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Ukrainian scientific journals in the branches of juridical, economic, humanitarian and social sciences: a systematization

Abstract. We analyze the state of affairs with the Ukrainian journals and proceedings specialized in the fields of humanitarian, social, economic and juridical sciences. According to a number of criteria suggested by us, all of the available 1214 Ukrainian editions are divided into seven categories. We have found that the highest category A is empty, 5 editions belong to the category B, 5 to the category C, 23 to the category D, 24 to the category E, and 1034 to the category F. Finally, the lowest category, G, includes 123 issues. Following from the results obtained, one can see that only editions belonging to the categories B–E satisfy 81% of the necessary criteria. The total scores for these journals and proceedings are equal or higher than 15.


Introduction
The aim of this work is to continue our recent studies of the situation with specialized scientific Ukrainian journals and proceedings [Vasylkiv Yu. et al., 2017. Ukr. J. Phys. Opt. 18: 28-45]. In the present study we review the Ukrainian specialized scientific journals and proceedings concerned with the fields of humanitarian, social, economic and juridical sciences.
A general approach employed for ranking the specialized scientific journals and proceedings has been described in our recent work. Below we remind the main principles of this ranking in brief. Our system of journal evaluation is based on the known criteria that precede appointing of scientometric indices to journals, basing on their citation analysis. As a consequence, the journals covered by Web of Science or Scopus and, in particular, those having prescribed scientometric indices, have to hold the highest positions in the journal ranking and form the category A. Besides, the process of admission of a journal to the covering mentioned above is based on the following criteria: timeliness of publication; adhering to common international editorial conventions; publishing of full texts of articles (or, at least, bibliographical data and abstract) in English; application of peer-reviewing procedures; enriching of content of scientometric databases (or some specific topic of the latter) with a journal under evaluation; international diversity among contributing authors, journal's editors and Editorial Advisory Board members; importance of regional scholarship, etc.
All of these criteria have been involved when evaluating the Ukrainian specialized journals and proceedings [Vasylkiv Yu. et al., 2017. Ukr. J. Phys. Opt. 18: 28-45]. As a result, we have used the following specific criteria (or 'conditions') for our editions evaluation: (1) availability of digital object identifier (DOI) for the articles published in a isuue, (2) coverage by Web of Science, (3) coverage by Scopus, (4) coverage by the national database "Ukrainika Scientific" or the database "Index Copernicus", (5) timeliness of publication of a journal, (6) availability of website with full texts of articles in Ukrainian, (7) availability of web-site with English abstracts, and (8) availability of web-site with full texts of articles in English.
In principle, a fact of meeting each of these criteria might have been evaluated quantitatively by adding a single point to the total journal's score. However, it is obvious that different criteria are of different importance. This is accounted for via introducing relevant weighing coefficients. For example, availability of DOI for the articles published in a certain edition and inclusion of the latter to Web of Science or Scopus databases have the same weighing coefficient, 25. The weighting coefficients referred to the remaining criteria (4), (5), (6), (7) and (8) are equal to 2, 7, 3, 3 and 10 points, respectively. If a edition satisfies all of the criteria mentioned above, it is characterized by the total score 100. Any journal possessing an impact factor surely satisfies these criteria. Thus, its score can be determined as 100 + 10 IF, where IF denotes the impact factor.
Basing on the ranking of editions carried out as described above, we have plotted the distribution of journals and proceedings scores versus the quantity of editions with a certain score. Then the cumulative Pareto distribution function can be used: where F(x) is the relative quantity of editions which make the relative cumulative score contribution x to the total score, x m the minimal relative cumulative contribution to the total score, and α the Pareto exponent. On the basis of this distribution the Pareto ratio n 1 /(100-n 1 ) can be determined. It is given by the percentage n 1 of editions which satisfy 100-n 1 per cents of our criteria concerned with entry of these editions into International databases and their scientometric indices.
As mentioned above, we have earlier analyzed all the Ukrainian editions referred to any of scientific fields such as the natural sciences, engineering, veterinary and the agriculture [Vasylkiv Yu. et al., 2017. Ukr. J. Phys. Opt. 18: 28-45]. A separate analysis of the journals and proceedings specialized in the veterinary, agriculture, physics and mathematics, biology, chemistry, geography and geology has also been performed. The list of journals and proceedings, publications in which are taken into account when awarding the Degrees of Candidate (Philosophy Doctor) or Doctor of Sciences, has been approved by the Decrees of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine [1,2]. We have divided all of the Ukrainian journals and proceedings referred to the natural sciences into seven categories, A-G. In particular, the category A contains the journals with prescribed impact factors. The category B contains the journals which have prescribed scientometric indices assigned by the Scopus database but still do not have an impact factor. We have also taken into account the scientometric indices SNIP and SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) (see Ref. [3]) for this category. The journals included to Web of Science (Emerging Sources Citation Index) or Scopus belong to the category C only if their scientometric indices have not yet been calculated. The category D embraces the journals and proceedings which are not covered by Web of Science and Scopus and have no scientometric indices, under the condition that the articles published in these editions have DOI assigned. The next category, E, includes the journals and proceedings that satisfy the minimal requirements laid to scientific journals. They must meet at least the criteria (4)-(7) and so earn the scores higher than 15. The editions with the total score 15 or lower are included to the category F. Finally, the journals and proceedings with a zero total score or those which have not been published during the last two years belong to the lowest category, G.

