Editorial Note for Ukrainian Journal of Ecology

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Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. Founded in 2011, Ukrainian Journal of Ecology (ISSN: 2520-2138) is growing continuously. It is our pleasure to announce that during year 2019, all issues of volume 9 were published online on time and the print issues were also brought out and dispatched within 30 days of publishing the issue online.

All published articles of this journal are included in the indexing and abstracting coverage of Web of Science (Emerging Sources Citation Index), CAB Abstracts, ProQuest, DOAJ, Google Scholar, EBSCOhost, JournalTOCs, Scilit, WorldCat-OCLC, eLIBRARY.ru, Agricola, Agris, Academic Journals Database, Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, OAIsters Directory, HINARI, Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE). During the calendar year 2019, Ukrainian Journal of Ecology received a total of 201 papers, out of which 10 articles (10%) were rejected in the preliminary screening due to plagiarism or being out of the format and peer review process. During 2019 around 191 articles were subjected for publication after they are accepted in the peer review process. In the 4 issues of Volume 9 published during the year 2019, a total of 191 articles were published (at an average of 70 articles per issue) of which, articles were published from authors all around the world.

A total of 181 research scientists from all over the world reviewed the 191 articles published in volume 9. Average publication lag time of an article was further reduced to 3- 4 weeks. Journal will be running its website https://www.ujecology.com/ parallel for Editorial and review work process so as to maintain its highest standard of scientific work. Ukrainian Journal of Ecology has increased Readership Metrics (By Google Analytics) of Ecology which can be accessed at Google Analytics Metrics.

I take this opportunity to acknowledge the contribution of Associate Editor: Matsyura O.V (Ukraine), during the final editing of articles published in bringing out issues of Ukrainian Journal of Ecology in time. I would also like to express my gratitude to all the authors, reviewers, the publisher, the advisory and the editorial board of Ukrainian Journal of Ecology, the office bearers for their support in bringing out yet another volume of Ukrainian Journal of Ecology and look forward to their unrelenting support to bring out the Volume 10 of Ukrainian Journal of Ecology in scheduled time.