Journal of Political Research

Scientific publication

ISSN	2587-6295 (online)
Periodicity	The Journal is published 4 times a year.
Language of publication	Russian, English
Indexing and databases	РИНЦ ВАК

2026

2025

Mission

The journal has been published since 2017.

Publisher: INFRA-M Academic Publishing Center

Address: 31V, bld. 1, Polyarnaya St., Moscow, 127282, Russia

The journal is published 4 times a year.

The publication is registered with the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor). Registration certificate EL No. FS77-63242.

The publication is included in the database of the Russian Science Citation Index (RISC).

International Standard Journal Serial Number (ISSN) 2587-6295 (online).

Journal Title in English: Journal of Political Research

The purpose of the Journal is to provide an opportunity for scholars, teachers, graduate students to publish the results of their fundamental and applied research, having theoretical and practical significance in the field of political science, to inform the domestic and world professional community about the latest results of political science work.

As part of the Russian scientific information system, the Journal is involved in the following tasks:

- organization of a platform for an open scientific discussion, contributing to the improvement of the quality of the expertise of scientific papers and dissertation research;

- approbation, improvement and adaptation of scientific methodology, clarification of the terminological apparatus of political science, assistance to scientists in the operationalization and conceptualization of complex and little-studied political problems;

- application of the interdisciplinary principle for the introduction of a versatile analysis of the specifics of modern political technologies and communications, domestic and foreign policy, features of international and interethnic relations, other political phenomena;

- transition to the paradigm of thematic issues, enlightened with special political science issues and aspects;

- creating conditions for networking of the professional community of political scientists in Russia, maintaining the continuity of their scientific schools;

- providing Russian scientists with the opportunity to publish translations of parts, fragments of theoretically and practically significant scientific works of foreign political scientists for the qualitative development of domestic political science;

- ensuring publicity and openness of the latest empirical research data of domestic and foreign political scientists, obtained through sociological measurements, content analysis, focus groups and expert interviews;

- popularization of the principles of scientific comparative studies in the analysis of political institutions and processes, political technologies and networks, political systems and regimes, political cultures, elites, parties, groups and movements;

- improvement of the authors' publication work in terms of ensuring the compliance of articles with the requirements of the Higher Attestation Commission and taking into account the rules for indexing and citing foreign reference databases of Scopus, Web of Science, EBSCO, Directory of Access Access Journal, Ulrichsweb, Citefactor Journals, CAS.

The publication activity of the Journal is correlated with the following specialties of VAK:

23.00.01 - Theory and philosophy of politics, history and methodology of political science (political sciences),
5.5.2. Political institutions, processes, technologies (political sciences),
5.5.4. International relations (political sciences).

The combined headings of the Journal correlate with these specialties of VAK:

"Political institutions, ethnopolitical conflictology, national and political processes and technologies",

"Theory of politics, history and methodology of political science",

"Political problems of international relations and global development",

"The history of political thought"

"Political culture, ideology and axiology".

Also in the Journal there are additional rubrics: “Reviews, analytics, reviews”, where reviews of monographs, textbooks and study guides are published, “Proceedings of young scientists”, where postgraduate students and beginning scientists are published (for undergraduates and students, co-authorship with their scientific leaders). The section “Scientific life” plays the role of covering the most important scientific events in the Russian and foreign political science community (conferences, congresses, seminars), bibliographic reviews of leading political scientists who contributed to the development of political science, the publication of expert interviews.

The Journal of Political Research supports the Open Access concept proposed by the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BIOD):

“By “open access ”[to the peer-reviewed scientific literature] we mean free access to it through the public Internet, and the right of every user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to full-text articles, to search for robots-indexers, enter them as data in software or use them for other legitimate purposes in the absence of financial, legal and technical barriers, with the exception of those that regulate access to the Internet itself”.

The journal strictly follows the most important principles of scientific ethics, is not engaged ideologically and politically.

The archive of journal articles is on its website, on the portal of the Scientific Electronic Library https://elibrary.ru/title_items.asp?id=64819 and on the platform of the Electronic Library System - Znanium.com

A fee of 2000 rubles is charged for publication in the Journal.

The journal’s audience includes political scientists, political consultants, experts in the field of political communication and political PR, high school teachers and all those interested in aspects of political science.

The editorial staff of the Journal is interested in cooperation with academic organizations, research centers and invites authors, political scientists, academic scientists, graduate students, doctoral students to cooperate.

E-mail of the editors: titova_en@infra-m.ru

General information

Reg. №: ЭЛ № ФС77-63242
Publisher: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC.
Editorial office address: 127282, g. Moskva, ul. Polyarnaya, d. 31V, str. 1
E-mail: books@infra-m.ru
Phone of organization: +7 (495) 280-15-96

a member of ed. Board

Elena Titova

titova_en@infra-m.ru

Chief editor

Roman Alekseev

Alekseev.r555@mail.ru

Mission

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