As of March 17, 2025, changes have been made to the "Article Publication Principles and Writing Guidelines." We kindly inform authors who will be submitting their articles from this date onward that they are required to prepare their manuscripts in accordance with the updated guidelines available on our website.
The Journal of the Institute of Social Sciences at Dokuz Eylül University is a peer-reviewed and scholarly journal published electronically four times a year.
Since Volume 21 in 2019, the journal has been published in March (Issue 1), June (Issue 2), September (Issue 3), and December (Issue 4).
First published in 1999, the journal aims to publish original theoretical and/or applied articles that contribute to the field of social sciences within the framework of academic ethics.
As an "open access" journal, its content is freely available to all users.
The publication language of the journal is Turkish. However, articles in English are also accepted.
The Journal of the Institute of Social Sciences at Dokuz Eylül University is indexed in **TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM TR DİZİN**, **TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM (National Academic Network and Information Center) Social Sciences and Humanities Database**, **DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)**, **EBSCOhost-Online Research Databases**, **SOBIAD Citation Index**, and **Araştırmax Scientific Publication Index**.
The journal joined the **DergiPark** project, an initiative by TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM that brings together academic journals, in 2014. Since Volume 16, Issue 3, articles have been published with DOI numbers and the journal has switched to electronic submission and evaluation.
Content of this Journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.