ABOUT THE JOURNAL

Dear colleagues!
the scientific and practical legal journal “Current Issues of the State and Law”  has joined the RCSI platform.
The new active website of the journal: https://journals.rcsi.science/2587-9340/index 
The latest issues of the journal and the Archive of journal articles are also available at http://journals.tsutmb.ru/go/2587-9340/ 

The journal “Current Issues of the State and Law” is a peer-reviewed scientific-practical legal periodical.

The journal has been published since February 2017 on the initiative of the Institute of Law and National Security of the Derzhavin Tambov State University.
It is the successor of the scientific journal “Tambov University Review: Series Humanities”, published since 1996.

The establisher, publisher, editorial of the journal is “Derzhavin Tambov State University”. 33 Internatsionalnaya St., Tambov 392000, Russian Federation.

The journal is registered by the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor). Mass media registration certificate ПИ № ФС 77-69827 May 18, 2017.

ISSN 2587-9340 (Print)  ISSN 2782-3334 (Online)

The journal is a member of several partnerships: CrossRef, “Committee on Ethics of Scientific Publications” and professional community “Association of Scientific Editors and Publishers (ASEP)”. The journal is indexed in CrossRef. DOI: 10.20310/2587-9340.

Frequency is 4 issues per year (March, June, September, December).

Print circulation is 1000 copies.

Journal is distributed free of charge.

Territory of distribution of the journal: Russian Federation and foreign countries. It is distributed at conferences, exhibitions, through the editorial office and partner universities.

The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for the general management and defining the publication policy. The Editor-in-Chief of the journal is Cand. Sci. (Law), Associate Professor, Head of Theory and History of State and Law Department, Institute of Law and National Security of Derzhavin Tambov State University Angelina V. Lapayeva. The Editorial Board regulates the requirements to the submitted materials and conditions of their publication, as well as other matters of publication.

The aim of the journal is to contribute to the strengthening and development of scientific relationships between both established scholars and young researchers who publish the results of their scientific studies on the journal’s platform.

The journal publishes both legal historical studies and practice-oriented research of the authors in the private and public spheres of law, which open new directions of scientific research in the field of law.

 The main sections of the journal are:

• General Theory and History of Law and the State
• Issues of Private and Public Law
• Current Issues of Criminal Legal Sciences
• Overviews, Reviews, Analytics

Essential scope of the journal includes:

• presentation and popularization of research achievements in the field of theory and history of law and state;
• coverage of the activities of various scientific schools and directions dealing with problems in the field of private and public law;
• generalization of scientific and practical achievements in the field of criminal law sciences;
• popularization of scientific research on the doctrine of law and law enforcement;
• popularization of legal analytics, reviews of unique legal publications, overviews of unique events in the field of law.

The journal publishes original articles of theoretical and practical orientation, the results of fundamental scientific research aimed at studying the theory and history of the state and law, as well as current problems of implementation in the field of private and public law, reviews of scientific literature, overviews of current legal events, legal analytics.

The mission of the journal is to become a unique scientific platform for the publication of scientific achievements of leading legal researchers in the field of relevant legal areas, as well as for the approbation of innovative scientific achievements of young researchers.

The journal accepts submissions from graduate students, postgraduate students, doctoral students, specialists and experts, scientists from different Russian scientific and educational organizations, as well as from CIS, BRICS, near and far abroad countries. If the article is prepared by a team of authors, it should include only those authors who have made a significant contribution to this research. The authors must comply with the citation rules and other requirements of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), guarantee the authenticity and correctness of the data presented. The journal is designed for a wide audience: teachers, researchers, graduate students, practicing lawyers, as well as a wide range of readers interested in legal science and practice.

All articles submitted to the Editorial Board of the Journal are subject to mandatory “double-blind” review. Responsibility for the quality of reviews and the timeliness of the review of manuscripts is assigned to the Editor-in-Chief of the journal.

Publication in the journal is free of charge for authors.

You can find the requirements for manuscript preparation in the sections “Submit Your Manuscript” and “Author Guidelines”.

The languages used in publications are Russian and English. Publications in German, French, and Chinese are possible by agreement with the editorial board. Each article is provided with metadata in English.

The journal is in the “List of peer-reviewed scientific editions, in which the main scientific results of dissertations for the degree of candidate of sciences, for the degree of doctor of sciences should be published” of Higher Attestation Commision under the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia (since 25.12.2020 ), in legal scientific specialties 5.1.1, 5.1.3, 5.1.4 (since 01.11.2022). The journal is indexed in RSCI.

The archive of the journal “Current Issues of State and Law” is available after publication in:

• national Scientific Electronic Library (eLibrary) within the bibliographic database “Russian Science Citation Index” (RSCI) – free of charge for all readers, in full-text version. Direct link of the journal archive: https://www.elibrary.ru/title_about_new.asp?id=64858. In the Scientific Electronic Library you can perform an advanced search for journal articles (by keywords, author, title). The link to the full text of the article is indicated on the page of the article in the Scientific Electronic Library eLIBRARY.ru;
• scientific electronic library “CyberLeninka”, built on the paradigm of Open Science – free of charge for all readers, in full-text version;
• Full texts of articles are stored on this site in the “Archive” section; they can be accessed via http://journals.tsutmb.ru/current-issues-of-the-state-and-law/;
• Printed copies of the journal issues are transferred for permanent storage to the Russian State Library (RSL) and other leading libraries of the Russian Federation.

Copyright

Authors retain the copyright without restrictions. When re-publishing materials, the author undertakes to give a reference to the previously published articles in the journal “Current Issues of the State and Law”.

“Current Issues of the State and Law” provides Open Access to full-text issues.

Plagiarism policy

In the editorial office of the journal “Current Issues of the State and Law” all articles submitted for consideration are checked in the Antiplagiat system.

Editorial office and publisher address: 33 Internatsionalnaya St., Tambov 392000, Tambov Region, Derzhavin Tambov State University
Contact telephone of editorial office: +7(4752)72-34-34 ext. 3112.
Article submission is conducted at: Office 214, 181 B, Sovetskaya St., Tambov, 392000, Tambov Region, Derzhavin Tambov State University, Law and National Security Institute
E-mail of editorial office: apgospravo.tgu@mail.ru
Editorial board, Editor-in-Chief of the journal Cand. Sci. (Law) Angelina V. Lapaeva.
Website: http://journals.tsutmb.ru/current-issues-of-the-state-and-law/, http://journals.tsutmb.ru/current-issues-of-the-state-and-law-eng/, https://journals.rcsi.science/2587-9340