East European Historical Bulletin

About East European Historical Bulletin

East European Historical Bulletin — A Full Profile

The East European Historical Bulletin (Ukrainian title: Східноєвропейський історичний вісник; print ISSN 2519-058X; online ISSN 2664-2735) is a Ukrainian peer-reviewed journal of historical research, established in 2016 by Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University in Drohobych, Lviv region, Ukraine. It publishes four issues a year, and the issue current at checking time was No. 40 (2026) on the journal's own site — a numbering that matches a quarterly rhythm maintained across its first decade. Its articles carry DOIs under the prefix 10.24919/2519-058X, built on the journal's print ISSN, and the journal is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), whose record supplies several of the verified details in this profile.

The journal's name states its geography, and its official aim states its method. In the journal's own formulation, its aim is to highlight current problems in the history of Ukraine, world history, historiography, source studies, special historical disciplines, the theory and methodology of historical science, archaeology, ethnology, and the history of science and technology. Its mission is to publish original articles and reviews on the history of Ukraine and of Central and Eastern Europe, to raise the level of research, and to create a platform for intellectual discussion of complex and debatable issues, developing international cooperation as it does so. That pairing — a regional focus worked on with the full toolkit of historical method — is the journal in one sentence, and authors should test any planned submission against both halves of it.

At a Glance

Scope in Practice — What the Current Issue Shows

A journal's scope statement is a promise; its current issue is the evidence. Issue No. 40 (2026), read on the journal's official site for this profile, ranges across the full span the aim describes. Early-modern work examines the genealogical composition of the nobility in the Przemyśl land of the Ruthenian Voivodeship in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and local self-government under Magdeburg law in Left-Bank Ukraine in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Nineteenth-century articles treat Azerbaijan's Turkic-Muslims in the Crimean War and a Uniate priest at the crossroads of religious traditions in the Chełm land and Podlasie in the 1860s and 1870s. The twentieth century is present in depth: tax policy in the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Ukrainian State of 1917–1918, the beginnings of Ukrainization as mirrored in the bibliographical journal Nova Knyha in 1924–1925, social realities of the 1930s in everyday domestic life, discipline in the Ukrainian Insurgent Army in 1944–1945, atheist propaganda in the Transcarpathian district press of 1958–1961, state security repressions against the Rosokhach underground group in 1972–1973, and a study of historical memory in the twentieth-century Ukrainian-Polish borderlands. A review of a major Polish monograph on Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski closes the issue, honouring the journal's commitment to reviews as well as articles.

Three conclusions follow for prospective authors. First, the centre of gravity is Ukrainian and East-Central European history, but the frame is comparative and connected: empires, borderlands and neighbouring peoples recur constantly. Second, source-driven work is the house style — archival and investigative cases, newspaper and periodical press as evidence, customs and tax records, investigative files — rather than essayistic commentary. Third, the journal publishes across all periods, from the fourth century BC in some of its archaeology-inflected material to the late Soviet period, so period alone is never a reason for an author to rule it in or out; regional and methodological fit decide.

Subject Map and Citation Footprint

DOAJ classifies the journal under History (General) and History of Eastern Europe in the Library of Congress scheme, with keywords history, science, local history, archaeology and historiography. OpenAlex, resolved through its ISSN endpoint to source S4210188108, gives the citation-side picture at checking time: 865 works, every one of them recorded as open access, cited 652 times in total, with an h-index of 7, an i10-index of 5 and a two-year mean citedness of about 0.21. Its largest topic clusters are Soviet and Russian History with 362 works, Central European national history with 273, Polish Historical and Cultural Studies with 132, Philosophy, History and Historiography with 86, and World Wars history with 78. Read together, the two maps agree: a Ukrainian-based journal whose output nevertheless speaks constantly to Polish, Russian-imperial and Soviet history, because the region's past cannot be written any other way.

The publication rhythm behind those totals is substantial for a university journal. OpenAlex counts by year record about one hundred works in 2021, and 92 in each of 2022 and 2023, 75 in 2024 and 81 in 2025, with the 2026 year already partly recorded at checking time. Four issues a year carrying roughly twenty items each is a large editorial operation, and it explains both the journal's visibility in its region and the importance of its review process: volume at that scale only keeps its standing if refereeing stays real. Authors should also read the citation figures soberly. An h-index of 7 in OpenAlex reflects a young journal, founded in 2016, publishing much work on regional topics whose citing community is itself regional; the Journals World thin record from which this profile was built carried an h-index of 5 from a different database. As always in this directory, each figure is reported with its source, and none should be quoted without it.

