Sibirskii Filologicheskii Zhurnal

About Sibirskii Filologicheskii Zhurnal

Sibirskii Filologicheskii Zhurnal — Journal Profile

Sibirskii Filologicheskii Zhurnal, in English the Siberian Philological Journal, is a Russian-language scholarly journal of philology — the study of language and literature together — published in Novosibirsk by the Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It is one of the principal humanities journals of Siberia's academic establishment, and its programme joins three kinds of work that are often housed in separate journals elsewhere: linguistics, literary studies, and the study of folklore and cultural tradition, with a particular concentration on Siberia and on the languages and literatures of the wider Russian and Eurasian world. The journal appears four times a year. Its articles carry DOIs built on its ISSN under the prefix 10.17223 — for example, an article in issue 1 of 2025 carries the DOI 10.17223/18137083/90/19 — and its citation record in issue numbers, with issue 90 reached in 2025 and issue 91 following, reflects more than two decades of continuous quarterly publication.

The title itself needs one clarification for international readers. The JournalsWorld record, following the transliteration used in international indexes, files the journal as “Sibirskii Filologicheskii Zhurnal”; the journal's own transliteration in citations is usually “Sibirskiy filologicheskiy zhurnal”. These are two romanisations of the same Russian title, Сибирский филологический журнал, not two journals. Anyone searching for the journal should try both spellings, plus the English translation “Siberian Philological Journal”, because databases differ in which form they file.

At a Glance

• Full title: Sibirskii Filologicheskii Zhurnal (Сибирский филологический журнал)
• English rendering: Siberian Philological Journal
• ISSN: 1813-7083
• Publisher: Institute of Philology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Place of publication: Novosibirsk, Russian Federation (publisher address recorded in indexing sources as Prospekt Lavrentyeva 10, Novosibirsk 630090)
• Language: Russian, with English-language bibliographic information for articles
• Frequency: 4 issues per year
• DOI pattern: 10.17223/18137083/…
• Open access: Indexing sources record the journal as not a fully open access journal; OpenAlex records a large share of its works as openly reachable, and its recent articles are readable on its publishing platform
• DOAJ: No record for this ISSN was returned by the DOAJ search API when checked for this profile

Publisher and Institutional Home

The journal's publisher matters because it explains the journal's scope. The Institute of Philology in Novosibirsk is the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences' research institute for language, literature and folklore: its scholars work on Russian literature, the literatures and languages of the peoples of Siberia and the Far East, folklore, and the history of language. Indexing and ranking sources consistently name the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, through its Institute of Philology, as the journal's publisher, and give the publisher's Novosibirsk address on Prospekt Lavrentyeva — Akademgorodok, the Academy's science district outside central Novosibirsk, where the Siberian Branch concentrates its institutes. A journal housed in such an institute is not a commercial venture and not a university in-house bulletin: it is the scholarly organ of a research community, edited by working researchers, and its pages reflect that community's long-term programmes — dialectology of Siberia, the folklore of Siberian peoples, Siberian literary history, and the study of Russian language and literature in their full history.

One caution for readers verifying the record: some machine-built databases attach inconsistent host or publisher names to this journal. The authoritative identity anchors are the ISSN 1813-7083, the Russian title, the Novosibirsk Institute of Philology imprint on published issues, and the DOI pattern 10.17223/18137083 under which its articles are registered. The 10.17223 prefix belongs to the Russian university journal platform through which the journal's articles are disseminated and their DOIs minted; the presence of that platform prefix does not change the journal's own publisher, any more than a journal hosted on a commercial platform changes its owning society.

History and Development

OpenAlex, resolving the journal through its ISSN endpoint, records works for the journal from 2002 onward, and its holdings grow from small early annual counts to the settled quarterly rhythm the journal keeps today. The issue arithmetic on recent articles confirms the same span from the other direction: a journal publishing four issues a year that reached its ninetieth issue in 2025 has been publishing continuously since the early 2000s. Across that run, the journal has documented a research field as it changed: early volumes are dominated by traditional philological genres — textology, historical grammar, dialect description, folklore collection and literary history — while recent volumes add the media history of Siberian towns, the digital archiving of dialect speech, and the study of Siberian periodical culture. Because the journal has been published by the same institute throughout, its back run forms a continuous record of Siberian philology in the twenty-first century, and libraries holding it hold something closer to an institute's proceedings-in-journal-form than to a shifting commercial title.

