The Publication Profile of Biological Journals of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 2011—2021
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https://doi.org/10.15407/sofs2026.01.059Keywords:
scientific publications, biological journals, life sciences, scientific communications, bibliographic analysis, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.Abstract
External and internal scientific communications in life sciences in Ukraine in 2011—2021 were explored by analysis of publications in 13 biological journals of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of Ukraine. Tendencies in life sciences in this period were revealed by scientometric analysis of the publication activity of biological journals of the NAS of Ukraine using specially designed indicators. It was found that the overall number of publications had decreased from 777 to 614 in this decade. The share of articles with authorship or co-authorship of Ukrainian researchers fell in this period from 80.0% to 73.8% of the total; the contribution of foreign authors grew threefold, reaching 22% of the total; the share of articles contributed by authors from New Independent States declined threefold: from 12.6% in 2011 to 4.2% in 2021. The most active authors in 13 biological journals in the analyzed period were researchers from the institutes of the NAS of Ukraine (60% of the total articles), with 25% of the articles contributed by authors from the higher education sector, and 10% by the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine and the Ministry of Health of Ukraine. Biological research is concentrated in Kyiv, accounting for two thirds of the articles with Ukrainian origin and for 12 of the analyzed journals. Kharkiv, where one of 13 journals was published, accounted for nearly 10% of the total articles with Ukrainian origin; the contribution of authors from other Ukrainian regions was limited to several percent. Researchers from the institutes that are publishers and scientific supervisors of the analyzed journals were authors of 20—60% of the annual total of articles in nine journals, of 90% of the articles in another two journals, and of 20% of the articles in the other two. A bibliographic analysis covering five biological journals revealed an upward tendency in the number of references and in the share of foreign sources, which was larger than 90% in four journals. At the same time, self-citing declined, especially in one journal where the number of articles with foreign co-authorship grew severalfold. Hence, biological journals of the NAS of Ukraine were continuing to integrate into the global research community in 2011—2021, which was confirmed by the growing number of articles from foreign authors, and the articles written by Ukrainian researchers in co-authorship with their foreign colleagues. Substantial evidence of the high performance of biological journals of the NAS of Ukraine is that 12 of 13 included in the sample are indexed in the Scopus bibliographic database.
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