Вестник Пермского университета: Юридические науки

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Вестник Пермского университета: Юридические науки — Perm University Herald. Juridical Sciences: Journal Profile

Overview

Вестник Пермского университета: Юридические науки, in English Perm University Herald. Juridical Sciences, is the law series of the scholarly herald of Perm State University — now Perm State National Research University — in Perm, in the Russian Federation. It is a peer-reviewed legal journal publishing research across the branches of Russian and comparative law, with articles predominantly in Russian and a documented strand of articles in English, each carrying the bibliographic apparatus of the Russian scholarly system, including UDC classification, English-language citation information, author identifiers such as ORCID and ResearcherID in its published issues, and DOIs built on the stem 10.17072/1995-4190. Issue numbers in its modern series run continuously — issue 33 in 2016, issue 46 in 2019, issue 59 and issue 61 in 2023 — a sequence consistent with quarterly publication over that period, and cited articles reach back at least to issue 8 in 2007, so the law series is a long-established part of the university's publishing, not a recent creation.

The title needs unpacking for a non-Russian reader. Vestnik, rendered Herald or Bulletin in English, is the traditional name for a Russian university's scholarly periodical, and a large university typically issues its Vestnik in several subject series, each a journal in its own right with its own editors, ISSN record and scholarly community. The Juridical Sciences series is therefore not the whole of the Perm herald and must not be confused with its sister series, such as the History series of Perm University Herald, which has its own editorship and its own record. What identifies this journal is the pairing of the Perm University name with law, together with the ISSN Portal record for Perm University Herald. Juridical Sciences, which gives the original Cyrillic title, and the DOI stem that its articles carry. Cataloguers and authors who keep those identifiers together will not go wrong; those who rely on the word Vestnik alone will, because dozens of Russian universities publish a Vestnik in law.

Identifiers: A Point That Requires Care

The ISSN record for this journal requires honest, careful reporting, because the sources used for this profile document two numbers in two different ways, and a profile that printed a confident print-and-online pair without explaining that would mislead its readers. The ISSN Portal record reached for the title gives ISSN 2618-8104, with that number also as its ISSN-L, title proper Perm University Herald. Juridical Sciences, original title in Cyrillic, country Russian Federation, and medium recorded as print. Separately, the journal's own articles carry DOIs of the form 10.17072/1995-4190 followed by the year, issue and pages — for example 10.17072/1995-4190-2016-33-329-336 for an article in issue 33 of 2016, and 10.17072/1995-4190-2023-61-479-498 for an article in issue 61 of 2023 — and in the Russian journal system the number embedded in a DOI stem of that form is the journal's established ISSN-derived identifier, here 1995-4190, under which the journal has been cited throughout its modern history. This profile therefore records both numbers exactly as its sources present them, treats 1995-4190 as the identifier by which the journal's article record is organised, and flags the pairing as a structured-field point for anyone maintaining catalogue data: before a single print or online label is assigned to either number in a database, the journal's current colophon and its current ISSN Portal entries should be checked together, because the record as retrieved does not support a simple, unqualified assignment.

That caution is not a doubt about the journal's identity. The identity is fixed by converging evidence: the Cyrillic and English titles agree across the ISSN record, the journal's own published issues and the very large citing literature; the publisher setting is Perm State University at 15 Bukireva Street, Perm 614990, the address its authors and its published issues give; and the DOI stem is constant across years and authors. What the caution protects is the accuracy of a single catalogue field, and it is recorded here in the same spirit in which this JournalsWorld project treats every structured field — a field that cannot be verified cleanly is described as it stands, with its evidence, rather than filled in by a confident guess.

Scope: The Branches of Law as the Journal Organises Them

The journal's published issues are organised in numbered sections by branch of law, and those sections are the most reliable guide to its scope. An issue from 2016, for example, carries a section on labour law and social security law, in which scholars from Perm and elsewhere address subjects such as the social component of autonomisation in Europe in its legal aspects, supported by national research funding and written for a readership that works comparatively between Russian and European law. Constitutional and administrative law form another standing area, with articles on the content of the welfare state, the social character of the state and its features, written in the vocabulary of Russian constitutional doctrine. Civil law is a major presence, including work on the structure of copyright systems in France, Germany and Russia, and a wider Perm tradition of civil-law scholarship reflected in collections on methodological problems of civil studies by Perm authors. Criminal law and criminal procedure are likewise represented, with articles on the principles and institutions of criminal proceedings, on citizens' participation in the administration of justice in criminal cases, and on victim protection methodology, all heavily cited in the wider Russian legal literature.

