Foreword
Dear Readers,
We are pleased to present the 110th issue of bilig. This issue includes seven research articles and one book review. We believe that these studies, which deal with various topics related to the Turkic world, from the First World War to the 2020 Karabakh War, from Eurasian geopolitics to the Regional Security Complex and the public diplomacy of the Organization of Turkic States, from the cultural and social structure of the Rourans (Juan-Juans) to the use of “payza” in the Mongols, will attract your attention and contribute to the field.
Our Editorial Board continues its meticulous work in order to be more visible in Web of Science (WoS) and to increase our impact factor, while regularly conducting article evaluation processes in order to investigate qualified studies that focus on the Turkic world. In the previous issue, we drew attention to the importance of cooperation among Turkish journals in WoS. The sharing of experience between editors, which is a result of the workshop we organized, enabled us to identify missing citations in WoS, to complete the information by reporting these deficiencies to WoS and to increase the citation rate of our journal. Accordingly, our total number of citations, which appeared as 646, became 928 and our citation rate, which was 0.83, increased to 1.19. The most important reason for these lost citations is that Turkish titles cannot be matched with English titles in the WoS system. Even if the articles are published in Turkish, since they are added to the WoS system with English titles, the Turkish titles in the citations cannot be included in the system. For this reason, journals should monitor their own citations until WoS finds a definitive solution to this issue. In addition, it is important for authors to keep their profiles active on academic platforms such as WoS and Dergipark and to update their ORCID pages in terms of visibility and contribution of their work.
Journal Impact Factor Trend 2023 (jcr.clarivate.com)
In June, the 2023 Journal Citation Report for Web of Science Journals was published by Clarivate. According to this report, our impact factor, which had declined in the previous year, rose to 0.2 again. As a new practice this year, a new journal ranking was made by bringing together journals on the same subject, even if they are included in different indexes. bilig, which was previously among 84 journals in the Field Research-SSCI category, is now one of the 176 journals in the Field Research category. Among these journals, it ranks 138th. The Q4 category has not changed since it is in the 21.9 percentile in the ranking. With your support as authors and reviewers, we aim to increase the percentile above 25 and move to the Q3 category.
We hope that our 2024 Summer issue will be beneficial to the scientific community and inspire original studies that contribute to science.
Prof. Dr. Fırat PURTAŞ
Editor in Chief
Issue Details
- Issue
- 110
- Published
- Articles
- 8
- Period
- Summer 2024
Contents
8 itemsResearch Article
- pp. 1–20
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Representation of Turkish Identity and Norms in the Media: 2020 Karabakh War doi.org/10.12995/bilig.11002pp. 21–50
- pp. 51–78
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Rethinking Eurasian Geopolitics: Assessing Türkiye’s Influence and the Organization of Turkic States’ Impact doi.org/10.12995/bilig.11004pp. 79–106
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Crafting a Brand from Tradition: An Innovative Public Diplomacy Strategy for the Organization of Turkic States doi.org/10.12995/bilig.11005pp. 107–134
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Post-Soviet Regional Security Complex Revisited: Is Central Asia Still A Subcomplex? doi.org/10.12995/bilig.11006pp. 135–156
- pp. 157–178
Book Review
