About Studia Universitatis Moldaviae (Seria Ştiinţe Exacte şi Economice)

Studia Universitatis Moldaviae (Seria Ştiinţe Exacte şi Economice) — Journal Profile

Studia Universitatis Moldaviae, Seria Ştiinţe Exacte şi Economice — in English, the Exact and Economic Sciences series — is the exact-sciences and economics series of the scientific journal of Moldova State University (Universitatea de Stat din Moldova, USM) in Chișinău, Republic of Moldova. Article headers published through the university's journal platform give the series its identifying numbers directly: print ISSN 1857-2073 and online ISSN 2345-1033. That pairing matters for anyone verifying the record, because the Journals World record for this post lists only 1857-2073. The second number is not a different journal and it is not an error to be merged away; it is the online ISSN for the same series, printed on the articles themselves. Readers who search library catalogues, reference lists or the university archive should expect to meet both numbers, sometimes together and sometimes with only the print number shown on older PDFs.

The series belongs to a wider family. Studia Universitatis Moldaviae is the university's flagship scientific journal, organised in series by field, and the exact and economic sciences series sits alongside series devoted to the natural sciences, the humanities, the social sciences and education sciences. That family structure is the single most common source of confusion around this title. A citation to Studia Universitatis Moldaviae is incomplete until the series is named, because an article on plant physiology, an article on accounting and an article on literary history can all carry the same parent title while belonging to different series, different editorial communities and different ISSN pairs. This profile is only about the exact and economic sciences series — the series whose articles pair quantitative and formal work in the exact sciences with research in economics, finance, accounting, management and related applied fields. It should not be used as a description of any sibling series, even where the sibling shares the parent title, the publisher and the university.

Quick facts

Every fact in the table above was checked against the university's own published material or against the identifiers printed on the series' articles. Where a familiar directory field could not be verified from an authoritative source — a current impact-style score, a single stated acceptance rate, a promised review time — this profile says so openly rather than filling the gap with an estimate. That restraint is deliberate. University series journals are frequently misdescribed by aggregator pages that copy numbers from a sibling series or from an unrelated title with a similar name, and the safest way to use this profile is as a verified starting point that points you back to the series site for anything time-sensitive.

Publisher and institutional setting

Moldova State University is the founder and publisher behind the Studia family. Founded in 1946, it is one of Moldova's oldest and largest universities, based in Chișinău, and the Studia journal is presented by the university itself as its scientific journal, issued in series. That institutional anchoring shapes what the exact and economic sciences series is for. It is, first, a venue in which the university's own researchers in mathematics-adjacent, computational, economic and business fields can publish peer-screened work in a form that is citable, archived and visible outside the university. It is, second, a national venue: Moldovan authors from other institutions, and authors from the wider region writing on Moldovan and regional economic questions, appear in its pages because the questions it treats — public finance, banking, accounting practice, economic transition, tourism economics, entrepreneurship — are questions on which Moldovan evidence matters and on which a Chișinău-based journal is a natural home.

The Faculty of Economic Sciences is the most visible faculty presence around the economics side of the series. Conference material from the faculty has explicitly directed accepted papers toward special issues of Studia Universitatis Moldaviae and pointed authors to the Studia site for the journal's requirements, which tells a prospective author two practical things. First, the series is actively used, not a dormant archive title: it is part of how the faculty organises and publishes conference-linked research. Second, the route in is governed by the journal's own author requirements and template, not by informal submission. Anyone preparing a manuscript should work from the current series site and its template rather than from an old PDF of a published article, because formatting, abstract and referencing expectations are set by the journal, and they change over time.

Scope: what the exact and economic sciences series actually publishes

The title promises a pairing that can look odd at first sight — exact sciences and economics in one series — until it is read in the university-journal tradition from which it comes. In that tradition a series groups the formal, quantitative and applied fields that do not sit naturally in a humanities or a natural-sciences series. In practice, the published record of this series is dominated by economics and its applied neighbours. The Journals World template record for this post, derived from indexed works, foregrounds accounting theory and financial reporting, accounting and financial management, economic and fiscal studies, financial analysis and corporate governance, economic and industrial development, and banking stability, regulation and efficiency. Those labels are consistent with what a reader finds in the series archive: articles on public debt and welfare, on international economic relations, on sustainable management and risk, on tourism flows and methodology, on entrepreneurship and business incubation, and on public budgets and governance in the region.

