Aim and Scope

The purpose of the scientific journal Studia Turkologica is to create a specialized research platform focused on the comprehensive study of the history of the Turkic peoples of Russia in particular and Eurasia in general. The publication aims to promote the development of historical Turkology, expand the source base of research, and deepen scientific understanding of the place of the Turkic peoples in the political, social, cultural, and spiritual history of Russia and the Eurasian space.

The objectives of the journal are to publish original scientific research on the history of the Turkic peoples from antiquity to the present; to study the processes of formation and development of Turkic state formations, social institutions, cultural traditions and religious practices; to analyze the interaction of the Turkic peoples with other peoples and civilizations of Eurasia.

One of the priorities of the journal is the introduction into scientific circulation of new written, archival, archaeological, epigraphic, numismatic, ethnographic and other sources on the history of the Turkic peoples of Russia and Eurasia. Special attention is paid to the source analysis, publication of translations of historical texts, scientific commentaries, as well as reinterpretation of already known sources taking into account modern research approaches.

The journal aims to develop historiographical research aimed at understanding the domestic and foreign scientific traditions of studying Turkic history. Great importance is attached to the analysis of scientific schools, research concepts, methodological approaches and controversial issues related to the history of the Turkic peoples of Russia, Central Asia, the Volga region, the Urals, Siberia, the Caucasus, Crimea and other regions of Eurasia.

Studia Turkologica focuses on publishing works that reveal the role of the Turkic peoples in the history of Russian statehood, Eurasian empires, trans-regional contacts, steppe societies, Islamic civilization, international trade, diplomacy, military affairs, migration processes and cultural exchange. Special attention is paid to topics that make it possible to consider the history of the Turkic peoples not in isolation, but in a system of broad political, economic and cultural ties in Eurasia.

The journal's objectives include supporting an interdisciplinary dialogue between historians, Turkologists, Orientalists, archaeologists, ethnologists, philologists, religious scholars, cultural scientists, and specialists in related humanities. The publication aims to bring together researchers working with various types of sources and methods of analysis, while maintaining the priority of a historical approach to the study of the Turkic world.

The journal publishes original articles, source materials, historiographical reviews, scientific reviews, conference reviews, materials of scientific discussions, reports on expeditions, as well as a chronicle of scientific life related to the study of the history of the Turkic peoples of Russia and Eurasia.

The editorial policy of the journal is aimed at supporting research characterized by scientific novelty, source validity, methodological rigor and academic correctness. Special importance is attached to works contributing to the deepening of knowledge about the past of the Turkic peoples, the preservation of historical and cultural heritage and the development of international scientific cooperation in the field of historical Turkology.

Section Policies

Publication Frequency

4 times per year

Open Access Policy

This is an open access journal. All articles are made freely available to readers immediatly upon publication.

Our open access policy is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition - it means that articles have free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.

For more information please read BOAI statement.

Archiving

• Russian State Library (RSL)
• National Electronic-Information Consortium (NEICON)

Peer-Review

Initial screening

All submitted manuscripts are first assessed by our Executive Secretary and Handling Editor to ensure that they align with the journal’s aims and scope and meet all submission and formatting standards. Manuscripts that fail to meet basic editorial requirements may be rejected without external review or returned for revision and resubmission.

External review

Manuscripts that have successfully passed the initial editorial check are sent for double-blind peer review. Reviewers are selected based on their reputation and expertise in the area covered by the submitted manuscript. Manuscript contributors (authors and co-authors), along with their institutional peers, students, and academic supervisors, do not ethically qualify as reviewers.

The review period typically takes from 1 to 3 months, but, if deemed necessary to the review process, the journal’s editorial board reserves the right to extend it.

Re-review and additional review

The journal’s editorial board may send individual manuscripts for re-review or additional review (by the same or new reviewers).

Review form

The reviewer’s report should comply with the review form developed by the journal.

Review criteria

Reviewers should evaluate manuscripts based on the following criteria:

• relevance to the journal’s aims and scope;
• coverage of the most important advances in the research question addressed in the manuscript;
• adequacy and quality of the sources analyzed and cited;
• organization of the manuscript (logical connections between its different parts, consistency of the presentation, absence of contradictions, etc.);
• quality of the analysis that has been carried out;
• validity, reliability, and robustness of the results obtained and their interpretation by the authors;
• originality of the manuscript and its contribution to the field;
• compliance with the journal’s formatting, referencing, and writing requirements;
• quality of the Abstract.

Reviewer’s recommendation

Reviewers make a recommendation, from among several possibilities:

• accept the manuscript without revision;
• invite the authors to revise their manuscript and resubmit it for further review before a final decision is reached;
• reject the manuscript.

Storage and provision of reviewers’ reports

All reviewers’ reports are stored at the journal’s editorial office for 5 years. Upon an official request in cases established by law, their copies may be provided to the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation.

Final decision

The final decision on whether to accept, revise, or reject the manuscript is made by the Editor-in-Chief and the journal’s editorial board, considering the reviewers’ recommendation and feedback, and is then clearly communicated to the authors (along with the reviewer’s comments) in a formal letter by the Executive Secretary or Handling Editor. A positive recommendation from the reviewer does not guarantee publication in the journal. Manuscripts recommended for rejection by the reviewers are not considered for publication.

Publishing Ethics

In line with the Code of Publishing Ethics developed by the Committee on the Ethics of Scientific Publications (Russia, Moscow), the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and the Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers elaborated by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Studia Turkologica subscribes to the ethical guidelines, compliance with which is mandatory for all sides involved in the process of publishing (editors, authors, reviewers, and publisher).

