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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

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