provides data about the five SSCI journals with most publications on EU-Turkey relations in selected periods, and exhibits the resilient, peripheral dynamics featured in the discipline. In all three eras of EU-Turkey studies, journals that predominantly operate within the domain of 'area studies' and possess a strong focus on the EU's relationship with its wider neighbourhood dominated the scholarly output on EU-Turkey relations. Their regional foci included, inter alia, the Middle East and North Africa region (Middle Eastern Studies), the Balkans and the greater Middle East (Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies), Turkey (Turkish Studies, Uluslararası İlişkiler), Southern Europe (South European Society and Politics), and the Black Sea region (Southeast European and Black Sea Studies). Thus, specialist, flagship journals principally dedicated to studying the EU and European politics (see Keeler 2005 for a categorisation) such as Journal of European Public Policy, European Union Politics, Journal of European Integration, West European Politics, and Comparative European Politics have featured a limited number of articles on the EU-Turkey relationship compared to journals with a specific regional foci. Within the list of specialist journals, only Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS) and Journal of Contemporary European Studies (JCES) functioned as important outlets for EU-Turkey studies throughout the boom era of the discipline (2005-2012), having published eight and 11 articles, respectively. The golden age of studying EU-Turkey relations (2005-2012) also culminated in an overall diversification and expansion of the scholarly outlets, with 36.1 per cent of the articles published in this era from 2005 to 2012 having appeared in journals other than the top five outlets. The rise of conflictual relations between the EU and Turkey during 2013 to 2020 has not only engendered an overarching decline in scholarly interest in the discipline. As demonstrates, the estrangement between both sides also brought about an outlet-oriented contraction and concentration on a smaller number journals with a specific regional foci (with the exception of JCES). The five SSCI journals with most publications on EU-Turkey relations in the stagnation era (2013-2020) constituted 75 per cent of all articles (100) published in this period. This concentration of articles in a limited number of journals in EU-Turkey studies goes against the fair and asymmetric distribution of the outcomes of scholarly knowledge and research on EU-Turkey relations along the centreperiphery axis and produces epistemic injustices (see on this also Dübgen 2020).

provides data about the five SSCI journals with most publications on EU-Turkey relations in selected periods, and exhibits the resilient, peripheral dynamics featured in the discipline. In all three eras of EU-Turkey studies, journals that predominantly operate within the domain of 'area studies' and possess a strong focus on the EU's relationship with its wider neighbourhood dominated the scholarly output on EU-Turkey relations. Their regional foci included, inter alia, the Middle East and North Africa region (Middle Eastern Studies), the Balkans and the greater Middle East (Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies), Turkey (Turkish Studies, Uluslararası İlişkiler), Southern Europe (South European Society and Politics), and the Black Sea region (Southeast European and Black Sea Studies). Thus, specialist, flagship journals principally dedicated to studying the EU and European politics (see Keeler 2005 for a categorisation) such as Journal of European Public Policy, European Union Politics, Journal of European Integration, West European Politics, and Comparative European Politics have featured a limited number of articles on the EU-Turkey relationship compared to journals with a specific regional foci. Within the list of specialist journals, only Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS) and Journal of Contemporary European Studies (JCES) functioned as important outlets for EU-Turkey studies throughout the boom era of the discipline (2005-2012), having published eight and 11 articles, respectively. The golden age of studying EU-Turkey relations (2005-2012) also culminated in an overall diversification and expansion of the scholarly outlets, with 36.1 per cent of the articles published in this era from 2005 to 2012 having appeared in journals other than the top five outlets. The rise of conflictual relations between the EU and Turkey during 2013 to 2020 has not only engendered an overarching decline in scholarly interest in the discipline. As demonstrates, the estrangement between both sides also brought about an outlet-oriented contraction and concentration on a smaller number journals with a specific regional foci (with the exception of JCES). The five SSCI journals with most publications on EU-Turkey relations in the stagnation era (2013-2020) constituted 75 per cent of all articles (100) published in this period. This concentration of articles in a limited number of journals in EU-Turkey studies goes against the fair and asymmetric distribution of the outcomes of scholarly knowledge and research on EU-Turkey relations along the centreperiphery axis and produces epistemic injustices (see on this also Dübgen 2020).

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As relations between the European Union (EU) and Turkey have progressed, so has the body of literature on the relationship – to the extent that we can now identify ‘EU–Turkey studies’ as a boutique sub-discipline of EU studies. This article provides a systematic mapping of the evolution of EU–Turkey studies from 1996 to 2020 in order to explore the...

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... cooperation in publishing took place in only 26.4 per cent (23 articles) of co-authored work. As Figure 6 demonstrates, the estrangement between both sides also brought about an outlet-oriented contraction and concentration on a smaller number journals with a specific regional foci (with the exception of JCES). The five SSCI journals with most publications on EU-Turkey relations in the stagnation era (2013)(2014)(2015)(2016)(2017)(2018)(2019)(2020)) constituted 75 per cent of all articles (100) published in this period. ...

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Starting from the ‘gender problem’ in European studies, we scrutinize the gendered knowledge production patterns in a least likely case to be gendered, EU–Turkey studies, due to the overrepresentation of women in the field and its feminine image. We utilize feminist standpoint theory and apply research synthesis and citation analysis techniques to two original datasets comprising 300 articles in 26 Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) journals, published from 1996 to 2020 and involving 8494 citations. Our findings reveal that male‐dominated knowledge marks even EU–Turkey studies with men outnumbering women in authorships and an extremely limited number of articles focusing on gender, whilst ampler disparities transpire in first authorships and citations. Whilst women have progressively disrupted male‐dominated knowledge by surpassing male authorship numbers since 2014, engaging in greater theoretical sophistication and having a greater inclination to cite women, limited incorporation of women's standpoint hinders the field's potential to address gender inequalities and promote gender‐sensitive policies and development.