Editorial Process, Open Access and Author Terms

The DOAJ record consulted for this profile documents the journal's working arrangements in unusual completeness, and authors can rely on it as a checklist. Peer review is double anonymous. The journal operates a plagiarism detection process, with details published on its site. Articles are identified by DOI. Authors retain copyright, and articles are published under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence — the most restrictive of the standard Creative Commons set, permitting sharing with attribution for non-commercial purposes, without derivatives. The record states that the journal does not charge article processing charges, and lists no other author charges. It also records a publication time of 52 weeks; whether that figure represents a full submission-to-publication span in the journal's DOAJ return or a conservative reporting convention could not be verified further from sources fetched for this profile, so authors planning around a deadline should ask the editorial office for its current typical timings directly rather than relying on that single figure.

Open access here is genuine and complete rather than hybrid: OpenAlex records all 865 of the journal's works in its index as open access, the journal's own site posts full-issue PDFs openly, and its listing in DOAJ — a directory that admits only journals meeting its open-access and quality criteria — was confirmed directly from the DOAJ search API for both ISSNs at checking time. For authors with funder or institutional open-access mandates, that combination is the practical point: publication in this journal satisfies such mandates without any fee, on the journal's stated terms.

Who the Journal Is For

The journal names its readership on its own site: scholars, research workers, teachers, postgraduates and students, and all who seek thorough knowledge of a theoretical and applied character. Its author base matches that breadth within the profession — university historians in Ukraine and across Central and Eastern Europe, archivists and local-history researchers publishing source-based studies, and doctoral candidates placing chapters of dissertation research. Two worked patterns from its pages show the range. An archival and investigative case on Hryhoriy Tymofiyiv, a village school director, becomes in its authors' hands a study of Soviet repressive policy toward the Ukrainian intelligentsia in the 1930s, built from a regional branch of the Security Service archive that had not previously been used. A study of the fight against human trafficking by Ukrainian law enforcement agencies between 1991 and 2014 shows the journal extending the same source discipline to the very recent past, combining legal comparison with statistical and historical method. Manuscripts in either register — microhistorical case or institutional history — are at home here, provided the evidence is primary and the regional frame is honoured.

Equally, authors should recognise what the journal is not. It is not a general world-history journal that happens to sit in Ukraine; a study with no East or Central European dimension and no comparative bearing on the region will be out of scope however strong it is. It is not a venue for opinion or commemorative writing without sources. And it is not an English-language journal in origin, even though DOAJ records its language as English and its site and abstracts address an international reader: it is a Ukrainian university journal with a Ukrainian scholarly community at its core, publishing for that community and for the wider field at once. Contributors from outside the region are welcome in its pages — the current issue includes work on Azerbaijani and Crimean War material — but they write into a conversation whose terms the region sets.

A Note on Identity — Titles, Transliteration and Twins

This journal illustrates why the directory checks identity by ISSN rather than by title words. Its Ukrainian title transliterates in several systems — Skhidnoievropeiskyi Istorychnyi Visnyk is the form used in citation exports on its own site — and databases file it variously under the Ukrainian title, the transliteration, or the English alternative title that DOAJ records. Searches under any one form will miss records filed under another. The stable anchors are the ISSN pair: print 2519-058X and online 2664-2735, in that assignment according to the DOAJ record. The Journals World record's own thin text listed the pair without assigning which was print and which online; this profile records the DOAJ assignment explicitly. A twin check of the Journals World database by both ISSNs in hyphenated and unhyphenated form, by slug and by title returned only this record for those identifiers, so no duplicate directory record competes with this one.

