Kasyanchuk V. Scientific Journals on Communications in Citation Databases Scopus and Web of Science: Content and Organizational Components.

The work describes the content of international scientific journals on communications and organizational component of editorial work. It is presented the results of the author’s survey, conducted among authors of Ukrainian journals on social communications. It was described Impact Factor, SCImago Journal Rank, and selection criteria of citation databases (Web of Science, Scopus, Latindex, China Scientific and Technical Papers and Citations Database). It helps to establish two main quality criteria of scientific journals – international distribution and high publishing standards. The content of scientific journals on communications consists of title, subject area, headings, genres, manuscript selection criteria, the journal image. The organizational component covers studying the responsibilities between publisher and founder of the scientific journal and producing the messages for audience (presentation texts, manuscript guidelines, and call for papers). The titles are thematic or complex. They describe subject area and are built by five semantic concepts – subject area, edition type, research characteristic, geographical and institutional affiliation.