The Mission of the Journal

Slavica is a scholarly periodical published since 1961 by the University of Debrecen and its predecessor institutions. It is edited in foreign languages and appears annually, with one issue released in the third quarter of each year, in three major European languages: Russian, English, and German. The journal invites articles and studies within four sections (Linguistics, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Scholarly Criticism), addressing key research problems of the Slavic linguistic and cultural sphere. These four scholarly sections may occasionally be supplemented by a Tabula gratulatoria page, as well as commemorative pieces included in a fifth section entitled “Notable Anniversaries.” The journal aims to serve as a link between senior and junior generations of scholars who, although geographically distant from one another, are closely connected through their research interests.

The Linguistics Section considers it its task to publish research that presents new methods and results in Slavic historical linguistics and source studies, as well as studies that examine the historical and areal relationships of Slavic languages with other Slavic and non-Slavic languages. It also seeks to publish contributions analyzing contemporary trends of change in the Russian language within the frameworks of the linguistic worldview and cognitive discourse analysis.

The Literary Studies Section includes among its preferred topics the myth-critical and comparative analysis of literary works of individual Slavic nations, as well as their investigation from perspectives of spatial poetics, intertextuality, and intermediality, along with close reading based on tropology and motif theory.
We consider particularly important the publication of studies examining literary contacts and interactions between Slavic and non-Slavic peoples.

The Cultural Studies Section places particular emphasis on the historical and theoretical study of Slavic cinema, as well as on issues of intermediality and the analysis of relations, transfers, and interactions between individual art forms and media.
We welcome, among others, contributions examining the relationship between literature, language, and film; studies analyzing the interactions between literature and the visual arts (photography, painting, comics); works addressing the relationship between literature and theatre, as well as digital media; analyses of multimedia and transmedia narratives; and investigations into the medial transitions between popular and high culture.

The Scholarly Criticism Section in Slavic Studies accepts book reviews and evaluative critical studies.
Literary studies reviews focus on monographs published within the last three years that examine literary texts, genres, or traditions through modern theoretical and comparative approaches.
Linguistic reviews assess works dealing with the study of linguistic structures, grammatical phenomena, and semantic and pragmatic issues, with particular emphasis on corpus-based, diachronic, contact-linguistic, and typological analyses.
Cultural studies reviews reflect on research addressing cultural processes, social phenomena, identity, and memory, including interdisciplinary and comparative investigations.

About the Journal

Slavica is published in two formats: as a printed periodical (ISSN 0583-5356) and as an open-access online edition. The publisher does not charge publication fees for the dissemination of authors’ works and does not provide honoraria to authors. The print version of the journal has been published since 1961. Between 2000 and 2007, it held an ERIH C rating. The digital version has been published annually since 2020, appearing in the third quarter of each year. Manuscripts are accepted throughout the calendar year; however, only submissions received by April 1 can be considered for publication in the given year. Published volumes are archived by the Digital Archive of the University of Debrecen (DEA) and are indexed in MTMT – Hungarian Scientific Works Database, MATARKA, DOAJ, ROAD, Crossref, Ulrichsweb, Scilit, Google Scholar, Openalex, ZDB, EZB and Sudoc. The primary language of publication is Russian; secondary languages are English and German.

Slavica (Annales Instituti Slavici Universitatis Debreceniensis), in both its print and online versions, is included in the journal list of Section I (Linguistics and Literary Studies) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

In addition to its printed publication, Slavica issues are made available in open-access form as PDF files via the OJS 3.4 journal management platform, accessible at: https://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/slavica/.

Publisher:
Debrecen University Press, Egyetem tér 1., 4032 Debrecen (Hungary)

Electronic publication and hosting of the journal management platform are provided by DUPress Publishing.

The person responsible for the online editing of Slavica is technical editor Éva Péntek.

ISSN

ISSN 0583-5356 (Print)

ISSN 2732-0146 (Online)