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The paper indicates existing limitations of approaches to the evaluation of the effectiveness of research output and current systems for ranking of scientists and university faculty members. Based on the 10 principles of the Leiden Manifesto, the author proposes essential rules of the quality assessment system of academic publications. The paper substantiates that such a system is aimed to motivate conscientious and efficient researchers within the scope of separate fields of study. Meaningful qualitative assessment avoids excessive and false precision of measurement and embraces ranking by performance categories rather than simple scores, peer review and qualitative levels of publications estimated by their contribution to the field instead of formal features. A particular emphasis is given on the need to take into account high quality leading studies published in Ukrainian and specific disciplinary formats for presenting research results as important local forms of knowledge, the size of authorship teams, as well as the duration of the research and publication cycle. The proposed approach may help to ensure the systematic and robust evaluation of research results and would facilitate the academic performance in Ukraine.

Existing theoretical interpretations contend that modernization is a global but diverse and multidimensional process. Yet, a systematic analysis of multiple forms of modernity and modernization 'is the major challenge to current social and political theory' (Wagner). The paper aims at revealing limitations of current theoretical interpretations of modernization and demonstrating systematically essential features of modernity. I describe the crucial criteria of modernization and suggest an integrated approach within which the most influential theories are simultaneously applied as coherent explanations. Such a synergic application allows identifying concomitant dimensions of modernity and modernization. The proposed approach significantly differs from a prevailing theoretical discourse on modernity and modernization. It demonstrates universal features of modernization along with civilization variability and uniqueness of cultural programs, antinomic emancipation trends, permanence of change and innovations, increase of efficiency, competitiveness and the quality of life. All these dimensions relate to a set of consistent interpretations of a complex multi-effects phenomenon, which minimizes the existing conceptual contradictions. The elaborated model supports the notion of modernization as a continuous transition to novel forms of social order which respond to emerging challenges and global competition while an invariant criterion of modernization is the boost in the capabilities of people to make their choices.