Ethics Committee Permission Certificate
As of 2020, the TR Index Journal Evaluation criteria have been updated and the articles regarding the requirement of ethics committee permission in scientific research have been regulated in detail. In this context, studies requiring ethics committee permission are listed below.
When uploading a study to our journal, you must add your ethics committee permission document to the system together with your article file. If your study is within the scope of research that does not require ethics committee approval, you must sign and submit the relevant declaration form and clearly state this in the text of the article.

Research Requiring Ethics Committee Authorisation
- Qualitative or quantitative research conducted with data collection methods such as questionnaires, interviews, focus group studies, observations, experiments, interviews,
- Studies in which humans and animals (including material or data) are used for experimental or scientific purposes,
- Clinical trials conducted on humans,
- Scientific studies on animals,
- Retrospective studies within the framework of the personal data protection law.

Important Issues Related to Ethics Committee Authorisation
- In case presentations, it should be stated that an ‘Informed Consent Form’ has been obtained from the participants.
- For the use of materials such as scales, questionnaires, photographs belonging to others, permission must be obtained from their owners and this issue must be clearly stated.
- It should be stated that the copyright regulations regarding the intellectual and artistic works used are complied with.
- For articles using research data from before 2020, produced from master's or doctoral studies (and specified in the article), or submitted to the journal in the previous year, accepted but not yet published, retrospective ethics committee permission is not required.
- Non-university researchers can also apply to the Ethics Committees in their regions.
- In articles to be published in journals, it should be stated whether ethics committee permission and/or legal or special permission is required. If permission is required, it should be clearly presented from which institution, on which date and with which decision or number number the relevant permission was obtained.
- If human or animal subjects are used in the study, it should be declared that the relevant research was carried out in accordance with international declarations and guidelines.

Studies Requiring Ethics Committee Authorisation and Accepted for Publication
For studies requiring ethics committee authorisation, the authorisation information (name, date and number of the committee) should be specified in the ‘Methods’ section of the article and should also be included on the first or last page of the article.
Frequently Asked Questions
QUESTION 1: Is it mandatory to obtain ethics committee approval for all articles?
Answer no. Ethics committee approval is only required for certain studies. Studies that require ethics committee permission are as follows:
1. Qualitative or quantitative research conducted with data collection methods such as questionnaires, interviews, focus group studies, observations, experiments, interviews,
2. Studies in which humans and animals (including materials/data) are used for experimental or scientific purposes,
3. Clinical research on humans,
4. Scientific studies on animals,
5. Retrospective studies within the framework of the personal data protection law.
Also;
- Stating that the ‘Informed Consent Form’ has been obtained in case presentations,
- Obtaining permission from the owners for the use of materials such as scales, questionnaires, photographs belonging to others,
- It should be stated that the copyright regulations regarding the intellectual and artistic works used are complied with.
QUESTION 2: Should retrospective ethics committee permission be obtained for publications produced from research and theses completed in previous years?
Prior to 2020, retrospective ethics committee permission is not required for articles using research data from the previous year, produced from master's or doctoral studies (and specified in the article), applied for publication to the journal in the previous year, accepted but not yet published.
QUESTION 3: Do these rules of the TR Index impose restrictions on publications made outside the university?

No. They do not. Non-university researchers can also apply to the Ethics Committees in their own regions and obtain the necessary permissions.