UKRAINIAN POLITICAL SCIENCE IN THE INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION SPACE Cover Image

ПОЛІТИЧНА НАУКА УКРАЇНИ В МІЖНАРОДНОМУ ІНФОРМАЦІЙНОМУ ПРОСТОРІ
UKRAINIAN POLITICAL SCIENCE IN THE INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION SPACE

Author(s): Oksana Оleksandrivna Fedorchuk
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Political Sciences
Published by: Національний юридичний університет імені Ярослава Мудрого
Keywords: political science; integration, international information space; scientific data bases; scientific professional editions; Ukraine;

Summary/Abstract: Problem setting. Today, the problem of highlighting the results of scientific research, accessibility and citation of scientific publications becomes a special issue. This is especially true for political sciences, since the problem of displaying scientific periodicals in international science-computer databases is extremely acute.Recent research and publications analysis. Periodical scientific professional publications as a means of institutionalization of science are examined by A. Bessarab. The database «Ukrajinika Science» is characterized by O. Sandul. The researcher analyzes publications connected with political and political sciences (2003-2013), and reveals the peculiarities of the specific distribution and dynamics of articles. Yu. Ganjurov researches the process of formation and evolution of periodicals on political sciences. He highlights the stages of the formation of political science periodicals paying attention to the criterion of changing requirements for professional publications. This article is connected with the third stage (2012-2018). Paper objective. The purpose of the article is to explore the problems of integrating of Ukrainian political science into the international information space, in particular, the reasons for the low level of such integration; to indicate the problems of displaying of scientific periodicals in international science-computer databases; to characterize the scientific professional editions on political sciences and international science-computer databases (Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, Index Copernicus). Paper main body. The problems of integration of Ukrainian political science into the international information space are indicated. The reasons for the low level of such integration are pointed out. One of the ways of solving the problem is to create bibliometrical portraits of scientists, profiles of magazines and units of institutions (for example, the in-formation-analytical system «Bibliometrics of Ukrainian Science»). The characteristic of professional editions of the political sciences is given. It is emphasized that a new central edition, which would be presented in the well-known international databases, is necessary today. The following leading scientific databases such as Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, Index Copernicus are described.Conclusions of the research. International scientific databases, both commercial and non-commercial, are powerful tool for publicizing, disseminating, and using the results of scientific research. The level of integration of Ukrainian political science into the international information space is not enough today. Ukraine does not have a central periodical publication on political sciences, which accumulated the latest achievements of Ukrainian experts and will be presented in international databases. The absence of such publication negatively affects the institutionalization of political science and is a barrier to scientific communication.