The scientific electronic journal ‘Analysis and Forecasting. IMEMO Journal’ is published from 2019, 4 times a year, in Russian and English.

The Registration Certificate of the journal, EL # FC 77–76743 was issued by the Federal Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media Regulatory Authority on September 16, 2019.

ISSN: 2713-170Х (The Certificate of Registration in the National Center of ISSN and of Attribution of the International Standard Serial Number dated January 15, 2020).

The journal focuses on the comprehensive fundamental and applied analysis of world and regional economic, political and social development, as well as on global and regional military and non-military security in order to provide solutions for complex and long-term forecasting, improve and develop new forecasting technologies in social sciences.

Founder and Publisher 

The journal’s founder and publisher is the Federal State Budgetary Institution of Science ‘Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO)’.

Legal and actual address: 23, Profsoyuznaya Str., Moscow 117997, Russian Federation. 

Thematic Profile

The journal follows the traditions of classical academic periodic publications. It aspires to become an all-Russian and international interdisciplinary intellectual forum to discuss theory and practices of analyzing and forecasting social, political and economic processes on a country, regional and global levels and consider new ideas and debatable problems of political and economic theory and methodology.

The choice of an electronic format for a scientific open-access journal stems from the need to create an open model for knowledge exchange in this thematic area.

The journal’s web page in the Russian Science Index. 

The journal is listed in the classifier of the Higher Attestation Commission of Russia (HAC), articles published in the journal are taken into account when defending candidate's and doctoral dissertations.

Subject Areas (in accordance with branches of science listed by HAC)

• 5.2.5. World Economy
• 5.5.1. History and Theory of Politics
• 5.5.2. Political Institutions, Processes, Technologies
• 5.5.4. International Relations, Global and Regional Studies

Main Thematic Sections

• Forecasting Studies
• Global and Regional Challenges
• Theory and Methodology
• Global Governance
• Global and Regional Security
• Global Economy and Finance
• Development Trends and Risks
• Dynamics of Social and Political Space
• Multa Paucis
• Post Factum

Article Types

The journal publishes original research articles, reviews and reports from scientific events organized by IMEMO or in partnership with IMEMO within the journal’s thematic areas.

The publication of the article is free of charge. The Editorial does not charge authors for preparing and publishing the materials on the journal’s website. All materials in Russian undergo an ‘Antiplagiat’ check, article in English are checked for plagiarism in Citation Machine and Turnitin, after that all the articles are sent to the reviewers. In instances when a significant part of an article is plagiarized, the Editorial acts according to COPE. For a more detailed editorial policy, see: https://www.afjournal.ru/en/journal/edit-ethics 

The journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge (open license Creative Commons ).

Publications are licensed by Creative Commons International Public License: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0), which allows unrestricted use of works for non-commercial purposes, subject to attribution.

The materials of vol. 2 and vol. 3 in 2024 were licensed by Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

EDITORIAL COUNCIL 

• Alexey Arbatov, Doct. Sci. (Hist.), Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Center of International Security, IMEMO (Russia)
• Vladimir Baranovsky, Doct. Sci. (Hist.), Professor, Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of Research of the Center of Situational Analysis, IMEMO (Russia)
• Alexey Gromyko, Doct. Sci. (Polit. Sci.), Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Professor of the RAS, Director of the Institute of Europe, RAS (Russia)
• Alexander Dynkin, Doct. Sci. (Econ.), Professor, Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of IMEMO (Russia)
• Natalya Ivanova, Doct. Sci. (Econ.), Professor, Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of Research of the Department of Science and Innovation, IMEMO (Russia)
• Ivan Korolev, Doct. Sci. (Econ.), Professor, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Principal Researcher of the Center for Forecasting Studies, Counselor of RAS
• Vasily Mikheev, Doct. Sci. (Econ.), Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of Research of the Center of Asia Pacific Studies, IMEMO (Russia)
• Vitaly Naumkin, Doct. Sci. (Hist.), Professor, Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academic Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS (Russia)
• Yan Xuetong, Ph.D (Polit. Sci.), Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dean of the Institute of International Relations, Qinghua University (China)

