About the Journal

Agora. Social Sciences Journal is a periodical peer-reviewed scholarly publication of the National University of Ostroh Academy.

The aim of the journal is to promote and publish the results of scientific research in the field of social and behavioural sciences (primarily in political science) on the basis of open access to the authors' publications. 

ISSN 2786-9202 (Print) 2786-9210 (Online).

Language: Ukrainian, English, Polish.

Frequency of the journal: 2 issues per year. Articles for issue №1 of the scientific journal are accepted until June 1, and for issue №2 of the scientific journal until November 1.

The journal is included in international scientometric databases and catalogues of scholarly publications: Google Scholar, CrossrefScilit (Switzerland), OUCI, and The Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine.

The editorial board of the journal receives and registers DOI for articles.

Any opinions and views expressed in the publications are those of the authors and do not represent those of the National University of Ostroh Academy.

The publication in the journal is free of charge. The editorial board does not intend to profit commercially from the development of the journal.

We do not recommend submitting articles mostly party manifestos, superficial analyses of politics or written mainly for an audience of abstract theorists or highly specialized methodologists.

All scholarly articles in this journal go through a peer-review process based on initial editorial selection and anonymous review by at least two anonymous reviewers.

The publication is addressed to researchers, academics, graduate and undergraduate students, and a wide range of readers interested in contemporary issues from various fields of social sciences.

The journal adopts an Open Access policy as defined by BOAI. According to it the journal materials immediately after publication are available to all users free of charge. Texts may be freely read, downloaded, copied, distributed, printed, searched for or summarized in full, and used for any other lawful purpose without requiring prior permission from the publisher or authors.

The journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License - Non-Commercial 4.0 International. Any further dissemination/citation of scientific articles of the journal "Agora. Social Sciences Journal", the authors, the title of the work, journal references and DOI must be cited.

The articles in the journal are checked for plagiarism using the Unicheck software.

The project was launched in 2022 as part of the post-fellowship activities of the Lane Kirkland Program, administered by the Leaders of Change Foundation and funded by the Polish-American Freedom Foundation.