Evaluation Principles
1) Manuscripts that have not been previously published or are not currently under review for publication in another journal and approved by each author are accepted for review.
2) Submitted and pre-reviewed articles are scanned for plagiarism using Ithenticate or Turnitin software.
3) Artuklu International Journal of Health Sciences conducts a double blind review process. All manuscripts will first be evaluated by the editor for suitability to the journal. Eligible manuscripts are sent to at least two independent expert reviewers to assess the scientific quality of the manuscript.
4) The Editor-in-Chief evaluates manuscripts independently of the ethnicity, gender, nationality, religious beliefs and political philosophy of the authors. He ensures that manuscripts submitted for publication undergo a fair double blind peer review.
5) The editor-in-chief does not allow conflicts of interest between authors, editors and reviewers.
6) The editor is responsible for the final decision regarding the acceptance or rejection of manuscripts. The editor's decision is final.
7) Editors are not involved in decisions about manuscripts written by themselves or by family members or colleagues, or about products or services in which the editor has an interest. Any such submission is subject to all of the journal's usual procedures.
Reviewers should ensure that all information about submitted manuscripts remains confidential until the manuscript is published and should report to the editor if they notice any copyright infringement or plagiarism on the part of the author.
If the reviewer does not feel qualified in the subject matter of the manuscript or is unlikely to be able to provide timely feedback, he/she should inform the editor and ask him/her not to involve him/her in the review process.
During the review process, the editor should make it clear to reviewers that manuscripts submitted for review are the private property of the authors and that this is a privileged communication. Reviewers and editorial board members may not discuss articles with other individuals. Care should be taken to keep the identity of the reviewers confidential.

Review Process
Review Type: Double Blind
Double Blinding: After the plagiarism check, eligible manuscripts are evaluated by the editor-in-chief for originality, methodology, importance of the topic covered and compatibility with the scope of the journal. The editor ensures that the manuscripts undergo a fair double-blind review and if the manuscript meets the formal requirements, he/she submits the manuscript to the evaluation of at least two referees from Turkey and/or abroad, and if the referees deem necessary, they approve the manuscript for publication after the required changes are made by the authors.

Review Time: Pre-Publication
Author-Reviewer Interactions: Editors mediate all interactions between reviewers and authors.
Time in Review: For research articles received for review in Artuklu International Journal of Health Sciences, the time until the first decision is approximately 30 days.
Acceptance Rate: Approximately 50% of the articles received by our journal are published.
Plagiarism Check: All manuscripts are checked for plagiarism. Articles are scanned using Ithenticate or Turnitin to prevent plagiarism.
Number of Reviewers for Each Article: Two or three reviewers.
Allowed Duration: 15 days. This period can be extended by adding 15 days.
Decision: In order for the article to be accepted for publication by the Editor, at least two reviewers must make an acceptance decision.
Suspected Ethical Violation: Reviewers should inform the Editor if they suspect misconduct in the research or publication. The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for taking the necessary action in accordance with COPE recommendations.

The Editor-in-Chief reviews the research article on the day of submission and, if he/she feels that the article merits further consideration, sends it to the Associate Editor for further review. For research articles, the Associate Editor usually reads each article from start to finish. We aim to reach an initial decision for all manuscripts within two or three weeks, but usually the initial decision is made within a few days of submission. If we do not think that Artuklu International Journal of Health Sciences is the right journal for the study, we notify the authors immediately so that they can submit their work elsewhere without delay. The usual reasons for rejection at this stage are insufficient originality and the topic being outside the scope of the journal.

The next step for your research paper is our Editorial Board meeting. The members will read your paper and discuss its importance, originality and scientific quality. To make editorial decisions for research articles, we mainly focus on the research question. Even if the topic of the article is relevant, topical and important to the scope of the journal, we may reject it if it does not have a research question. Of course, the manuscript will be rejected if it has serious flaws. Everyone attending the manuscript meeting is asked to declare relevant conflicting interests at the outset, and anyone with a significant conflicting interest either leaves the room or speaks last (depending on the nature and extent of their interest) while the manuscript is being discussed.

If your article is suitable for the Artuklu International Journal of Health Sciences, the section editor will send it to two external reviewers. The reviewers advise the editors, who make the final decision. We ask the reviewers to confirm their reports and declare any conflicts of interest on the manuscript we send them. The final decision is made by the Editor-in-Chief after external peer review processes.

Some manuscripts may also be reviewed by the ethics editor of Artuklu International Journal of Health Sciences in cases of suspected serious research misconduct and by third parties deemed appropriate by the editor.
For all manuscripts, we aim to reach a final decision on publication within 8-12 weeks of submission. If we propose a publication subject to revision, we usually ask authors to revise and upload their manuscript within the following month.
Accepted articles are published on https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/artukluhealth/archive as they are prepared. After publication, articles are selected for the next issue.
Artuklu International Journal of Health Sciences provides open access to articles as part of its commitment to readers and authors. All our articles are freely accessible online.
If you notice any errors in your published article, email the editor-in-chief who will let you know if the correction can be made.
Principles of the Review Process for the Work of the Editorial Staff
Editorials and analysis articles written by Artuklu International Journal of Health Sciences' own editors do not undergo external peer review. Original research articles are sent to at least two external reviewers for blind review. The roles of those editors are suspended during this period.

