Ethical Principles and Publication Policy

PUBLICATION PRINCIPLES
Journal of Harran University Medical Faculty Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), and World Association of Medical Editors and International Committee of Medical Journal It applies the publishing principles stipulated and accepted by the Editors (ICMJE) organizations. In addition, Harran University Medical Faculty Journal applies the publishing principles determined by DergiPark under the umbrella of TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM.
1. Journal of Harran University Medical Faculty (e-ISSN: 1309-4025 - ISSN: 1304-9623) is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles on general medical issues. It started to be published in 2004. Articles are accepted in Turkish or English.
It is published 3 times a year, in April, August and December.
ULAKBİM TR Index is included in Turkey Citation Index. No fee is charged from the authors during the evaluation process and publication phase. All articles submitted for publication are evaluated by the editor, editorial advisory board and referees. All articles in the journal are open access and can be downloaded free of charge.
2. In our journal, original articles, reviews, case reports and short papers written in Turkish/English are being evaluated for publication.
3. Only scientific research studies of original nature are included. Qualities such as being new, suggesting a new method, or adding a new dimension to previously existing knowledge are sought.
4. Manuscripts submitted for publication are evaluated by at least two external referees as double-blind; The acceptance-rejection decision is made by the Editorial Board. Invited review articles are limited to a few and no refereeing requirement will be sought. Invited compilation is published after editor approval.
5. The works requested to be published must not have been published anywhere or sent to any journal for publication. For this, a cover letter is requested from the responsible author when they send the article (See: Nature Research).
6. All responsibility of the works belongs to their corresponding authors. The works should be prepared in accordance with the internationally accepted scientific ethical rules. A copy of the Ethics Committee Report must be attached to all studies that require ethical approval.
7. In the articles sent to our journal, forgery (fabrication), falsification, plagiarism (plagiarism, plagiarism), slicing (salamization), unfair signature (gift authorship, gift authorship), ghost authorship, publishing a publication more than once Responsibility for compliance with international ethical principles such as (duplication) belongs to the authors. If such a situation is detected before or after publication in any research, the article is withdrawn from the journal. See: COPE.
8. For the works accepted to be published in our journal, the signed Copyright Transfer Form must be uploaded to the system.
9. Manuscripts submitted for publication in our journal should be prepared according to journal writing rules. The writing rules can be accessed from the link https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/hutfd/writing-rules.
10. Necessary changes should be made by the author within 10 days after minor changes in the article decision, 20 days after major changes, and 30 days after the revision that needs to be rewritten. If the requested corrections are not made by the author on time, the editor writes a warning letter to the author. If there is a delay again, the article will be rejected.
The publication of a peer-reviewed journal requires the continued work, responsibility, obligation and cooperation of interested parties. Interested parties: Authors, Reviewers, Editors and Board Members. Editors are responsible for maintaining/monitoring publishing ethics and keeping academic records.

ETHICAL PRINCIPLES
Journal of Harran University Medical Faculty is a peer-reviewed scientific journal based on high ethical and editorial standards. Editorial review is based on the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Cope's recommendations for ethical mandate, responsibilities, and open access in this journal are considered. See: Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the Turkish version of COPE in DergiPark
No fee is charged for the articles and other processes uploaded to the Journal of Harran University Faculty of Medicine and all accepted articles are published, read and downloaded free of charge. Poster or oral presentations presented at scientific meetings held in the fields of health can be published as supplementary issues. For this reason, Harran University Medical Faculty Journal has adopted ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors), BOAI (Budapest Open Access Initiative) and DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) as its principles. All Harran University Faculty of Medicine Journal members and authors are in compliance with the basic rules and recommendations set by COPE.Must be aware of the relevant rules.
It is mandatory to obtain permission from the Ethics Committee / Institutional Review Board for all studies on humans and test animals. “Documents and information requested for studies requiring ethics committee approval” should be uploaded to the system. Upload the ethics committee approval in PDF or JPEG format (Not required for case report-series and review articles). In case reports, it is necessary to include information that the informed consent/consent form was signed in the article. In studies that require ethics committee permission, information about the permission (name of the committee, date and number) should be included in the Material and method section and also on the first/last page of the article. In addition, in the Material and method section, the statement "Declaration that the study was carried out in accordance with the international declaration, guideline, etc." should be included.

Peer Review Policy

The aim of the peer review process is to ensure that qualified and original scientific studies are published. The peer review process for all articles published in Journal of Harran University Medical Faculty is as follows.

