Artvin Çoruh University International Journal of Social Sciences (ACUSBD) is a scientific peer-reviewed journal published at least twice a year, in July and December every year since 2015. The journal includes applied or theoretical studies, model proposals, analysis and evaluations, and quantitative and qualitative research in the social sciences in Turkish and English.

The primary purpose of Artvin Çoruh University International Journal of Social Sciences is to create a scientific platform where scientists working in social sciences share their knowledge, experience, evaluations, opinions, and suggestions and contribute to social sciences studies at the national and international levels.

Articles submitted to Artvin Çoruh University International Journal of Social Sciences are reviewed by a double-blind review method and published electronically with free access. For an article to be published in the journal, two referees must have a favorable opinion. If one referee gives a positive opinion and the other gives a negative one, the editor consults a third referee. If the third referee also gives an unfavorable opinion or the first two referees give a negative opinion, the manuscript is not published and returned to the author.

Publication Principles

• International Journal of Social Sciences is a refereed journal published at least twice a year. The works to be published in the journal must not have been published anywhere before.
  
• The language for writing articles in the journal is Turkish and English.
• The publication right of the published work belongs to the journal.
• We do not pay authors whose articles we publish royalties. The intellectual property rights, including copyright, of the author(s) or the employer of the author(s) are reserved.
  
• The opinions expressed in the articles published in the journal are binding on the authors, and the legal responsibility of the articles belongs to the authors.
  
• We rejected manuscripts that did not comply with the writing principles without requiring referee evaluation.
  
• For an article to be published in the journal, two referees must have a positive opinion. If one referee gives a favorable opinion and the other gives a negative one, the editor consults a third referee.