Three scope points deserve emphasis because they decide whether a manuscript belongs here. First, the economics is applied and evidence-led as often as it is theoretical. Many articles take a defined Moldovan, regional or comparative question, set out the legislative, statistical or institutional material behind it, and work through the implications. A purely abstract contribution is not excluded, but the centre of gravity is work that connects method to a concrete economic or managerial problem. Second, the accounting and finance strand is substantial in its own right, not a token addition. Financial reporting, audit-adjacent questions, banking regulation and fiscal studies recur, reflecting the professional as well as academic audience for the series inside Moldova. Third, the exact-sciences side should not be overstated from the title alone. Authors with a mathematics, computer science or physics manuscript should inspect recent issues of this specific series before assuming fit, and should compare the sibling series as catalogued by the university, because the current centre of the exact and economic series, as published, is economic and quantitative-applied rather than pure-mathematical. Checking the last two or three issues is the most reliable scope test available, and it takes minutes.

History and series identity

The Studia title has a long life at the university, and the series system is how that long life has been organised as fields specialised. Numbering visible in the archive illustrates the depth of the run: issues from the mid-2010s already carry numbers in the seventies and nineties for the year, and articles from 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2020 in this series follow the same house pattern — the parent title, the year and issue number, the series name in Romanian, both ISSNs, and page numbers — a pattern that makes older articles straightforward to verify even when a secondary database has truncated the title. More recently the university has reorganised how its series are presented, and readers will also meet newer series labels in the Studia family, including an economic and communication sciences label in conference and article contexts. That evolution is a reason for care, not alarm. Journals that live for decades rename, split and recombine series; the ISSN pair on the article in front of you, not the label in a third-party listing, is the authority for which series you are citing.

For citation practice, the lesson is simple and worth stating plainly. Always cite the series. A reference that stops at Studia Universitatis Moldaviae leaves a reader unable to tell whether the source is this series, the natural sciences series or another sibling, and it invites exactly the mis-merging that directories struggle with. Include the series name, the year, the issue and the pages, and give the DOI where the article carries one — many recent articles in the family carry DOIs with the university's journal prefix pattern visible in reference lists. Where an article offers a Romanian title and an English title, cite the version you actually read and keep the other title out of your reference unless your style guide asks for a translation.

Editorial process, peer review and what authors should expect

The university presents Studia as its scientific journal, and conference-linked material states that papers undergo peer-review evaluation before publication in the journal. Beyond that, this profile does not invent a more detailed workflow. No authoritative, series-specific statement of review model, average decision time or acceptance rate could be verified from an official source at the time of writing, so those fields are recorded here as not publicly disclosed in verifiable form. That is common for university series journals, whose editorial offices are small and whose guidance is often given through the author template, the series site and direct correspondence rather than through a commercial publisher's metrics dashboard.

Practically, an author should expect the normal disciplines of a university journal. The manuscript must be original and not under consideration elsewhere — a condition the faculty's conference material states explicitly for papers directed toward the journal. It must follow the journal's template, including its abstract, keyword and referencing requirements. It must be written so that a reader outside the author's own institution can follow the evidence: Moldovan legislative and statistical sources should be identified precisely, tables and figures should be sourced, and Romanian-language material that is central to the argument should be handled so that the English abstract accurately represents it. Authors should also expect timelines to follow the issue cycle rather than a continuous-publication promise; if a deadline matters — a degree requirement, a project report, a promotion file — ask the editorial office directly and early, in writing, rather than relying on any directory's estimate of publication time.

Reading and using the journal well

For readers, the series is most valuable as primary evidence on the Moldovan economy and on regional applied economics. Articles on public debt, fiscal policy, banking, accounting practice and sector studies such as tourism draw on Moldovan law, Moldovan statistics and Moldovan institutional detail that are hard to find assembled elsewhere in English-accessible form. That strength comes with a corresponding duty of care. A single article's account of a Moldovan indicator reflects the data and law available to its author at its date; before reusing a figure in policy, teaching or further research, check it against the current National Bureau of Statistics release or the current text of the law. Used that way — as a well-organised, citable starting point grounded in local sources — the series is genuinely useful. Used as a substitute for checking the underlying statistic, any journal would mislead, and this one is no exception.

For librarians and indexers, the key tasks are disambiguation tasks. Keep the series-level record separate from sibling series records; record both ISSNs (1857-2073 print, 2345-1033 online); record the publisher as Moldova State University; and resist consolidating citations at parent-title level. The Journals World record that this profile expands listed only the print ISSN, and the correction offered here — adding the online ISSN from the articles themselves — is the kind of small, verifiable fix that prevents a catalogue from splitting one series into two apparent journals or merging two series into one.

