Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- In June 2020, Elsevier published a new list of journals that were removed from the Scopus database. This is the second exception for 2020. The first list was published in March 2020. This time, Elsevier again got under the hot hand of magazines that could not fulfill the terms of cooperation with Scopus and meet the quality criteria.

In this regard, the Center for Scientific and Technical Information under the Ministry of Innovative Development analyzed the publications of domestic scientists for 2017-2018, for their presence in journals excluded from the Scopus database as of June 2020.

Total for 2017-2018 domestic scientists published 1,121 articles (590 - in 2017, 531 - in 2018). Of these, 10 articles were published in journals excluded from the database (3 in 2017 and 7 in 2018). This is less than 1 percent and is actually not a bad figure.

Scopus is one of the largest databases containing a brief description and information on citation of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Providing a comprehensive overview of the world's research results in various fields of science, technology, medicine, sociology, arts and humanities, Scopus offers intelligent tools for tracking, analyzing and visualizing research.

To get into the Scopus database, the publisher must send a request by filling out an electronic application. If the proposal is considered positively by the Advisory Committee, which includes some 30 scholars from various disciplines and librarians from around the world, the publication will be included in the list of cited publications. If a refusal is received, a repeated application can be sent no earlier than one year later.

This is not the only way to be among the publications indexed by the database. The experts of the international service have the right to independently nominate for the committee's consideration the publications that, in their opinion, deserve it.

The selection is carried out for publications that meet certain criteria, including the regularity of printing (at least once a year), full publication of articles in the English version, high quality of the presentation of the material, the popularity of the research, accessibility, authority, the presence of its own website with translation into English, the number of subscribers (all requirements and recommendations to publishers are posted on the publisher's website).

Almost always, the expert council rejects applications in the absence of ISSN, reviews, article lists of references, English-language abstracts to articles, and its own Internet resource. The latter should be performed at a high technical and content level.

Elsevier also periodically publishes a list of journals that have been excluded from the Scopus database.

If an article published in an excluded journal already exists in the Scopus database, it will continue to be indexed there. But those works that are just awaiting their publication in a publication that have been excluded from the base will not be indexed in Scopus. Because of this, the scientist loses his time, resources and money. He has to invest again in order to find an already suitable magazine and not get burned a second time.

The Center for Scientific and Technical Information under the Ministry of Innovative Development monitors the publication activity of domestic scientists.