research and Analysis of Scientometric Indicators of Scientists (Experience of the Scientific Library of Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University)

Objective. The scientific publication aims to analyze the development of open science based on international and national experience, as well as to show efforts of the National Law University in the direction of promotion of open science and management of metadata related to scientometrics indicators of scientists. Methods. To attain the indicated objective, theoretical methods of scientific research were used: literature analysis and systematic approach. Results. The result of this research is systematization of scientometrics services developed by the Scientific Library of Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University to inform scientists about their scientometric indicators that reflect publication activity in the two main international scientometric databases Scopus and Web of Science. Conclusions. It is important to promote open science in university repositories, which are one of the services that manage metadata.

Improving the publication activity of Ukrainian scientists: problems, solutions, the use of mathematical and statistical methods

Many Ukrainian and foreign scholars have been studying the problems of financing scientific activities for a long time. Moreover, such issues are even raised in the works of scholars from developed Western countries. The range of such studies is extremely wide: from analysing problems and violations of the above-mentioned principles of law to modelling innovative grant support systems, including those that model an equal and fair system. Foreign scientists mostly focus on the specifics of grant provision and its impact, improvement and innovation of the financial resource allocation system in the field of science, etc. In Ukraine, the vast majority of research is concerned with the comparative characteristics of the share of the gross domestic product allocated to science funding, general problems of international cooperation with foreign grant providers, improvement of the system of financial resources allocation in the field of science, etc. Unfortunately, no attention has been paid to specific mechanisms of rewarding publications in leading foreign scientific journals. This issue is no less important, since individual support for publication activity is a powerful “lever of encouragement” for researchers and academic staff, which directly affects the results of a particular institution in the chain of international and national rankings. In addition, such support contributes to the development of science, scientific and technological progress, and raises the country’s rating in the international arena.
 The article is devoted to the formulation of possible ways of solving the problem of proper State support and funding for publications of Ukrainian scholars in leading foreign professional journals in accordance with the following criteria: equal rights and opportunities to receive funding for publications in foreign professional journals from the State, regardless of age, gender, race, nationality, religious beliefs, social and property status, place of work, research topic, etc. funding for foreign professional publications is provided only to the scientist personally without the mediation of the institution where he/she works or third parties in order to increase his/her scientific efficiency and quality, to popularize Ukrainian science and to attract competitive international professionals to science; the funding of foreign professional publications should be set transparently.
 The mechanism for calculating the relevant funding has been formed. The definitions of the concepts “mechanism of state support and financing of publications of Ukrainian scientists in foreign professional journals included in leading international databases”, “leading international databases” and “foreign professional journal” have been proposed. The article analyses the publication activity (1996–2022) of Ukrainian scientists in scientific journals indexed in the international scientometric database Scopus.

QUALITY OF TRAINING OF SPECIALISTS OF THE "SECONDARY EDUCATION (NATURAL SCIENCES)" EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM AT THE POLTAVA NATIONAL PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY NAMED BY V. G. KOROLENK: PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES

The article examines the state of higher science education at V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University. Scientific developments within the scope of the investigated problem are analyzed. The peculiarities of the formation of bachelor's and master's levels of higher education in the specialty 015.15 "Secondary education (Natural sciences)" are highlighted. The key aspects of ensuring the process of quality training of specialists in natural sciences are analyzed. It was found that natural sciences are the leading specialty for entrants, and V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University is the only educational institution in the Poltava region that implements training under the OP "Secondary Education (Natural Sciences)". During teaching at this OP, modern didactic tools and various forms of pedagogical interaction are used, which are necessary for solving complex problems in professional activity. Auditory classes of students are held in specialized offices in compliance with safety rules. Students combine studies with research, participate in scientific and scientific-practical conferences, have the right to academic mobility, and are regular participants in excursions. The training of education seekers is provided by financial, material and technical resources and educational and methodological support. The main source of information support for the educational process and scientific activity of the applicants is the library named after M. A. Zhovtobryukha of V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University. Participants of the educational process have free access to international scientometric databases. The safety of the educational environment of V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University is ensured by the activities of the University's divisions: the labor protection service, the civil protection headquarters, the economic department, psychological and legal services, and an interesting student life is ensured by student self-government - the "Student Council of V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University" .About 20 amateur art groups and sports sections function for students to realize their creative potential in extracurricular time. Continuous professional development of scientific and pedagogical workers takes place, and priority tasks are self-education and self-improvement. In addition, the article provides prospects for improving the educational process at V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University.

