SUMMARY
The Ukrainian and foreign experience of research journals functioning under the global process of digitisation is presented in the paper. The review of legislative and normative acts that regulate the education and research area digitisation while transiting to open science and open access to research outcomes is made. The main research directions of Ukrainian and foreign researchers concerning the research results presenting, their publication in Ukrainian and foreign special digital publishing services and citation databases are systematized. The main problems concerning the social sciences and humanities publications indexing in the citation databases are determined. The digital researcher identifiers are characterised, in particular ORCID, ResearcherID, Publons, Google Scholar, etc. which are aimed at assuring the objective assessment of researcher performance. The features of predatory journals are revealed in order to eliminate the risk of researchers participating in predatory publishing activities. The criterial analysis of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine scientific periodicals concerning the compliance with the requirements of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and their ranking are made. The ways of eliminating the identified weaknesses and problems are defined, which should ensure the inclusion of the scientific periodicals of NAES of Ukraine in the nationally distributed electronic database – the National Repository of Academic Texts and integration with “Open Ukrainian Citation Index” and international citation databases Scopus and Web of Science Core Collection, etc.