Cyprus Turkish Journal of Psychiatry and Psychology has adopted a continuous publication model as of January 1, 2026, and accepted manuscripts are published online as soon as they are ready for publication.

Within the scope of the decision taken at the General Assembly of the Council of Higher Education of Turkey (YÖK) dated March 7, 2019, the Cyprus Turkish Journal of Psychiatry and Psychology may be used in the declaration submitted for Associate Professorship applications. According to this decision, since the Cyprus Turkish Journal of Psychiatry and Psychology is a “journal that charges an article processing fee (APC) regardless of acceptance or rejection at the time of manuscript submission,” it does not fall under the category of predatory/questionable journals. For more information, please click HERE and refer to Article 44.

Furthermore, in the decision numbered 2021.18.643 taken at the 2021.18 session of the Higher Education General Council dated December 30, 2021, regarding predatory/questionable journals, it is stated that journals falling within the following criteria shall not be considered predatory/questionable: “national/international journals that are indexed in the Web of Science in the Q4 category, that request fees during editorial and/or publication processes, that are official publications of a disciplinary association whose membership is limited to professionals in the relevant scientific field, a university, an institute, or a scientific institution, that have been published since before 2010, and that operate on a subscription basis.”

The Cyprus Turkish Journal of Psychiatry and Psychology is the official publication of the Cyprus Turkish Mental Health Institute. The Cyprus Mental Health Institute is a scientific educational institution and institute that received permission to establish a Private Educational and Training Institution from the TRNC Ministry of National Education on April 4, 2005 (No. 339/05), and has also been officially approved to commence educational activities by the TRNC Ministry of National Education for Private Educational Institutions as of July 11, 2005. Within the scope of being an institute and a scientific educational institution as defined by YÖK, the Cyprus Turkish Journal of Psychiatry and Psychology does not fall under the “predatory/questionable” category.

About Web of Science acceptance..

Cyprus Turkish Journal of Psychiatry and Psychology has been included in the Emerging Sources Citation Index as of March 30, 2022.

EASE Statement on Quality Standards

The European Association of Science Editors encourages all editors to ensure that reports of research on COVID-19 meet required standards and comply with agreed guidelines, and that any limitations are clearly stated.

Members of EASE have noted poor standards of reporting in many studies related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Medical and public health measures to treat infected patients and to limit the spread of the coronavirus have to be based on high quality evidence if they are to succeed. EASE urges all involved in collecting and publishing data related to the pandemic to adhere to ethical guidelines, and to follow standard reporting guidelines (seewww.equator-network.org), for example CONSORT for clinical trials and STROBE for epidemiological studies. Demographic data should include age and sex of all individuals and follow the SAGER guidelines to ensure that data on sex and gender are fully and correctly reported. We encourage full and open sharing of data where possible.

We recognise that in times of crisis it may not always be possible to obtain all required data, and that reporting may – of necessity – be curtailed. To avoid misinterpretation, but also to facilitate the rapid sharing of information, we encourage editors to ensure that authors include a statement of limitations on their research. This will inform readers and strengthen the usefulness of any published research.

In addition, whilst always advocating high language standards, we acknowledge that to facilitate rapid dissemination of important research it may be necessary to limit editorial involvement to ensuring that the published research is understandable, and not to enforce stringent language requirements on authors.

 

The relevant statement can be found at the website https://ease.org.uk/publications/ease-statements-resources/ease-statement-on-quality-standards/.