About the Journal

All members of the Editorial Team are volunteers and do not receive payment.

Aims and scope

Studia Rossica Gedanensia (SRG) is an annual, founded in 2014 by specialists in Russian studies at the University of Gdansk. SRG is open to other philological and Russian research centers in Poland and around the world, as well as to representatives of other scientific disciplines dealing with Russian language, culture, literature and history. SRG publishes original research papers, review papers, opinions and polemics, reviews, bibliographies, and reports in Polish, Russian and English. The main areas of interest are linguistics, literary studies and Russian language teaching. A lot of attention is also devoted to philosophy, history of ideas, investigative philology, cultural studies, translation studies, lexicography and bibliography. The journal is primarily addressed to specialists, mainly academics, but also to younger researchers and students of Russian philology and Russian studies.

The journal is divided into six sections encompassing: I. Studies and Articles; II. Translations; III. Reviews, Discussions, and Polemics; IV. Bibliographies; V. Academic Conversations and Interviews; VI. Chronicle.

Open Access Policy

The journal shares knowledge in accordance with free, open, immediate and permanent online access to digital data and scientific content (Open Access). It also promotes the development of a new and open scholarly communication model (Open Access Movement). All papers are available free of charge.

The journal is available under a CC-BY licence.

It is permitted to deposit specific versions of articles (preprint, postprint, publisher's version) in repositories.

Publication Ethics

The Editorial Board acts in accordance with the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (https://publicationethics.org/resources/code-conduct).

Aiming at maintaining the highest editorial standards of the journal, the editorial board acts in accordance with the requirements of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, and therefore makes every effort to counteract the phenomenon of ghostwriting and guest authorship.

- The editors require the authors of the publication to disclose the contribution of individual authors to the publication (including their affiliation and contribution, i.e. information on who is the author of the concept, assumptions, methods, protocol, etc., used in the preparation of the thesis), however, the author bears the main responsibility submitting the paper;
- The editors inform the authors of submitted papers that ghostwriting and guest authorship are a manifestation of scientific misconduct, and all detected cases of this type will be disclosed, including notification of relevant institutions (institutions employing authors, scientific societies, etc.);
- Editors should obtain information on possible sources of financing for publications (e.g. grant, project, etc.), contribution of scientific and research institutions, associations and other entities (“financial disclosure”). The AUTHOR submitting the text is responsible for the accuracy of the information provided. The editors are obliged document all manifestations of scientific misconduct and violations of publication ethics.

Journal history

The initiator of the journal's creation in 2013 was Prof. Marcelina Grabska, PhD, then director of the Institute of East Slavic Philology at the University of Gdańsk. She holds the honorary position of chair of the journal's Scientific Council.

Prof. Katarzyna Wojan, PhD, has been the editor-in-chief since the journal's inception. The deputy editor-in-chief is Prof. Zbigniew Kaźmierczyk, PhD (since 2018); in 2015–2021, Prof. Żanna Sładkiewicz, PhD, also served as deputy editor-in-chief.

In 2014–2015, the journal was the official publication of the Institute of East Slavic Philology; since 2016, it has been published as a journal of the Faculty of Philology. In 2019–2021, the volumes were prepared in cooperation with the Adam Mickiewicz Literary Society – Gdańsk Branch.