Ideas and Ideals

About Ideas and Ideals

Ideas and Ideals — Journal Profile

Ideas and Ideals (in Russian, Idei i ideally) is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal from Novosibirsk, Russia, devoted to the analytical study of culture in the broadest sense — philosophy, history, literature, art, economics, and social thought read as parts of a single human conversation. It is published by Novosibirsk State University of Economics and Management (NSUEM) and appears quarterly, each quarterly issue traditionally issued in two parts, which is why citations to the journal so often carry a part number as well as an issue number. Its articles carry DOIs in the 10.17212/2075-0862 series, built on its print ISSN, and its online version is open access under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives licence, free for authors under what the journal calls a platinum model, with publication funded by its founders. The journal is bilingual in its working life — Russian is the main language of publication, with English titles, abstracts, and an English-language web presence that makes its contents discoverable — and it addresses scholars, postgraduate students, and specialists in philosophy, economics, social studies, and the humanities who want new approaches rather than routine reports.

The title is a programme. An idea, in the journal's usage, is not only a concept in a philosophy seminar; it is the organising thought behind an economy, a university, a work of art, a political order, or a life. An ideal is the standard against which such arrangements are judged. A journal with that title therefore ranges naturally from phenomenology and existential philosophy to the political economy of Russia, from Russian literature and the Bakhtin circle to the history of the Soviet period, from cultural theory to the economics of innovation and technological change. The Journals World subject profile for this record — philosophy and historical thought, Soviet and Russian history, Russian literature and Bakhtin studies, sociopolitical dynamics in Russia, and economic and technological development in Russia — is an accurate map of that territory, and the sections below follow it.

Quick Facts

The ISSN pair above matches the Journals World record for this post (20750862 and 2658350X in unhyphenated form). The DOI pattern repays attention because it encodes the citation: in a DOI such as 10.17212/2075-0862-2025-17.3.2-401-416, a reader can see the year 2025, volume 17, issue 3, part 2, and the page range — a compact confirmation of the quarterly, two-part structure described above.

Origins and Institutional Setting

Ideas and Ideals is a university journal, and its character follows from that setting. NSUEM is a Novosibirsk institution whose teaching spans economics, management, law, sociology, psychology, and the humanities; a journal housed there that studies culture analytically, with economists and philosophers in the same issue, mirrors the university itself. Novosibirsk, with Akademgorodok's scientific community nearby, has a long tradition of intellectual life at a distance from Moscow and St Petersburg, and a Siberian university journal that invites both established scholars and young researchers — the journal's stated audience includes postgraduate students explicitly, and both reputable scholars and young researchers are invited to collaborate — performs a real function in Russian academic life: it is a place where a doctoral candidate's first serious article can appear beside a professor's programmatic essay, under the same review discipline.

The journal's growth can be read in its own archive. Early issues, from 2009 onward, already range across philosophy of culture, education, and Russian intellectual history — a 2017 article on the idea of the Russian university, for example, works through the university charters of 1804, 1835, 1863 and 1884 to ask what a university is for. Recent volumes keep the same breadth under contemporary pressure: a 2025 study in the journal's man-and-culture strand compared innovation in natural and social systems; a 2026 article introduced a concept of the alienation of thinking to analyse artificial intelligence, platform capitalism, and the crisis of subjectivity; a 2025 philosophy-of-science piece examined the value of knowledge and learning and the place of happiness in education. These are not random topics. Each takes a large cultural concept — innovation, thinking, knowledge, the university — and tests it against history, theory, and present change. That is the journal operating exactly as its title promises.

Scope in Detail

The journal states its main purpose as the analytical study of culture in the broadest sense, with preference for work that brings the latest scientific ideas into scholarly and general cultural circulation and opens new approaches to the most important humanitarian problems of the time, and with particular attention to material of interdisciplinary and general cultural significance. It accepts articles presenting independent theoretical and empirical research, thematic reviews, and cases. The clusters below unpack what that means in practice.

