Hacettepe University Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences observes the publication ethics standards determined by the Committe on Publication Ethics (COPE) (https://publicationethics.org/)

Based on the COPE publishing ethics principles, editors, authors and reviewers should follow the ethical guidelines below:

Ethical guidelines that the editor should adhere:

• Editor should ensure that manuscripts submitted to the journal are evaluated based on the quality of the manuscript and the referee comments without regard to religion, language, race, ethnic origin, political opinion and gender of the authors.
• The editor should reject the manuscript in the case of ethical violations.
• The editor should ensure the confidentiality of the information about the manuscripts submitted to the journal and should not share this information with anyone except the responsible author, referees and editorial board.
• Editor should ensure the double blind peer review process.
• Editors should not use the information presented in the manuscript for their own research.
• Editor has full responsibility to reject, accept or request revisions to manuscripts submitted to the journal.

Ethical guidelines that authors should adhere:

• Authors should declare that the submitted work is original and has not been published before.
• Authors should declare that the study is not currently under review in another journal.
• All authors mentioned in the study should have contributed to the experimental design and implementation in the study, or to the analysis and interpretation of the data.
• Authors should provide access to the data sets they use in the article, if requested.
• Authors should notify the editorial board if they notice significant errors in their published articles.
• Authors should submit the ethics committee approval to the journal for studies that require ethics committee approval. Manuscripts without ethics committee approval will not be considered for review. If it is necessary to obtain “Ethics Committee Approval” for research, information on the ethics committee approval (name of ethics committee, number and date of approval document) should be indicated in the methodology section of the article.

Ethical guidelines that reviewers should adhere:

• Reviewers should agree to review the manuscripts in which they have sufficient expertise.
• Reviewers should agree to review the manuscripts which they think they can evaluate on time and adequately.
• Reviewers should respect the confidentiality of the peer review process and should not reveal any information about the manuscript beyond that published during or after the review process.
• Reviewers should not use the knowledge gained in the refereeing process for their own or others' advantage.
• Reviewers should notify the editorial board of the journal when they suspect of plagiarism or other ethical violations.
• Reviewers should not accept to review in situations where there may be a conflict of interest.
• Reviewers should be objective and constructive in their evaluations and not make personal comments.

Authorship and Contributorship

• Authorship should include those who contributed significantly to the conceptualization, design, implementation or interpretation of the work. The approval of each author must be obtained to make any changes after the article is submitted to the journal.
• The authors are required to provide information on author contributions. An “author contribution statement” is published at the end of each article.

Conflict of Interest

Authors are required to declare any conflict of interest in “conflict of interest statement” at the end of the article.

Data Availability

We encourage the authors to state the availability of their data. Authors should provide access to the data sets they use in the article, if requested.

Intellectual Property

Adopting the principle that allowing the free access to scientific research increases the global sharing of knowledge, Hacettepe University Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences provides direct open access to its content.
Upon acceptance of an article, the copyright of the article is transferred to Hacettepe University Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences.

Complaints and Appeals

As a journal policy, our decision on a manuscript is final. However, in case of any complaints or appeals, the authors can contact the editor.

Post-publication discussions and corrections

If the authors notice an error after the article has been published, they should immediately notify the editor with a request for correction. After an editorial assessment, either an erratum will be published or the article will be retracted in the case of fundamental errors.

Malpractice

Our journal is committed to following ethical guidelines and to prevent publication malpractices. All submissions are initially screened for their adherence to ethical guidelines and scientific standards. In addition, all submissions are checked by using plagiarism detection software and in case of detection of plagiarism, the article is rejected. When any type of malpractice such as plagiarism or scientific misconduct is noticed, editor and the publisher take necessary measures. If malpractice is noticed after the publication of the article, the options for publishing an erratum or retracting the article are evaluated.