A survey of Ukrainian scholars on the Ukrainian academic journals' level and their experience in interacting with editiorial boards of academic journals, which are indexed in Web of Science and Scopus, has been conducted in the Ukrainian Scientists Worldwide group on Facebook by filling out the Google form. In total, 296 scientists from different fields took part in the survey. The questionnaire allowed to gather various, often diametrically opposed, thoughts about why scientists publish (do

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... publish) their articles in journals included to Web of Science or Scopus; what the main reviewers' comments on their articles were; for what reason the Ministry of Education and Science requires scholars to have articles in academic journals included to international databases; who is financing the publication fee; how important the knowledge of foreign languages for the preparation of scientific papers is; how the authors interact with the editors during the editorial and publishing process; what the main researchers' motivation to write scientific articles is; how scholars evaluate the practice, when people who are not actually co-authors of the articles are added as co-authors by agreement; how the authors refer to plagiarism and on the basis of which criteria researchers select a journal for publication. The results of the survey have shown contradictory tendencies of Ukrainian researchers' publication activity. On the one hand, it is a desire to reach the international level, to gain recognition, an attempt to adhere to high standards, to improve own skills. On the other hand, pursuit of quantitative indicators, low motivation, violations of academic integrity, low level of proficiency in the languages of international scientific communication. In pursuit of quantity there is no place for scientific values, such as novelty, uniqueness, informativeness.