Philosophy and Philosophical Thought

Philosophy is the journal's centre of gravity: philosophy of culture, phenomenology and existential philosophy, philosophy of science, logic and methodology, axiology, and the history of philosophical ideas in Russia and beyond. A typical strong submission states a conceptual problem, works through the relevant tradition — Russian and international — and arrives at a distinction or a model that other scholars can use. Pure exposition of a single thinker, without an analytical claim, is a weaker fit than the journal's purpose suggests.

History, Soviet and Russian Studies

Historical thought in the journal covers Russian and Soviet history, the interpretation of the Soviet past in contemporary culture — including how cinema and television rework Soviet material — and the cultural history of institutions such as the university. Work that treats the Soviet period as cultural memory, and not only as political chronology, sits naturally here, as does comparative work that asks how other societies remember difficult pasts.

Literature, Bakhtin Studies, and the Arts

Russian literature and Bakhtin studies form a named strength in the record, and the journal's culture-and-art strand extends to theatre, music, cinema, and visual culture. Articles in this area in recent volumes range from stage adaptations of contemporary Russian prose to the aesthetics of current digital visual styles — anti-design, meme art, and digital brutalism read as a language of visual protest and identity. The common thread is cultural analysis: a work of art is evidence about the society that made and received it.

Society, Politics, and Political Economy

Sociopolitical dynamics in Russia, Russia and Soviet political economy, and the study of social change give the journal its social-science flank. Articles address how Russian society is organised and how it changes — demography, education, public values, and the cultural consequences of economic transformation — and they are expected to argue analytically, with evidence, rather than to comment journalistically.

Economics and Technological Development

Reflecting its home university, the journal publishes economic theory and work on economic and technological development in Russia: innovation, counterparty risk and economic security, the economics of organisations, and the cultural meaning of technological change. The 2026 article on artificial intelligence and the alienation of thinking shows how the journal handles a technological topic — not as engineering, but as a question about human subjectivity, language, and power. An economics submission with no cultural or theoretical dimension will usually fit a specialist economics journal better; an economics submission that asks what its topic means for culture and society fits here.

Editorial Process: Screening, Review, and Ethics

The journal's published policy describes a clear pipeline, summarised here in original language. First, the editorial board reviews every manuscript for fit with the journal's profile and for compliance with its publication requirements; a manuscript that does not fit can be rejected at that stage. In parallel, editors check for incorrect borrowing — the use of previously published text, by others or by the author, without proper citation — using the Antiplagiat system; where borrowings are found, the article can be rejected or returned for correction, and a text that is fully or partially borrowed, carries a significant proportion of self-citation, or shows signs of having been generated by artificial intelligence is rejected under the stated policy. Authors should read that AI statement carefully before using any generative tool in preparing a submission.

Manuscripts that pass screening go to double-blind peer review by members of the editorial board and other recognised experts on the subject. Reviewers work to a structured assessment form supplied by the board, judging, among other points, the originality of the author's view, the scientific novelty of the article, its genre, the fit between title and content, whether the abstract discloses the content, the scientific level, whether the bibliography reflects modern domestic and foreign research on the problem, and the language and coherence of the text. The review ends in a recommendation — publish, publish after revision, or refuse — reviews are discussed by the editorial board, the author is informed of a refusal or receives the manuscript back for revision, a revised version is assessed again, and the final decision rests with the editor-in-chief. Reviews are kept for five years. For authors, the practical lessons are concrete: write an abstract that genuinely discloses the argument, keep the bibliography current and international as well as Russian, and expect the novelty question to be asked explicitly, because the review form asks it.

On ethics, the journal states that all participants in the publishing process follow the norms and international standards set by the COPE Core Practices, that authors must disclose any financial or substantive conflict of interest that could affect the results or interpretation, and that all sources of financial support for the work must be disclosed. When journal material is reused by others, the stated condition is citation of the journal and the authors. The journal also records an accessibility gesture worth noting: accepting the aims of a social movement for a society without barriers, the editorial board decided to post audio files of articles of general significance on the website — a small but telling sign of the journal's public-cultural mission.

