National orientation of Ukrainian journals: means-ends decoupling in a semi-peripheral state

Myroslava Hladchenko () and Henk F. Moed ()
Additional contact information
Myroslava Hladchenko: Nicolaus Copernicus University
Henk F. Moed: Sapienza University of Rome

Scientometrics, 2021, vol. 126, issue 3, No 20, 2365-2389

Abstract: Abstract Employing an institutionalist perspective, this article aims to explore the implementation of the global model of the international journal in Ukraine. Focusing on selected journals in the natural sciences, engineering, clinical medicine & biomedical sciences, and social sciences, the following aspects were determined: publication language, national distribution of authors and citations, and institutional distribution of authors. An Index of National Orientation of Publications (INO-P) and an Index of National Orientation of Citations (INO-C) were defined for 48 Ukrainian Scopus-indexed journals based on publications in 2014–2016 and citations to these publications in 2017. The outcomes show that in these 48 journals, publications and citations of Ukrainian authors amount to 68.2% and 51.8% respectively. There is no significant linear correlation between INO-P and the CiteScore of the journal but there is a negative correlation between INO-C and the CiteScore of the journal. The highest INO-P can be found in engineering (77.7%) and clinical medicine & biomedical sciences (78.0%) and the lowest INO-P have the social sciences (45.7%). It is concluded that as Ukrainian journals indexed in Scopus do not operate as quality outlets for international exchange of academic research results, they reflect a case of means–ends decoupling.

Keywords: Ukrainian journals; Index of National Orientation of Publications (INO-P); Index of National Orientation of Citations (INO-C) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11192-020-03844-4 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:scient:v:126:y:2021:i:3:d:10.1007_s11192-020-03844-4

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/economics/journal/11192

DOI: 10.1007/s11192-020-03844-4

Access Statistics for this article

Scientometrics is currently edited by Wolfgang Glänzel

More articles in Scientometrics from Springer, Akadémiai Kiadó
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().