Preliminary Control
All manuscripts submitted to the journal are first subjected to a preliminary evaluation by the Editor and Secretary. Manuscripts that do not fall within the scope of publication of our journal or do not comply with the format of a scientific manuscript in terms of content and form conditions, or with a similarity rate of more than 25%, may be rejected and rejected or revision may be requested without starting the reviewing process.
At this stage, no article can be accepted for publication by the editor without a positive reviewer report.

Reviewer Evaluation
Our journal uses a double-blind reviewing system in which the names of the reviewers and authors are kept confidential at every stage of the process.
Manuscripts that pass the preliminary control stage are sent by the secretary to the relevant field editor together with the similarity report. It is sent to three reviewers determined by the editor. The reviewers are selected from the reviewer pool, taking into account their areas of expertise.
The reviewers evaluate the manuscripts in terms of originality, methodology, contribution to the literature, presentation of findings and support of conclusions, and utilization of previous studies. Reviewers may accept or reject the manuscript, or ask the authors to make corrections to the format and/or abstract. For an article to be accepted for publication, at least two reviewers must give a favorable opinion.
If the reviewers or reviewers request corrections, the author(s) shall complete the requested corrections within 30 days at the latest, taking into account the criticisms and suggestions made by the reviewers, and resubmit them to the Editorial Commission. Manuscripts not accepted for publication will not be returned to the authors.

AUTHOR

All authors must make significant contributions to the research. Subjects such as plagiarism, forgery, distortion, unfair authorship are the responsibility of the authors. If detected, the article will be rejected. An article in progress cannot be sent to another journal or published. It is the author's responsibility to upload "documents and information requested for studies requiring ethics committee approval" to the system. Our journal made it mandatory for the authors to define the ethics committee that approved the study. In addition, the submitted article is expected from the authors to comply with the standards recognized below.

Declaration of Helsinki
US Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects
European Medicines Agency Guidelines for Good Clinical Practice
Scientific research should comply with the principles described in the Higher Education Institutions Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive, the internationally recognized Declaration of Helsinki, the US Federal Policy on the Protection of Humans and the European Medicines Agency's Good Clinical Practice Guidelines. Research ethics COPE, ICMJE and experiments on humans, as well as the international guidelines set out in the Declaration of Helsinki for Animal Experiments and Horizon 2020 should be followed.
Studies Requiring Ethics Committee Permission are as follows.

All kinds of research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from the participants by using survey, interview, focus group work, observation, experiment, interview techniques.
• Use of humans and animals (including material/data) for experimental or other scientific purposes,
• Clinical studies on humans,
• Research on animals,
• Retrospective studies in accordance with the law on the protection of personal data,
Moreover;
• Indicating that “informed consent form” was taken in case reports,
• Obtaining and specifying permission from the owners for the use of scales, questionnaires, photographs belonging to others,
Statement that copyright regulations are complied with for the intellectual and artistic works used

Reviewer Evaluation Period
Journal of Harran University Medical Faculty aims to complete the total reviewing process of an article within 10 weeks (70 days), including the preliminary evaluation phase of 1 week, the reviewer evaluation phase of 8 weeks and the final evaluation phase of 1 week. The author(s) submitting an article to Journal of Harran University Medical Faculty are deemed to have accepted the peer review conditions and process of the Journal.


EDITOR
Journal Editors are committed to complying with all COPE Code of Conduct standards. Editors should not have a conflict of interest regarding the accepted or rejected articles. Only articles that will contribute to the field should be accepted. Manuscripts that do not reach the intended level, studies that are not considered scientifically sufficient are rejected by the editor without explaining the reason. An invitation is sent to the referee through the journal system. The referee accepts or rejects the invitation within 7 days. If accepted, the evaluation process is 15 days. If he/she cannot complete the evaluation within 15 days, additional time is given if he/she wishes.

JOURNAL MANAGEMENT
Journal management and editors will take the necessary steps to prevent the publication of articles that are determined to be abusive on the topics mentioned above for the authors. In no event should the journal or its editors encourage or allow such abuses to occur. If the publisher or editor of the journal is notified of any alleged research misconduct, the publisher or editor will deal with the allegations appropriately.
The journal will allow articles to be retracted or corrected as needed. The journal is willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies as needed.

Final Evaluation
The Editorial Board makes the final evaluation for all articles that are approved by the reviewers and reach the publication stage. Articles deemed "suitable for publication" are placed in the publication queue.