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Aim & Scope
TJAA aims to publish astronomy and astrophysics studies. TJAA will also be a common ground for proceedings (workshops, schools, meeting etc.) of these subjects especially proceedings of National Astronomy Conferences known as UAK. These type of articles could be published in TJAA as a special issue. To apply for publishing a special issue please follow TJAA Special Issue Guidelines (in Turkish).
It publishes original peer-reviewed national and international full-length original scientific research articles semi-annually in June and December for the fields of astronomy, astrophysics and space sciences, preferably written in English or Turkish. Articles are expected to be new, or to propose new methods, or to bring a new dimension to existing knowledge.
The following article types are accepted in TJAA: Editorial, Research Article, Review Article, Research Note, Dissertation, Conference Paper, Meeting Abstract and Correction.
Technical notes, letters to the editors, case studies and surveys are not published in the journal.
Author Guidelines
Articles submitted to the journal for publication must be prepared with journal's own LaTeX template. The package contains all necessary information as well as a sample article which can be filled by copy-pasting from your own work text:
- Please download the template from the following link: TJAA-v3.0
- It is possible to use Overleaf for writing TJAA manuscripts. TJAA template is available in the section of Academic Journals of the Overleaf.
Manuscripts can be written in English (preferred) or Turkish. However, in either case authors should provide meta-data (title, abstract) in both languages and key words in English.
- The abstract should contain at least 100 words.
- Turkish manuscripts should contain an English abstract.
- A minimum of 3 keywords should be provided with the manuscript.
- Keywords must be selected from this list which is common to the major astronomical and astrophysical journals.
Three forms have to be submitted along the full text manuscript: Copyright Transfer Form, Conflict of Interest Form, Author Contribution Form.
The following article types can be submitted to TJAA:
| Type | Description |
| Editorial | This type is special to TJAA Boards which is used for publishing news and announcements about the journal. |
| Research Article | Use this type for detailed studies reporting original research. They include hypothesis, background study, methods, results, interpretation of findings, and a discussion of possible implications. |
| Review Article | Review articles provide critical and constructive analysis of existing published literature in a field. They’re usually structured to provide a summary of existing literature, analysis, and comparison. Often, they identify specific gaps or problems and provide recommendations for future research. |
| Research Note | Use this type for sharing works in progress, comments and clarifications, null results, and timely reports of observations (such as the spectrum of a supernova), as well as results that wouldn’t traditionally merit a full paper (such as contributions to the monitoring of variable sources, eclipse and transit timing etc.). |
| Dissertation | Summary of completed graduate studies (M.Sc. and Ph.D.). |
| Conference Paper | Use this type for works which are presented in a national or international conference, symposia, workshop etc. |
| Meeting Abstract | Abstract of a Conference Paper. |
| Correction | A Correction notice will be issued when it is necessary to correct an error or omission which can impact the interpretation of the article. Examples include mislabeling of a figure, missing key information on funding or competing interests of the authors. |
Ethical Principles and Publication Policy
Publication Policy
1. Science with the journal
The Turkish Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics (TJAA) is a scientific research journal founded in August 1st, 2019. It publishes original peer-reviewed national and international research semi-annually in June and December for the fields of astronomy, astrophysics and space sciences, preferably written in English or Turkish. Articles are expected to be new, or to propose a new method, or to bring a new dimension to existing knowledge.
The following article types are accepted in TJAA:
- Editorial,
- Research Article,
- Review Article,
- Research Note,
- Dissertation,
- Conference Paper,
- Meeting Abstract,
- Correction.
2. Publication Frequency
TJAA is published biannually. Issues will be published on every June 30th and December 31th.
3. Submission, Editors and Reviewing
Manuscripts submitted for publication should not be published anywhere or sent to any other journals for publication. They are evaluated by national and/or international reviewers. Reviewers are not notified to the authors (blind peer review). The editorial board considers the peer reviewers’ reports and make the final decision to accept or reject the manuscript for publication.
Manuscripts submitted for publication should be prepared using the announced LaTeX template. The abstract should contain at least 100 words. If the author prefers to publish in Turkish, then an English abstract is required. A minimum of 3 keywords should be provided with the manuscript. Keywords must be selected from the list which is common to the major astronomical and astrophysical journals.
All responsibility for the articles belongs to the respective authors. Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with internationally accepted scientific ethics rules. Each submission will be subjected to a similarity check via well-known online tools. Submissions that have more than 15% similarity report will not be taken to the reviewing process.
