tarihyazımı (Historiography) is an international, academic, peer-reviewed, non-profit, free-access, and open-access journal that aims to develop historiography by publishing research, examination, critique, and translation articles. The target audience of tarihyazımı comprises academicians, researchers, graduate students, and enthusiasts.
tarihyazımı does not dedicate itself to a single perspective, discipline, methodology, or paradigm. It aims to develop rich examples of historical writing at national and international levels. tarihyazımı invites researchers and authors from different disciplines—particularly the social sciences—that enhance the historiography of many disciplines, to contribute to the journal.
tarihyazımı publishes articles related to the following fields. The scope of the journal is as follows:
1. Examinations/academic essays covering the principles and problems regarding the research and writing processes introduced by modern historiography,
2. Studies evaluating the history of the discipline (historiography) of each scientific field from the past to the present,
3. Discussions and problems in the fields of history, historical methodology, and historiography; analyses including the works of prominent historians,
4. International, national, or significant local studies on the subject of historical writing,
5. Studies focused on research methodologies that the discipline of history carries out together with other disciplines,
6. Compilation or original theoretical works written on the philosophy of history, sociology of history, psychology of history, etc.,
7. "Exemplary" original or translated writings that will ensure the enrichment of the history discipline in the world and bring new perspectives,
8. Original studies that constitute an innovation in terms of historical methodology by successfully adapting historical theory or a new method to historical material,
9. Critical studies (reviews) on books, articles, papers, reports, or expressed approaches published in accordance with this entire concept,
10. Important international articles translated into Turkish for re-publication, aiming to inform Turkish historians about historical studies in different countries, are included within the scope of publication.
Publication Language
The publication language of the journal tarihyazımı is Turkish and English. The primary language of the journal is Turkish, and the secondary language is English. In Turkish articles, an Extended Summary in English is mandatorily included for international visibility.
In Research, Examination, Critique, and Interview works; author information (names of author/s, institutional information of author/s, ORCID numbers, and e-mail addresses) and article sections (article title, abstract, keywords, full text, and bibliography) are included completely in all sections.
In translation works, the primary language is Turkish.
Ethical Committee Approval
With the decision of ULAKBİM on February 25th, 2020, there is a condition that "All the disciplines of science (including social sciences), there should be an Ethical Committee Approval for research involving human and animal (clinical and experimental) separately and this approval must be mentioned in the article and it should be documented". The research conducted by quantitative or qualitative approaches which require data collection such as questionnaire, interview, observation, focus group study, the experiment is regarded under the aforementioned content.