The scientific journal Russian Social and Humanitarian Studies is an interdisciplinary platform for publishing research results in the field of social and humanitarian knowledge. The publication focuses on the integration of historical, cultural, philosophical, and linguistic research, contributing to the formation of a holistic view of the development of human society.
The journal title In English, due to different transliteration and translation options, has adopted several titles properly reflected in the ISSN, namely as:
- Sovremennye issledovaniya sotsialnykh problem
- Sovremennye issledovania socialnyh problem
- Sovremennye issledovaniâ socialʹnyh problem
- Modern research of social problems
- Modern studies of social issues
- Modern studies of social problems
- Russian Social and Humanitarian Studies (current title of the journal)
The journal has been published since 2009 by the Science and Innovation Center Publishing House.
Address: 9 Maya St., 5/192, Krasnoyarsk, 660127, Russian Federation
Periodicity. 4 issues per year.
Until September 2025, the journal was published under the title Modern Studies of Social Issues = Sovremennye Issledovaniya Sotsialnykh Problem (ISSN 2077-1770 (print), ISSN 2218-7405 (online)).
New title of the journal: Russian Social and Humanitarian Studies
Parallel title: Российские социогуманитарные исследования
ISSN 3033-5981 (Online).
At the end of 2025, Russian Social and Humanitarian Studies was modified. Since that time, the journal has been updated, which affected not only its design, but also the editorial board and reviewing staff, editorial policies, topics and principles for the selection of published articles. The members of the editorial board are acknowledged Russian and foreign scientists, who actively participate in the formation of the international profile of the journal.
At present, we are actively engaging foreign colleagues in collaboration and are aimed at renewing the editorial staff on a regular basis. To ensure the quality of the published papers, the journal has established strict ethical requirements for manuscripts that conform to the standards of the respected international associations. In addition, aggressive peer reviewing (i.e. double-blind peer review method) of all submitted manuscripts has been introduced. The articles accepted for publication go through a full cycle of editorial processing and proofreading.
All publications are reviewed and accompanied by an extensive resume in Russian and English. The editorial board of the journal accepts the texts by both Russian and foreign authors in either the Russian or English languages.
Open Access Policy
The importance of the problems modern society is facing has been consistently discussed not only in the academic discourse. Therefore, in addition to the academic audience, the journal is also aimed at non-academic readers interested in discussing the fundamental problems of modern society and social and human sciences. As the journal is working for becoming a platform for full-scale discussion of these problems, it follows the policy of open access to its publications. Since 2016, all contents of the journal are available free of charge to its users on the journal's official website (http://soc-journal.ru/) upon publishing the issue. The users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search and find full texts of the published articles without the prior permission of the publisher or the publication’s author.
Publication Format
Both the full-scale discussion of problems and open access policy suggest that the journal is ready to publish not only original scientific articles in Russian and English on the results of fundamental and applied-theoretic research in the field of social and humanitarian knowledge, but also review papers made by leading specialists in the fields of knowledge related to the profile of the journal as well as professional reviews of new books and scientific research, materials of scientific events, discussions and round tables devoted to the issues covered by the journal.
Sections
The journal publishes scientific papers of different formats (types) solely in accordance with its academic profile. Read more >>
Articles can be submitted throughout the year at PERSONAL ACCOUNT online.
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The edition is registered (certificate of registry EL № FS 77 - 89427) by the Federal Service of Intercommunication and Mass Media Control and by the National Center ISSN, assigned the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN 3033-5981 (online)).
Each issue of the journal is to be submitted to the Russian Book Chamber (ITAR-TASS branch) for both state and bibliographic registration, as well as to other leading libraries, educational and scientific institutions of the Russian Federation, CIS countries and abroad. Since 2017, an electronic copy of the journal is submitted to the Information Telegraph Agency of Russia (TASS) and the Russian State Library. The published materials are also kept in the editorial office of the journal, which ensures both the permanent deposition of published scientific articles and their availability.
Russian Social and Humanitarian Studies was included in the list of leading peer-reviewed scientific journals and editions, approved by the State Commission for Academic Degrees and Titles (the VAK) of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, for publishing essential scientific results of theses of the authors pursuing degrees of candidate and doctor of sciences. The journal was included in the list on December, 01, 2015.
The journal is included in the Higher Attestation Commission (VAK) List under the following specialties:
History Studies
National history
Ethnology, anthropology and ethnography
Historiography, source studies, methods of historical research
Philosophical Studies
Social and political philosophy
Philosophy of Religion and Religious Studies
Language Studies
Russian literature and literature of the peoples of the Russian Federation
Literature of the peoples of the world
Russian language. Languages of the peoples of Russia
Languages of peoples of foreign countries
Theoretical, Applied and Comparative Linguistics
Articles publishing in the Russian Social and Humanitarian Studies was is carried out in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution License, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
The journal is included in the Reviewing journal and Data base of the RISATI RAS. Information about the journal issues is presented in the RISATI RAS catalogue and accessible online on the Electronic Scientific Library site in full format, in order to create Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI). The journal has got a RSCI impact-factor (IF RSCI).
Russian Social and Humanitarian Studies is included in the Russian Index Scientific Citation (RISC) and is presented in the Scientific Electronic Library (www.elibrary.ru).
5-year RISC impact-factor (2024) = 0,159 (09/01/2025)