There is no evaluation and application fee for the articles published in TJAA.
4. Evaluation Period
Manuscripts will be evaluated within 21 days after the submission. Editorial board may extend this period for an extra 7 days or withdraw reviewer's appointment, and assigns a new one.
Copyright Form signed by corresponding author has to be uploaded to the DergiPark System along with the manuscript.
Reviewer will mark the manuscript with one of four decisions: accept, accept with minor corrections, accept with major corrections, reject. Manuscripts that needs revision have to be resubmitted by applying reviewer's recommendations. Manuscripts with minor (major) corrections have to be resubmitted within 3 (6) weeks after reviewer's decision, respectively. Manuscripts that do not reach the desired level will be considered scientifically insufficient and they will be rejected.
When the manuscript is accepted for publication corresponding author should return page editing within 30 days and afterwards proofreading should be finished subsequent 10 days. If manuscripts are not returned within these periods they will be automatically rejected.
5. Preprint Policy
Authors have the right to make their submissions (the preprint versions) available through preprint services such as arXiv.org.
Ethical Responsibilities
1. For Authors
The authors who submit their manuscripts to Turkish Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics are expected to comply with the following ethical responsibilities:
- Author(s) must submit original studies to the journal. If they utilize or use other studies, they must make the in-text and end-text references accurately and completely.
- People who have not contributed to the study at the intellectual level should not be indicated as author.
- If the manuscripts submitted to be published are subject of conflicting interests or relations, these must be explained.
- During the review process of their manuscripts, author(s) may be asked to supply raw data. In such a case, author(s) should be ready to submit such data and information to the editorial and scientific boards.
- Author(s) should document that they have the participants' consent and the necessary permissions related with the sharing and research/analysis of the data that are used.
- Author(s) bears the responsibility to inform the editor of the journal or publisher if they happen to notice a mistake in their study which is in early release or publication process and to cooperate with the editors during the correction or withdrawal process.
- Authors cannot submit their studies to multiple journals simultaneously. Each submission can be made only after the previous one is completed. A study published in another journal cannot be submitted to Turkish Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Author responsibilities given in a study (e.g. adding an author, reordering of author names) whose review process has begun cannot be changed.
2. For Reviewers
The fact that all manuscripts are reviewed through Blind Review has a direct influence on the publication quality. This process ensures confidentiality by objective and independent review. The review process at Turkish Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics is carried out on the principle of double blind review. Reviewers do not contact the authors directly, and the reviews and comments are conveyed through the journal management system. In this process, the reviewer views on the evaluation forms and full texts are assigned to the author(s) by the editor. Therefore, the reviewers doing review work for Turkish Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics are supposed to bear the following ethical responsibilities.
Reviewers must;
- Agree to review only in their subject of expertise.
- Review in an unbiased and confidential manner.
- Inform the editor of the journal if they think that they encounter conflict of interests and decline to review the manuscript during the review process.
- Dispose the manuscripts they have reviewed in accordance with the principle of confidentiality after the review process. Reviewers can use the final versions of the manuscripts they have reviewed only after publication.
- Review the manuscript objectively and only in terms of its content and ensure that nationality, gender, religious and political beliefs, and economic apprehension do not influence the review.
- Review the manuscript in a constructive and kind tone, avoid making personal comments including hostility, slander and insult.
- Review the manuscript they have agreed to review on time and in accordance with the ethical rules stated above.
3. For Editors
The editor and field editors of Turkish Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics should hold the following ethical responsibilities that are based on the guides COPE Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and COPE Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors published as open Access by Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Editors are responsible for each study published in Turkish Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics. In this respect, the editors have the following roles and responsibilities:
- Making efforts to meet the demand for knowledge from readers and authors,
- Ensuring the continuous development of the journal,
- Managing the procedures aimed to improve the quality of the studies published in the journal,
- Supporting freedom of expression,
- Ensuring academic integrity,
- Following the procedures without making concessions on intellectual property rights and ethical standards,
- Being transparent and clear in issues that require correction or explanation.
4. For the Publisher
The Editors and the Editorial Board of Turkish Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics are conscious of the fact that they must observe the ethical responsibilities below and act accordingly:
- Editors are responsible for all the processes that the manuscripts submitted to TJAA will go through. Within this framework, ignoring the economic or political interests, the decision-makers are the editors.
- The publisher protects the intellectual property rights of all the articles published in TJAA and holds the responsibility to keep a record of each unpublished article.
- The publisher bears all the responsibility to take the precautions against scientific abuse, fraud and plagiarism.
