According to the methodology for evaluating Ukrainian journals, dividing them into categories from “A” to “E”, journals with a certain impact factor are assigned to category “A”, and those included in the “Master Journal List” but without an established impact factor are assigned to category “B” [6]. Among 42 chemical science journals, the journal “Superhard Materials” was assigned to category “B”. However, based on the published data of the “Journal Citation Report, Thomson Reuters”, which is available on the website [7], the journal “Superhard Materials” received an impact factor of 0.547 for 2010 and, thus, moved to the highest category “A”. The impact factor value of 0.547 means that out of 119 articles published in 2009-2008, the articles were cited 65 times in 2010.
Of the 604 scientific and technical publications included in the list of professional publications of the Higher Attestation Commission of Ukraine, as of 2005, only five academic publications had an approved impact factor [3], in 2009 – seven, and in 2010 – seventeen, among which the journal “Ultrahard Materials” is in sixth place, and in the materials science direction – in first place (Table 1).
Table 1. Ukrainian scientific journals with an impact factor as of 2010
№ | Journal title II | Impact factor |
| 1 | Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (SIGMA) (Institute of Mathematics, Kyiv) | 0,856 |
| 2 | Condensed Matter Physics (Institute of Condensed Matter Physics, Lviv) | 0,800 |
| 3 | Ukrainian Journal of Physical Optics (Institute of Physical Optics, Lviv) | 0,659 |
| 4 | Low Temperature Physics (Low Temperature Institute, Kharkiv) | 0,625 |
| 5 | Theoretical and Experimental Chemistry / Theoretical and Experimental Chemistry (Institute of Physical Chemistry, Kyiv) | 0,577 |
| 6 | Journal of Superhard Materials (Institute of Superhard Materials, Kyiv) | 0,547 |
| 7 | Kinematics and Physics of Celestial Bodies / Kinematics and Physics of Celestial Bodies (GAO, Kyiv) | 0,337 |
| 8 | Powder Metallurgy and Metal Ceramics / Powder Metallurgy (Institute for Problems of Materials Science, Kyiv) | 0,288 |
| 9 | Neurophysiology (Institute of Physiology, Kyiv) | 0,279 |
| 10 | Strength of Materials / Strength Problems (Institute of Strength Problems, Kyiv) | 0,267 |
| 11 | Journal of Mathematical Physics, Analysis, Geometry / Journal of Mathematical Physics, Analysis, Geometry (Institute of Low Temperatures, Kharkiv) | 0,265 |
| 12 | Journal of Water Chemistry and Technology / Chemistry and technology of water (Institute of Coloid Chemistry and Water Chemistry, Kiev) | 0,218 |
| 13 | Materials Science / Physico-chemical mechanics of materials (Physico-Mechanical Institute, Lviv) | 0,210 |
| 14 | Ukrainian Mathematical Journal / Ukrainian Mathematical Journal (Institute of Mathematics, Kiev) | 0,167 |
| 15 | Nonlinear Oscillations / Nonlinear Oscillations (Institute of Mathematics, Kiev) | 0,158 |
| 16 | Metal physics and new technologies (Institute of Metal Physics, Kiev) | 0,150 |
| 17 | Problems of atomic science and technology / Issues of atomic science and technology (Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology) | 0,039 |
According to Scopus databases, one hundred hundred citations to the number of publications as of January 15, 2009 [8] and December 21, 2010 [9], Institute of Solid Materials im. V.M. Bakulya NAS of Ukraine, representations in the world mainly through publications in the journal “Superhard Materials”, among academic institutions of technical and materials science directly occupy a different place (Table 2).