Scope in Detail

Descriptions of the journal's aims in indexing sources divide its programme into five interlocking areas, and the division matches what its issues actually contain. The first is linguistic analysis and description: phonetics, morphology, syntax, semantics and lexicology, with a marked strength in lesser-studied languages and dialects, particularly those of Siberia and neighbouring regions. Published examples include work built on the open online archive of German dialects in Siberia — a record of the speech of Russia's ethnic Germans in the Tomsk and Novosibirsk regions — and studies of the written heritage of the Siberian Tatars, including mosque register books in Old Tatar in Arabic script, read as historical and linguistic sources. The second area is literary studies and criticism: analyses of works, genres and narrative techniques in Russian and Siberian literature, from the philosophical and aesthetic polemics of the 1860s in the Siberian-set fiction of Nikolai Akhsharumov to the dramatic experiments of pre-revolutionary Tomsk writers. The third is folklore and cultural studies: oral traditions, myths and rituals, especially of the indigenous peoples of Siberia, treated as evidence for cultural identity and history. The fourth is interdisciplinary work where linguistics, literary studies, cultural history and ethnography are combined — the journal's study of Konstantin Vysotsky and the media revolution in a Siberian regional town, published in a sister Tomsk journal's pages and characteristic of the milieu, shows the blend. The fifth is historical linguistics: language evolution, etymology, and the social and historical settings that shape linguistic change.

OpenAlex's topic classification for the journal, derived from the content of its articles rather than from any publisher statement, gives the same picture from the citation side: its leading topics are Russian literature and Bakhtin studies; linguistic research and analysis; linguistics and cultural studies; syntax, semantics and linguistic variation; and linguistics and language studies. A prospective author can use that list as a practical test — a manuscript whose natural home is in Russian literary studies or in the linguistics of Siberian and Russian material will find its readers here, while a manuscript in general theoretical linguistics with no Russian or Siberian material should be aimed at this journal only if its Siberian relevance is genuine and visible.

What Its Pages Look Like

Reading across recent issues, three features stand out. First, the journal is a place where primary material is published and analysed, not merely discussed: dialect texts, archival documents, register books, periodical feuilletons and forgotten plays are transcribed, dated and interpreted. A 2025 article reconstructs the “Tomsk period” of the writer G. A. Vyatkin from plays printed in Tomsk periodicals that survive in no library collection as separate books; a 2024 article follows the satirical journalism of the 1860s into the feuilleton work of F. V. Volkhovsky in Sibirskaya gazeta, the first major private newspaper in Western Siberia. Second, the journal sustains long-running regional research programmes — the lexicography of the Siberian dialect personality, the Arabographic written monuments of Siberia's Turkic peoples, the history of the Siberian press — across many issues and many authors, so that individual articles are often best read as instalments in a collective project. Third, its literary scholarship is historically deep: its authors work on the full span of Russian literature, including its Siberian branches, and its linguistic scholarship is empirically grounded in fieldwork and archives gathered across Siberia. For a researcher outside Russia working on any of these subjects, the journal is frequently not one source among many but the principal venue where the relevant material appears.

Metrics — Read With Attribution and Dates

Figures for this journal differ sharply between databases, and this profile attributes each figure rather than blending them. OpenAlex, resolving the journal by ISSN, records 3,427 works and 1,176 citations, with an h-index of 8, an i10-index of 6 and a two-year mean citedness of about 0.14, at the time of checking (October 2026); of those works, OpenAlex records 1,785 as open access. SCImago-based reporting gives the journal a much smaller h-index (4, the figure also carried in the earlier JournalsWorld template) and an SJR of 0.187 for 2025, down from 0.240 in 2024, with earlier SJR values between 0.100 and 0.240 across 2019–2025 — the two h-indexes are not in conflict, because the databases count different citation universes: Scopus, on which SCImago rests, indexes only part of the Russian-language humanities literature that cites this journal, while OpenAlex draws on a broader web of sources. The honest summary is that this is a nationally central, internationally specialised journal: within Russian philology its standing is established by its Academy institute and its indexing in the Russian national systems, while its international citation indicators are those of a Russian-language humanities journal whose citing community is largely Russian-language as well. Authors should not judge it by the metrics conventions of English-language science journals; institutions evaluating publication in it will normally look to its place in the Russian Academy and national journal lists, and OpenAlex records it as listed in ERIH PLUS, the European reference index for the humanities, among its listing fields.

Indexing and Discovery

From sources fetched for this profile, the following can be stated with confidence. The journal's articles are registered with DOIs under 10.17223/18137083 and are therefore discoverable through Crossref and every service built on it. OpenAlex indexes the journal's works comprehensively from 2002. OpenAlex's listing fields record the journal in ERIH PLUS and in Russian national listing systems. The DOAJ search API returned no record for ISSN 1813-7083 when checked for this profile, so the journal is not presented here as a DOAJ-listed title; that is consistent with its access model, which indexing sources record as not fully open access, even though a large share of its articles can be read openly on its platform. Scopus coverage is the basis of the SCImago figures quoted above. Any researcher who needs a definitive statement about a particular index at a particular date should check that index's own source list under the ISSN, because coverage of Russian humanities journals changes as databases renegotiate their Russian content.