Corrections Noted Against the Earlier Thin Record

Two details in the short template text that this profile replaces deserve correction, because readers may have relied on them. First, coverage: the thin text described publication coverage as spanning 2021–2025, yet the journal was established in 2016, OpenAlex records its first publication year as 2016, and its issue numbering reached No. 40 in 2026. The narrower span was an indexing-coverage artefact of the source behind the template, not the journal's real run. Second, the thin text's framing of the journal as focused on a single subject category understated a scope that its own aim statement spreads across Ukrainian and world history, historiography, source studies, archaeology, ethnology and the history of science and technology. Both points are corrected in the body of this profile, from the journal's official site and the DOAJ and OpenAlex records fetched at checking time.

Verification Notes and Sources

This profile is anchored to the Journals World record for East European Historical Bulletin, whose stored identifiers are ISSN 2664-2735 and 2519-058X, with a thin template text of about 240 words. It is built from sources fetched directly for this profile: the journal's official site at Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University, including its aim, mission, readership and current issue No. 40 (2026); the DOAJ search API record for both ISSNs, which supplied the title and alternative title, publisher, ISSN assignment, review model, licence, copyright, charges, keywords and subject classes; and OpenAlex, resolved through its ISSN endpoint to source S4210188108, which supplied works and citation totals, topic clusters and counts by year, all at checking time. A secondary directory listing giving the publisher's address in Drohobych was consulted but no address is reproduced here, since it was not confirmed on the journal's own site in the pages fetched. Any detail that could not be verified from a fetched source — the editorial office's current typical review timings among them — is flagged in the text rather than filled in by guesswork, under the directory's no-fabrication standard.

Preparing a Submission That Fits the House Style

The articles in the current issue share a visible architecture, and prospective authors can learn the journal's expectations from it more reliably than from any general advice. Each article states its purpose explicitly at the outset, describes its methodology in a dedicated passage — naming the general and special historical methods actually used, such as comparative, chronological, problem-thematic and source-critical approaches — identifies its scientific novelty in a single disciplined claim, and closes with conclusions that answer the stated purpose. Abstracts in the journal's citation exports are long and structured, often several hundred words, because they must carry the argument to readers working in another language. An author who drafts with that architecture from the beginning — purpose, methodology, novelty, conclusions, and a full abstract — will produce a manuscript that looks native to the journal; an author who submits a free-form essay and hopes the office will reshape it has misunderstood where the work of fitting is done.

Source practice deserves the same care. The journal's strongest articles cite archival files by repository and fond-level detail, quote periodical press with issue and date, and distinguish throughout between what a document records and what the historian infers from it. The Tymofiyiv case study described earlier is explicit that its source base rests on previously unused archival materials, and it treats establishing the facts of a repressed life as itself a scholarly contribution — a reminder that in this field, recovery of the record is research, not preliminary to it. Authors working from published sources alone should therefore frame their contribution as reinterpretation or synthesis and argue it as such, rather than dressing secondary material in archival language.

The Journal in Its Scholarly Landscape

A university-founded regional journal that reaches forty issues in a decade, sustains roughly eighty to one hundred items a year, and holds a DOAJ listing with a fully documented review and licensing record has done the unglamorous institutional work that scholarly communication depends on. Its significance is easiest to see comparatively. Historical scholarship on Ukraine and Eastern Europe was long published mainly through metropolitan academies and a small number of diaspora institutions; the growth of strong university journals inside the region itself has widened who sets the research agenda, which archives get worked first, and which local topics — a district newspaper's atheist campaign, a school director's investigative file, a borderland's memory politics — receive full scholarly treatment at all. The East European Historical Bulletin is part of that widening, and its pages, mixing senior scholars with postgraduate authors, function as one of the places where the region's next generation of historians learns the trade in public.

For librarians and evaluators reading this profile, the verifiable markers are the ones to rely on: a named university founder and publisher, a stable ISSN pair confirmed across the journal site, DOAJ and OpenAlex, a DOI prefix in active use in the current issue, an openly stated double anonymous review process, no author charges, and a decade of continuous quarterly publication. Those markers, rather than any single citation number, are what distinguish a durable regional journal from a transient one, and on every one of them this journal's record could be checked directly from the sources named below.

Finally, a practical word for citing authors: cite the journal by its English title or its Ukrainian title exactly as the article itself gives it, with the year, issue number and DOI, and do not translate the title informally — informal translations are how duplicate and phantom records enter bibliographic databases, and this journal, with its several legitimate title forms, is exactly the kind that suffers from them.