In 2013, first two issues of a new journal “Siberian Historical Research” (Russia, Tomsk) were released at the Department of History of Tomsk State University (ISSN 2312-4628 (Online), ISSN 2312-461X (Print).)

Since 2014, the journal has been published in an updated form which is reflected not only in the updated design of the journal but also in the renewed composition of the Editorial Collegium and Editorial Board, as well as in the themes, genres and principles of selecting texts to be published. In Russia, there are a significant number of journals specalizing in history. Such journals are also published at the Tomsk State University - the university at which Siberian Historical Research is based. In order to be in demand, each journal needs to develop its own unique and widely recognisable profile. It seems that our journal has been successful in doing so. Over the last ten years, Siberian Historical Research has established its own image and way of selecting publications. The majority of the articles and reviews/overviews have either a direct or at least some (in terms of methodologies and methods) link to anthropology understood maximally broadly here - in accordance with the Boas's tetrad (sociocultural anthropology, biological or physical anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and archaeology). Research in historical ethnology / anthropology as a field at the intersection of anthropology and history is also part of the interdisciplinary terrain that the journal seeks to explore. Analytics is one more parameter of assessing texts received by the journal. Texts which are nothing more than just fieldwork of archival noted or some other primary materials not supported by any analysis or research hypotheses and which do not outline a clear research methodology used or are not incorporated into any of the discources existing in the body of international research literature are, as previously, not likely to be accepted by the journal.

We have also introduced a double blind peer review procedure to ensure the highest quality of all the papers submitted to the journal.  The decision on the correspondence of texts to the profile of the journal is generally reported to prospective authors within a trimester of receipt of a submission, the review process can take another three to six months.

The journal is published in Russian, with extensive summaries in English provided. However, the international Editorial Collegium of the journal accepts for consideration texts in other European languages (English, French, and German) and is ready to assist authors in case they are unable to ensure a high-quality translation of their text into Russian on their own.  

We aim to have a lively dialogue between representatives of different branches of the humanities-based knowledge. Although we publish research papers based, for the most part, on Siberian – in the broadest sense of the term – materials, we do not limit ourselves to the region of Siberia and publish theoretical papers based on extensive comparative materials as well. Siberia as a postcolonial, postimperial and postsocialist territory is a region of great interest allowing for the analysis of past and current local processes in comparison with similar ones taking place in the arctic and subarctic regions of the world, on the African continent, in Eastern Europe and Latin America, as well as in the Asia Pacific region. It is clear that the journal is becoming a platform for fresh bright research with the underlying comparative analysis of materials which cover widest geographical areas.

We hope that publishing research papers, reviews, and other contributions, including yours, we will be able to become one of the recognized and sought-after high-quality platforms for publishing and discussing academic work on the broadest range of issues in Siberian studies and anthropology on the whole.

Abstracting / indexing

The journal is indexed by Scopus since 2013, by Web of Science Core Collection's Emerging Science Citation Index since 2017.

As a journal indexed in international citation databases (as of 14.06.2016), the Siberian Historical Research Journal has been included in the “List of reviewed scientific publications wherein research results from ‘Candidate of Science’ and ‘Doctor of Science’ academic degrees dissertations have to be published”. The latest (as of 14.06.2016) and full version of the List can be found on the Higher Attestation Commission (VAK) website.

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Journal Chief Editor
Head of the Laboratory of Sociocultural Anthropology, MSLU 

Dmitriy A. Funk
shrjournal@mail.tsu.ru