The journal was founded in 2001 by FSBIS "Kalmyk Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences" (earlier — Kalmyk Humanities Research Institute of the RAS)

Journal title versions: "Mongol Sudlal", "Mongolovedenie".

Registered by Roskomnadzor,  certificate registration No. ПИ # ФС77-77106 of September 3,  2019.

ISSN 2500-1523 (Print)

The journal is indexed with the List of Higher Attestation Commission (Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation):

• 07.00.00 Historical Sciences and Archaeology;

• 10.01.00 Linguistics and Literary Studies.

The international CrossRef agency assigns DOIs to articles of the journal (digital object identifier). DOI of the journal: https://doi.org/10.22162/2500-1523 (2016).

Metadata of the Mongolian Studies journal are exported to the world's largest open repository of scientific information – Google Scholar (2016).

The journal is included in ROAD (2016).

The journal is included in the international catalog of periodicals Ulrich's Periodicals Directory (2019).

The journal is included in the world's largest bibliographic WorldCat database (2019).

Issues of the journal are posted in the scientific electronic library of open access (Open Access) - Cyberleninka (2016).

The journal is included in the largest database Directory of Open Access Journals (2020).

The journal is included in the largest database Scopus (2021 г.).