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The Vestnik drevnei istorii (VDI, Journal of Ancient History, Revue d’Histoire Ancienne) is a leading Russian academic journal in the field of ancient history and related disciplines. Founded in 1937, the VDI is Russia’s oldest scholarly history journal that continues to be published. From the autumn of 1937 till March of 1941, it also accepted papers on the history of the Slavs, Byzantium, and Ancient Russia. After a break during the World War, it has been appearing quarterly since 1946.

Since 1938, the journal has been edited in the Institute of History (since 1968, Institute of World History) of the Soviet (since 1991, Russian) Academy of Sciences. It was published by the United State Publishing House [OGIZ] (1937–1941) and the Publishing House of the Soviet/Russian Academy of Sciences [“Nauka”] (1946 – present).

The editors-in-chief were Alexander Svanidze (1937), Alexander Mishulin (1938-1948), Sergey Kiselyov (1949-1962), Vassily Struve (1962-1965), Sergey Utchenko (1965-1976), Zinaida Udaltsova (1976-1987), Gregory Bongard-Levin (1988-2008), Askold Ivantchik (2009 – present).

In 1937-1947, the VDI had the French subtitle Revue d’histoire ancienne and summaries in French. Since 1967 it has the English subtitle Journal of Ancient History and summaries in English.

 
 

Рецензиялау

The reviewers must respect the rules of impartial assessment and confidentiality regarding the submitted manuscripts as specified for the Editorial Board (see above).

Any invited referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the Editorial Board and excuse himself from the review process. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors or institutions connected to the papers.

Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor’s attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge. This similarity or overlap will be reason to reject the manuscript.

 

Кезеңділігі

Periodicity: 4 issues a year.

 

Indexing

The journal is indexed in Web of Science Core Collection (Emerging Sources Citation Index).

The journal is indexed in Russian Science Citation Index (on the Web of Science platform).

The journal is listed in Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory.

The VDI is indexed in the following full-text and bibliographical databases, aggregators and document delivery services:

Anthropological Literature (Online) (on the Ebsco platform)

Dietrich's Index Philosophicus, De Gruyter Saur Publ.

FRANCIS (on the Ebsco and Proquest platforms)

IBZ - Internationale Bibliographie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur, De Gruyter Saur Publ.

Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlicher Literatur

Linguistic Bibliography (Online), Brill Publ.

MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association) (on the Ebsco, Gale, and Proquest platforms)

Old Testament Abstracts (Online)

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale) (on the Ebsco and Proquest platforms)

Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies

Full-text databases of East View Information Services:

Complete List of Russian, Ukrainian, CIS and Baltic Titles, 2000-

Nauka Online, 2000-

Universal Database of Russian Individual Titles, 2000-

Universal Database of Russian Social Sciences and Humanities Journals, 2000-

Universal Database of Russian Social Sciences and Humanities Journals (Voprosy istorii backfile), 2000-

Universal Database of Social Sciences & Humanities (UDB-EDU) (DFG Nationallizenzen), 2000-

 

Code of Ethics

The journal’s activities are governed by clause 70 of the Civil Code of Russia (“The Copyright”), the international standards of scholarly publication ethics (http://publicationethics.org/resources/international-standards) developed by the COPE, and the experience of the world’s leading journals and publishers. The journal’s editor does all necessary to respect ethical provisions as established in the international research community, and to prevent violations of these provisions both in its own activity and in relations with all the participants of the scholarly publication process, including the authors, reviewers, editors, publishers, distributors, and readers.