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Turkish Studies

Journal info (provided by editor)

Issues per year
4
Articles published last year
35
Manuscripts received last year
160
% accepted last year
28%
% immediately rejected last year
15%
Open access status
optional
Manuscript handling fee?
no
Kind of complaint procedure
Editor
Two-year impact factor
0.62

About

Turkish Studies is an inter-disciplinary journal that focuses primarily on modern Turkey and Turkey's relationships with other countries and regions. We welcome manuscripts in numerous fields, including political science, international relations, Ottoman and Republican history, sociology, economics, and literature. All articles are peer-reviewed. Turkish Studies is a Social Science Citation Index journal.

SciRev ratings (provided by authors) (based on 1 review)

Duration of manuscript handling phases
Duration first review round 0.7 mnths compare →
Total handling time accepted manuscripts 1.7 mnths compare →
Decision time immediate rejection n/a compare →
Characteristics of peer review process
Average number of review reports 2.0 compare →
Average number of review rounds 2.0 compare →
Quality of review reports 5.0 compare →
Difficulty of reviewer comments 5.0 compare →
Overall rating manuscript handling 5.0 (range 0-5) compare →

Latest review

First review round: 3.0 weeks. Overall rating: 5 (excellent). Outcome: Accepted.

Motivation:
The review process was very quick, much quicker than we had expected. The reviewers had a broad perspective on the issue and their comments allowed us to elaborate the paper.