Results and discussion
The list of journals and proceedings specializing in the branches of humanitarian, social, economic and juridical sciences contain 1214 items in the total (see Refs. [1,2]). None of these editions has a prescribed impact factor, so that the category A is empty at this time. In particular, the impact factor has not been prescribed for the humanitarian journals in principle. As seen from Table 1, the category B contains only 5 journals. All of them are included to Web of Science. Table 2 testifies that 5 editions can be referred to the category C. Then, 23 editions belong to the category D (see Table 3). The category E consists of 24 editions. Note that meeting the criteria (4)-(8) seems to be a minimal necessary condition for any scientific journal. The minimal score for these periodicals is equal to 25. The corresponding editions are as follows: 1034 editions with the total scores lower than 15 are referred to the category F. Finally, 123 journals and proceedings belong to the lowest category, G. It is almost obvious that these editions have long ceased to exist. In fact, they must not have been taken into account in any serious scientometric analysis.
The histograms of distributions of the scores for the Ukrainian editions obtained with different bin sizes are shown in Fig. 1. As seen from Fig. 1b, more than 1000 items have the scores equal or lower than 15. Usually these editions satisfy the following conditions: (i) they are covered by the databases "Ukrainika Scientific" or "Index Copernicus", (ii) they are published in time, (iii) Ukrainian full texts are available on their web-sites, and (iv) English abstracts of articles are available on their web-sites. However, full versions of articles in these editions cannot be evaluated by the international scientific community, since only English is a commonly accepted language of science. Moreover, the above journals and proceedings are not present in the largest International databases. In addition, the articles published in these editions have no DOI assigned, thus making them invisible in specialized Internet space. Hence, the Ukrainian editions suitable for publishing scientific works accounted for PhD thesis defence should have the minimal score higher than 15.
Let us consider the cumulative Pareto distribution for all the Ukrainian journals and proceedings under study, except for the items of the category G (see Fig. 2a). One can see from Fig. 2a that the corresponding Pareto ratio is equal to 81/19. In other words, 19% of the journals and proceedings satisfy 81% of the necessary criteria of the editions formulated in Section 1. These 19% of the items must have corresponded to 208 journals and proceedings with the highest scores. However, the total number of the appropriate editions belonging to the categories B-E is only 57, which is seen from Tables 1-3. The difference can be related to high relative errors of the Pareto fitting, which reaches 15%. The rest of the items, the total number of which is equal to 1034 (i.e., 81% of all editions included to the category F), satisfy only 19% of the necessary criteria. By the highest standards, they have not to be taken into account in the official governmental attestation of specialists in Ukraine. The same concerns the official evaluation of scientific projects in Ukraine, which is based on the articles published by the projects' authors. As seen from Fig. 2b, the Pareto ratio for the best 57 journals is equal to 66/34. This means that 34% of these editions (i.e., about 20 periodicals with the highest scores) meet additional 66% of criteria out of 19% of the criteria, which have not been satisfied for the rest of the editions (see Fig. 2a). As a consequence, ~ 20 journals and proceedings satisfy 88% of all the necessary conditions. With accounting for the fitting errors, one can refer to this group the editions belonging to the categories B and, partly, C and D. These are the items with the total scores 40 or higher (see Tables 1-3). The conditions necessary for reaching such the scores are meeting of at least one of the three following demands: (i) availability of DOI for articles published in a journal and proceedings; (ii) coverage of this journal by Web of Science; or (iii) its coverage by Scopus.
We consider now the cumulative Pareto distributions for the journals and proceedings referred to humanitarian sciences as a whole (see Fig. 3a), and separately to culturology (Fig. 3b), philosophy (Fig. 3c), philology (Fig. 3d) and arts sciences (Fig. 3e). The Pareto ratio for the editions corresponding to all the humanitarian sciences is equal to 76/24, while the total number of journals and proceedings that correspond to the mentioned branches of sciences is equal to 303. Thus, 24% of items satisfy 76% of all the criteria. In fact, with accounting for the fitting error (~ 10%), one can refer 13 items to these 24% of the editions. Their scores are higher than 15. Let us proceed to the separate statistics for the journals and proceedings referred to each of the humanitarian scientific fields. Only one among 18 journals and proceedings related to culturology has the score higher than 15 (see Fig. 3b). This is "National Academy of Managerial Staff of Culture and Arts Herald", with the score 40. The editions of this group satisfy 77% of the necessary conditions, with the relative error of fitting equal to 17%. For the journals and proceedings specialized in philosophy, the Pareto ratio is equal to 71/29 (see Fig. 3c). The total number of editions in this scientific field is 89. 29% of these journals and proceedings amount to 7 items. They have the total scores higher than 15. The relative fitting error in this case is equal to 21%. As seen from Fig. 3d, the Pareto ratio is equal to 70/30 for the editions referred to philology. The total number of items in this scientific field is equal to 152. Hence, 30% of them correspond to 3 items, with the fitting error 28%. As usual, the minimal score of these items is higher than 15. At the same time, only one edition has the score equal or higher than 25. This is "Sultanivski Chytannia", with the score 40. Notice that, according to the results of our recent study [Vasylkiv Yu. et al., 2017. Ukr. J. Phys. Opt. 18: 28-45], this is the minimal score for the journals specialized in the fields of natural sciences, engineering, medicine, veterinary and agriculture. Finally, the Pareto ratio for the journals and proceedings specialized in the arts science is equal to 78/22 (see Fig. 4e). ranking developed earlier in [ Vasylkiv Yu. et al., 2017. Ukr. J. Phys. Opt. 18: 28-45]. Our analysis of the Ukrainian journals and proceedings is based on the Pareto distribution. We have found that, among the overall number of 1214 editions, 5 belong to the category B, 5 to the category C, 23 to the category D, and 24 to the category E. The categories F and G contain 1034 and 123 items, respectively. None of the Ukrainian editions has a prescribed impact factor, so that the highest category A is empty. Following from our analysis, one can see that the editions belonging to the categories B-E satisfy 81% of the minimal criteria. The total scores for these journals and proceedings are higher than 15. .