STSS welcomes submissions to its 2026 summer issue

The journal Studies of Transition States and Societies (STSS) welcomes submissions to its 2026 summer issue.

Studies of Transition States and Societies (STSS) is an open-access interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the study of transition societies. The journal’s thematic focus lies on education, labour markets, and their intersections with other domains such as family, health, migration and mobility. STSS welcomes studies of regional and national contexts in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, as well as comparative work including the journal’s core region. Full scope is available here.

STSS operates as a fully open-access journal, charging no article processing fees to authors, while also providing free language editing. The journal aims to promote good practices in open science while remaining independent, uncompromising, and firmly committed to high academic standards and ethical conduct.

Keywords: educational attainment, informality, labour market transitions, labour market segmentation, lifelong learning, migration, precarity, skill formation, vulnerable groups, income inequality

Timeline and submission instructions

• 16th of February 2026 – papers submitted through the journals online submission system
• June 2026 –issue published

Each manuscript should be written according to the Author Guidelines and full papers should be submitted electronically to STSS via the journal's online submission system. All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed according to the policy of the journal.

Questions may be directed to STSS managing editor Epp Reiska (epp.reiska@tlu.ee)