Scientific and Practical Journal «Modern Law» is Published Since 2000. Founder and Publisher — Limited Liability Company Publishing House «New Index». The Magazine is Registered by the Ministry of Russian Federation for Press, Broadcasting and Mass Communications — Registration number PI № 77-3849 from 30.06.2000. The International index ISSN: 1991-6027. The Frequency of the Publication — Monthly (12 issues per year).
The Magazine is Designed for Lawyers involved in Scientific Work and Lawmaking, Legal Practitioners. The main Headings: Theory of State and Law, State-legal Relations, Issues of Civil Rights, the Judiciary and Justice, Issues of Combating Crime, International and Foreign Law.
Included in the «List of Leading Reviewed Scientific Journals and Publications, which Should be Published Basic Scientific Results of the Dissertation for the Degree of Doctor and Candidate of Sciences». Posted in Russian Science Citation Index (RISC).
Biometric data according to the RSCI for 2024 (as of October 15, 2025).
Total number of issues of the journal -299
The total number of articles from the journal is 7069
The total number of articles with full texts is 6652
The total number of citations of journal articles in the RSCI is 29,655
The average number of articles per issue is 24
Number of issues per year 12
Place in the overall SCIENCE INDEX ranking for 2024 -2685
The percentile in the SCIENCE INDEX ranking for 2024 is -60
Place in the SCIENCE INDEX ranking for 2024 on the topic «State and law. Legal sciences» — 104
The two-year impact factor of the RSCI is 0.335
The two-year impact factor of the RSCI without self—citation is 0.279
The two-year impact factor of the RSCI, taking into account citations from all sources, is 0.582
The two-year impact factor for the RSCI core is 0.016
The five-year impact factor of the RSCI is -0.268
The five-year impact factor of the RSCI without self-citation is -0.236
The five-year impact factor for the RSCI core is -0.017
Herfindahl’s five—year index of citation journals is 232
Herfindahl Index for authors’ organizations — 445
Number of organizations -91
The ten—year Hirsch index is 30
Gini Index -0.75
The number of links to the most cited article is 15
Editorial Board of the journal «Modern Law»
Aslan Khuseinovich Abashidze — Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Law, Director of the Law Institute of RUDN University, Head of the Department of International Law at the Law Institute of RUDN University, Professor of the Department of International Law at MGIMO University (University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (Moscow, Russia)
Yuri Nikolaevich Andreev — Doctor of Law, Professor, Professor of the Department of Civil Law at Southwestern State University, Member of the Scientific Advisory Council at the Intellectual Property Rights Court, Federal Judge of the Voronezh Regional Court (Kursk, Russia)
Tigran Tigranovich Aliyev — Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Department of Civil and Arbitration Procedure at the Russian State Academy of Intellectual Property, Professor of the Department of Civil Law Disciplines at the Zhirinovsky University of World Civilizations; Honorary Advocate of the Russian Federation (Moscow, Russia)
Aleksey Pavlovich Anisimov — Doctor of Law, Professor, Professor in the Department of Criminal Law and Public Law Disciplines at the Don State Technical University (Rostov-on-Don, Russia)
Daniel Anorve — Doctor of Law, Professor in the Law, Policy, and Government Section of the Political Studies Department at the University of Guanajuato (Guanajuato, Mexico)
Aleksandr Nikolaevich Varygin — Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Department of Prosecutor’s Supervision and Criminology at the Saratov State Law Academy (Saratov, Russia)
Isakhan Veysalovich Veliyev — Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Law Department at the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan (Baku, Azerbaijan)
Igor Vyacheslavovich Vydrin — Doctor of Law, Professor, Director of the Municipal Management Institute, Professor in the Department of Constitutional Law Ural State Law University named after V.F. Yakovlev, Honored Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation (Russia, Yekaterinburg)
Yuri Vasilyevich Gerasimenko — Doctor of Law, Professor, Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation, Omsk Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Commissioner for the Protection of Entrepreneurs’ Rights in the Omsk Region (Russia, Omsk)
Irina Viktorovna Golovinskaya — Doctor of Law, Professor in the Department of Public Law Disciplines at the Vladimir Law Institute of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia, Professor in the Department of Criminal Law Disciplines at the Law Institute of the Vladimir State University named after A.G. and N.G. Stoletov, Professor in the Department of Constitutional and Municipal Law, Faculty of Law, Vladimir Branch of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (Russia, Vladimir)
Vladimir Gennadievich Gromov — Doctor of Law, Professor, Professor in the Department of Criminal, Environmental Law, and Criminology at the Saratov National Research State University named after N.G. Chernyshevsky (Russia, Saratov)
