International Journal of Science Annals, Vol. 5, No. 1-2, 2022 рrint ISSN: 2617-2682; online ISSN: 2707-3637; DOI:10.26697/ijsa EDITORIAL Message from the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Science Annals, Vol. 5, No. 1-2, 2022 Melnyk Yu. B.1,2 1 Kharkiv Regional Public Organization “Culture of Health” (KRPOCH), Ukraine 2 Scientific Research Institute KRPOCH, Ukraine Received: 18.12.2022; Accepted: 23.12.2022; Published: 25.12.2022 Abstract Background and The Russian-Ukrainian war of 2022 has caused an ongoing humanitarian crisis Aim of Study: that undermines stability both in Ukraine and around the world. The IJSA Editorial Office and the KRPOCH Publishing, located in Kharkiv (Ukraine), found themselves in extremely difficult conditions for the implementation of their scientific and publishing activities. Results: IJSA is a scientific, periodic, peer-reviewed Journal. The IJSA has been published and has been actively developing for 5 years. The Journal reviewed more than 300 manuscripts, 5 volumes were published. The IJSA has a clear and precise procedure for reviewing and selecting papers for publication. The IJSA Editorial Board includes the most authoritative scientists from 17 countries, 5 continents in the fields of Education, Psychology, and Medicine. The Journal is presented in more than 30 international scientometric databases, repositories and search engines, among them DOAJ, ERIH PLUS, COPE, MIAR, Crossref System, Google Scholar, ResearchGate, Zenodo, Scilit, etc. In 2018-2022 the KRPOCH Publishing and the IJSA initiated, co-organized, and sponsored the following academic projects: annual International Scientific and Practical Conferences “Psychological and Pedagogical Problems of Modern Specialist Formation” (PPPMSF), “Current Issues of Education and Science” (CIES), as well as the international competitions “Blockchain in the Digital Society” (ICBDS), “Mental Health in the Digital Society” (ICMHDS). These competitions were held among masters, graduate students, and young scientists. Conclusions: In this Editorial, I address the international academic community, universities and publishers who share our values and interests in supporting the Journal, as a sponsor or as an institutional partner of the IJSA. Keywords: journal, manuscripts, guidelines, peer review process, humanitarian crisis, institutional partner Copyright: © 2022 Melnyk Yu. B. Published by Archives of International Journal of Science Annals DOI https://doi.org/10.26697/ijsa.2022.1-2.1 Conflict of interests: The author declares that there is no conflict of interests Source of support: This research did not receive any outside funding or support Information about Melnyk Yuriy Borysovych – https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8527-4638; the author: ijsa.office@gmail.com; Doctor of Philosophy in Pedagogy, Associate Professor; Chairman of Board, Kharkiv Regional Public Organization “Culture of Health” (KRPOCH); Director, Scientific Research Institute KRPOCH, Kharkiv, Ukraine. Dear Readers, Authors, and Publishers, The scientific community and research organizations Russia’s full-scale military invasion of Ukraine in have experienced all the hardships of the military February 2022 has led to a humanitarian crisis and situation. The Editorial Office of the International created serious problems in many spheres of activity of Journal of Science Annals (IJSA) and the IJSA Founder, the Ukrainian community. Kharkiv Regional Public Organization “Culture of 5 International Journal of Science Annals, Vol. 5, No. 1-2, 2022 рrint ISSN: 2617-2682; online ISSN: 2707-3637; DOI:10.26697/ijsa Health” (KRPOCH), was located in the Ukrainian city of editorial support in the preparation of the manuscript and Kharkiv. The city was exposed to rocket, air and artillery funding for its publication. attacks. The building of the IJSA Editorial Office and the In 2022, as before, KRPOCH covered the costs from 80 KRPOCH Publishing was damaged by a rocket that to 100% for the publication of manuscripts accepted by exploded next to it, windows were shattered by shrapnel, the Journal. and property was damaged. KRPOCH is a non-profit organization that has received KRPOCH employees were urgently evacuated to the no public or private sponsorship funding for its west of Ukraine (Uzhgorod city), where they organized a publishing activities. Therefore, a strict editorial and volunteer center to provide socio-psychological and review process, as well as limited financial resources, material assistance to internally displaced persons allow us to publish no more than 15% of the articles affected by Russian aggression. We have made every submitted to the Journal. effort to implement previously planned national and The subject of this Journal volume was devoted to topical international scientific projects: VII International issues of physical and mental health protection among Scientific and Practical Conference “Psychological and schoolchildren, students, cadets in the conditions of Pedagogical Problems of Modern Specialist Formation” martial law in Ukraine, international research in the field (PPPMSF-2022), X International Scientific and Practical of hygiene, as well as research in the field of oncology Conference “Current Issues of Education and Science” and accompanying these persons. (CIES-2022), International Competition “Mental