In Ukraine, the scientific sphere of activity is being reformed due to new requirements for its development, in particular, national scientific journals are being prepared for inclusion in the international databases Scopus and Web of Science. Modern higher education institutions are the subject of scientometric assessments in various national and world rankings, which reflect, in particular, the level of their research activities. Now it is one of the most authoritative indicators of academic work. Today, higher education institutions of Ukraine in national and world rankings are evaluated not only by indicators of their academic and international activities, the quality of professional training of students, the results of inventive activity, but also by the level of publishing activity of researchers in journals indexed in international scientometric databases, by the number of citations of their works by other scientists.