Up to 2008 in Russia there was no periodical devoted to the issues of the theory and practice of radiation hygiene, radiation safety for population against different kinds of radiation. Isolated information on these extremely important topics was published in different specialized journals and wasn’t systemic.
On the decision of constantly operating Meeting of Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights protection and Human Well-being dd February, 27, 2007 the State Scientific Organization “Saint-Petersburg Research Institute of Radiation Hygiene after Professor P.V. Ramzaev” started to publish the journal “Radiation Hygiene” since 2008. The founder is Saint-Petersburg Research Institute of Radiation Hygiene after Professor P.V. Ramzaev. The journal is registered by the Russian Federal Surveillance Service for Compliance with the Law in Mass Communications and Cultural Heritage Protection (Registration certificate PE No FS77-28716 dd July, 6, 2007). In 2008 the journal received international registration number ISSN 1998-426X. In 2015 the journal received Online ISSN 2409-9082 and was registered as network edition by the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media (Registration certificate ЭЛ № ФС77-63702 dated November 10, 2015).
The journal Editorial Board includes 19 experts from the leading scientific centers of Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Obninsk (Kaluga region) and Sweden. Among them there are 12 doctors of sciences, 8 professors, 1 Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation. In the Editorial Council there are 10 experts from the Russian Federation, 5 experts from Ukraine, Belarus Republic, Georgia, Uzbekistan Republic and Tajikistan Republic.
Editorial Council is presented by 10 experts from the Russian Federation, 5 experts from Ukraine, Belarus Republic, Georgia, Uzbekistan Republic, Tajikistan Republic.
Since 2010 till the present time on the decision of Presidium of the Higher Attestation Commission of Russian Ministry of Education and Science dd February, 19, 2010 No 6/6 the journal “Radiation Hygiene” is regularly included into the List of leading reviewed scientific journals and editions for publication of the main scientific results of dissertations for scientific degree of doctor and the candidate of science.
The journal is on the platform of Scientific electronic library and is registered in the Russian index of scientific citation. In RISC database there are text-through articles of all the journal issues since 2008 till the present time. As of January, 2015 according to the data of “Russian index of scientific citation” (RISC) analysis the impact-factor of the journal “Radiation Hygiene” was 0.275 for two years and 0.26 for five years.