EDITORIAL BOARD

Chairman: Feodor Voitolovsky, Doct. Sci. (Polit. Sci.), Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Director of IMEMO 

Members:

• Nadezhda Arbatova, Doct. Sci. (Polit. Sci.), Head of the Department of European Political Studies, IMEMO (Moscow, Russia)
• Sergey Afontsev, Doct. Sci. (Econ.), Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Professor of RAS, Head of the Department of Economic Theory, Deputy Director for Scientific Work, IMEMO (Moscow, Russia)
• Vladimir Varnavskii, Doct. Sci. (Econ.), Professor, Head of the Center for Industrial and Investment Studies, IMEMO (Moscow, Russia)
• Stanislav Zhukov, Doct. Sci. (Econ.), Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Head of the Center of Energy Research, Deputy Director for Scientific Work, IMEMO (Moscow, Russia)
• Viktoriya Zhuravleva, Cand. Sci. (Polit. Sci.), Head of the Center for North American Studies, Deputy Director for Scientific Work, IMEMO (Moscow, Russia)
• Irina Zvyagelskaya, Doct. Sci. (Hist.), Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Professor of RAS, Head of the Center of the Middle East Studies, IMEMO (Moscow, Russia)
• Irina Kobrinskaya, Cand. Sci. (Hist.), Head of the Center of Situational Analysis, IMEMO (Moscow, Russia)
• Alexander Lomanov, Doct. Sci. (Hist.), Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Head of Center for Asia Pacific Studies, Deputy Director for Scientific Work, IMEMO (Moscow, Russia)
• Inna Miroshnichenko, Doct. Sci. (Polit. Sci.), Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Public Policy and Public Administration, Kuban State University (Krasnodar, Russia)
• Irina Prokhorenko, Doct. Sci. (Polit. Sci.), Head of the Department for International Political Problems, IMEMO (Moscow, Russia)
• Andrey Ryabov, Cand. Sci. (Hist.), Associate Professor, Head of the Scientific and Publishing Department, IMEMO, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal ‘The World Economy and International Relations’ (Moscow, Russia)
• Irina Semenenko, Doct. Sci. (Polit. Sci.), Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Head of the Center of Comparative Socio-Economic and Political Studies, Deputy Director for Scientific Work, IMEMO (Moscow, Russia)
• Eduard Solovyev, Cand. Sci. (Polit. Sci.), Head of the Center of Post-Soviet Studies, Head of the Sector for Political Theory, IMEMO (Moscow, Russia)
• Alexander Fedorovskiy, Doct. Sci. (Econ.), Head of the Group of the Asia-Pacific Region Problems, Center of Asia Pacific Studies, IMEMO (Moscow, Russia)
• Elena Kharitonova, Cand. Sci. (Polit. Sci.), Head of the British Research Group, Center for European Studies, IMEMO (Moscow, Russia)
• Irina Tsapenko, Doct. Sci. (Econ.), Head of the Sector of Social and Economic Development and Migration Processes Studies, Department of Complex Socio-Economic Research, IMEMO (Moscow, Russia)
• Tatiana Shakleina, Doct. Sci. (Polit. Sci.), Professor, Honorable Scientist of the Russian Federation, Professor of the Department for Applied International Analysis, School of International Relations, MGIMO (Moscow, Russia)

Editor-in-Chief: Irina Prokhorenko

Editorial Staff:

• Alla Korotkova (Deputy Editor-in-Chief)
• Elizaveta Matyukhova (Executive Secretary)
• Alexander Aleshin (in charge of the work with citation databases and state regulatory agencies)
• Marina Strokova (Translator, Editor)

Layout and Design: Ltd Verdi

Website Design: Evgenia Kliueva, Elena Lomteva

Cover design: Sergey Safonov