Please meet the fourth issue of the scientific and analytical journal “Information Society” for 2025. The main theme of the issue is Sociocultural features of digital transformation.
The articles in this issue cover, among others, the following topics:
Digital transformation of economic management
Specialization of digital ecosystems
The information mission of money
Teaching media communications in Russian universities
Network analysis in organizational behavior
Modern methods of digital demography
Use of AI in law
Structure of the domestic video game market
Multi-agent processing of natural language elements
UAVs for environmental pollution monitoring
Implementation of digitalization in Kenya
In her address to readers “2025: Summa summarum”, the journal’s editor-in-chief Tatiana Ershova wrote:
Following a long-established tradition, we summarize our editorial activities at the end of the year. Let’s start by noting that during the calendar year 2025, we received 174 submissions, 104 of which were accepted, 62 were rejected, and 8 are still in progress. The acceptance rate is 62%, while the rejection rate is 38%, with 18% rejected immediately and 20% after peer review. These figures have been quite stable in recent years and demonstrate, firstly, the high interest in our journal, secondly, our strict requirements for the design and presentation of submissions, and thirdly, our consistently thorough selection process based on peer review.
During the year, 96 articles were published, the vast majority of which were accepted in 2024. Today, the backlog for publication of submissions that have passed all stages of editorial review has grown to 12 months. The reason is the same as last year: against the backdrop of political events in recent years, which have hampered the participation of Russian researchers in international publishing, the flow of articles to our editorial office has increased significantly, while the stated size of our editorial portfolio is limited by commitments.
This past year, the journal published papers across a wide range of research areas. The largest number of papers fell under the “Digital Economy” section (18), followed by “Information Society Technologies” (11), “Education in the Information Society” (8), and “Information Society and Law” (7). Six articles each were published under the sections “Fundamental Research in the Area of the Information Society,” “Human in the Information Society,” “Measuring the Information Society,” and the new section “Use of Information Society Technologies.” Four articles each were included in the sections “Socioeconomic Aspects of the Information Society,” “Information Society and Government,” and “Information Society and the Media.” The remaining sections each contained one or two articles.
The number of our authors in 2025 was 170, an all-time high in the journal’s 36-year history. 98 authors were from Moscow, 14 from St. Petersburg (two of whom were graduate students from China), nine from Nalchik, eight from Ufa, six from Vologda, five from Vladivostok and Kazan, four from Izhevsk and Samara, three from Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod, two from Nizhnevartovsk, Novokuznetsk, and Perm, and one from Krasnoyarsk, Omsk, Ryazan, Smolensk, and Sochi.
Among the 2025 authors were 49 doctors of science and 75 candidates of science. 32 authors hold the academic title of professor, and 39 — the title of associate professor. The author teams also included 19 specialists without academic degrees, 17 graduate students, 3 master’s students, 2 bachelor’s students, 9 undergraduate students, and even one high school student (co-authored with a candidate of science). One of this year’s authors is an Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, and eight are members of our editorial board.
The results of our editorial work can, without exaggeration, be called convincing, and all this is thanks to our wonderful authors and reviewers, to whom we sincerely thank and congratulate them on the upcoming New Year. We also sincerely congratulate all our readers and wish them all the best in the New Year!
The full text of the issue can be found on the journal’s website.