Indexing and abstracting

The editorial board continuously works on including the journal in international electronic libraries, directories, and scientometric databases in order to integrate into the global scientific information and communication space, as well as to enhance the journal’s ranking and the citation indices of our authors.

The journal is indexed in the following databases and directories:

Index Copernicus Journals World of Papers

Indexing period: 20-90 days from the date of publication

Date of inclusion: 19.02.2021

An online scientometric database based on user-submitted information, including data on research institutions, publications, and projects, established in 1999 in Poland. The database provides several performance evaluation tools that allow tracking the impact of scientific works and publications, as well as the performance of individual researchers and research institutions. In addition to performance metrics, Index Copernicus also offers traditional abstracting and indexing of scientific publications. The ICI Journals Master List is an international database in which periodicals are evaluated annually. Inclusion requires a positive result of a multidimensional parametric evaluation based on more than 100 criteria. The evaluation result in the ICI Journals Master List—the Index Copernicus Value (ICV)—is an indicator of a journal’s scientific strength, reflecting how effectively it can achieve its goals and increase the citation level of its articles.

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Google Scholar

Indexing period: 20-90 days from the date of publication

Date of inclusion: 19.02.2021

A freely accessible search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly publications across all formats and disciplines. The Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online journals from major European and American scientific publishers. In terms of functionality, Google Scholar is similar to freely available systems such as Scirus (by Elsevier), CiteSeerX, and getCITED. Google Scholar allows tracking citation statistics of scientific works and also calculates the Hirsch Index (h-index) and the i10-index for a researcher’s profile.

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Open Ukrainian Citation Index (OUCI)

Indexing period: 2 months from the date of publication

Date of inclusion: 29.04.2022

An open Ukrainian citation index, the Open Ukrainian Citation Index is a search engine and database of scientific citations created by decision of the Board of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. The OUCI system is designed to simplify the search for scientific publications, draw the attention of editorial boards to the issue of completeness and quality of metadata of Ukrainian scientific journals, improve the representation of Ukrainian journals in specialized search systems, and enable bibliometricians to freely study relationships between authors and documents across various scientific disciplines, particularly in the social sciences and humanities. The Open Ukrainian Citation Index search engine and citation database calculates metrics based on open data from the Crossref database (e.g., h-index and i10-index of journals). The OUCI system also provides rankings of Ukrainian journals by the number of their publications and citations (according to scientific fields).

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Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe (OpenAIRE)

Indexing period: 2-6 months from the date of publication

Date of inclusion: 19.02.2021

The Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe is a pan-European repository with more than 60 partner institutions from across EU countries and beyond, whose mission is to build, support, and operate an open and sustainable scholarly communication infrastructure. The platform is based on the concept of “Open Science as a Service” (OSaaS). Today, the OpenAIRE Research Graph is one of the largest open collections of scientific records in the world. The service is developed within the framework of the European Commission’s open access policy and aims to support research infrastructure in fulfilling the European Union’s open access mandate.

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CrossRef

Indexing period: 20-60 days from the date of publication

Date of inclusion: 19.02.2021

An international registry of scientific and informational materials and their associated metadata, established on the initiative of the Publishers International Linking Association, Inc., and built on DOI (Digital Object Identifier) technology. The Crossref association maintains a global shared citation-linking service that functions as a gateway between publishers’ electronic platforms. This service does not store full texts of scientific publications, but it preserves information about publication links through DOI technology, as well as metadata of published scholarly materials. Thanks to this system, researchers can use functionalities at the level of the global scientific publishing environment.

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WorldCat

Indexing period: 2-6 months from the date of publication

Date of inclusion: 19.02.2021

A global library catalog and the world’s largest bibliographic database, providing access to the resources of 72,000 member libraries of the OCLC initiative across 170 countries. The database contains more than 330 million records, which collectively provide information on over 2 billion physical and electronic publications in 485 languages.

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Mendeley

Indexing period: 3-6 months from the date of publication

Date of inclusion: 19.02.2021

A reference management system integrated with an international social network for researchers. Elsevier’s Mendeley is a product that helps increase the efficiency of scientific and scholarly activities. It also functions as a social network for researchers.

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PubPeer

Indexing period: 2-4 months from the date of publication

Date of inclusion: 19.02.2021

An open platform for post-publication peer review that encourages users to discuss and comment on scientific publications. The service functions as an open forum for science, allowing anyone to post anonymous comments on research. Initially intended for discussing methods and results, it has become one of the most well-known platforms for identifying scientific errors, misconduct, and questionable research practices.

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Semantic Scholar

Indexing period: 1-3 months from the date of publication

Date of inclusion: 19.02.2021

An AI-powered research tool for scientific literature developed by the Allen Institute for AI. Unlike Google Scholar and PubMed, Semantic Scholar is designed to highlight the most important and influential elements of a publication. Its AI technology identifies hidden connections and relationships between research topics. Like other citation-based search systems, Semantic Scholar uses graph-based structures, including the Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph, Springer Nature’s SciGraph, and the Semantic Scholar Corpus. Each article indexed in Semantic Scholar is assigned a unique identifier known as the Semantic Scholar Corpus ID (S2CID).

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Scilit

Indexing period: 1-2 months from the date of publication

Date of inclusion: 19.02.2021

This scientific database is developed and maintained by the open access publisher MDPI. Scilit is an open database for researchers that uses a new method of data matching and indexing of scientific materials. Scilit’s crawlers extract the latest data daily from Crossref and PubMed. Scilit also generates rankings of top publishers, journals, and countries based on the number of published articles.

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Lens.org

Indexing period: 2-3 months from the date of publication

Date of inclusion: 19.02.2021

The The Lens platform provides access to over 200 million scholarly records aggregated and harmonized from Microsoft Academic, PubMed, and Crossref, enriched with open access data from OpenAlex and Unpaywall, and linked to ORCID. The complete scholarly citation graph is made openly available as a public resource.

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Scite_

Indexing period: 2-3 months from the date of publication

Date of inclusion: 19.02.2021

A startup based in Brooklyn (USA) that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through smart citations that display context. The service is used by researchers worldwide and is partially funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation.

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ResearchGate

Indexing period: 1-3 months from the date of publication

Date of inclusion: 19.02.2021

A scientific portal and social network for researchers, facilitating collaboration across all scientific disciplines. It includes web applications such as semantic search, file sharing, shared publication databases, forums, methodological discussions, groups, and more. Among its tools, ResearchGate has developed a semantic search engine that searches both internal resources and major external databases such as PubMed, CiteSeer, arXiv, the NASA Library, and others to locate scientific articles.

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ORCID

Indexing period: 1-3 months from the date of publication

Date of inclusion: 19.02.2021

An open, non-profit initiative for creating and maintaining a registry of unique researcher identifiers, providing a transparent way to represent research activities and ensuring free access to these identifiers. The primary purpose of the ORCID system is to enable accurate identification of scholarly works authored by researchers with identical or similar names.

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