Review of the Research on Russian Academic Journals

This paper presents the results of academic papers that studied Russian academic journals between 2014 and 2024. Problems of the effective development of journals have been discussed intensively for the last 2 years. This is caused mainly by information restrictions, resulting in increased interest in Russian academic journals as viewed from authors, readers (who have partly lost access to international literature), and decision makers in the area of research evaluation. At the same time, the persistent efforts of the expert community in developing journals and increasing their authority in international information space in the last decade have demonstrated high results. This review reveals the main directions of studies of Russian academic journals, as well as highlights those that need to be investigated in the near future. We describe the role and opportunities of academic journals in relation to their bibliometric evaluation, the urgent concerns of peer-review, ethical questions in preparing manuscripts, and the role of university journals in the general group of Russian serials. Concurrently, we detect some technical problems affecting electronic journal systems and the digitization of paper-based archive issues.