Duties and Responsibilities of Referees

Evaluation Process
In our journal, the researches that pass the evaluation of the Editorial Board are subjected to the review of referees who are experts in their fields within the framework of the principle of double blind refereeing.
Referees are obliged to take into account the “Referee Evaluation Criteria” in the evaluation process from the moment they are assigned through the system and accept the task.
Reviewers should contribute to the maturation of the work, which is a scientific article in terms of subject, scope, fiction and sources.
Reviewers should refer to studies that have not been seen or ignored by the authors.
Referees should inform the editor immediately if they are unable to evaluate the article they have accepted for evaluation for any reason.
Referees should refrain from any behavior that could harm the double blind peer review process.

Confidentiality
Reviewers should not share the subject, scope, organization and results of the manuscript, the content of which they have seen and accepted for review, with others before publication.
Reviewers acknowledge at the outset that manuscripts submitted for review are the private property of the authors. This also applies to reviewers who decline the invitation to review.
Referees do not disclose their names in the article file in accordance with the principle of blind refereeing, and the names of the referees are not disclosed/published.
Since double blind refereeing is applied in our journal, author and referee information is not included in the article file. File information is deleted by the editorial team from the files uploaded by reviewers and authors to Dergipark.

Impartiality
Reviewers should be objective in the decision to publish the research they review.
Reviewers should be impartial in their comments and suggestions about the article and should make suggestions that will contribute to the maturation of the article.
Reviewers should evaluate the article/research, not the authors. They should refrain from judging the author.

Ethics
Reviewers should inform the Editor if they detect any ethical violations, plagiarism, etc. in the manuscript at any stage of the evaluation process.

Conflict and Overlap
Reviewers are required to inform the Editor of any conflict of interest or overlap in the review process, or any assignment outside their area of expertise.

Price
Reviewers are not paid any fee for their review/evaluation process.