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
Understanding and using journal metrics
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We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
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Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
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, USAKemal 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
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- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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News and offers
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Society information
Members of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) can receive an individual print subscription to Turkish Studies at a special society member rate. Please see the pricing or subscribe page for further details.
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