The journal is responsible for prevention of publication malpractice. All articles that fail to meet the journal’s standards, i.e., if some kind of malpractice or unethical behavior are discovered at any stage (even after the publication), will be immediately withdrawn from the publication process.

Editors

The journal’s editors must:

• carefully consider all materials submitted by authors (based on relevance, integrity, and fitting into the journal scope);
• treat all authors respectfully, regardless of their sex, racial affiliation, and other subjective qualities;
• observe intellectual property rights of all authors and any third parties involved in the publication process;
• screen all submissions for plagiarism and falsified content and report serious violations or other misconduct. In no way shall editors encourage misconduct or knowingly allow it to take place;
• invite only highly professional specialists as reviewers and ensure confidentiality and anonymity of the peer review process.

Authors

Authorship (and co-authorship) is limited to individuals who have contributed substantially to the process of research or interpretation of its results. Authors submitting manuscripts to our journal must:

• ensure that their work is based on accurate and reliable data and that results are presented and interpreted objectively, without fabrication or falsification;
• avoid submitting the same manuscript, in whole or in part, to another journal when it is under consideration. Multiple and redundant submissions are not allowed;
• disclose all funding sources and other support in the Acknowledgments section;
• obtain written permission before using data from private communication or correspondence;
• get written permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(s) within their article when data from other published sources are used;
• notify the journal about any errors or inaccuracies in their manuscripts, whether submitted, accepted, or published, so that appropriate actions, correction or retraction, can be taken.

Please note that the final decision on the manuscript rests with the Editor-in-Chief and our editorial board.

Authors retain their copyright without restrictions but grant the journal the right to publish and distribute their published article (in print and electronic formats), subject to Creative Commons License (CC BY), and agree to indexing in citation databases and free access to the full version on eLIBRARY.RU, Cyberleninka Library, and the journal’s website.

Reviewers

Reviewers must:

• support the rigor of the peer review process and adhere to the COPE’s Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers
• treat all manuscripts, either during or after the peer-review process, as confidential documents (they cannot keep, share, or use data from the reviewed manuscripts without permission);
• refuse to review when they are not qualified to do so or if any conflicts of interest exist;
• notify the journal’s team if they need more time to prepare a review report or if they have any questions or concerns, including plagiarism, AI use, or any other forms of malpractice;
• objectively assess the manuscript with the standards of our journal in mind and support their comments by sound scientific reasoning;
• recommend a particular course of action (accept, revise, or reject the manuscript) and provide a fair and constructive feedback that would help the authors to strengthen their work and could be used by the journal to decide whether to publish the submitted manuscript or not.

Please consider that reviewing for Studia Turkologica is by default anonymous.

Founder

• Safin Lenar Rinatovich

Author fees

Publication in “Studia Turkologica" is free of charge for all the authors.

The journal doesn't have any Article processing charges.

The journal doesn't have any Article submission charges.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in a reviewer’s own research without the express written consent of the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage.

Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Plagiarism detection

“Studia Turkologica" use native russian-language plagiarism detection software Antiplagiat to screen the submissions. If plagiarism is identified, the COPE guidelines on plagiarism will be followed.

Preprint and postprint Policy

The editorial board of the “Studia Turkologica" allows authors to post the manuscript as a preprint before submission for review and to archive independently their articles in disciplinary and institutional repositories.

Preprints

The editorial board of the “Studia Turkologica" encourages uploading preprints on preprint servers. The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) defines a preprint as 'a scholarly manuscript posted by the author(s) in an openly accessible platform, usually before or in parallel with the peer review process.' 

A preprint publication shall not be considered duplicate publication nor shall it influence the editor's decision to publish it in the “Studia Turkologica".

The author must notify the editorial board of the “Studia Turkologica" about the posted preprint at submission of the manuscript for review, furnishing a link to the preprint with its DOI identifier and the dissemination terms and conditions.

It is the author’s responsibility to add a link to the published manuscript in the preprint record. The link must contain the DOI and the URL of the article published on the journal's website. The original preprint should not be modified based on the reviewer’s and editor’s comments. The preprint should not be replaced with the text of the published article.

Do not delete the preprint text.

Manuscripts Accepted for Publication

The editorial board of the “Studia Turkologica" allows manuscripts that have been reviewed and are accepted for publication to be archived independently.

 This version of the manuscript may be disseminated through:

-   personal website or blog;

-   institutional repository;

-   disciplinary repository;

-   direct interactions with faculty or students by providing this version of the manuscript for personal use.

The text of the manuscript should contain the author’s clarifications about its status and information about the planned publication.

Example: The ARTICLE TITLE has been reviewed, accepted for publication, and will be published in 2021 (3) of the “Studia Turkologica".

Once the final version of the manuscript is published, it is the author’s responsibility to add a link to the published article to the publication record. The posted text should not be modified based on the reviewer’s and editor’s comments. Do not replace the text of the posted manuscript. Do not delete the text of the posted manuscript.

Final Versions of Manuscripts

The editorial board of the “Studia Turkologica" allows manuscripts that have been peer-reviewed, accepted for publication, edited and ready for publication (proofread and typeset) to be archived independently.

 This version of the manuscript may be disseminated through:

-   personal website or blog;

-   institutional repository;

-   disciplinary repository;

-   direct interactions with faculty or students by providing this version of the manuscript for personal use.

 Once the final version of the manuscript is published, it is the author’s responsibility to add a link to the published article to the publication record. The posted text should not be modified based on the reviewer’s and editor’s comments. Do not replace the text of the posted manuscript. Do not delete the text of the posted manuscript.

Revenue Sources

The publication of the journal is financed by the funds of the parent organization, at the expense of the publisher, publication of advertising materials, publication of reprints.