National Lists of Academic Journals: An Overview of World Practice

The article summarizes global experience in the development of national lists of scholarly journals. We show that some countries are currently transforming their research evaluation institutes, because such systems proved ineffective in the context of geopolitical turbulence. We observe that the focus is shifting from the use of indicators of international scientometric databases to the use of the combination of qualitative and quantitative evaluation. Besides, we note that the importance of national academic journals is increasing. We analyze approaches to the formation of national lists of scientific periodicals and reveal specific features of the procedures for their creation. We put forward a typology of national lists of journals and assess their impact on the publication behavior of researchers. We conclude that global practice provides examples of effective approaches to the compilation of national “white” lists of academic journals, which, due to their integration into the scientific performance evaluation system, act as a kind of stabilizing mechanism that protects the system from the influence of external challenges in times of geopolitical instability. The conclusions we have obtained during the analysis contribute to the development of knowledge in the field of scholarly journals evaluation.

The Prospect of Creating in Russia Its Own Scientometric Resources

The loss of access to the two main international scientometric databases, Web of Science and Scopus, has set the task for scientific organizations and foundations to find alternative ways to assess the scientific productivity of scientists. Currently, a White List has been created as such an alternative, but further development of our own systems for evaluating journals and our own scientometric indicators is required. So far, we can still see the position of our journals and the level of publication activity according to Scopus, but in the future it will be necessary to find sources of information independent of closed commercial resources to create our own system.

The “Tractors and Agricultural Machinery” journal is included in Scopus data base

On July 12, 2023, a festal occasion happened, as our journal, Tractors and Agricultural Machinery, has been accepted for listing in the Scopus international scientometric database.
 Being included in the Scopus is a result of multiyear work of the journals staff on increasing the quality of published materials, attracting authors with high citation index, broadening the journal audience. We highly appreciate the trust of authors and readers who mainly define the journals success. Including in Scopus gives new opportunities for development of the Tractors and Agricultural Machinery as leading peer-reviewed journal of tractor and agricultural machinery industry and RD.
 Tractors and Agricultural Machinery is the oldest scientific and technical journal in its field. It was founded in 1930 as print media of Ministry of Tractor and Agricultural Engineering of the USSR. Today it continues to cover relevant issues of development, manufacturing and operation of tractors, combine harvesters and other agricultural machinery in its 90th volume.

Education as a factor in the development of a creative economy: a scientific synthesis of research evaluation

Purpose of the study. This study is devoted to the analysis and conduct of a systematic review of the literature on the relationship between education and the creative economy based on the citation of scientific papers in the international scientometric database. The aim of the study is to quantify the quality of the literature in the area under consideration by identifying the most relevant trends and gaps in the literature.The research methodology was implemented through a literature review of scientific articles, for the following keywords: «education», «creative economy», «creative industries». The research methodology includes an analysis of the most influential authors, works and publications on the relationship between education and the creative industries. When identifying keywords, the analyzed database included 303 scientific articles of the Scopus database for 2001-2021, which were rated as the most relevant.The originality of the study is confirmed and substantiated by a small number of scientific studies and articles that reveal the relationship between education and creative industries.Research results. The results show that the International Journal of Cultural Policy is the leading journal in terms of publications and total citations. Rae D. is the most cited author (317 citations). The most cited paper in the research area is «Looking for work in creative industries policy» by Banks and Hesmondhalgh. The results of a systematic review can be used by other authors to conduct research in identified relevant areas.

