ISSN 1561-7785 (print); 3034–2252 (оnline)
Publication frequency: Quarterly. Founded in 1996.
Editor-in-Chief - Vyacheslav V. Lokosov, Corresponding Member of the RAS, Dr. Sci. (Sociol.), Prof.
Publisher: ISESP FCTAS RAS
Indexation:: WoS RSCI, RSCI, VAK RF
Double blind peer review
Open Access
Тhe journal “Narodonaselenie” (Population) has been published since 1996. It was founded by a prominent Russian scholar, RAS Corresponding Member Natalia M. Rimashevskaya (1932-2017). Its publisher of the journal is the Institute of Socio-Economic Studies of Population of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISESP FCTAS RAS) – one of the leading Russian research institutes focused on demographic and socio-economic issues. Founder of the journal is FCTAS RAS.

The purpose of the journal is disseminating the results of studies in the spheres of demography, economy and sociology in compliance with the international standards of scientific knowledge, norms of internal expertise in the academic community; maintaining scientific communication in the sphere of social sciences and education in the humanities in Russia and abroad.

The Editorial Board of the journal is functioning in accordance with the norms and international standards set by the Commit­tee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (Code of conduct for journal editors Mar11.pdf.)

The main body of the journal consists of articles dealing with the issues of demography, migration and settlement, human and labor potential, social structure and social mobility, employment and economic behavior, standards and quality of life of population, as well as social sphere branches (education, health care, social support, culture, etc.) and social policy on the whole. The published articles address the situation not only in the Russian Federation and its regions, but in the states of near and far abroad. Besides, there are regularly published reviews of the scientific events held by FCTAS RAS or with its participation – international and national conferences, seminars, as well as information of the Dissertation Board about the defended Candidate’s and Doctor’s theses by specialty by specializations “Sociology”, “Demography” and “Regional and Branch Economics”). Along with FCTAS RAS research fellows, among the authors are widely represented specialists from other scientific organizations and higher education establishments of Russia and foreign countries, as well as of Federal and regional authorities. This allows providing readers not only with the results of conducted studies, but with different methodological and methodical approaches, points of view on solving socio-economic problems on the above topics.

For 20 years of existence the journal has established itself as an academic publication offering deep and diverse articles on the topical issues of demography and socio-economic problems of population. It is registered in the national bibliographical data base “Russian Scientific Citation Index (RSCI)”, included the by the State Commission for Academic Degrees and Titles in the list of Russian peer-reviewed scientific journals, publication in which is required for defense of Candidate’s and Doctor’s theses, as well as in the Russian Science Citation Index on the Web of Science platform (WoS RSCI).

From the year 2012 the journal has taken the leading positions on the subject “Demography” in the SCIENCE INDEX RSCI ranking. On the RSCI website are presented full texts of all journal issues since 2010. Since 2017 all articles are assigned DOI.

The journal “Narodonaselenie” is distributed by subscription, mailed to libraries of Russian universities and higher education establishment chairs training specialists in the field of socio-economic sciences, it is an open access journal.

The journal seeks not only to reproduce the examples of knowledge that are considered normative and the norms of internal expertize accepted in the academic community, but to improve them if possible. Following these rules, strict selection and accepting for press only part of the submitted materials allow the journal “Narodonaselenie” to make contribution to improvement of the quality of socio-economic studies.