Journal quality criteria: Measurement and significance

The landscape of scientific communication imposes obvious requirements on its actors, which are not always unambiguously interpreted by the latter. basic criterion is quality. Since journals serve as main channel for rational debates based facts, their quality level seems to be most significant development knowledge. Today, undergoing a massive transformation: from changing format content presentation becoming body collective communication. These changes cannot but affect characteristics journals. multilateral in nature, scientific, editorial, and publishing communities have formed an unambiguous opinion about criteria journal characterize aspects, can attributed “formal”, “technical”. In this article, authors, Russian international expert opinion, analyze Based data questionnaire developed considers categories Scopus system, survey editors (n = 130) was conducted. completed anonymously, study participants were made aware objectives. obtained it possible editors’ ideas qualitative influence promotion. A sufficiently deep understanding essence specifics analyzed recorded. At same time, certain aspects require targeted work optimization development. There also need further research topic, considering subject field traditions.