2017. Vol. 5, no. 1. Giniyatullina L.S.

2017. Vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 248-251

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22378/2313-6197.2017-5-1.248-251

   EXTENDED MEETING OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE
“GOLDEN HORDE REVIEW” (Kazan, March 18, 2017)

L.S. Giniyatullina
Sh. Marjani Institute of History of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences
Kazan 420111, Russian Federation
E-mail: lusiia@mail.ru

The extended meeting of the Editorial Board of the “Golden Horde Review” dedicated to the fifth anniversary of the first issue of the journal was held in Kazan on March 18, 2017.
Responsible for the journal’s policy reported on the directions of their work with the following reports:
Mirgaleev I.M., Cand. Sci. (History), Head of Usmanov Center for Research on the Golden Horde and Tatar Khanates, Sh. Marjani Institute of History of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, Editor-in-Chief of the journal.
Report on the Journal’s Work: Strategic Vision of the Journal’s Development.
Khakimov R.S., Dr. Sci. (History), Director of Sh. Marjani Institute of History of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, Vice President of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, Academician of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the Editorial Board.
Report on the Editorial Board’s Work.
Giniyatullina L.S., Research Fellow of Usmanov Center for Research on the Golden Horde and Tatar Khanates, Sh. Marjani Institute of History of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, Technical Editor.
Plan for the Development of the Site of the Journal. The Role of the Online Version in Promoting the Journal and Its Indexing in Russian and International Scientific Citation Bases.
Roman Hautala, Ph.D. (History), Senior Research Fellow of Usmanov Center for Research on the Golden Horde and Tatar Khanates, Sh. Marjani Institute of History of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences; Docent, Department of History, University of Oulu (Finland), English Texts’ Editor.
The Development Strategy of the English-Language Part of the Journal.
Sayfetdinova E.G., Cand. Sci. (History), Senior Research Fellow of Usmanov Center for Research on the Golden Horde and Tatar Khanates, Sh. Marjani Institute of History of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, Issuing Editor. Aksanov A.V., Cand. Sci. (History), Senior Research Fellow of Usmanov Center for Research on the Golden Horde and Tatar Khanates, Sh. Marjani Institute of History of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, Issuing Editor.
Work on the Review of the Journal.

The following invited guests took part in the meeting together with the members of the Editorial Board:
Michel Balard, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, Institute of Research on Byzantium, Islam, and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages, University Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris, France)
Daniel Clarke Waugh, Emeritus Professor, History Department, University of Washington, Editor-in-Chief of the journal “The Silk Road” (an annual publication of the Silkroad Foundation) (Seattle, USA);
Mirko Sardelić, Department of History, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Zagreb, Croatia);
Aleksandar Uzelac, Research Associate, Institute of History (Belgrade, Serbia).
The participants highly appreciated the work of the Editorial Board, noted the importance of the Editorial Board’s members’ work as well as the reviewing institution’s work. They pointed to the need to adhere to the plan to include the “Golden Horde Review” in the world’s scientometric databases. The participants approved the reports of the meeting and wished the successes to the Editorial Board. The member of the Editorial Council, Aleksandar Uzelac, proposed to include in the plan the specific activities for working with the Editorial Council and carry out annual joint meetings of the Editorial Board. The participants recommended as well to publish the discussion papers more frequently.
In their speeches, the participants of the meeting noted the high academic level of the journal, its deserved authority and recognition not only in our country, but also abroad. They wished the further fruitful and effective work to the Journal’s Editorial Board.

The meeting has decided:

  1. to recognize the work of the “Golden Horde Review” and its Editorial Board as satisfactory;
  2. the Editorial Board should actively seek to increase the number of articles and the volume of the journal;
  3. to activate the work of the Editorial Council. To this end, it is necessary to organize, coordinate and direct the activities of the members of the Editorial Council: to hold joint meetings of the Editorial Board and the Editorial Council.

Keywords: journal, website, reviewer, citation, indexing of the journal

For citation: Giniyatullina L.S. Extended Meeting of the Editorial Board of the “Golden Horde Review” (Kazan, March 18, 2017). Golden Horde Review. 2017. Vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 248–251.  DOI: 10.22378/2313-6197.2017-5-1.248-251

About the author: Lyutsiya S. Giniyatullina – Research Fellow, Usmanov Center for Research on the Golden Horde and Tatar Khanates, Sh. Marjani Institute of History of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3904-6079 (7, Baturin Str., Kazan 420111, Russian Federation). E-mail: lusiia@mail.ru

Received  March 18, 2017
Accepted for publication  March 20, 2017
Published online March 30, 2017