International Organisations Research Journal (IORJ) is published by the National Research University Higher School of Economics since January 2006. Academic supervisor of IORJ is Y. Kuzminov, editor-in-chief – M. Larionova. The Editorial Board includes: Y.Borko, L.Gokhberg, A.Sokolov, V.Shadrikov , L.Yakobson, L. Lyubimov.
From 2009 to 2016 the publication frequency was 8 issues per year.
Since 2009 IORJ is published quarterly, each issue is dedicated to one topic.
In 2010 Russian Higher Attestation Commission included IORJ into the List of Russian peer-reviewed journals in which the main scientific results of dissertations should be published, in three scientific fields:
5.2.5. World Economy (Economic Sciences), 5.8.7. Methodology and Technology of Professional Education (Pedagogical Sciences), and 5.5.4. International Relations (Political Sciences).
Since 2013 IORJ renewed the editorial policy in line with the standards of international database Scopus and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). New procedures included, inter alia:
- Double-blind external peer review by at least two international eхperts;
- The publication format was changed: each article should include abstracts (200-300 words), the reference list should be prepared according to the Harvard System of Referencing.
Since 2014 IORJ is published in Russian and English. The English version of the issue is edited by a professional native-speaking editor.
In 2014 - 2016 the editorial board expanded to include Russian and international experts from Canada, Belgium, Great Britain, China, and the Netherlands: T. Parkhalina , A. Kortunov, A. Baker, S. Biscop , R. Wagenaar , J. Wouters , Guo Shuyong, J. Kirton, J. Knight.
Since 2015 the IORJ is indexed in the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI) and Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) of Web of Science, since 2016 г. It is indexed in Scopus.
Since 2022, the SCImago Journal Rank (based on the Scopus database) includes the journal in the first two quartiles (Q2) in the categories «Political Science and International Relations» and «Political Science and Sociology».