Ethical Principles

This guideline should be carefully reviewed by all researchers who will submit a study to the Journal.

Çukurova University Journal of Social Sciences Institute is a peer-reviewed journal published in accordance with the ethical principles and rules specified below, with the aim of publishing qualified scientific articles in the field of Social Sciences.
Articles sent to Çukurova University Journal of Social Sciences Institute are evaluated through a double-blind peer-review process.
The journal is published electronically with free access.
The journal only accepts articles through the Dergi Park system.
Çukurova University Journal of Social Sciences Institute is a journal aware of the fact that information must be easily accessible in order for scientific studies to advance, and supports the initiative to make refereed journal literature open access, as stated in the Budapest Open Access Declaration, and offers all published articles in an environment where everyone can read and download them, free of charge.
In this declaration, open access is used in the sense that “scientific literature can be accessed, read, saved, copied, printed, scanned, linked to full text, indexed, transferred to software as data and used for any lawful purpose via the Internet without financial, legal and technical barriers”.
Considering the role of knowledge sharing in the advancement of science, open access is of great importance for researchers and readers. For this reason, articles in this journal can be used as long as the author and original source are cited. Permission from authors or publishers is not required.
It is aimed that all stakeholders (author, editor, referee, publisher and reader) who present a scientific study contribute to the correct advancement of science. In accordance with this goal, compliance with scientific ethical principles is important in scientific studies prepared.
These ethical principles have been accepted by us based on the guidelines prepared by COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) and are presented below with some of them, with the recommendation that stakeholders adopt them as well.
Accordingly, the ethical responsibilities, roles and duties of authors, journal editor, referees and publisher are included in our Journal. In addition, information is provided regarding plagiarism and unethical behaviors in Çukurova University Social Sciences Institute Journal. The sources used while preparing these policies are stated at the end of the guide.

Author(s)
• Articles sent to Çukurova University Social Sciences Institute Journal must be original studies in the field of Social Sciences.

All sources used in the articles (authors, online pages, personal interviews, etc.) must be cited correctly and appropriately.

• It must be stated that the articles sent to the journal have not been sent to another journal and the Copyright Transfer Form must be filled out.

People who have not contributed to the article intellectually should not be listed as authors.

• Conflicts of interest regarding the submitted article must be stated and the reason must be explained.

• Authors may be asked to submit the raw data of their work to the editorial board during the refereeing process, in which case the authors are expected to share their raw data with the editorial board. Authors are obliged to keep the data related to a published article for 5 years.

• Authors must inform the editor and the editorial board when they detect an error in their work and cooperate for the correction or retraction process.

Authors cannot use language and attitudes that degrade or belittle any individual, community or institution in their articles.

Referees
All articles sent to Çukurova University Journal of Social Sciences are evaluated with a double-blind refereeing process. Double-blind refereeing means that authors are kept confidential from referees and referees are kept confidential from authors in order to ensure an impartial, objective and independent evaluation process.
Articles are sent to the referees for evaluation through the Dergi Park system.
Referees are required to fill out a form that includes the contribution of the article they are evaluating to their field, their decisions on whether the article is publishable or not, and the reasons for these decisions.
The ethical responsibilities and roles of referees of Çukurova University Journal of Social Sciences are as follows:
• Referees are required to referee articles related to their fields of expertise only.
• Referees are expected to agree to referee articles that do not have any conflicts of interest. If referees discover any conflicts of interest, they must inform the editor and decline to referee the relevant article.

• Referees must evaluate articles impartially and objectively.

• Referees are required to fill out the Referee Evaluation Form for the articles they evaluate, and