The journal "Vestnik of Kostroma State University. Series: Pedagogy. Psychology. Sociokinetics" appears since 1994, changing its name rather than its main mission – improving the quality and openness of fundamental and applied, practice-oriented psychological and pedagogic investigations. The aim of the journal appears to be promotion of scientific collaboration between Russian and foreign authors by presenting the latest scientific developments in pedagogy and psychology. The journal serves as an open and independent platform for substantiating and explaining current challenges of our time; determining strategies for pedagogic and psychological education as well as organising psychological and pedagogic help for people at different age stages in the current developmental situation; presenting scientific schools, interesting projects; presenting social problems, controversies and ways for their constructive resolution by individual and group subjects. The main objectives include providing a scientific platform for authors to discuss the results of their investigations; promoting cooperation between authors, the creation of new scientific teams engaged in research into topical contemporary problems; increasing the visibility, citation, verisimilitude and authority of published scientific work not only in Russia, but also in the global scientific space. It is a peer-reviewed scientific journal open for international cooperation and publishing original analytical, review and theoretical articles, ones describing experimental investigations in pedagogy, psychology and sociokinetics.
It is enlisted in the Official list of leading peer-reviewed scientific journals and periodicals of the Highest attestation commission of the Russian Federation, in which a degree pretender is obliged to publish its basic scientific results of the thesis being worked out. The journal is recognized by the Russian Science Citation Index provided by the Russian Scientific Electronic Library.
Settlor and publisher: Federal state budgetary educative institution of higher education “Kostroma State University”.
The scientific journal publishes original investigations in the areas of:
5.3. - Psychology
5.3.1. General psychology, psychology of personality, history of psychology
5.3.3. Psychology of labour, engineering psychology, cognitive ergonomics
5.3.4. Educational psychology, psychodiagnostics of digital educational environments
5.3.5. Social psychology, political and economic psychology.
5.3.7. Developmental psychology
5.3.8. Correctional psychology and defectology
5.8. - Pedagogy
5.8.1. General pedagogy, history of pedagogy and education
5.8.2. Learning and upbringing theory and methodology (by field and by level)
5.8.7. Methodology and technology of professional education.
All articles are subject to mandatory reviewing.
The journal is registered by the Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (AKA Roskomnadzor).
Deposit-receipt: ПИ № ФС 77-75261 as of 7th of March, 2019.
ISSN 2073-1426
Issue periodicity: 4 times a year.
Editor-in-chief: Anna G. Samokhvalova, Doctor of Psychology, Candidate of Pedagogy, Associate Professor.
Articles in Russian, English, German and French.
The journal is an open access periodical – articles are published in the Open Access mode in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY) licence.
Deposit-receipt: the journal appears as printed matter, with electronic copies available on the journal's site.