The mission of the project is to determine the guidelines for the promotion of academic journals into the international scientific environment on the basis of compliance with the international standards of publishing and the principles of publication ethics.

The main goal of the JIC Index is to demonstrate the degree of correspondence of a particular academic journal to the international publishing standards. On the one hand, there is a set of established rules and requirements in the world (the COPE principles, a fierce fight against plagiarism, a clear policy for peer-reviewing etc.) and the level of compliance with them gives some extra points to a positive image of the journal and brings it closer to the leading scientific publishers..