Open Science Policy

The journal ‘Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Physics and Mathematics’ supports the principles of open science, which encompass the following practices:

  1. Early and open dissemination of research
  2. Management of research results
  3. Ensuring reproducibility of results
  4. Open access to research results

The editorial board encourages authors to adhere to ethical principles in the collection and use of data and to use proper citation.

The journal implements the principles of open science by adhering to fair review practices, conducting transparent editorial processes, and promoting openness and reproducibility of research results.

 

Principles of responsible assessment

The editorial practices of the journal ‘Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Physics and Mathematics’ embody the recommendations and approaches set out in the DORA Declaration (San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment). Therefore, the editorial board adheres to the general DORA recommendation:

  • Do not use journal metrics, such as impact factor, as an auxiliary indicator of the quality of individual scientific articles.

The publication applies the following DORA approaches:

  1. It presents a system of indicators in the context of various journal metrics (e.g., 5-year impact factor, EigenFactor, SCImago, h-index, average time to edit and publish articles, etc.), which allows for a more complete picture of the journal.
  2. Makes a number of indicators available at the level of individual articles to encourage a shift towards evaluation based on the scientific content of the article rather than on the bibliometric indicators of the journal in which it is published.
  3. Promotes the practice of responsible authorship and the provision of information about the specific contribution of each author.
  4. It has no restrictions on the reuse of bibliographies in scientific articles and makes them available in accordance with the terms and conditions of Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication.
  5. Where appropriate, it does not require the citation of original research instead of review articles in order to give credit to the group (groups) that first presented the results.
  6. The publication recognises and accepts for publication various scientific results, not just articles.

 

Compliance with FAIR principles

The editorial board of the journal ‘Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Physics and Mathematics' is convinced that all research-related data should be searchable, open, compliant with generally accepted standards, and reusable (FAIR — Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable).

We ask authors to store the data underlying their research in appropriate repositories.

We encourage authors to evaluate their research data using the following tools:

 

The editorial board advises authors to manage their research data, in particular to draw up the (https://lnu.se/en/medarbetare/researcher/researcher5/Research-data/, https://dmponline.dcc.ac.uk/, https://dmptool.org/) and adhere to it in order to avoid data distortion in the research process.

 

Scientific data deposit policy

The journal ‘Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Physics and Mathematics’ encourages open access to scientific data related to publications.

The journal ‘Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Physics and Mathematics’ requires authors to deposit data related to their research in the institutional repository eKNUTSHIR (https://ir.library.knu.ua/home), and in the KNU community on Zenodo (https://ir.library.knu.ua/entities/publication/7d490eeb-3f9d-476e-bac2-d9561eb7edbe) or in any other subject-specific or general repository (repository registry – https://www.re3data.org/), as placing datasets in a repository ensures long-term storage and assignment of permanent identifiers (e.g. DOI).

References to all published datasets should be included in the article metadata.

The editorial board encourages authors to describe research data sets in accordance with the principles and, where possible, to make them available under open licences (e.g. CC BY or CC0).