THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF UKRAINE:: “ON SUSPENSION OF COOPERATION WITH SCIENTISTS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION IN THE PUBLISHING FIELD”

The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Scientific Publishing Council of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine have formed a position on publishing activities under martial law.

According to the official position of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, set out in an open letter of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine from 07.03.2022, collective appeal of members of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine – foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences to the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the order of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine from 07.03.2022 № 145 “On the termination of cooperation with scientists of the Russian Federation in the field of publishing” all scientific institutions and scientists of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine must immediately:

1) to withdraw from the editorial boards of all domestic scientific periodicals of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine scientists affiliated with the Russian Federation, as well as to stop their involvement in reviewing materials submitted to domestic publications;

2) all domestic scientists to withdraw from the editorial boards of scientific periodicals of the Russian Federation, as well as to stop reviewing materials submitted to these publications;

3) completely stop publishing articles by authors affiliated with the Russian Federation in scientific periodicals of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (this also applies to materials submitted before February 24, 2022);

4) completely stop co-authorship and review of any types of scientific publications affiliated with the Russian Federation (monographs, collections of scientific papers, encyclopedic and reference publications, reports and abstracts of conferences, etc.);

5) not to transfer any materials to any aggregators of scientific information of the Russian Federation, in particular to the Russian index of scientific citations (RINC).

Similar restrictions apply to cooperation with scientists and institutions affiliated with the Republic of Belarus.