Who should submit, and who should look elsewhere

The strongest fit is a researcher with an applied economics, accounting, finance, management or quantitative study that speaks to Moldova, to the wider Eastern European and post-transition region, or to a comparative question in which Moldovan or regional evidence carries weight. Doctoral researchers and early-career authors at Moldovan institutions will find a venue that understands their sources and their context. Established authors should value the series for reach into a readership that follows Moldovan economic questions closely. By contrast, authors seeking a high-volume commercial journal, a guaranteed rapid decision, or a title whose value rests on a single headline metric should look elsewhere, and authors with a pure natural-sciences manuscript should first compare the sibling series, because fit — not prestige language — is what determines whether editors and reviewers here can assess the work well. None of that is a criticism of the series; it is what a focused university journal is for.

Frequently asked questions

Is this the same journal as the other Studia Universitatis Moldaviae series? No. It shares a parent title and a publisher with sibling series in the natural sciences, humanities, social sciences and education, but the exact and economic sciences series is a distinct series with its own ISSN pair and its own subject community. Cite and catalogue it at series level.

Which ISSN should I use? Use both where your system allows: 1857-2073 for print and 2345-1033 online. If a form allows only one, use the number that matches the version you consulted and keep the other in your own records.

Does the journal charge a fee, and how fast is review? No verified authoritative statement of fees or review times was found for this profile, so both are treated as not publicly disclosed here. Confirm directly with the editorial office before submitting if either affects your decision.

In which language should I write? The published record includes Romanian and English. Confirm the current rules, abstract requirements and template on the series site, because the bilingual presentation of titles and abstracts is part of how the journal is discovered and a machine-translated abstract that misstates the findings will harm an otherwise sound article.

How do I verify an article I found cited elsewhere? Search the university's Studia platform by title, check that the series name and ISSN pair on the PDF match this series, and record the issue and pages from the PDF itself rather than from the citing source.

Sources and verification note

This profile was built from the university's own material and from identifiers printed on the series' articles: Moldova State University's presentation of Studia Universitatis Moldaviae as its scientific journal in series; Faculty of Economic Sciences material directing peer-reviewed papers to the journal and to the Studia site; and article PDFs hosted on the university's exact-sciences and OJS domains whose headers state the series name with ISSN 1857-2073 and online ISSN 2345-1033. The starting Journals World record (ISSN 1857-2073, Moldova, accounting and economics focus) is consistent with those sources except that it omits the online ISSN, which this profile adds. No fee, acceptance rate or review-time figure is stated, because none could be verified from an authoritative source.

How the series archive is organised, and how to search it

A reader approaching the archive for the first time should understand its numbering before judging its coverage. Issues are identified by year and by a running issue number, and articles carry page ranges within the issue, so a complete locator for any article is the parent title, the series name, the year, the issue number in parentheses as printed on the article, and the pages. Reference lists in the wild often compress that locator badly, dropping the series or the running number, which is why two citations that look different may be the same article and two that look alike may belong to different series. The university's journal platform resolves the ambiguity: searching the platform by an article's exact title returns the article in its series context, with its abstract and its file, and the PDF header confirms the series and both ISSNs in a single glance. That thirty-second check is worth doing for every Studia citation you intend to rely on, especially for older material that has passed through several generations of copying between bibliographies.

Searching by topic repays a bilingual strategy. Many articles present their titles and abstracts in Romanian and English in parallel, but not every older article does so with equal completeness, and a search run only in English will miss work whose English abstract is brief while a search run only in Romanian will miss the English-titled minority. Run both. Search also by the Moldovan institution or statute at the heart of your question — the National Bank, a named law, a budget concept — because applied articles in this series are often titled by their problem rather than by their discipline, and a discipline keyword alone will not retrieve them. Finally, follow citations forward as well as backward: a 2014 article on public budgets and a 2020 article on sustainable management risks belong to a continuing local conversation, and the later article's references are a curated map of the earlier series literature on its question.

Standing, limitations and an honest appraisal

An honest appraisal helps authors more than praise does. The series' strengths are local grounding, continuity, bilingual reach and a publisher — the national university — whose interest is scholarly rather than commercial, which is why no fee claim needs to be made for the journal to exist. Its limitations are the mirror image of those strengths. Discovery depends heavily on the university platform and on general search engines rather than on a large commercial indexing footprint, so authors should expect to do part of the work of being found: exact titles, careful abstracts in both languages, and complete metadata are not bureaucratic extras here but the mechanism of visibility itself. Citation expectations should be set in regional, applied-field terms; an article's success in this series is better measured by whether Moldovan ministries, practitioners, teachers and later researchers use it than by any single database score, and the h-index figure attached to the starting record should be read in that spirit. None of this makes the series a lesser venue. It makes it a legible one, whose bargain with its authors — a serious, archived, university-backed home for work on questions that matter in Moldova and its region — is stated plainly enough for an author to decide, before submitting, whether that bargain is the one their article needs.