About the Journal

Turkish Journal of Sense of Place and Urban Studies is a scholarly open-access Journal that promotes research utilizing the sense of place as a theoretical framework and focusing on urban studies. TJSOP is an interdisciplinary journal covering geography, sociology, political science, public administration, urban planning, architecture, law, and psychology. The Journal's scope also includes topics from these fields related to space or place, environment, and urban or rural settlements.

The Journal is indexed by Index Copernicus ICI World of Journals, İdealonline, and Academindex. The Journal's publication period is bi-annual, June and December. TJSOP also allows early view prints of publications in 15 days once they are accepted and assigned to a forthcoming issue. All published works are assigned a DOI number through the contribution of Zenodo, an open research initiative funded by CERN, OpenAIRE, and the European Commission.

The Journal welcomes submissions from all over the world and prioritizes submissions from early-career researchers and developing countries. The Journal accepts Turkish and English manuscripts and theoretical and empirical studies while encouraging researchers to submit their empirical research. Occasionally, the Journal publishes high-quality book reviews and interviews with distinguished researchers. All submissions to the Journal are subject to plagiarism checks via software and a double-blind peer-review process. 

The Journal does not charge authors any fees for submissions, article processing (e.g., APC), reviewing, etc. Concomitantly, the Journal does not make any payments or royalties to authors or reviewers. By early-career researchers, to worldwide knowledge!

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The Journal's initials are TJSOP, and the abbreviated Journal title is Tur. J. Sop. Urb. St. TJSOP is being published by the ADAMOR Society Research Center and its partner organization, the Institute of Urban Studies. The Journal's ISSN Number is 2980-3721.