About this journal

Aims and scope

Turkey is a country whose importance is rapidly growing in international affairs. A rapidly developing democratic state with a strong economy, complex society, active party system, and powerful armed forces, Turkey is playing an increasingly critical role in Europe, the Middle East, and the Caucasus.

Given Turkey’s significance and the great interest in studying its history, politics, and foreign policy, Turkish Studies presents a forum for scholarly discussion on these topics and more. Turkish Studies features full-length articles, book reviews, and discussion roundtables covering:

  • The history of the Turkish republic, from the 1920s to the present, including political, social, and intellectual issues and developments.
  • Turkish politics, including parties, voting patterns, ideologies, biographies, the army and other institutions, as well as the political attitudes of different social groups within the country.
  • The composition and policy-making process of Turkish governments, including leading figures and movements.
  • Government policies and programs, including economic, religious, social, and all other issues.
  • Turkish international relations and foreign policy, including the policy-making process and Turkish relations with all countries, institutions, and movements.

Turkish Studies welcomes manuscript submissions. Please consult our style sheet before sending any materials. All feature articles should be between 5,000 and 7,500 words and submitted via the Turkish Studies ScholarOne Manuscripts site. Correspondence can be directed to Paul Kubicek at [email protected]. We welcome queries and proposals for articles. The journal also regularly publishes solicited book reviews. We are happy to receive books on Turkish studies from authors and publishers and we will gladly entertain suggestions about books to review. To suggest a book for review, please contact Yeru Chernilovksy [email protected].

Peer Review Statement

All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing.

Journal metrics

Usage

  • 93K annual downloads/views

Citation metrics

  • 1.2 (2023) Impact Factor
  • Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
  • 1.4 (2023) 5 year IF
  • 2.8 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
  • Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
  • 1.286 (2023) SNIP
  • 0.596 (2023) SJR

Speed/acceptance

  • 55 days avg. from submission to first decision
  • 67 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
  • 10 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
  • 21% acceptance rate

Editorial board

Editor: Paul Kubicek - Department of Political Science, Oakland University

Founding Editor: Barry Rubin

Editorial Board:

Finkret Adaman - Bogaziçi Unversity, Turkey

Meliha Altunisik - Middle East Technical University, Turkey

Ayse Ayata - Middle East Technical University, Turkey

Ilker Aytürk - Bilkent University, Turkey

Ali Çarkoglu - Koç University, Turkey

Dilek Cindoglu - Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey

M. Mustafa Erdogdu - Marmara University, Turkey

Yasushi Hazama - IDE - JETRO, Japan

Metin Heper - Bilkent University, Turkey

Ersin Kalaycoglu - Sabanci University, Turkey

Lenore Martin - Emmanuel College Boston and Harvard University, USA

Tarik Oguzlu - Istanbul Aydin University, Turkey

Kemal Silay - Indiana University, USA

Lerna Yanik - Kadir Has University, Turkey

Birol Yesilada - Portland State University, USA

Suhnaz Yilmaz - Koç University, Turkey

International Advisory Board:

Zeyno Baran - Hudson Institute, USA

Soner Çagaptay - Washington Institute for Near East Policy, USA

Resat Kasaba - University of Washington, USA

Kemal Kirisci - Brookings Institute, USA

Sule Kut - Okan University, Turkey

Paul Levin - University of Stockholm, Sweden

Alan Makovsky - Center for American Progress, USA

Ziya Önis - Koç University, Turkey

Sabri Sayari - Emeritus Professor - Sabanci University, Turkey

Ilter Turan - Bilgi University, Turkey

Jenny White - University of Stockholm, Sweden

Erik Zürcher - University of Leiden, Netherlands

Zan Tao - Peking University, China

Yausushi Hazama - Institute of Developing Economies (IDE), Japan

Editorial correspondence should be directed to: Paul Kubicek at [email protected]

Abstracting and indexing

Turkish Studies is currently included in the following indexes:

Historical Abstracts

International Political Science Abstracts

International Bibliography of Social Sciences

MLA International Bibliography

SCOPUS

Social Science Citation Index

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Open access

Turkish Studies is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.

Why choose open access?

  1. Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
  2. Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
  3. Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
  4. Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
  5. Rigorous peer review for every open access article

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Society information

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