At the end of the year, 14 employees of the department have publications that indexed in the scientometric Scopus database. Most already of indexed publications this year are professors Oleg Avrunin – 11 publications, Valery Semenets and Irina Perova – 8 publications, associate professors Yuri Zholudov and Dmitry Snezhko – 4 publications each, senior lecturers Karina Selivanova, Maxim Tymkovich and Yana Nosova – 3 publications each. The most rated publications are scientific articles by associate professors Dmytro Snizhko and Yuri Zholudov, published in the framework of international research projects, in particular, which was published in a publication included in The Nature Index journals Du, F., Ma, X., Yuan, F., Wang, C., Snizhko, D., Guan, Y., & Xu, G. (2020). Sonochemiluminescence based on a small, cheap, and low-power USB mesh-type piezoelectric ultrasonic transducer. Analytical Chemistry, 92(7), 4755-4759. doi:10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00042 This project was kindly supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2016YFA0201300) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21804127, 21874126, and 21675148). And articles in publications that are part of the first quartile of Q1 Zholudov, Y., Lysak, N., Snizhko, D., Reshetniak, O., & Xu, G. (2020). Electrochemiluminescence analysis of tryptophan in aqueous solutions based on its reaction with tetraphenylborate anions. Analyst, 145(9), 3364-3369. doi:10.1039/d0an00229a This work was supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (projects for young scientists and the joint Ukraine–China research project M/109-2019), the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China (CU03-02), the President’s International Fellowship Initiative for visiting scientists of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21874126 and 21675148). Wang, C., Chen, Y., Snizhko, D., Du, F., Ma, X., Lou, B., . . . Xu, G. (2020). Development of luminol-fluorescamine-PVP chemiluminescence system and its application to sensitive tyrosinase determination. Talanta, 218 doi:10.1016/j.talanta.2020.121177 This work was kindly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [Nos. 21675148 , 21874126 , & 21804127 ], Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China [No. 2016YFA0201300 ], the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (projects for young scientists and joint Ukraine-China research project M/109–2019 ), Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China ( CU03-0 2), President’s International Fellowship Initiative for visiting scientists of the Chinese Academy of Sciences . Abdussalam, A., Yuan, F., Ma, X., Du, F., Zholudov, Y. T., Zafar, M. N., & Xu, G. (2020). Reprint of “Tris(2,2′-bipyridine)ruthenium(II) electrochemiluminescence using rongalite as coreactant and its application in detection of foodstuff adulteration”. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 872 doi:10.1016/j.jelechem.2020.114649 This project was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21750110447 , 21804127 , 21874126 and 21675148 ), the CAS-TWAS ( The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World ) President’s Fellowship for International PhD Students, and Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China for bilateral China-Ukraine project ( CU03-02 ). Abdussalam, A., Yuan, F., Ma, X., Du, F., Zholudov, Y. T., Zafar, M. N., & Xu, G. (2020). Tris(2,2′-bipyridine)ruthenium(II) electrochemiluminescence using rongalite as coreactant and its application in detection of foodstuff adulteration. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 857 doi:10.1016/j.jelechem.2019.113752 Such indicators indicate the active scientific activity of the department, sustainable development of scientific schools and high potential of scientific groups participating in research projects and international grants. One of the main tasks of the team next year is to increase the number of teachers with more than 5 publications, indexed in the scientometric databases Scopus and Web of Science