Analyzed is a corpus of foreign journals on social sciences and humanities where Russian researchers publish their papers, and the topics of the papers. The journals are listed in the WoS database. The authors restrict themselves to two social disciplines (economics and sociology) and two disciplines in humanities (history and philosophy). The authors track certain quantitative characteristics of the analyzed papers, namely, the number of published articles, the dynamics of publishing in 1993–2008, as well as certain qualitative parameters, including the distribution across types of journals.