Russian History (Brill journal)

• 1. Introduction

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  Russian History appeared for the first time in 1974. Its subject sits at the center of some of the twentieth century's most contested historical debates. Brill Publications distributes the journal quarterly under its imprint Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh. Each issue passes through peer review before publication. Lawrence N. Langer of the University of Connecticut serves as editor-in-chief. The journal draws together three fields that constantly speak to and argue with one another: the history of Russia, Slavic studies, and Eurasian studies. What makes a specialized academic journal visible across decades, and who ultimately finds it, depends on a network that most readers never think to examine.

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• 2. Indexed and Found

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  Seven abstracting and indexing services carry Russian History, spanning a wide range of scholarly communities. They include the Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Current Contents/Arts & Humanities, and the Modern Language Association Database. Index Islamicus, EBSCO databases, ProQuest databases, and Scopus complete the list. Together, these services embed the journal within the search and discovery infrastructure that researchers at universities around the world use daily. A scholar following a thread of Slavic or Eurasian history through any major library database system is likely to encounter the journal's content. Scopus carries Russian History within one of the broadest citation-tracking networks in academic publishing. This connection extends the journal's reach well beyond dedicated specialists in Russian history, into the many disciplines that border on Eurasian and Slavic scholarship.

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