Dmitry Ivanovich Dedov, Doctor of Law, Professor, Department of Constitutional and Municipal Law, Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia, Moscow);
Alexander Gavrilovich Zaluzhny, Doctor of Law, Professor, Professor of the Department of Legal Support for National Security at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA) (Moscow, Russia)
Alexander Igorevich Zemlin, Doctor of Law, Professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Head of the Department of Transport Law at the Russian University of Transport (MIIT) (Moscow, Russia)
Vladimir Alekseevich Kartashkin, Doctor of Law, Professor, Chief Researcher at the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation (Moscow, Russia)
Maria Karfikova, Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Department of Financial Law and Financial Science at Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic)
Vladislav Vyacheslavovich Krasinsky, Doctor of Law, Associate Professor, Advisor to the Office of the General Director of PJSC UAC (Moscow, Russia)
Aleksey Valentinovich Kurakin, Doctor of Law, Professor, Professor of the Department of International and Public Law at the Financial University under Government of the Russian Federation (Russia, Moscow)
Gennady Yuryevich Lesnikov — Doctor of Law, Professor, Chief Researcher, Center for the Study of Security Issues in Penitentiary Institutions, Federal State Budgetary Scientific Research Institute of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia (Russia, Moscow)
Sergey Nikolaevich Maksimov — Doctor of Law, Professor, Professor in the Department of Jurisprudence, Sevastopol Institute of Economics and Humanities, Crimean Federal University named after V.I. Vernadsky (Russia, Sevastopol)
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Molchanov — Doctor of Law, Professor, Professor in the Department of Civil Law and Civil Procedure, St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (Russia, St. Petersburg)
Anatoly Yakovlevich Ryzhenkov — Doctor of Law, Professor, Professor in the Department of Civil Law and Procedure, Kalmyk State University named after B.B. Godovikov, Honored Scientist and the Republic of Kalmykia (Russia, Elista)
Yuri Ilyich Skuratov — Doctor of Law, Professor, Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Head of the Department of Constitutional and International Law at the Russian State University of Oil and Gas named after I.M. Gumilyov. Gubkina, President of the 21st Century Legal Technologies Foundation (Moscow, Russia)
Vladislav Yuryevich Turanin — Doctor of Law, Professor, Professor in the Department of Theory and History of State and Law at Belgorod State National Research University (Belgorod, Russia)
Galina Dmitrievna Uletova — Doctor of Law, Professor, Professor in the Department of Legal Support for Market Economy at the Institute of Public Administration and Social Sciences of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (Moscow, Russia)
Marina Anatolyevna Fokina — Doctor of Law, Professor in the Department of Civil, Arbitration, and Administrative Procedural Law at the Russian State University of Justice (Moscow, Russia)
Daoxiu Huang — Doctor of Law, Professor, Professor at the Political Science and Law University of China, Chairman of the Research Center for Russian Law in the People’s Republic of China, Knight of the Order of Friendship (Beijing, China)
Elena Vadimovna Chernikova — Doctor of Law, PhD in Economics Professor, Head of the Department of Legal Support for Economics and Finance at the Institute of Social and Cultural Affairs of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA) under the President of the Russian Federation, retired federal judge (Moscow, Russia)
Sergey Aleksandrovich Sharonov — Doctor of Law, Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of Civil and Labor Law and Civil Procedure at the Kikot Moscow University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Associate Professor (Moscow, Russia)
Galina Georgievna Shinkaretskaya — Doctor of Law, Chief Researcher at the International Legal Studies Sector at the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Member of the Council on International Law under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (Moscow, Russia)
Karl Eckstein — Doctor of Law, Professor, Honorary Consul of the Russian Federation in Switzerland, Attorney, Director of Eckstein & Partners (Rorschach, Switzerland);
Ethel L. is a Doctor of Law, Professor, and Head of the Department of Tax Law at the University of Bialystok. She is also the Chairperson of the Codification Commission on General Tax Law of the Republic of Poland (Bialystok, Poland).
Editor-in-Chief: Nina Vitalievna Volodina, Doctor of Law, Doctor of Philosophy, and Professor in the Faculty of Research Training at the University of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation. In 2010, she defended her Doctor of Law dissertation on «Theoretical Foundations of Legal Regulation of Relations between the State and Religious Associations (Comparative Legal Analysis)» (12.00.01). She has authored over 70 publications, including seven monographs, on issues of interaction between the state and religious organizations, as well as on countering religious extremism both in Russia and abroad.
Editors: L. Alekseeva and N. Chunakova; Proofreader: L. Pavlova
