Turkish Studies

Turkish Studies is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 3 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Turkey's Politics and Society, Turkish Literature and Culture and Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies, together about 46.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Political Science and International Relations. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Turkey is a country whose importance is rapidly growing in international affairs. 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 on a host of topics including: The history of the late Ottoman Empire and the Turkish republic, from the late 1800s to the present, including political, social, and cultural issues and developments. Turkish politics, including parties, voting patterns, ideologies, the army and other institutions, as well as the political attitudes of different social groups within the country. Government policies and programs, including economic, religious, social, and cultural policies. Turkish international relations and foreign policy. Issues of contemporary concern, including gender, youth, public health, education, and media studies. Turkish Studies welcomes queries and proposals for articles, which be between 5,000 and 9,000 words. Correspondence can be directed to Paul Kubicek at turkishstudiesjournal@gmail.com. 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. Authors interested in writing a Book Review for the journal should first contact the editor at turkishstudiesjournal@gmail.com to obtain approval. Please consult our style sheet on the Instructions for Authors page before submitting an article or agreed book review. All submissions must be made via the Submission Portal. Peer Review Statement All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and double anonymized refereeing. Book reviews are assessed by the Editor but are not externally peer reviewed.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): AREA STUDIES

Editor-in-chief Paul KubicekPublisher website

Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 4%); most named Türkiye 17, United States 4, United Kingdom 2, Mainland China 1, Japan 1 (28 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• JCR Q1 · best quartile · 2025
• CiteScore Q1 · 2025

Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website

Database indexing

SSCIScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

SCIEPublisher website

Other: Historical Abstracts, International Political Science Abstracts, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, MLA International Bibliography, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.

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.

Impact

Impact factor

1.97LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

2Publisher website · 2026-10-01

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

2.1Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

2.9LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

2.9Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

0.81LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.81Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SNIP 2026-06

1.83LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

1.83Publisher website · 2026-10-01

h-index

55OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

440OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.16OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

5%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

12.78%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

55LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

110,000Publisher website · 2026-10-01

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.

Other sources

Acceptance rate (publisher)

15%Publisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to first decision

12 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

First decision after review

70 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Acceptance to publication

64 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

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.

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

1468-3849

Electronic ISSN

1743-9663

Latest issue on the website

Volume 27, Issue 4 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website