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International Journal of Science Annals, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2021
рrint ISSN: 2617-2682; online ISSN: 2707-3637; DOI:10.26697/ijsa

EDITORIAL

Dilemma: Quality or Quantity
in Scientific Periodical Publishing

Melnyk Yu. B. 1,2 , Pypenko I. S. 1,2,3,4
1 Kharkiv Regional Public Organization “Culture of Health” (KRPOCH), Ukraine
2 Scientific Research Institute KRPOCH, Ukraine
3 Educational Center KRPOCH, Ukraine
4 Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics, Ukraine

Received: 09.12.2021; Accepted: 23.12.2021; Published: 25.12.2021

Keywords: scientific periodical, quality, quantity, International Journal of Science Annals

DOI DOI https://doi.org/10.26697/ijsa.2021.2.1

Conflict of interests: The authors declare 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 (Corresponding Author) – https://orcid.org/0000-
the authors: 0002-8527-4638; [email protected]; Doctor of Philosophy in Pedagogy,
Associate Professor; Kharkiv Regional Public Organization “Culture of Health”
(KRPOCH); Scientific Research Institute KRPOCH, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Pypenko Iryna Sergiivna – https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5083-540X; Doctor of
Philosophy in Economics, Associate Professor, Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National
University of Economics, Kharkiv Regional Public Organization “Culture of
Health” (KRPOCH); Scientific Research Institute KRPOCH; Educational Center
KRPOCH, Kharkiv, Ukraine.

Dear Readers, Authors, and Publishers, The selection process in Scopus describes the procedure
The eternal dilemma of quality or quantity affects many of their strict standards quite responsibly and
areas of human life. One of these areas is the publishing transparently.
industry. This issue is particularly acute for scientific “The Content Selection and Advisory Board continually
periodicals (Michalska-Smith & Allesina, 2017; Peng, review titles using both quantitative and qualitative
2011). measures. Every year, approximately 3,500 new titles are
The aim of the study. To analyze the dilemma of the suggested for inclusion in Scopus, but only 33% of those
quality or quantity of papers in the publication of a titles meet the technical criteria. And of those roughly
scientific periodical Journal, and to share the four-year 1,200 titles, only 50% are accepted after CSAB review”
experience of publishing the International Journal of (Elsevier, 2021b).
Science Annals (IJSA) with publishers, editors, The Scopus ranking of Journals clearly characterizes the
reviewers, and authors. priority of quality over quantity.
Undoubtedly, it is important to develop both quality and For example, Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians is
quantity for any periodical Journal. ranked number one in Scopus indexed Journals (Elsevier,
However, for scientific periodicals, the dilemma of 2021a). CiteScore Tracker 2021 is 670.3. CiteScore
quality or quantity should be decided definitely in favor Tracker counts the citations to date (for the current year),
of quality. and divides this by the number of documents to date.
This is important both for the development of one or CiteScore Tracker 2021 calculated by Scopus on
another scientific direction, and for a particular person, December 2021 is 71722/107=670.3.
especially when it comes to influencing him (medicine, In IJSA, the problem of the quality of papers published
biology, ecology, etc.). in the Journal is clearly regulated by the peer review
The most reputable leaders who have developed their procedure.
own quality standards are Web of Science and Scopus.

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