TalTech Journal of European Studies

TalTech Journal of European Studies is published by Walter de Gruyter and is in Zone 4 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are European Union Policy and Governance, European and International Law Studies and Regional Development and Policy, together about 26.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Political Science and International Relations. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

TalTech Journal of European Studies (abbreviation TJES) is a semiannual international peer-reviewed research journal (formerly known as the Baltic Journal of European Studies and Proceedings of the Institue for European Studies) with an international editorial office and extensive international editorial board. The journal is abstracted in SCOPUS, Web of Science (Emerging Sources Citation Index) and other relevant databases. Since 2020, the scope of the journal is related to digitalisation and technology implementation and their impact in the social, legal, political, economic and cultural domains in the European Union and its Member States.We kindly encourage members of the academic community to contribute to our journal. Papers submitted to the forthcoming issues will be reviewed by eminent scholars in the particular field under strict supervision of the international editorial board.Special issuesBJES 2013 Vol. 3 Issue 3 was guest co-edited by Natalia Chaban and Martin Holland (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)BJES 2014 Vol. 4 Issue 2 was prepared in cooperation with Latvian European Community Studies Association (LECSA)BJES 2017 Vol. 7 Issue 2 has been supported by the European Commission’s Jean Monnet Module “Digital Single Market as a New Core of European Union Studies”, project reference number 587255-EPP-1-2017-1-EE-EPPJMO-MODULE.BJES 2018 Vol. 8 Issues 1 and 2 have been supported by the project ‘Digital Single Market as a Key Element in EU-oriented Georgian Higher Education’ (no. 155-2016-A), funded by the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the framework of Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid.TJES 2023 Vol. 13 Issue 1 was guest edited by Viktorija Skvarciany (Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania).TJES 2025 Vol. 15 Issue 1 was guest edited by Soili Nystén-Haarala (University of Lapland, Finland) and Maria Claudia Solarte-Vásquez (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia)TJES 2025 Vol. 15 Issue 2 was guest edited by Tran Viet Dung (Ho Chi Minh City University of Law, Vietnam)Why submitTJES is an effective channel of academic dissemination as it is widely read and distributed through Baltic and European research networks and libraries and read by policy makers as well.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): POLITICAL SCIENCE

Editor-in-chief Archil ChochiaPublisher website

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United Kingdom 1, Türkiye 1, Singapore 1 (3 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor (publisher)

7Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

2.1LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

21Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

0.33LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.9LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

18OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

57OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.05OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

14.3%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

100%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

39LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Average review time (community reports)

about 12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 12 weeksDOAJ · 2026-10-25

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ

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• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ

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Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

Country or region

Poland

Language

English

ISSN

2674-4600

Electronic ISSN

2674-4619

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
• Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
• Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ
• Peer review process ↗DOAJ
• Editorial board ↗DOAJ
• Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