Russian Sociological Review

Aims & Scope

Russian Sociological Review is an academic peer-reviewed journal of theoretical, empirical and historical research in social sciences.

Russian Sociological Review publishes four issues per year.

Each issue includes original research papers, review articles and translations of contemporary and classical works in sociology, political theory and social philosophy.

Russian Sociological Review invites scholars from all the social scientific disciplines to submit papers which address the fundamental issues of social sciences from various conceptual and methodological perspectives.

Understood broadly the fundamental issues include but not limited to: social action and agency, social order, narrative, space and time, mobilities, power, etc.

Russian Sociological Review covers the following domains of scholarship: -Contemporary and classical social theory -Theories of social order and social action -Social methodology -History of sociology -Russian social theory -Sociology of space -Sociology of mobilities -Social interaction -Frame analysis -Ethnomethodology and conversation analysis -Cultural sociology -Political sociology, philosophy and theory -Narrative theory and analysis -Human geography and urban studies

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• Web of Science

Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

Policy Links

This section provides access to essential policy documents, guidelines, and resources related to the journal’s publication and submission processes.

• Aims scope
• Homepage
• Oa statement
• Author instructions
• License terms
• Review url
• Board url
• Plagiarism url
• Apc url

Plagiarism Policy

This journal follows a plagiarism policy. All submitted manuscripts are screened using reliable plagiarism detection software to ensure originality and academic integrity. Authors are responsible for proper citation and acknowledgment of all sources, and any form of plagiarism, including self-plagiarism, will not be tolerated.

For more details, please refer to our official: Plagiarism Policy.

APC Details

The journal’s Article Processing Charge (APC) policies support open access publishing in Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, ensuring accessibility and quality in research dissemination.

This journal does not charge a mandatory Article Processing Charge (APC). However, optional open access publication may incur fees based on the publisher’s policies.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation

  Citation: 67

  Authors: Harvey, Emmanuel, Gail

• Creative Industries — Models of Development

  Citation: 14

  Authors: Rouslan

• On Ethnographic Allegory

  Citation: 13

  Authors: James

• Residential Concentrations of Migrants in Russian Cities: Is There a Pattern?

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Evgeni, Anna, Nataliya, Mayya

• Big Data in Sociology: New Data, New Sociology?

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Katerina

• Some Sociodemographic Factors of the Intensity of Anti-Government Demonstrations: Youth Bulges, Urbanization, and Protests

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Andrey, Patrick, Maxim, Daniil, Alisa

• The convergence of real and virtual communities in the digital space: a sociological review

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Felix, Natalia

• Digital Environmental Activism as the New Form of Environmental Participation

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Polina, Yulia, Olga

• The Great Female Readers: Fan Fiction as a Literary Experience

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Natalia

• The Concept of Cultural Scene as Theoretical Perspective and the Tool of Urban Communities Analysis

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Elena, Svyatoslav