About the Journal

The Journal for German and Scandinavian Studies (ISSN: 2815-2867) is a national open-access scholarly electronic journal with double-blind peer review by independent referees. It is published by the St. Kliment Ohridski University Press.

The journal publishes original fundamental and applied scholarly research in all areas of modern German and Scandinavian Studies – literary studies, linguistics, translation studies, social sciences, history and culture of the German-speaking countries and the Nordic countries, intercultural communication, multilingualism, philosophy, theatre studies, history of art, and musicology. Priority is given to research that aims to explore and elucidate the connections and relations between Bulgaria, on the one hand, and the German-speaking countries and the Nordic countries, on the other, in the areas listed above.

The journal also features separate dedicated sections for reviews of scholarly publications and translations, surveys, reports, and translations of artistic, journalistic and scholarly texts.

The editorial board includes Bulgarian and international experts in literary studies, theoretical and applied linguistics, translation studies, social sciences, cultural studies and history. The reviewers of the journal are prominent scholars from Bulgaria, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, Hungary and Poland.

The journal is published annually. The annual submission deadline is July 1.

The journal publishes texts in Bulgarian, German, English, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish.

The publisher provides open and free online access to all published materials. Publication in the journal is free of charge.

The journal is included in the National Reference List of Contemporary Bulgarian Scientific Publications with Scientific Review.

The journal is published and indexed in CEEOL (Central and Eastern European Online Library), Crossref and Google Scholar.