Health The Journal is presented in more than 30 international in the Digital Society” (ICMHDS-2022), as well as the scientometric databases, repositories and search engines, preparation and publication of the IJSA, Vol. 5, 2022. among them: Le Centre International de l’ISSN, ROAD Months of missile strikes and the destruction of (France); Crossref System, Google Scholar, GitHub, Ukraine’s critical infrastructure have caused massive OAJI (USA); DOAJ (Sweden); OpenAIRE, ERIH PLUS disruptions and restrictions in power supply, the Internet (Norway); EndNote Click (Great Britain); COPE, Jisc and more. (United Kingdom); BASE, ResearchGate (Germany); These objective reasons, as well as the loss of computer Zenodo; Scilit (Switzerland); MIAR (Spain); OUCI equipment and printing equipment, made it almost (Ukraine), etc. impossible to implement some projects (PPPMSF-2022, I express my deep gratitude to all the IJSA Reviewers, as ICMHDS-2022). well as to the IJSA Editorial Board Members, for their The IJSA Editorial Office had to be moved from work and moral support of our activities in this difficult Uzhhorod (Ukraine) to Vienna (Austria), where the time for us. implementation of the CIES-2022 project and the IJSA I also express my solidarity with leading publications publication were temporarily continued. such as Nature and Science (Mcnutt & Hildebrand, In 2022, the IJSA Editorial Office received 32 2022), which have condemned Russia’s military manuscripts: aggression against Ukraine in editorials, as well as 13 manuscripts (40.6%) were rejected during the Elsevier, which took the initiative to provide financial preliminary evaluation process; support to Ukrainian researchers in its periodicals. 14 manuscripts (43.8%) were rejected during the peer We hope that the international scientific community will review process; render real help in rebuilding science and research 5 manuscripts (15.6%) were accepted and published in infrastructure in Ukraine, an important component of this volume. which is the publishing activity of scientific periodicals. At the first stage, the reasons for rejection are the We are currently looking for institutional partners among guidelines of the study have not been followed; the international academic organizations and publishing manuscript title is out of scope of the Journal, manuscript houses in order to restore and develop the IJSA. requirements have not been followed, the manuscript contains stylistic, spelling and syntax errors, plagiarism, Conclusions etc. The Russian-Ukrainian war of 2022 is an ongoing At the second stage, the reasons for rejection are humanitarian crisis that is disrupting stability both in scientific relevance and practical importance are absent, Ukraine and around the world. methodological errors, there is no logic between the This war has resulted in many deaths, severe damage to sections of the manuscript, etc. critical infrastructure and activities of the Ukrainian We guarantee compliance the proper level of publication community. KRPOCH scientific and publishing activity ethics, copyright protection at all stages of material has appeared in extremely difficult conditions. In review. essence, the question became about the survival of the Therefore, the IJSA has a clear and precise procedure for IJSA. reviewing and selecting papers for publication. In this Editorial, I address the international academic Our Journal solves the dilemma of quality and quantity community, universities and publishers who share our of papers definitely in favor of quality (Melnyk & values and interests in supporting the Journal, as a Pypenko, 2021). sponsor or as an institutional partner of the IJSA. The Journal should motivate young talented scientists to publish their manuscripts by providing them with 6 International Journal of Science Annals, Vol. 5, No. 1-2, 2022 рrint ISSN: 2617-2682; online ISSN: 2707-3637; DOI:10.26697/ijsa References Kharkiv Regional Public Organization “Culture of Kharkiv Regional Public Organization “Culture of Health”. (2022). Volunteer activity. Health”. (2022). X International scientific and https://doi.org/10.26697/projects practical conference “Current Issues of Mcnutt, M., & Hildebrand, J. (2022). Scientists in the Education and Science” (CIES-2022), Latvia – line of fire. Science, 375(6585), 1071. Ukraine. https://doi.org/10.26697/CIES-22 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abp8817 Kharkiv Regional Public Organization “Culture of Melnyk, Yu. B., & Pypenko, I. S. (2021). Dilemma: Health”. (2022). International competition Quality or quantity in scientific periodical “Mental Health in the Digital Society” publishing. International Journal of Science (ICMHDS-2022). Annals, 4(2), 5–7. https://doi.org/10.26697/competitions.icmhds https://doi.org/10.26697/ijsa.2021.2.1 Kharkiv Regional Public Organization “Culture of Health”. (2022). International projects. Dr. Yuriy Melnyk, https://doi.org/10.26697/international.projects Director of KRPOCH Publishing, Editor-in-Chief of the IJSA Cite this article as: Melnyk, Yu. B. (2022). Message from the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Science Annals, Vol. 5, No. 1-2, 2022. International Journal of Science Annals, 5(1-2), 5–7. https://doi.org/10.26697/ijsa.2022.1-2.1 The electronic version of this article is complete. 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