IN CAPTIVITY OF SCOPUS: «STOCKHOLM SYNDROME» OF UKRAINIAN HUMANITIES

Abstract

The appearance of a new professional journal “Integrated Communications” expands the opportunities of Ukrainian journalism scholars not only to publish their achievements, but also to activate scientific communication in the field of journalism studies. Considering the important role played by both – journalism itself and the science that investi- gates it in the conditions of the modern information war, this is definitely a positive fact, the relevance of which is given the complete absence of publications in the relevant field, indexed in the Scopus database in Ukraine, and on the other hand, the presence of only 13 specialized publications is beyond doubt. At the same time, it is precise because of the specific subject matter of journalism that it is a reason to think about what is more beneficial or harmful caused by the obligation to publish the results of research, not only in the field of jour- nalism – in general, in humanities, in indexed publications, where these studies objectively do not have either such an audience or, accordingly, the appropriate power of influence on it, as in the homeland. Humanities researchers not only in Ukraine (V. Mykhaylovskyi, O. Romanova) but also abroad (Diana Hicks, Dejan Pajić, Tanja Jevremov, Marko Škorić, etc.) began to talk about this problem from the very beginning of the “unification” requirements for the publications of “physicists” and “lyricists”. The purpose of the article is to generalize the views of various researchers on the dubious, from the author’s point of view, the necessity of comprehensive publications for the scientific biography of a scholar-humanitarian, for which an analysis of the state of the information field in thematic and geographical aspects was used. The result of the conducted research was the conclusion that in the fields of humanities, closely tied to the native in- formation soil, it is much more expedient than searching for indexed publications, distant in real geographical space and indefinitely long in terms of publication time, to activate the existing “pool” of domestic special editions (in particular, due to an increase in the frequency of publication) and the creation of new ones that would more accurately outline the sectoral problems of such a broad field as journalism.