The Journal of Kırıkkale University Faculty of Medicine (e-ISSN: 2148-9645) requires all authors and peer reviewers to declare any conflict of interest associated with the submission or review of an article. The Journal of Kırıkkale University Faculty of Medicine’s (e-ISSN: 2148-9645) editorial and the publication processes are shaped in accordance with the guidelines of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).

A) Author's Ethical Responsibilities
With the decisions taken by Ulakbim TR Dizin, ‘’Ethics Committee Approval’’ is required for the Studies to be published after 2020. Approval must be obtained from the Ethics Committees established and approved by University Senates or Public Hospitals. In the articles that will be uploaded to our journal, ‘’Ethics Committee Document’’ must be uploaded, as well. If your article is in a category that does not require ethics committee approval, you must indicate this in your article text.
Studies Requiring Ethics Committee Permission
1. Any type of studies conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data from participants using surveys, interviews, focus group work, observation, experiment and interview techniques.
2. Use of humans and animals (including material/data) for experimental or other scientific purposes,
3. Clinical research conducted on humans,
4. Research conducted on animals,
5. Retrospective studies in accordance with the law on the protection of personal data.
Also;
It is required to state that
*Copyright regulations are complied with for the ideas and the artworks used, permission from the right holders is taken for using the scales, surveys and photographs belonging to the others, and ‘Informed Consent Form” is taken for case reports.
* Retrospective ethics committee approval is not required for the articles that used research data before 2020, those that were produced from master’s/doctoral studies (which must be stated in the article), or those that were submitted to the journal for publication before the year specified above, were accepted but have not been published yet. Please state in the declaration form that your work has this situation.
* In case reports, information regarding the signing of the informed consent/assent form must be included in the article.

Conflict of Interest Statement
Authors must disclose all financial and personal relationships that might bias their work. Financial relationships (such as employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, and paid expert testimony) are the most easily identifiable conflicts of interest and the most likely to undermine the credibility of the journal. To prevent ambiguity, authors must state explicitly in the letter accompanying the submitted manuscript whether potential conflicts do or do not exist.
Copyright
Articles with original material are accepted for consideration with the understanding that, except for abstracts, no part of the data has been published, or will be submitted for publication elsewhere, before appearing in this journal. Authors are required to assign copyright to “The Journal of Kırıkkale University Faculty of Medicine” (e-ISSN: 2148-9645), when their article is accepted for publication. The copyright assignment letter must be signed by all authors (or corresponding authors) and a copy returned to the Managing Editor. Permission must be gained to reproduce any figure, table or extensive extract (over 50 words) from any source that is owned or copyrighted by anyone other than the author or The Journal of Kırıkkale University Faculty of Medicine (e-ISSN: 2148-9645).
Statement of İnformed Consent
Analytical investigations on human participants must include a statement in the Methods section that participants gave their informed consent. It is journal policy that participant anonymity must be preserved in all cases. Research on experimental animals must be approved by an appropriate institutional ethics approval committee and the appropriate approval number must be stated in the Methods section.
Protection of Human and Animal Rights
For experimental, clinical, and drug researches an Ethics Committee report consistent with international agreements on human and animal rights (Helsinki Declaration of 1975, revised 2002 -http://www.wma.net/e/policy/b3.htm and “Guide for the care and use of laboratory animals - www.nap.edu/catalog/5140.html) and an informed consent of patients are required.
Funding
Authors must include a statement in the Methods section that identifies any funding sources for their work.

B) Ethical Responsibilities of the Editors
A similarity report in terms of plagiarism will be requested for the Manuscripts submitted to the The Journal of Kırıkkale University Faculty of Medicine in accordance with the agreement between DergiPark and intihal.net for all manuscript submissions. Authors will be informed during the submission process and the system will prepare a report during the file upload step and the result will be sent to the author via e-mail. The author will be able to complete the submission process at this stage. In order to submit a manuscript to the The Journal of Kırıkkale University Faculty of Medicine, the similarity rate should be maximum 20%.
Copy Editors: They ensure the manuscript complies with the journal's guidelines and ethical standards.
Section Editors and the Editor in Chief send the manuscript to an expert peer reviewer in the relevant field. If the manuscript is deemed suitable for publication by the reviewers, it is accepted for publication.
Language Editors: They correct the grammar and meaning of the manuscript, particularly the English sections.
The final review is conducted by the Journal Editor and Layout Editors, who format the manuscript according to the publication standards. The Editor in Chief is the final authority in the decision-making process for all of the appeals and complaints.

C) Ethical Responsibilities of the Referees
Peer-review process
All manuscripts are submitted for external expert peer review. The journal uses a double-blind peer review system, with two to three referees (members of the Editorial Committee and/or external consultants) independently evaluating all manuscripts. If the reviewers accept to evaluate the manuscript, a 7-day period is given; this period may be extended upon the reviewer’s request. If the evaluation is not completed within an average of 30 days, the manuscript will be sent to another reviewer. The referees will make Suggestions as to the acceptance, revision or rejection of manuscripts. In certain cases, specialist peer reviewers (such as statisticians) will be used, for example, for review of study design features, conduct of the study, presentation of data, statistical analysis, or conclusions. If the referees indicate that a manuscript should be revised, authors will be requested to revise the manuscript along the lines indicated by the referees. Occasionally, resubmitted manuscripts may undergo further peer review.

Once revisions are completed and approved by the Managing Editor, the corresponding author is notified that an article has been accepted for publication. Rejected manuscripts will not be returned to authors. The average length of time from acceptance of a manuscript to publication is 6 months.