UrFU’s Journal “Changing Societies & Personalities” Enters Scopus

09:18, June 28, 2019

It’s the University’s ninth periodical entering prestigious international databases

Changing Societies and Personalities, a humanities-focused journal issued by Ural Federal University, has entered Scopus, a prestigious international database.

The journal is issued four times a year since 2017. According to its Chief Editor Elena Stepanova, the periodical is devoted to how change at the social level affects the values and beliefs of people and how they, in their turn, restructure the society. The main topics of research presented in the journal are the studies of value orientations, moral choice, tolerance, ideology of gender and age, social inclusion and exclusion, existential safety and others.

 “It’s very important that the journal is published in English, which is fairly rare in Russia”, says Elena Stepanova. “This expands our opportunities in terms of attracting authors from all over the world. The topics of the journal are multidisciplinary and involve a wide range of problems dealt with by scientists in many areas – philosophers, religion scholars, sociologists. There’s no doubt that the presence of major international experts on the editorial board increases the journal’s credibility and prestige. Since the very beginning, we’ve strived to comply with all the standards endorsed in the international community, and now after a rather short period of time, we have entered Scopus.”

UrFU’s Deputy Vice-rector for research, Aleksei Ivanov, notes that the journal entering the Scopus database is a very important achievement of the University, which has a direct impact on its academic reputation. It is UrFU’s fourth humanities-oriented journal entering such a prestigious database. In total, the university has nine journals (in all fields) indexed by such databases.

“Surely it contributes to the growth of the University’s academic reputation on a global scale”, says Aleksei Ivanov. “The University’s journals entering international databases is an important indicator of our work within the national project “Science”. Every success like this is a confirmation of the high level of the job that is being done by the staff of a particular journal. The editorial staff of Changing Societies and Personalities has been following its development plan very consistently and in due time. I want to thank all the editorial board for their work. The journal is enjoying popularity, there are research groups in the field wanting to be published.”

According to Ivanov, it’s a good example of a project that started out from scratch and has been managed really well.

 

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