Kurdish Studies

Aims & Scope

Kurdish Studies journal is an interdisciplinary and peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing high quality research and scholarship.

Kurdish Studies journal is initiated by the members of the Kurdish Studies Network (KSN) and supported by a large group of academics from different disciplines.

The journal aligns itself with KSN‘s mission to revitalize and reorient research, scholarship and debates in the field of Kurdish studies in a multidisciplinary fashion covering a wide range of topics including, but not limited to, economics, history, society, gender, minorities, politics, health, law, environment, language, media, culture, arts, and education.

Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar

Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• On the independence referendum in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and disputed territories in 2017

  Citation: 28

  Authors: Bill, Joost, Francis, Akiko

• Theorising women and war in Kurdistan: A feminist and critical perspective

  Citation: 28

  Authors: Nazand, Wendelmoet, Nerina

• Introduction to Special Issue - Kurdish: A critical research overview

  Citation: 27

  Authors: Geoffrey, Ergin

• Regional variation in Kurmanji: A preliminary classification of dialects

  Citation: 21

  Authors: Ergin, Geoffrey

• The Kurds and Middle Eastern “State of Violence”: the 1980s and 2010s

  Citation: 21

  Authors: Hamit

• The gendering of victimhood: Western media and the Sinjar genocide

  Citation: 19

  Authors: Veronica, Christine

• The Ideological Transformation of the PKK regarding the Political Economy of the Kurdish Region in Turkey

  Citation: 19

  Authors: Güllistan

• Memory as experience in times of perpetual violence: the challenge of Saturday Mothers vis-à-vis cultural aphasia

  Citation: 15

  Authors: Ozgur Sevgi

• Learning from defeat: Development and contestation of the “new paradigm” within Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)

  Citation: 14

  Authors: Joost

• The role of collective identifications in family processes of post-trauma reconstruction: An exploratory study with Kurdish refugee families and their diasporic community

  Citation: 12

  Authors: Ruth, Peter, Lucia