Around those core branches sits a penumbra of work that shows where Russian legal scholarship has been moving. Articles in the journal have addressed digital tools for the protection of intellectual property rights, including work on blockchain and artificial intelligence; the classification of obligations and of legal rules, as a question of legal method; the division of powers and of subjects of jurisdiction between the federation, its regions and municipalities; the establishment of paternity and a child's right to a name, in family law; and the emergence of the sociological theory of law in the Soviet period, in legal history and theory. That spread matters for an author assessing fit. This is a general law journal of a classical university, not a niche review: a doctrinal paper on a branch of Russian law, a comparative paper that puts Russian law beside another system, a legal-history or legal-theory paper, and a paper on a new regulatory problem created by digital technology can all find a section here, provided the argument is worked out in full scholarly form.

How the Journal's Articles Are Built

A typical article in this journal follows the conventions of Russian legal scholarship, and understanding those conventions helps both readers and prospective authors. The article opens with its citation information in Russian and English, its UDC number and its DOI, and an abstract and keywords in both languages; the author block gives academic degree and title in the Russian style, institutional affiliation and address, and persistent identifiers. The argument itself is doctrinal and comparative in method: it works from legislation, court practice and a dense engagement with named scholars, Russian and foreign, whose positions are set out, compared and answered rather than merely listed. Footnoted or listed references in the published issues move between Russian monographs and journal articles, European and international sources in English and other languages, and primary legal materials, and an article in English in the journal follows the same architecture, as the English-language contributions in its pages show.

For a foreign reader that architecture has a practical consequence. The English titles, abstracts and citation blocks are not decoration; they are how the journal's work enters international circulation, and they are complete enough for a researcher who does not read Russian to identify a relevant argument, its authors and its place in a debate, and to cite it correctly. For a foreign author considering the journal, the same architecture sets the entry standard: a submission needs a properly formed English bibliographic presentation as well as its main text, accurate transliteration where Russian material is cited in an English article, and an awareness that the journal's reviewers will expect engagement with the Russian doctrinal literature on the subject, not only with the literature of the author's own system. A comparative paper that treats Russian law as an example, without reading what Russian scholars have said about it, is unlikely to persuade this journal's readers, who are precisely those scholars.

Publisher, University and Place

Perm State University, founded in 1916 and claiming a place among the oldest universities in the Urals and the eastern territories of Russia, is the journal's home, and the journal should be read as part of that institution's research life. Its authors in a single issue may be Perm professors and heads of department — a head of a department of labour and international law, a head of a department of political science writing on a legal question — alongside contributors from Kaliningrad, Samara, Moscow and other Russian universities, which is the normal pattern of a strong regional university journal in a large national system: rooted in its own faculty, open to the country. The university's own English pages show it actively promoting its herald series and their standing, and the law series benefits from and contributes to that institutional effort, even where a given news item concerns a sister series rather than the law journal itself.

Geography is part of the journal's value. Russian legal scholarship is heavily concentrated in Moscow and St Petersburg, and a well-established law journal edited in Perm, in the Urals, gives scholars in the Volga, Ural, Siberian and other regions a serious venue of their own, and gives readers a view of Russian law that is not filtered entirely through the two capitals. Regional questions — the division of powers in a federation, regional budgets and competences, labour and social questions in industrial regions — are naturally prominent in such a journal, and they are treated there as central questions of Russian law, which they are, rather than as local colour. An international researcher on Russian federalism or social law who reads only English-language journals will miss this stratum of the debate entirely.

Standing, Indexing and the Limits of What Can Be Claimed

This journal is cited extensively in Russian and international legal literature, as the reference lists of journals in fields from international law to management science and conference proceedings repeatedly show, and its articles carry the identifier and abstracting apparatus of the Russian scholarly system. Beyond that, this profile makes no metric claim, deliberately. No SJR, quartile, CiteScore, h-index or impact factor for Perm University Herald. Juridical Sciences is stated in the official and ISSN sources used here, and the searches made for this profile did not produce a verified SCImago or Scopus figure that could be attached to this exact title with confidence, as distinct from the many other Russian herald titles with similar names. In a field full of sound-alike Vestnik titles, attaching another journal's metric to this one is the single most likely cataloguing error, and it is avoided here by stating the position plainly: the journal's standing should be assessed from its publisher, its long continuous issue record, its peer scholarly apparatus and its citing literature, and any index listing relied on for a formal evaluation should be checked in that index itself, under the identifiers given above, at the time the evaluation is made.

