Reflections upon the Results of the Fiftieth Issue of the Journal "Economic and Social Changes: Facts, Trends, Forecast"
Dear reader! You are looking at the 50th issue of the journal “Economic and Social Changes: Facts, Trends, Forecast”, the leading periodical of RAS Institute of Socio-Economic Development of Territories. In cooperation with the Department of Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, regional government and Vologda City Administration, ISEDT RAS promotes academic scientific knowledge in the Vologda Oblast for over 25 years. Throughout its development the Institute has always focused on deep historical traditions of domestic and world science and, simultaneously, on innovation trends emerging in accordance with the needs of socio-economic and socio-political life. The system built in a quarter of a century was formed exclusively for one purpose - to create a cell of self-developing fundamental scientific knowledge in the Vologda Oblast. The history of the journal “Economic and Social Changes: Facts, Trends, Forecast” largely reflects the development of ISEDT RAS itself and the Department of Social Sciences. In this regard, the Journals' Editorial Board conducted a scientific analysis of the main stages of formation of the Journal and criteria for assessing its efficiency. The results of this work show that mutual interest and joint efforts of the academic community and local authorities can produce effective results in the creation of a high-quality scientific journal as one of the most important components in the development of scientific potential of territories.