About the Journal

ISSN: 2074-1227 (print version), 2587-5892 (on-line version)

4 issues per year

Our publishing is performed at no charge to the author.

All content is available on an open access basis.

Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies is a peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary journal committed to foster original, independent, accurate and comprehensive professional research in Asian and African Studies. The Journal accepts scholarly articles, book reviews and reports on various academic activities in the field.

The main objective of the Journal is to create an open intellectual forum for leading experts and specialist researchers in the areas of Asian and African studies both in Russia and abroad.

The Journal pursues the following priorities:

  • furtherance of cutting edge research in the Asian and African studies;
  • identifying and investigating insufficiently explored areas of scholarship;
  • forming novelty approaches to methodology;
  • introducing scholarly use of rare textual sources;
  • interdisciplinary studies noted for their scholarly freshness, salience and ingenuity.

The Journal encompasses the following spectrum of subject domains and topical areas:

  • re-evaluation of relations between Russia and Asia/ Africa;
  • languages of Asia and Africa;
  • Asia and Africa: history and source studies;
  • Asia and Africa: literature and literary theory;
  • Asia and Africa: geocultural spaces and cultural codes;
  • foreign policy, economics and international relations of Asia and Africa.

The publication is aimed at specialist Asian and African scholars, and should likewise be interesting to researchers studying typology problems in the spheres of Arts and Humanities.

The working languages of the Journal are English and Russian. Publication of materials in the English language is and will be prioritized, as it serves to integrate the Journal within the international academic community.

All manuscripts are formatted in compliance with the world standards and are furnished with abstracts, keywords and references. Since 2016, DOI names have been assigned to all the articles published in the Journal.

The Journal is included in the list of the leading refereed academic journals and periodicals recommended by the Higher Attestation Committee at the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, assigned for publication of the key results of doctoral dissertations (including the both Russian doctoral degrees: the PhD and the Doctor of History).

Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies is covered by the following databases: EBSCO, Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory, ERIH PLUS, eLIBRARY.ru, EastView, CyberLeninka, SCOPUS.

Founder
Saint Petersburg State University

Publisher
St. Petersburg University Press
6th Line V.O., 11/21, Saint Petersburg, 199004, Russia
Director of the St. Petersburg University Press: Elena V. Lebedkina

Publication history
2009–2016 — Vestnik of Saint-Petersburg University. Series 13. Asian Studies. African Studies (ISSN 2074-1227)
2016 — current — Vestnik of Saint-Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies (ISSN 2074-1227)