Russian Politics

Russian Politics is published by Brill and is in Zone 3 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Russia and Soviet political economy, Sociopolitical Dynamics in Russia and Political Conflict and Governance, together about 35% of its articles. Its main subfields are Political Science and International Relations and Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Russian Politics (RUPO) is an international, peer-reviewed journal examining the scholarship of intersections between on the one hand, Russian studies, and on the other hand Politics, Law, Economics and Russian history. This journal will feature a diverse range of perspectives through its editorial board in order to encourage a transnational and global study of Russian Politics. This approach involves the study of Russian politics as a broad system of human experience, social changes, statecraft and global political tendencies, which enhances the authentic value of the journal among those already existing. The professional composition of the editorial board which is represented by editors insistently assigned for their expertise in this field of science and politics will guarantee qualitatively good contributions to each volume of RUPO. The journal’s focus on a broad definition of Russian politics copes with the demand of global scholarship which finds itself confronted with different social, cultural and legal meanings of politics and statecraft in and of the Russian Federation. This approach allows for contributions concerned with Russian politics in different times and places, inside and outside the national borders of the Russian Federation, which clearly relates to the political situation the country is situated in after the decline of the Soviet Union.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Arts and Humanities-History

Editor-in-chief Cameron RossPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

ESCIScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

ERIH PLUSPublisher website

Other: Political Science Complete

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Impact

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

8Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher)

9Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

1.3LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.24LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.59LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

19OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

44OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.47OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

37.5%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

11.94%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

22LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Publisher

Brill

ISSN

2451-8913

Electronic ISSN

2451-8921

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex