Peer-reviewed journals
SOGOLAS publishes four open access peer-reviewed scientific journals:
Studies of Transition States and Societies (STSS), Acta Politica Estica (APE), East-West Studies and East European Yearbook on Human Rights.
Studies of Transition States and Societies (STSS)
Studies of Transition States and Societies (STSS) is an open-access interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the study of transition societies. The journal’s thematic focus lies on education, labour markets, and their intersections with their interrelations with other domains such as family, health, migration and mobility. STSS welcomes studies of regional and national contexts in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, as well as comparative work including the journal’s core region. Full scope is available here.
STSS operates as a fully open-access journal, charging no article processing fees to authors, while also providing free language editing. The journal aims to promote good practices in open science while remaining independent, uncompromising, and firmly committed to high academic standards and ethical conduct.
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Acta Politica Estica
Acta Politica Estica is an open access peer-reviewed journal aiming to offer a platform for a wide-raging tradition in the analysis of politics and governance in Estonian. Acta Politica Estica was established in 2004, being now published regularly in every fall. Thematically specialised guest editorial issues are occasionally published. In addition to the traditional subdiciplines of politics and governance (public management, political science and international relations) co-works from other fields of social sciences (sociology, economics, law, psychology, demography, education studies) and humanities (linguistics, literary studies, cultural theory, semiotics, history and philosophy) are welcome.
Alongside the more traditional research areas of politics and governance such as party politics, government policy-making, public opinion, electoral behaviour, the less published topics in Estonian are anticipated – political culture, communication and identity, social movements, political involvement, methodologies of political analysis, political philosophy, political history and political ideologies. Acta Politica publishes also book reviews, overviews and comments to published articles; International and Estonian conferences of politics and governance are introduced. All of the published articles are peer-reviewed.
More info and contact: Chief Editor Associate Professor Tõnis Saarts, Tonis.Saarts@tlu.ee
East-West Studies
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Journal East-West studies has been published since 2007; from 2015 onwards as a duble peer-reviewed academic journal. The aim of the journal is to bring together specialists of various social studies such as philosophy, law, psychology, economy, international relations and other social sciences whose interests transcend a geographic region. The journal offers original explanations and solutions to theoretical, methodological as well as practical problems; contributes to better understanding of challenges facing humankind. East-West studies is published annually or once in two years.
More info and contact: Chief editor Professor Mart Susi, Mart.Susi@tlu.ee
The East-European Yearbook on Human Rights
The East-European Yearbook on Human Rights is a regional peer-reviewed legal journal, focusing on human rights discourse in the Eastern European area, but situating this in the broader context of worldwide problems and developments in the area of human rights. This journal aims to position itself both as a channel for Easter European scholars to publish on regional and wider human rights issues, and for authors from other regions to provide their input on human rights issues that are particularly relevant in the Eastern European setting.
The journal is published in cooperation with Tallinn University, the Danish Institute for Human Rights and Walther Schücking Institute of International Law. The journal concept was developed in the context of the “HURMUR: Human Rights – Mutually Raising Excellence” project. The publisher of the yearbook is Eleven International Publishing and the journal is available for purchase from their website. The journal is green open access, therefore after six months articles become freely accessible.
More info and contact: east.eyhr@gmail.com