Language, Readership and How to Submit

The journal publishes in Russian. That single fact governs its submission reality: manuscripts are expected in Russian, following the journal's author requirements on its publishing platform, and the journal's readership is the Russian-language philological community in the first instance, together with Slavists worldwide who read Russian. English-language bibliographic information accompanies articles, which is how its content enters international discovery systems. Prospective authors from outside Russia should note the practical consequences: a manuscript will need to be in scholarly Russian of publishable quality; the review community is the Academy-centred philological establishment; and the subjects that thrive are those with Russian, Siberian or Slavic material at their centre. Submission routes, current editorial board membership and formatting requirements are published on the journal's platform pages and should be taken from there at the time of submitting, since this profile deliberately does not reproduce details that the journal may revise between issues. No article processing charge was verified from a source fetched for this profile, so none is stated; authors for whom charges matter should confirm the current position with the editorial office directly.

The Journal's Place in Siberian Humanities

To understand why this journal matters, it helps to see the geography. Siberian humanities research is produced across an enormous territory, in universities and institutes from Omsk and Tomsk to Yakutsk and Vladivostok, and much of its material — dialects, folklore, regional archives, regional press — exists nowhere else. A Novosibirsk Academy journal that has published that work quarterly for over two decades is one of the load-bearing structures of the field: it is where Siberian dialectology reports its archives, where Siberian literary history argues its cases, and where the written heritage of Siberia's peoples is edited and interpreted. Its closest relatives in this directory are the other Academy and university philology journals of Siberia and Russia — the Tomsk journals with which it shares the 10.17223 platform family, the Novosibirsk university humanities journals, and the Russian national journals of literature and linguistics — and researchers comparing venues should compare within that family, by subject fit and by the community that will read and cite the work, rather than by international metric tables alone.

How to Verify This Record

Each element of this profile can be checked in minutes. The ISSN and title resolve through the ISSN-based record in OpenAlex, which returns the same journal under 1813-7083 with works from 2002. Any recent article's DOI — the pattern 10.17223/18137083 followed by issue and article numbers — resolves to the article on the journal's platform and shows the current imprint and editorial information. The publisher attribution to the Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences is the attribution given by SCImago-derived sources and matches the journal's Novosibirsk Academy address. Where a database gives a different host name for this ISSN, treat the ISSN, the Russian title and the issue imprint as governing, in that order.

For Librarians and Indexers

The filing record for this journal should read as follows: title, Sibirskii Filologicheskii Zhurnal, with the variant transliteration Sibirskiy filologicheskiy zhurnal and the translated title Siberian Philological Journal recorded as cross-references rather than as separate titles; ISSN 1813-7083; publisher, Institute of Philology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; place, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation; frequency, quarterly; language, Russian. Two filing errors recur in commercial databases and are worth guarding against. The first is splitting the journal into two records under its two transliterations, which fragments its citation history and can make either half look like a small or short-lived journal. The second is attaching the journal to a host institution taken from its dissemination platform: the platform that mints its DOIs and hosts its web presence is infrastructure, not the publisher, and the imprint to record is the Academy institute named on its issues. Filed correctly, the record shows what the journal is — a single, continuous, Academy-published quarterly whose run from the early 2000s to the present is intact, citable by a stable DOI pattern, and held together by one ISSN across every database that lists it, whatever romanisation each database happens to prefer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the ISSN of Sibirskii Filologicheskii Zhurnal?
1813-7083.

What does the title mean?
“Siberian Philological Journal” — a journal of language and literature studies centred on Siberia and Russia.

Who publishes Sibirskii Filologicheskii Zhurnal?
The Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in Novosibirsk.

How often does it appear?
Four issues per year; it reached its ninetieth issue in 2025.

In what language does it publish?
Russian, with English-language bibliographic information for its articles.

What are its citation metrics?
OpenAlex records 3,427 works, 1,176 citations and an h-index of 8 at the time of checking; SCImago-based sources give an h-index of 4 and an SJR of 0.187 for 2025. The databases count different citation universes, so the figures are attributed, not averaged.

Is it open access?
Indexing sources record it as not a fully open access journal, and the DOAJ search API returned no record for its ISSN when checked; many of its articles are nevertheless readable openly on its platform, and OpenAlex records 1,785 of its works as open access.