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 2019 (as of April 1, 2021).
The total number of articles from the journal is 5711
The total number of articles with full texts is 5282
The total number of citations of the journal in the RSCI is 23771
Place in the SCIENCE INDEX rating for 2019 on the topic “State and Law. Jurisprudence” — 26Ranking place based on the results of public examination — 1253 Journal index in the SCIENCE INDEX rating — 1.149 Two-year impact factor of the RSCI — 0.565 (in 2018 — 0.493) Two-year impact factor of the RSCI without self-citation — 0.540 (in 2018 — 0.469) Two-year impact factor of the RSCI, taking into account citations from all sources — 1.082 (in 2018 — 0.938) Two-year impact factor for the core of the RSCI — 0.022 (in 2018 -0.19) Five-year RSCI impact factor — 0.410 (in 2018 — 0.376) Five-year RSCI impact factor without self-citation — 0.394 (in 2018 — 0.357). Total number of citations in the current year — 1185 Herfindahl index for citing journals — 72 Ten-year Hirsch index — 25 Average authors Hirsch index — 6.7 Gini index — 0.82
Editorial Board of the journal «Modern Law»
Abashidze Aslan Huseynovich — Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Law, Head of the Department of International Law of the RUDN Law Institute, Professor of the Department of International Law of MGIMO (U) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia (Russia, Moscow);
Tigran Tigranovich Aliyev — Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Department of Civil and Arbitration Procedure of the Russian State Academy of Intellectual Property, Honorary Lawyer of the Russian Federation (Russia, Moscow);
Anisimov Alexey Pavlovich — Doctor of Law, Professor of the Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Law of the Moscow State Law Academy (U), Professor (Russia, Moscow);.
Anorve Anorve Daniel — Doctor, Professor, Department of Law, Politics and Government, Department of Political Studies, University of Guanajuato (Mexico, Guanajuato);
Varygin Alexander Nikolaevich — Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Department of Prosecutorial Supervision and Criminology of the Saratov State Law Academy (Saratov, Russia);
Veliyev Isakhan Veysalovich — Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Department of Law of the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan (Azerbaijan Republic, Baku);
Vydrin Igor Vyacheslavovich — Doctor of Law, Professor, Director of the MBU «Institute of Municipal Management», Professor of the Department of Constitutional Law of the Ural State Law University, Honorary Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation (Russia, Yekaterinburg);
Gerasimenko Yuri Vasilyevich — Doctor of Law, Professor, Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation, Commissioner for the Protection of the Rights of Entrepreneurs in the Omsk region (Russia, Omsk);
Golovinskaya Irina Viktorovna — Doctor of Law, Professor of the Department of Public Law Disciplines of the Vladimir Law Institute of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia, Professor of the Department of Criminal Law Disciplines of the Law Institute of the Vladimir State University named after A.G. and N.G. Stoletov, Professor of the Department of Constitutional and Municipal Law of the Faculty of Law of the Vladimir Branch of the RANEPA (Russia, Vladimir);
Gromov Vladimir Gennadievich — Doctor of Law, Professor, Professor of the Department of Criminal, Environmental Law and Criminology of the Saratov National Research State University named after N.G. Chernyshevsky (Russia, Saratov);
Alexander Gavrilovich Zaluzhny — Doctor of Law, Professor, Professor of the Department of Legal Support of National Security of the RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation (Russia, Moscow);
Alexander I. Zemlin — Doctor of Law, Professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Head of the Department of Transport Law of the Russian University of Transport (MIIT);
Kartashkin Vladimir Alekseevich — Doctor of Law, Professor, Chief Researcher of the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation (Russia, Moscow);
Karfikova Maria – Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Department of Financial Law and Financial Science of Charles University (Czech Republic, Prague);
Vladislav V. Krasinsky — Doctor of Law, Associate Professor, Deputy Head of the Department for Countering Extremism and Terrorism of the GURB of the Moscow Region (Russia, Moscow);
Alexey V. Kurakin — Doctor of Law, Professor, Professor of the Department of International and Public Law of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation;
Gennady Yuryevich Lesnikov — Doctor of Law, Professor, Chief Researcher of the Center for the Study of Security Problems in Institutions of the Penal System of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia (Russia, Moscow);
Maximov Sergey Nikolaevich — Doctor of Law, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Jurisprudence of the Sevastopol Economic and Humanitarian Institute of the V.I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University (Russia, Sevastopol);
Molchanov Alexander Alexandrovich — Doctor of Law, Professor, Professor of the Department of Civil Law and Civil Procedure of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (Russia, St. Petersburg);
Ryzhenkov Anatoly Yakovlevich — Doctor of Law, Professor, Professor of the Department of Civil Law and Procedure of the Kalmyk State University named after B.B. Godovikov, Honored Scientist of the Republic of Kalmykia (Russia, Volgograd);
Skuratov Yuri Ilyich — Doctor of Law, Professor, Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Department of Constitutional and International Law of the Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas, President of the Foundation «Legal Technologies of the XXI Century» (Moscow, Russia);
Turanin Vladislav Yurievich — Doctor of Law, Professor, Professor of the Department of Theory and History of State and Law of Belgorod State National Research University (Russia, Belgorod);
Uletova Galina Dmitrievna — Doctor of Law, Professor, Professor of the Department of Legal Support of Market Economy of the IGSU RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation (Russia, Moscow);
Fokina Marina Anatolyevna — Doctor of Law, Professor of the Department of Civil, Arbitration, Administrative Procedural Legislation of the Russian State University of Justice (Russia, Moscow);
Huang Daoxu — Doctor of Law, Professor, Professor of the Political Law University of China, Chairman of the Research Center of Russian Law in the People’s Republic of China, Knight of the Order of Friendship (China, Beijing)
Chernikova Elena Vadimovna — Doctor of Law, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Legal Support of Economics and Finance of the IGSU RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation, retired federal Judge (Russia, Moscow);
Sharonov Sergey Aleksandrovich — Doctor of Law, Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of Civil and Labor Law, Civil Procedure (V.Ya. Kikot Moscow University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia), Associate Professor (Russia, Moscow);
Shinkaretskaya Galina Georgievna — Doctor of Law, Chief Researcher of the International Legal Research Sector of the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Member of the Council on International Law at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (Moscow, Russia);
Eckstein Karl — Doctor of Law, Professor, Honorary Consul of the Russian Federation in Switzerland, lawyer, Director of Eckstein and Partners (Switzerland, Rorschach);
Ethel Leonard — Doctor of Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Tax Law at the University of Bialystok, Chairman of the Codification Commission on General Tax Law of the Republic of Poland (Poland, Bialystok).
Editor-in-Chief – Volodina Nina Vitalievna — Doctor of Law, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Faculty of Training of Scientific Personnel of the University of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation. In 2010, she defended her thesis for a Doctor of Law on the topic “Theoretical Foundations of the Legal Regulation of Relations between the State and Religious Associations (Comparative Legal Analysis)” (12.00.01). Author of more than 70 publications, including 7 monographs, devoted to the problems of interaction between the state and religious organizations, as well as countering religious extremism both in Russia and abroad.
Editors — O. Shcherbakova; N. Chunakova, L. Pavlova; proofreader — T. Bakanova