Table 2. Scientific installations of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, technical and material knowledge directly in Scopus (as of 01/15/2009 and 12/21/2010)
| Install the NAS of Ukraine (the name of the journal that is published) | Кількість публікацій | Quantity of quotes | Number of quotes up to number of publications | |||
| 2009 | 2010 | 2009 | 2010 | 2009 | 2010 | |
| Institute of Mechanics im. S.T. Timoshenko (“Applied Mechanics”) | 1823 | 2132 | 3755 | 5443 | 2,06 | 2,55 |
| Institute of Supersolid Materials V.M. Bakulya (“Superhard materials”) | 1069 | 1162 | 1768 | 2571 | 1,65 | 2,21 |
| Institute of Materials Science Problems im. I. M. Frantsevich (“Powder metallurgy”) | 5163 | 5781 | 7288 | 10963 | 1,41 | 1,90 |
| Physico-Mechanical Institute named after G. V. Karpenka (“Physico-chemical mechanics of materials”) | 759 | 2047 | 865 | 1515 | 1,14 | 0,74 |
| Institute of Problems of Social Sciences. G. S. Pisarenko (“Problems of Strength”) | 466 | 1119 | 92 | 689 | 0,2 | 0,62 |
Scopus is the largest and most authoritative database of scientific articles, which belongs to Elsevier’s largest collection of scientific literature, is committed to conducting clear and prompt monitoring and respectfully interests of light science, which completely confirms the rejected rating for the journal “Superhard Materials”.
In addition, the journal “Superhard Materials” is included in the abstract database of scientific information of the Ukrainian abstract journal “Dzherelo”, the National Library of Ukraine. V.I. Vernadsky “Ukraine of Science”, the All-Russian Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of the Russian Academy of Sciences (VINITI), and its English version of the “Journal of Superhard Materials” – in the electronic abstract database of scientific Information Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), INSPEC (Institution of Electrical Engineers-IEE) Academic OneFile, ChemWeb, Expanded Academic, Google Scholar, OCLC, SCOPUS, Summon by Serial Solutions. Journal “Superhard Materials” presentations in major scientific and public libraries around the world (Table 3).
Table 3. Science and public libraries in the world, including the journal “Superhard Materials”
| Country | City | Library name |
| Bulgaria | Sofia | Central Library of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences |
| Bulgaria | Sofia | National Library “St. Cyril and Methodius” |
| Great Britain | London | The British Library |
| Hungary | Budapest | Orszagos Muszaki Informacios Kozpont Konyvtar (National Technical Information Center and Library) |
| Germany | Frankfurt am Main | Deutsche Gesellschaft für chemisches Apparatenwesen e.V. (German Association of Chemical Technologists) |
| China | Beijing | The Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| China | Beijing | Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China |
| Macedonia | Skop”є | National and University Library “St. Clement of Ohrid” |
| Poland | Warsaw | Biblioteka Główna Politechniki Warszawskiej |
| Russia | Moscow | State Public Scientific and Technical Library of Russia |
| Romania | Bucharest | The National Institute for Information and Documentation |
| Serbia | Belgrade | Library of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Mysteries |
| Словаччина | Bratislava | Central Library of the Academy of Sciences of Slovaccini |
| USA | Pace | Rocky Mountain Mathematics Consortium |
| USA | Columbus | Columbus Metropolitan Library |
| USA | Washington | The Library of Congress |
| USA | Kansas City | Linda Hall Library Science & Technology |
| France | Paris | Bibliothèque de l’Institut de France Académie des Sciences |
| Japan | Tokyo | The Ceramic Society of Japan |
All this is evidence of the high rating and demand for the journal “Superhard Materials” as a leading scientific publication, which highlights the advanced achievements in the development and hardening of supersolid materials.
Provided with significant information, knowledge and information and communication technologies as information resources for solving practical problems of science and technology. As a butt of scientific information, the scientific and theoretical journal “Nadtverdi Materials” is given. According to the information product “Journal Citation Reports” of the scientific citation database ISI We of Knowledge of the Thomson Reuters company, the journal “Top Materials” has found an impact factor of 0.547, which means its place in light information space.
Key words: information space, scientific journal, databases, abstracts, impact factor, journal “Superhard Materials”
The paper defines the notions of information, knowledge, and information–communicative technologies as means of the information society to solve practical problems of science and technology. The scientific-theoretical Journal of Superhard Materials is given as an example of the source of scientific information. According to the Journal Citation Reports information product, which is the ISI Web of Knowledge citation base of the Thomson Reuters Company, the Journal of Superhard Materials has received an impact-factor of 0.547, which defines one of the leading positions of the journal in the world information space.
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