Scientific Bulletin of Kherson State University. Series «Germanic Studies and Intercultural Communication»

The academic journal “Scientific Bulletin of Kherson State University. Series ‘Germanic Studies and Intercultural Communication’” is a specialized scholarly publication dedicated to the advancement of contemporary philological research, the expansion of international academic dialogue, and the dissemination of current research findings in the fields of Germanic languages, literature, translation studies, and intercultural communication.

Year of foundation: 2014.

Founder: Kherson State University.

Founder's ROR: https://ror.org/04cbe1f31.

ISSN: Print 2663-3426, Online 2663-3434.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32999/ksu2663-3426.

Periodicity: 2 times a year.

Language of publications: Ukrainian, English, German.

Cluster: Humanities and Arts.

Specialty: B11 Philology (by specialization).

Based on the Order of Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine dated 14.05.2020 № 627 (Annex 2) the journal is included in the List of professional editions of Ukraine (category "B") in the area of philology (B11 – Philology (with specializations)).

Registration of Print media entity: Decision of the National Council of Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine No. 2944 as of 24.10.2024. Media ID: R30-05624.

Media entity – Kherson State University (Universytetska str., 27, Kherson, 73000, e-mail: office@ksu.ks.ua, tel. +38 (096) 310-26-36).

Publisher: Publishing House “Helvetica” (EDRPOU code 38044877; 6/1 Inglezi St., Odesa, 65101, Ukraine; Tel.: +38 (095) 934-48-28, +38 (097) 723-06-08; e-mail:  mailbox@helvetica.ua; Certificate of publishing activity entity ДK No. 7623 dated 22 June 2022). 

Publisher ROR: https://ror.org/0021ckm71.

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the following databases: V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine, Index Copernicus International (Republic of Poland).

The journal serves as an open intellectual platform for presenting new ideas, concepts, and methodological approaches in linguistics and the humanities. It promotes the integration of Ukrainian scholars into the global research community and supports academic cooperation among universities, research institutions, and scholarly centers worldwide.

The principal aim of the journal is to publish original, academically rigorous, and methodologically sound studies that explore the functioning of Germanic languages, developments in literary processes, mechanisms of intercultural interaction, issues of translation, language education, discursive practices, and linguistic representations of the contemporary world.

The journal welcomes both fundamental and applied research whose outcomes are relevant to academic scholarship, higher education, professional translation practice, international communication, cultural diplomacy, and the development of multilingual societies.

Priority thematic areas include:

• Germanic linguistics (English, German, Scandinavian, and other Germanic languages);
• general, comparative, and contrastive linguistics;
• theory, history, and practice of translation;
• literary studies of the Germanic-speaking world;
• intercultural communication and communicative strategies;
• sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and pragmatics;
• cognitive linguistics and discourse analysis;
• language policy and linguistic identity;
• methodology of foreign language teaching;
• digital humanities and corpus-based research.

The journal seeks not only to publish research results but also to cultivate a space for meaningful academic discussion on current challenges in philological scholarship. Interdisciplinary studies combining philology with cultural studies, media studies, psychology, sociology, history, education, and digital technologies are especially encouraged.

Special attention is given to supporting early-career researchers, doctoral candidates, and emerging scholars through transparent submission procedures, independent peer review, and professional editorial guidance.

The journal further aims to:

• uphold high standards of academic integrity;
• promote responsible citation practices and open science values;
• disseminate Ukrainian humanities research internationally;
• develop professional terminology in Ukrainian and foreign languages;
• increase the visibility of high-quality studies in international indexing systems;
• foster intercultural understanding through scholarly dialogue.

The editorial board recognizes that philology in the contemporary world is not limited to the study of language and text, but also functions as an important means of understanding social processes, cultural transformations, and global communication. For this reason, the journal supports research capable of combining the depth of гуманistic analysis with the relevance of present-day challenges.