Journal profile · Arts and Humanities-History
Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association
ISSN 2376-0699 · eISSN 2376-0702 · Indiana University Press
Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association: subscription journal; 21 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association is published by Indiana University Press. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Historical Turkish Studies, Ottoman Empire History and Society and Turkish Literature and Culture, together about 69% of its articles. Its main subfields are Political Science and International Relations. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The Journal of Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association is published semiannually by the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association. Founded in 1976 and published as the Turkish Studies Association Bulletin, each issue contains the latest scholarship on the Ottoman Empire and Republic of Turkey, and includes state of the field essays, book reviews and review articles that examine the wide ranging studies that cross disciplinary, national, ethnic, imperial, periodized, religious, geographic, and linguistic boundaries and take as their focus the diversity of peoples, influences, approaches, times, and regions that make up the Turkish and former Ottoman worlds.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Arts and Humanities-History
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Historical Turkish StudiesSocial Sciences32.8%
- Ottoman Empire History and SocietySocial Sciences23.3%
- Turkish Literature and CultureArts and Humanities12.9%
- Turkey's Politics and SocietySocial Sciences5.3%
- Islamic Studies and HistorySocial Sciences5.2%
- Balkans: History, Politics, SocietySocial Sciences2.1%
- Cultural and Sociopolitical StudiesArts and Humanities2%
- Islamic Thought and Society StudiesArts and Humanities1.9%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
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CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
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CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
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CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | Q2 | 770/1936 | — |
| Religious Studies | Q2 | 329/760 | — |
| Cultural Studies | Q3 | 751/1434 | — |
| Anthropology | Q3 | 365/536 | — |
| Law | Q3 | 856/1162 | — |
Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub
Database indexing
ScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 0.5LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.12LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.69LetPub ·
- h-index
- 11OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 18OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.13OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 582 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | 0 | 65 |
| 2025 | 21 | 0 | 110 |
| 2024 | 41 | 0 | 101 |
| 2023 | 41 | 1 | 107 |
| 2022 | 125 | 4 | 86 |
| 2021 | 49 | 3 | 85 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Article types accepted1
- articlesArticlesLength not stated
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- ISSN
- 2376-0699
- Electronic ISSN
- 2376-0702
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 12, Issue 1 (2025)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association
Which databases index Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association is indexed in Scopus.
Is Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association is a subscription journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .