About the results of publication of the journal “Problems of territory’s development” in 2015

The paper summarizes the results of publication of the journal “Problems of Territory’s Development” in 2015. The author analyzes the Journal’s issues published in 2015 according to their thematic orientation, geographic distribution of the authors, number of the articles by specialists with higher academic qualifications. The author also considers the statistics of visits to the journal website, summarizes the information on changes in the Journal’s impact factor in the Russian Science Citation Index and its position in the RISC ranking of economic journals by two-year impact factor. The most frequent rubrics of the Journal are identified, including “Sustainable development of territories, industries and production complexes, “Quality of life and human potential of territories”, “Territorial finance”. The conclusions are made about the extension of the “geography” of the Journal’s contributors (in 2015, the Journal published articles by authors from five federal districts and two federal cities of Russia and four foreign countries), the increase in the number of publications of candidates and doctors of sciences, the growing interest of Internet users to the Journal’s website. The article also notes that a key outcome of the work on promotion of the Journal “Problems of Territory’s Development” was its inclusion in the List of peer-reviewed scientific publications that publish main research findings of doctoral and candidate of sciences theses. The author draws a conclusion about the need to continue the work on further improvement of qualitative characteristics of the Journal “Problems of Territory’s Development”, in particular, by attracting domestic and foreign scientists as contributors to the Journal.