Price Policy
Publication in TJAA is free from any charge.
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Total number of entries in ADS (30-October-2024): 354; Citations 2827; H-index: 29
Total number of articles: 164; Citations 2788; H-index: 29
Peer-reviewed articles: 99 (4 Nature,1 Nature Astronomy); Citations 2827; H-index: 29
Peer-reviewed articles in Q1: 94; Citations 2797; H-index: 29
TFM supervised: 1 / Final year projects supervised: 1 / Thesis supervised: 2
Other indicators:
-6 Book chapters
-214 Contributions in international conferences, including 12 invited & 40 contributed talks
-Participation in 28 R&D&I projects funded in competitive calls by public bodies
I received my Ph.D. from IAA-CSIC/Granada University in 2009. During my Ph.D. I studied the physical properties of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), which are considered to be leftovers from the formation of the Solar System. These bodies are time capsules that have preserved information about the early Solar System and its evolution. After my Ph.D., I worked for two and a half years at the Paris Observatory (France) with a CNRS postdoctoral fellow in the framework of the Herschel Space Observatory's key program 'TNOs are Cool'. Within this program, I measured the thermal emission of 140 TNOs/Centaurs to obtain their physical/thermal properties: this project was a milestone in terms of the number of TNOs with thermal measurements. I was in charge of the Herschel/PACS photometry and thermal modeling. I have published 20 papers related to this project. In mid-2012 I returned to IAA-CSIC (Spain) with a postdoctoral contract to work on similar topics. In April 2016, I got a postdoctoral contract at IAA-CSIC within the EU H2020 project 'Small Bodies Near and Far' (SBNAF, Grant No. 687378). The main goal of this project was to address critical issues in reconstructing the physical and thermal properties of TNOs and asteroids by combining different techniques, including stellar occultations and thermal modeling. I participated in about 25 publications related to this project. From 2019 to January 2022, I was hired under my AYA2018-JIN project. The main goal of this project was to apply thermal models and stellar occultations to improve the physical knowledge of a sample of NEOs, MBAs, TNOs, and Centaurs. I have contributed to 26 publications directly related to this project. Since February 2022 I am a permanent researcher at IAA-CSIC. My main research interest is the characterization of the physical properties of TNOs/Centaurs using data from optical to thermal (from the ground and space-based facilities). To achieve this goal, I use various techniques such as thermal modeling, stellar occultations, photometry, etc. I am also interested in the physical properties of comets, NEOs, MBAs, and meteors/meteoroids. Since 2015, I am a member of the Lucky Star collaboration, which leads the study of TNOs and Centaurs through stellar occultations, within this collaboration I have participated in the discovery and characterization of three of the four rings known around TNOs and Centaurs. Since 2014, I lead the JWST (NASA/ESA) international focus discussion group called Occultations within the Solar System WG. I am the PI of an accepted proposal to observe stellar occultations by TNOs with JWST within Heidi Hammel's (AURA Vice President) Solar System Guaranteed Time Observations ( JWST GTO 1271 ). As part of this proposal, I detected for the first time a stellar occultation from JWST. The occultation was caused by the centaur Chariklo on October 18, 2022. I am a co-PI/collaborator on two other accepted JWST Cycle 1 proposals to obtain the physical properties of TNOs (I have also applied as PI for more JWST time in Cycle 2 to observe TNOs/Centaurs). I have been granted observation time at ALMA, SOFIA, NOEMA, and other observing facilities to obtain thermal data of TNOs/Centaurs. I am exploring the possibility of using SKA to characterize TNOs/Centaurs. Since November 2020 I am a member of the core team of the SKA WG 'Cradle of Life', I am the leader of the solar system field within this WG. Convener/organizer of TNO sessions at various international conferences. Supervisor of 1 undergraduate student, 1 graduate student, and 1 Ph.D. thesis (in progress). Reviewer for FNRA (ANR), STFC UK, AYA, and OPTICON. Reviewer for ApJ, AJ, and Ap&SS journals. Member of the Origins Space Telescope (OST) Solar System WG, IAU, AAS (DPS), EAS, and SEA. Awarded by CSIC for my research merits in 2012-2013, with the first 'SF2A-SEA' prize for the best French-Spanish joint scientific project in astronomy in 2013, and with the asteroid (9288) Santos-Sanz for my research merits in planetary science.
2000 PhD in astronomical instrumentation (adaptive optics)
2001-2013 Research in adaptive optics for astronomy
2013-now Professor of optics and research at HEIG-VD
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