About the journal

The scientific journal «Farabi Journal of Social Sciences» was founded in 2015. Previously, the journal was called "Central Asian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities" (ISSN 2522-1043, eISSN 2522-1051) and published scientific research results in the field of social and humanitarian sciences. However, due to the challenges of developing and promoting multidisciplinary journals, in 2021 journal was reorganized and renamed as "Farabi Journal of Social Sciences". Keeping its history, the journal has narrowed the subject areas of the publications. Today the "Farabi Journal of Social Sciences" publishes the results of research in social sciences.

The founder and publisher of the journal is the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. The journal has an approved cover and title pages with an indication of the university, output numbers of the issue, ISSN, eISSN, editorial board, editorial policy, publication ethics and website.

The journal is published 2 times a year. Journal articles are registered in the CrossRef database and for each author's article assigned a DOI - a digital object identifier, that is used to provide citation, reference and output to electronic documents.

The journal is included into the EBSCO database, leading provider of research databases, e-journals, magazine subscriptions, e-books and discovery service to libraries of all kinds, and also placed in the Scientific Electronic Library elibrary.ru in open access for readers and is included in the analytical database «Russian Science Citation Index».

The editorial board of the journal includes leading Kazakhstani and foreign scientists.

The journal follows the policy of information openness and accessibility of authors' publications, articles are posted on the journal's website in full-text access.

 * The author (s) of the manuscript approved for publication in the journal are obliged to pay for the publication in accordance with the approved price list for publication in scientific journals of Al-Farabi KazNU. According to the approved price list, payment for the publication of an article is 500 tenge per page. In exceptional cases, in the presence of other sources of funding for the journal issues, authors may be fully or partially exempt from payment for the publication of the article.

A receipt for payment for publication in pdf format is sent by the author(s) to the e-mail address of the editorial office of the journal.