The peer-reviewed journal "Shagi / Steps" has been published since 2015 by the School of Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the Institute for Social Sciences of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA). The journal discusses topical problems of modern humanitarian knowledge, including ancient culture, Oriental studies, comparative linguistics, historical and cultural studies, cultural studies and social communication, and theoretical folklore studies. The editorial board of "Shagi" includes major Russian and foreign scholars in the fields of Russian and world literature, folklore, ethnography, anthropology, history, art history, and linguistics. Authors of the journal include respected researchers from various regions of Russia and other countries. Articles can be found in both Russian and English.

The journal’s mission is to disсuss current problems in contemporary humanities in such academic disciplines as Classical Studies, Oriental Studies, Comparative Linguistics, Historical and Cultural Studies, Social Communication, Theoretical Folklore Studies, Sociolinguistics. The journal also seeks to provide a tribune for wide-ranging discussions that extend far beyond the “craft” frameworks of the School’s laboratories and potentially cover the entirety of contemporary knowledge in the humanities (that is, history, philology, anthropology, cultural studies, art criticism, and philosophy). 

The journal’s editors accept the following types of manuscripts for consideration: Original Article, Review Article, Book Review, Interview, Translation. Publication in the journal is possible in the following languages: Russian, English. 

Journal is published once a quarter: No. 1 (March), No. 2 (June), No. 3 (September), No. 4 (December).

Authors are not charged any fees for publication. 

Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)

Content available under license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. 

All submitted manuscripts are checked for their correspondence with the themes and formal requirements of the journal. All scientific articles submitted to the editorial office of the "Shagi / Steps" journal undergo mandatory one-sided anonymous "blind" reviewing (the authors of the manuscript do not know the reviewers). At the request of the reviewer, their name may be revealed to the author.

The copyright for articles published in the journal belongs to the authors.

All submitted materials are checked for plagiarism using an automated anti-plagiarism system «Antiplagiat». We take serious measures to ensure the integrity of our publication process. If plagiarism is identified, the COPE guidelines on plagiarism will be followed (https://publicationethics.org/files/u7140/plagiarism%20A.pdf).

The journal accepts preprints and encourages authors to share the data supporting the results in the paper by archiving it in an appropriate public repository.

The journal is funded by the founding organization. 

Russian State Library (rsl.ru)
Scientific Electronic Library (e-library.ru)
Cyberleninka (cyberleninka.ru)