Authors' Responsibilities
The author must comply with research and publication guidelines.
The author should not attempt to publish the same work in more than one journal.
The author should indicate in the bibliography the works used in the writing of the article.

Editor's Responsibilities
The Editor evaluates manuscripts for scientific content without regard to the ethnicity, gender, citizenship, religious beliefs or political opinions of the authors.
The editor conducts fair double-blind peer review of manuscripts submitted for publication and ensures that all information about submitted manuscripts is kept confidential before publication.
The editor informs the reviewers that the manuscripts are confidential and that this is a privileged interaction. Reviewers and the editorial board cannot discuss manuscripts with other people. The anonymity of reviewers must be ensured. In certain cases, the editor may share a reviewer's review with other reviewers to clarify a particular point.
The editor is responsible for the content and overall quality of the publication. It is also his/her responsibility to issue a correction note or retraction when necessary.
The editor does not allow any conflict of interest between authors, editors and reviewers. He/she has full authority only to appoint referees, and the Editorial Board is responsible for the final decision regarding the publication of manuscripts in the journal.

Responsibilities of Reviewers
Reviewers should not have any conflicts of interest related to the research, the authors and/or the research funders.
The reviewers' evaluations should be objective.
The language and style used by the reviewers should not be offensive to the author.
Reviewers should ensure that all information regarding submitted manuscripts remains confidential until the manuscript is published.
Reviewers should notify the editor if they notice copyright infringement or plagiarism in the work they review.
A reviewer who feels inadequate to review a manuscript or who feels that he/she cannot complete the review in the allotted time should withdraw from the review process.
During the review process, reviewers are expected to consider the following points:
• Is the study prepared in accordance with scientific publication ethics?
• Is the study scientifically/academically adequate?
• Does the study contribute to science?
• Is the study original?
• Does the title adequately reflect the subject of the study?
• Does the abstract reflect the purpose, scope and results of the study?
• Is the language of the study simple and understandable?
• Has the author presented the topic of the study from an appropriate methodological perspective?
• Are the conclusions reached as a result of the study adequate?
• Are the author's comments and analyses on the topic adequate?
• Are the sources used in the study adequate and appropriate?

Preliminary Review and Plagiarism Check
The manuscript is reviewed by the editor for compliance with the journal's publication principles, academic writing rules and APA 7 Citation System, and is scanned for plagiarism using iThenticate or Turnitin. The preliminary review is completed within a maximum of 15 days. The plagiarism similarity rate must be less than 20%. If the similarity rate is 1%, but citation and quotation are not done properly, there may still be plagiarism. In this respect, citation and quotation rules must be known and carefully applied by the author.

Field Editor Review
The manuscript that passes the Preliminary Review and Plagiarism Scanning stage is reviewed by the relevant field editor in terms of problematic and academic language and style. This review is completed within a maximum of 15 days.

Review Process (Academic Evaluation)
After being reviewed by the field editor, the manuscript is submitted to at least two external reviewers who have a PhD thesis, book or article on the subject. The review process is carried out in confidentiality within the framework of double blind reviewing. The reviewer is requested to either state his/her opinion and opinion on the manuscript or justify it with an explanation of at least 150 words on the online reviewer form. The author is given the right to object and defend his/her views if he/she disagrees with the reviewer's opinions. The field editor ensures mutual communication between the author and the reviewer while maintaining confidentiality. If both reviewers' reports are positive, the manuscript is submitted to the Editorial Board with a proposal to consider its publication. If one of the two reviewers has a negative opinion, the manuscript is sent to a third reviewer. Studies can be published with the positive decision of at least two reviewers. The publication of book and symposium reviews and doctoral thesis abstracts is decided upon the evaluation of at least two internal reviewers (relevant field editors and/or members of the editorial board).

Revision Phase
If the reviewers request revisions to be made in the text they have reviewed, the relevant reports are sent to the author and the author is asked to revise his/her work. The author makes the corrections in the Word program with the "Track Changes" feature turned on or indicates the changes in the text in red. The author submits the corrected text to the field editor.

Field Editor Control
The field editor checks whether the author has made the requested corrections to the text.

Reviewer Control
The reviewer checks whether the author has made the requested corrections in the text.

Turkish Language Control
The manuscripts that pass through the review process are reviewed by the Turkish Language Editor and the Editor-in-Chief, and if necessary, the author is asked to proofread the manuscript. The review process is completed within a maximum of 15 days.

English Language Control
The manuscripts that pass the Turkish language check are reviewed by the English Language Editor and, if necessary, revisions are requested from the author. The English language editor's review process is completed within a maximum of 15 days.

Editorial Board Review
Articles that pass technical, academic and linguistic reviews are examined by the Editorial Board and it is decided whether they will be published or not, and if so, in which issue they will be included. The Board decides by majority vote. In case of equality, the final decision is made in favor of the editor's decision.

Typesetting and Layout Phase
The manuscripts that are decided to be published by the Editorial Board are typeset and edited, made ready for publication and sent to the author for review. This stage takes a maximum of 15 days.
Data Submission to National and International Indexes
The data of the published issue is sent to the relevant indexes within 15 days.