The importance of physical therapy and occupational therapy in palliative and hospice medicine (review)

Higher level of functional incapacity and invalidity is noted in palliative patients, as a result of disease progression, which is the reason for a significant decrease in the quality of life not only of these patients, but also of the family members who care for them. Physical therapy and occupational therapy are aimed at improving the patient's quality of life through rehabilitation measures to restore body function, ensure physical independence and activity, optimal physical condition and well-being, and patient adaptation in the environment. Aim: to review modern literary sources regarding the relevance of physical therapy and occupational therapy in palliative and hospice care. The search for literary sources was carried out in international scientometric databases: PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar. The search depth is 13 years (from 2010 to 2022). The review indicates that physical therapy and occupational therapy in palliative and hospice medicine around the world are not used enough today. These two specialties of interdisciplinary treatment in palliative and hospice medicine play an important integral role, which is manifested in improving the quality of life of both patients and their family members who care for them through the use of a wide variety of methods. Hospice physical therapists not only help patients to support/keep functional abilities as long as possible, but also to reduce the burden on persons who care for terminally ill patients. Physical and occupational therapy have numerous benefits for patients with progressive life-threatening illnesses in palliative and hospice care. Physical therapy in palliative and hospice care can have a preventive, educational, and/or supportive function depending on the patient's situation. There is especially large deficiency in palliative physical therapy and occupational therapy among adolescents and young people, which requires wide implementation with high-quality training of relevant specialists. Physical therapy and occupational therapy play an important role in palliative and hospice care; all patients in palliative and hospice care, regardless of illness or severity, should have access to physical and occupational therapy based on individual needs.

UKRAINE AND THE WORLD IN CONDITIONS OF WAR: THE ROLE OF SCIENTIFIC, PROFESSION AND PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS

UKRAINE AND THE WORLD IN CONDITIONS OF WAR: THE ROLE OF SCIENTIFIC, PROFESSION AND PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS

Sports branding as an object of scientific analysis based on the study of publications in the international scientometric database Scopus

Background and Study Aim: Sports branding is a systematic process of communication with a mass audience, aimed at creating a special sports culture: understanding the need to maintain a healthy lifestyle; maintaining interest in sports activities; formation of a positive image of the country through large-scale events, etc. Branding technologies are currently actively used not only by sports clubs, individual athletes, public authorities, but also by non-profit physical culture and sports organizations. Thus, this study was aimed at systematizing modern scientific ideas about sports branding. The purpose is a bibliometric analysis of sports branding research based on the study of publications in the international scientometric database Scopus. Material and Methods: the literature on sports branding included in the Scopus database for the period from 1999 to 2023 was studied. Bibliometric methods of information processing were used in the context of sports branding. VOSviewer software was used for visual analysis in terms of publication, author, country, journals, citations and keywords with bibliometric mapping, visualization of cluster density, citation weights. Results: after verification, a total of 160 publications from the Scopus database were included. The largest number of works relate to the following areas of research: Business, Management and Accounting, Social Sciences, etc. The leading country in terms of publication activity is the United States with 59 publications. As for the authors, Y. Dubinsky and A. Richelieu have published the largest number of works and made a great contribution to the study of sports branding. The biggest keyword cluster was sports, and the most popular keywords in recent years were: social media, branding, destination branding, sport tourism, content analyses, etc., which provides ideas for further research in this area. Conclusions: the constructed bibliometric maps made it possible to determine the most popular areas of research to study the problem under study: sports branding as an effective tool for forming the country's image; branding of sports events; social media as a tool for sports branding; the importance of brands in the professional sports industry; athletes personal branding. The use of the VOSviewer program, version 1.6.18, made it possible to provide a comprehensive analysis of the problem, to identify priority research areas in this area: the principles of using sports branding as a mechanism for constructing a territorial brand, as well as technologies for promoting sports brands in social media.