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Scientometric databases

  1. In assistance to authors
  2. Bibliometrics of Ukrainian science
  3. Ukrainian index of scientific citation
  4. Search engine and database of scientific citations (OUCI)
  5. Scientific periodicals of Ukraine
  6. “Science and Metrics” – the first independent information journal on scientometrics 
  7. ScienceDirect

 

Main scientometric indicators

A scientometric database is a bibliographic and abstract database with tools for tracking the citation of scientific publications. Scientometric data is widely used to evaluate the activities of scientific institutions and individual scientists. For this purpose, several scientometric indicators are used, and particular databases have been created to calculate them.

The citation index is one of the most important criteria for assessing the scientific level of a scientist in the international community. It is a bibliographic index that can be used to track the scientific progress of a particular author. It shows how many times this author’s articles were cited in the works of other scientists during the relevant year.

The Hirsch index (h-index) is a scientometric indicator that quantifies the productivity of a scientist, a group of scientists, a university, or a country as a whole based on the number of publications and the number of citations of these publications. According to Hirsch, a scientist has a certain h-index if h of their N articles are cited at least h times each, and the remaining (N – h) are cited no more than h times each. For example, if a scientist has published more than ten articles, and each of them has been cited at least ten times, then the h-index of this scientist is 10.

Impact factor (IF) is a numerical indicator of a journal’s importance and scientific value. The Impact Factor was established three years ago by correlating the number of references to articles in the journal during the current year to the total number of articles published in this journal over the previous two years. The ranking of journals by impact factor is published in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) database on the Web of Science platform. The Scopus scientometric database publishes two main impact factors twice a year: Scimago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized impact per paper (SNIP).

 

International scientometric databases and search engines

Scopus is the world’s largest abstract database and scientometric platform. The Scopus database indexes scientific journals, conference proceedings, and serial book publications. Scopus indexes titles of scientific publications in engineering, medicine, and humanities. The developer and owner of SciVerse Scopus is Elsevier Publishing Corporation. It is a commercial database, and its full version is available only on a subscription basis. However, it is possible to view the resources of the Scopus database in the limited Scopus preview mode (available: number of articles of the author presented in the database, h-index, number of citations)

Web of Science (WoS) is a leading international abstract database of scientific publications that allows you to search more than 18,000 journals and 150,000 conference proceedings. The database includes the following indices: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Emerging Sources Citation Index, Conference Proceedings Citation Index, Book Citation Index, etc.

Index Copernicus ( IC ) is a Polish scientometric database, a platform for indexing, ranking, and abstracting scientific journals. Index Copernicus compiles its impact factor: it annually conducts a detailed examination of the journals in this database. This database provides only metadata of journal articles (title, abstract, authors, keywords, references); if desired, the publisher can publish links to the full texts of its journal articles.

Google Scholar is a free-access search engine that indexes the full texts of scientific publications in all formats and disciplines. Google Scholar includes articles published in journals, stored in repositories, or on the websites of research teams or individual scientists. The Google Scholar search engine shows the user the title, a snippet of text, and a hyperlink to the document. Links to free full texts of publications have the [PDF] icon.

Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory, a database of the American publishing house Bowker, is the most extensive database describing the world flow of serial (periodical and continuing) publications in all thematic areas of life. The database contains descriptions of nearly 300 thousand serial publications, of which more than 200 thousand are currently in print.

ScienceDirect full-text database is Elsevier’s leading information platform for scientists, teachers, students, medical professionals, and R&D departments of industrial enterprises, which contains 25% of the world’s scientific publications. ScienceDirect’s multidisciplinary platform provides:

  • Comprehensive coverage of literature from all fields of science.
  • We provide access to more than 14 million publications from 2500 scientific journals and more than 37,000 books by Elsevier.
  • Prestigious scientific communities publish a vast number of journals.

 

Requirements for scientific journals to be included in scientometric databases (Index Copernicus, Scopus, and Web of Science) Requirements for the content of a scientific journal

 

  1. Compliance with the norms of the International Publishing Convention, which provides for

– uniqueness, informativeness, and relevance of the journal-title;

– availability of basic metadata on the cover of the paper and electronic versions of the journal;

– clarity and standardization of the journal structure;

– descriptive titles and abstracts of articles;

– availability of article identifiers, in particular, the digital object identifier (DOI)

– completeness of bibliographic information for cited references;

– completeness of contact information for each author;

 

  1. Universality of the journal’s presentation language:

– submission of publications in English is a priority;

– submission of publications in the original language with mandatory duplication of metadata (article title, abstract, keywords, information about the authors) and a list of citations in Latin transcription in English.

 

Requirements for a scientific journal website

 

  1. Availability of an English-language version of the website.
  2. Availability of an electronic system for storing statistics on downloading and printing articles from the website.
  3. Availability of such materials published on the website:

– electronic archive of journal issues (full text and abstract) available for viewing and downloading;

– information about the editor-in-chief, the structure and composition of the editorial board, and the international advisory board;

– information about the journal’s publisher;

– statement on compliance with publishing ethics;

– information on the organization of the review procedure;

– instructions for reviewing and a downloadable review form;

– uniform requirements for authors regarding the design, submission, and selection criteria for articles;

– an author’s statement form (available for download) regarding the originality of the research, author’s contribution to the article, absence of a conflict of interest, and financial resources of the research (to be filled in and sent by the author to the journal’s editorial board in case of acceptance of the article for publication).

 

Useful links

 

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