Call for Special Issues
The Journal of Oriental Studies (JOS) invites submissions of proposals for Special Issues on subjects within the scope of the journal. The proposals for publication in 2026 should be directed to the Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Prof. Ruben Melkonyan via jos@ysu.am.
JOS is an interdisciplinary and interregional journal published by the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Yerevan State University. We publish research articles on diverse topics related to the fields of history, religion, linguistics, literature, archaeology, social and cultural anthropology of the Arabic Countries, Iran, Central Asia, Turkey (the Ottoman Empire), and the Caucasus as well as Armenian Genocide and Diaspora Studies.
Proposals should consist of a maximum two-page statement covering the timeliness, importance and international interest of the topic as well as timetable, indicating deadlines for submissions, review process, revisions and final submissions to JOS for publication.
This should be followed by a list of proposed articles with a 200 word abstract for each piece. Please also include a brief (4 – 5 sentence) biography for each author. In general, special issues should consist of an introduction by the special issue Guest Editor followed by 4 – 6 articles that are around 20000 – 30000 symbols in length.
All research articles in Journal of Oriental undergo double-blind peer review. Acceptance of a special issue proposal is no guarantee that any specific article within the special issue will be accepted for publication as an outcome of the review process.
The language of publication is English.
For more details and information, please visit https://journals.ysu.am/index.php/j-orient-stud/about/submissions .
No fee is charged to the authors for the articles to be published in our journal.
The deadline for submission is 1st November 2025.
Please direct any questions about submissions to jos@ysu.am
