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Minister Brings the Best World Standards to the Ukrainian Scientific Publications

Oleksii O. Tymofieieva more
a Oleksii O. Tymofieiev

Chair, Department of Maxillofacial Surgery, Stomatology Institute, Shupyk National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, Kyiv, Ukraine (ScD, Prof). Corresponding author. Department of Maxillofacial Surgery, Stomatology Institute, Shupyk NMAPE, 4-a Pidvysotskogo Street, Kyiv 01103, Ukraine. Tel., fax: +38 (044) 528 35 17. E-mail address: tymofeev@gmail.com (Oleksii O. Tymofieiev) Instagram: oleksii.tymofieiev; dt_journal

September 30, 2018

https://doi.org/10.23999/j.dtomp.2018.3.1

J Diagn Treat Oral Maxillofac Pathol 2018;106–11.

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To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.

─Winston Churchill,

Prime Minister, United Kingdom 

  from 1940 to 1945

from 1951 to 1955

 

Improvement is always great. Improvement in the science of oral and maxillofacial surgery is more than great. Especially, when that improvement is supported and implemented at the highest level of Government. Order #32 of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (issued January 15, 2018) accelerate the movement of the Ukrainian scientific publications to the best positions in the extremely dynamic world of scientific publication. The purpose of that Editorial is to highlight the features of a new Order.

 

According the Order all Ukrainian scientific publications, which are in the List of scientific professional publications of Ukraine, divided into three categories till the year 2020: “A”, “B”, and “C” [1]. After March 2020 there will be only two categories: “A” and “B”.

 

The item 3 (Fig 2A) of the Order is established that the scientific professional publications included in the List of scientific professional publications of Ukraine on the day of the entry into force of this Order shall be assigned a category “C” for a period of two years (till March, 2020). If, during this period, the categories “C” to the Ministry of Education and Science have submitted documents confirming compliance with the requirements for the assignment of category “A” or category “B”, they are assigned these categories [1].

 

The item 6 (Fig 2B) (Rule of the Formation of the List of scientific professional publications of Ukraine) tell us: To the category “A” are included scientific publications that included to the scientometric databases Scopus® and/or Web of Science Core Collection (Fig 1) [2, 3]. To the category “B” are included the scientific publications that meet the requirements of subclauses 1-8 of item 6.

 

All advantages and disadvantages of a new Order the readers and workers of the editorial offices can easily find in the Rule of the Formation of the List of scientific professional publications of Ukraine (Fig 2B-E).

 

What I can tell on behalf of Editorial Board of the Diagnostics & Treatment of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology that other great international journals of head & neck area (Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, impact factor ─ 3.475; Head & Neck, impact factor ─ 2.471; Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, impact factor ─ 1.779; etc.) are completely supports those key item of a new Ministers` Order being included to those scientometric databases. So, it`s definitely a right Order that will help to move the surgical science forward much faster.

FIGURE 1. Official symbols of Scopus® (A) and Web of Science (B).

 

FIGURE 2A. Cropped copy of the 1st page of Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (issued January 15, 2018). Item 3 is indicated by red line. Source: the date received from Link [1], September 10, 2018.

FIGURE 2B. Cropped copy of 2nd page of the Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. Item 6 is indicated by red line.

FIGURE 2C. Cropped copy of 3rd page of the Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.

FIGURE 2D. Cropped copy of 4th page of the Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.

FIGURE 2E. Cropped copy of 5th page of the Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. Important items are indicated by red lines.

 

Acknowledgments

The author would like to thank Ievgen I. Fesenko (Managing Editor) for assistance in editing this Editorial.

 

References (3)

 

  1. On approval of the procedure for the formation of the list of scientific professional publications of Ukraine [document on the internet]; Available from: Link

  2. Scopus preview [document on the internet]; 2017 September 09 [cited 2018 Sep 03]. Available from: Link

  3. Web of Science preview [document on the internet]; 2018 August 09 [cited 2018 Sep 03]. Available from: Link