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A SCIENTOMETRIC STUDY OF “SCIENCE AND SCIENCE OF SCIENCE” JOURNAL: TO THE 30th ANNIVERSARY OF THE EDITION

T.M. VELENTEICHYK 1
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2503-8040
A.I. RADCHENKO 2
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0276-6398
O.I. MRYGLOD 3
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4415-7061

1 Dobrov Institute for Scientific and Technological Potential and Science History Studies of the NAS of Ukraine
2 PH «Akademperiodyka» of the NAS of Ukraine
3 Institute for Condensed Matter Physics of the NAS of Ukraine

Nauka naukozn. 2023, 3(121): 05—40
https://doi.org/10.15407/sofs2023.03.005     

Section: Scientometrics
Language: Ukrainian
Abstract: The article contains the results of the first comprehensive study of the journal “Science and the Science of Science” to determine the main stages, features, and tendencies of its development. The metadata of all materials printed in the journal during its existence (1993—2022 and the first two issues of 2023) was processed to achieve the goal. For this purpose, a database of materials published in the journal was created, which takes into account several parameters: the type of publication (scientific article, informative or chronicle article, anniversary article, interview, informative and/or brief report, archival materials publication, review, short chronicle), publication heading, authors, country of affiliation of the authors, title and language of the main text of the material. The analysis of the most frequent words in the titles of the materials published in the journal indicates the existence of established thematic traditions in it; the journal mainly publishes articles devoted to the development of science in Ukraine, the place of domestic science in the world, and innovative activities. The history of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and its role in the country’s development, especially in economic development and national scientific and technological potential, became important topics in the second decade of the journal’s existence. During the third decade, the study of the development of science in Ukraine in the world context, the need to determine the priorities of scientific works, and the importance of the individual in science gained special attention. Analysis of the journal’s “collective body” revealed the presence of “core” with 20 most active authors who collaborated with the journal for a long time and published 326 articles on its pages, i.e. 23 %. The estimations of joint authorship network data showed that only about a quarter of all authors belong to the largest connectivity element. An analysis of the numerical characteristics of the network for three decades of the journal’s history shows that despite the decrease in the absolute number of unique authors in each period, the share of interconnected nodes in the largest element is gradually increasing, and the share of isolated nodes (without connections) decreased over the last period (2013—2023). It was revealed that the journal’s activities were always accompanied by organizational and technical improvements: creation of its format in virtual space, access to various abstractive and scientometric databases, application of the system of digital identifiers of the journal, authors, scientific articles, optimization of the structure according to real circumstances and challenges.

Keywords: scientific journal, history of science, scientometrics, H.M. Dobrov, “Science and Science of Science” journal, word frequency, joint authorship network.

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