St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University Journal. Humanities and Social Sciences is an open-access journal that publishes regular papers and overviews 4 times per year. Briefs can be published as well in consultations with the Editorial. The publication is free of charge (no APC), all costs are covered by the university.

The field of journal interest covers three main related areas:

• Historical Sciences and Archeology
• Philosophy
• History of Science and Education
• Philosophy of Language
• Applied Linguistics
• Discourse Studies
• Theory and Methods of Training and Education
• Pedagogy, History of Pedagogy and Education
• Education and Culture
• Reviews

Not only theoretical results but practical aspects of research are strongly appreciated first of all from the point of view of fast publications authored by PhD students and young researchers. In general the journal represents a discussion platform for exchange of views and opinions in related domain.

Upon submission, all papers are subject to single-blind peer review. The journal is committed to the publication ethics. The editors, reviewers and authors are supposed to follow the ethical guidelines.

The journal is indexed by the following databases:

• Russian Science Citation Index databases
• Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory and

The journal accepts and publishes papers in Russian and English.

The journal content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

We ensure the accessibility of our content by transferring full-texts and metadata to the National Digital Library and to the Digital Library of Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University.