The rules regarding ethics were further detailed in 2020, and it has been added to the criteria of journals under TR Dizin that for research requiring ethics committee approval, it is assumed that the necessary permissions have been obtained, and "information about the permissions must be included in the article."

Detailed information on the subject is provided below:

QUESTION 1: Is ethics committee approval required for all articles?

No. The criteria specify "articles requiring ethics committee approval."

Research requiring ethics committee approval includes the following:

• Any research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from participants using surveys, interviews, focus group studies, observation, experiments, or interview techniques,
• Use of humans and animals (including materials/data) for experimental or other scientific purposes,
• Clinical research involving humans,
• Research involving animals,
• Retrospective studies required by personal data protection laws,

Additionally:

In case studies, it must be stated that an "Informed Consent Form" has been obtained,

Permission must be obtained from the owners for the use of scales, surveys, photos, and it must be stated in the article,

It must be stated that copyright regulations are followed for the use of artistic and intellectual works.

QUESTION 2: Should retrospective ethics committee approval be obtained for publications produced from studies and theses completed in previous years?

• For research data used prior to 2020, publications produced from master’s/doctoral theses (must be stated in the article), and articles submitted to the journal in the previous year, accepted but not yet published, retroactive ethics committee approval is not required.

QUESTION 3: Are there any restrictions regarding TR Dizin’s rules for publications outside of universities?

• No. Researchers who are not university members can also apply to the ethics committees in their regions.