Access, Licensing, and Charges

The online version of the journal is an open-access publication, with full-text files of all issues in PDF in the public domain on the journal's archive site, under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND licence named in the Quick Facts. The No Derivatives term means readers may share the work non-commercially with attribution, but may not distribute adapted versions without further permission — relevant for translators, who should contact the journal rather than assuming the licence covers a translation. Funding, in the journal's stated policy, comes from the founders, and publication is free for authors under a platinum model — platinum here meaning that neither readers nor authors pay. That combination makes the journal easy to read, easy to assign in teaching where Russian-language material is in scope, and free of the submission-fee uncertainty that surrounds many journals; it also means the journal's sustainability rests on its institution, which is the normal and stable pattern for a university journal.

Who Should Submit, and How to Prepare

Submit to Ideas and Ideals if your work studies a cultural, philosophical, historical, literary, social, or economic question analytically, if it can speak to readers outside your immediate specialism, and if you can present it to the journal's standards in Russian, with the English apparatus the journal requires — always confirm the current language and formatting requirements on the journal site, because the bilingual details are operational points that the journal, not a secondary profile, should settle. Doctoral researchers are explicitly within the journal's intended authorship, which makes it a realistic first serious venue in Russian humanities and social science, provided the novelty and bibliography expectations above are met.

Preparation that matches the review form is unusually easy to plan for this journal, because the form is published in substance: state the original point of view in the introduction, name the novelty in one sentence, choose a title that matches the content, make the abstract a true summary, bring the bibliography up to date with current Russian and foreign scholarship, and revise for language and coherence before submission. Then check the text as the editors will — for uncredited borrowing, for excessive self-citation, and for any passage that could read as machine-generated rather than authored. A manuscript that survives its author's own version of that checklist starts review in a strong position.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the ISSNs of Ideas and Ideals?

Print ISSN 2075-0862 and online ISSN 2658-350X, matching the Journals World record for this post.

Who publishes Ideas and Ideals?

Novosibirsk State University of Economics and Management (NSUEM), Novosibirsk, Russia. The journal's website is hosted on the university's domain.

Is Ideas and Ideals open access? Does it charge authors?

The online version is open access under CC BY-NC-ND, and the journal states that publication is free for authors, funded by its founders.

Is it peer-reviewed?

Yes. After editorial screening and an originality check, suitable manuscripts receive double-blind peer review, and the editor-in-chief makes the final decision, as the journal policy describes.

How often does it appear?

Quarterly, traditionally with each issue in two parts; citations and DOIs include the part number.

What subjects does it cover?

The analytical study of culture broadly: philosophy, Russian and Soviet history, literature and Bakhtin studies, art and cultural studies, sociopolitical dynamics, and the economics of development and technological change in Russia.

In what language does it publish?

Primarily Russian, with English titles, abstracts, and web pages supporting international discovery. Confirm current submission-language requirements on the official site.

Reading the Journal from Outside Russia

For an international reader who does not work in Russian, Ideas and Ideals is still worth knowing how to use. Its English titles and abstracts identify the argument of each article, its DOI records resolve to a stable landing page, and its themes — the memory of the Soviet past, the idea of the university, the cultural effects of artificial intelligence, innovation as a social process — are central to contemporary Russian intellectual debate, so even an abstract-level acquaintance improves a literature review on those topics. A researcher who does read Russian will find the full PDFs freely available on the archive site, with no paywall and no registration barrier in the journal's stated open-access policy, which makes the journal a practical primary source for studying how Russian scholars frame questions for each other rather than for an export audience. That distinction matters: much internationally visible Russian scholarship is written for foreign journals and foreign debates, while a journal like this one shows the domestic conversation — which concepts are contested, which authorities are cited, which problems feel urgent in Novosibirsk and in Russian humanities more broadly. Cited carefully, with volume, issue, part, year, and DOI, an article from Ideas and Ideals can anchor the Russian side of a comparative study in a way that a translated summary cannot.

Sources and Verification

This profile is based on the journal's official site (its journal policy page, article records, and DOI patterns), university information describing the journal's quarterly, two-part issue pattern, and the Journals World record for this post. No acceptance rate, impact factor, or indexing claim beyond what those sources support is stated here, because such figures were not publicly disclosed on the official pages consulted. The official site is the authoritative source for current editors, requirements, and submission contacts.