Seminars for scientific journals of the Committee for Quality Assurance in Science and Higher Education of MSHE Republic of Kazakhstan

November 16, 2023, on the basis of Astana IT University (Astana), then November 30, 2023, in Almaty, at the Kazakh National Women's Teacher Training University, seminars were organized by the Committee for Quality Assurance in Science and Higher Education of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan for the editors of scientific journals "The State and Prospects of the Development of Kazakh Scientific Journals".

The seminars were attended by editors of local scientific journals, editors of foreign scientific journals, vice-rectors for scientific work, as well as representatives of Elsevier, Clarivate Analytics, and Wiley. During the seminar, the Chairman of the Committee for Quality Assurance in the Field of Science and Higher Education, A.J. Toibayev made a report "On the status of Kazakhstani journals included in the list of publications of the Committee for the publication of the main results of scientific activity".

The seminar consisted of two parts. In the first half, the speakers of the seminar shared the best practices of managing the process of publishing scientific journals, creating quality content, selecting and searching for reviewers, principles of work of the editorial board, rebranding the journal, basic requirements and experience in including journals in the international databases Scopus and Web of Science. In the second part, the seminar participants worked in groups and discussed the possibilities of dividing domestic scientific journals into different categories. At the end, each group presented their ideas on the categorization and development of scientific publications.

On November 16, Battal Zhanar, chief specialist in the promotion of journals in the database of the Department of Science and Innovation of Al Farabi KazNU, spoke with a report on the experience of the university in managing and developing the publication activity of scientific journals. On November 30, Muratov Muhit,  the scientific editor of the journal Physical Sciences and Technology presented the international journal and shared the experience of promoting the publication to the Scopus database. The experience of KazNU in managing the process of publication and promotion of scientific journals has aroused great interest among the audience.