AUTHOR'S ACTIVITY OF JOURNAL LABORATORY AND CLINICAL MEDICINE. PHARMACIA. 2021–2022 OUTCOMES THROUGH THE PRISM OF COMPETITIVENESS

Abstract. According to elibrary3 reports, scientific and practical medical journal Laboratory and Clinical Medicine. Pharmacy (LCMP)4 which has been published 3 years takes well-deserved place along with well-known, authoritative and long-published scientific medical mass media. Increasing in twice the authors number (20 vs 39) and in 1.5 times new once (20 vs 29), upward trend of h-index (Hirsch index) (4.2 vs 4.9) and Gini index (0.55 vs 0.8), a noticeable drop of HHI (the Herfindahl–Hirschman index) for authors' organizations (1837 vs 1378), increase in 6-times the number of views per year (100 vs 625) and almost in 4 times the downloads of articles per year (38 vs 146), the two-year IF (Impact Factor), taking into account citation of all sources in Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI) – 0.692, as well as the possibility of publication in three branches of science, characterize the journal as promising and competitive in its industry, with a wide-spread geography of authors and medical organizations. In order to increase the citation of the LCMP, the main concept of the journal is to improve a manuscript. The results of the three-years LCMP work showed that the preparation of manuscripts according to the Author Guidelines should belong to editorial and publishing team. In order to avoid the loss of publication activity the editorial team of LCMP has all the necessary competencies for supporting and providing an author's manuscript.