The same discipline applies to operational details. The journal's modern issue sequence supports quarterly publication, and its articles are openly readable through the university's publishing platform and the PDFs of its issues that circulate in scholarly repositories, but no article processing charge, acceptance rate or median review time is stated in the sources used for this profile, so none is reported. Authors who need those details should obtain them from the journal's current editorial pages on the Perm State University press platform, which is also where the current editorial board, author requirements and submission route must be confirmed, because boards and requirements in Russian university journals are revised between volumes and a profile is not a substitute for the live instructions.

Who Should Read and Publish Here

Readers are legal scholars and advanced law students in Russia, scholars of Russian and comparative law elsewhere, and practitioners and officials who need doctrinal analysis of Russian legislation and court practice in the branches the journal covers. Its most distinctive use for an international reader is as primary evidence of how Russian lawyers argue among themselves: what the welfare state means in Russian constitutional doctrine, how civil lawyers in Perm construct a comparative argument about copyright, how criminal procedure scholars frame the participation of citizens in justice. Those are questions on which a summary in another language is a poor substitute for the article itself, and the journal's English apparatus makes the articles findable and citable even by a reader who will work on them with translation help.

Authors are, in the main, Russian legal academics, including doctoral candidates for whom publication in an established university herald is a normal and necessary part of a scholarly career, together with foreign scholars whose work genuinely engages Russian law. A manuscript that fits will state a legal problem precisely, place it in the legislation and the doctrine, argue a position against the strongest alternative readings, and draw a conclusion that another lawyer could use. Pure description of a statute, a survey of opinions with no position taken, or a policy essay without doctrinal grounding will not match the journal's published standard, in any of its sections. Authors writing in English should expect the same standard and should supply the same apparatus, including a careful English abstract that states the problem and the conclusion, not only the topic.

Verification Notes and the Duplicate Risk in Herald Titles

The facts used here come from the ISSN Portal record for the title, from the journal's own published issues as circulated in scholarly repositories, from Perm State University's own pages, and from the citing literature in other peer-reviewed journals, which independently confirms the title, the DOI stem, the issue numbering and the Perm address across many years. Where those sources do not settle a fact — a current editor-in-chief's name, a current charge, a current index listing, a metric — this profile leaves the fact unstated rather than filling it from an aggregator, in line with the no-fabrication rule under which this JournalsWorld profile was written.

The duplicate risk for this record is structural and worth naming for the coordinator. Russian herald titles generate near-identical records in international databases: the same university issues several series, different universities issue identically named law series, and the Cyrillic, transliterated and translated forms of one title can each spawn a record. For post 605093, whose JournalsWorld slug ends in -2 and whose title is the Cyrillic form, the correct treatment is the one applied here — this profile documents the one Perm law journal identified by the Cyrillic title, the English title Perm University Herald. Juridical Sciences and the identifiers discussed above, and it does not treat a differently spelled record for the same identifiers as a second journal. Any future merge decision for a herald title should be made on ISSN and DOI-stem evidence, never on title similarity alone, because title similarity is exactly what these titles share with journals that are not duplicates at all.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the same journal as Perm University Herald. Juridical Sciences? Yes. That is the English form of Вестник Пермского университета: Юридические науки, and the two forms name one journal of Perm State University.

Is it the same as the Perm University Herald history series? No. The herald is issued in subject series; the juridical sciences series is the law journal, with its own record, and the history series is a separate publication.

What identifiers does it carry? Its articles carry DOIs on the stem 10.17072/1995-4190, and the ISSN Portal record retrieved for the title gives ISSN 2618-8104. The pairing is explained in full in the identifiers section above, and a catalogue field should not be assigned from either number alone without checking the journal's current colophon.

What does it publish and how often? Research articles across the branches of law, organised in its issues by branch, in Russian with a strand in English; its modern numbering, from issue 33 in 2016 to issue 61 in 2023, is consistent with quarterly publication.

Are metrics claimed for it here? No. No impact factor, quartile or citation score is stated in the sources used, so none is reported; check any index directly, under this journal's own identifiers, before relying on a figure.