I. CODE OF ETHICS

MEMLEKET Journal of Politics and Administration expects from authors, referees, and editors to adhere to the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing declared by organizations such as the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and do not to engage in “actions contrary to the ethics of scientific research and publication” as specified in the Interuniversity Council Directive on Scientific Research and Publication Ethics.

a) Open Access: MEMLEKET Journal of Politics and Administration is committed to the principle of open and free academic publishing. Authors are not expected to pay any fee for article processing, submission, and publication. Each published article can be instantly accessed full text on dergipark website without any restriction.

b) Plagiarism: Presenting the original ideas, methods, data or works of others as one’s own work without citation in accordance with scientific rules.

c) Scientific falsification: Using non-existent or falsified data in scientific research.

d) Data falsification: Falsifying research records or data, pretending that the devices or materials which are not used in the research as if they were used, falsifying, or changing the results of the research in line with the interests of the persons and organizations funding the research.

e) Republishing: Submitting an article which exactly or partly contains the results of the research or the original ideas of a published scientific work.

f) Slicing: Presenting the results of a research in multiple scientific works through disrupting the integrity of the study by inappropriately dividing the results into different parts.

g) Unfair authorship: Adding authors who have not actively contributed to the study to the author list or not including authors who have contributed to the study, changing the author ranking in an unjustified and inappropriate manner, including the name of the thesis advisor among the authors in articles produced from thesis studies.

h) Other types of ethical violations: 1) Failure to specify the individuals, institutions or organizations that have provided support to the research, 2) Using theses or studies that have not yet been submitted or defended and accepted as a source without the permission of the writer, 3) Not respecting the rights of patients, 4) Using the information that s/he has acquired in his/her capacity as the reviewer without the expressed permission of the author, 5) Publishing the data obtained in surveys conducted within the scope of a scientific study without obtaining the explicit consent of the participants or without obtaining the permission of the institution in which the survey has been conducted, 6) Failure to obtain the required written permissions from authorities before starting the studies, to carry out studies contrary to the provisions of the legislation or international conventions to which Turkey is a party, 7) Failure to comply with the obligation to inform and warn authorities about possible harmful practices related to the scientific research, 8) Using data and information obtained from individuals and institutions beyond the limits permitted by them or not respecting the confidentiality of this information, 9) Failure to obtain Ethics Committee permission within the scope of all kinds of research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from participants using survey, interview, focus group study, observation, experiment, interview techniques.

In addition to the ethical principles stated above, MEMLEKET Journal of Politics and Administration expects from authors, referees, and editors to comply to the following issues.

1. Responsibilities of Authors

a) Submitted article should be the original work of the author.

b) All authors should actively participate to and take full responsibility for their study.

c) All authors should approve the final version of the submitted manuscript.

d) The article should not be published or submitted for publication elsewhere.

e) The text, figures and documents in the article should not infringe the copyrights of other parties.

f) They should give the copyright free of charge in case the article is accepted for publishing.

g) In case that the identity of the referee, which must remain confidential under the blind referee rule, is guessed, or learned, the author should immediately notify the editor.

2. Responsibilities of Referees

a) The evaluation should be objective and impartial.

b) S/he should not be in a conflict or harmony of interest with the authors, the study or with those who provide financial support to the research. When s/he realizes that there is a conflict, s/he should withdraw as a referee.

c) In case that s/he has the opinion that s/he is not competent to evaluate the submitted manuscript or when s/he understands that s/he cannot complete the evaluation within a reasonable period, s/he should withdraw as a referee.

d) S/he should not violate confidentiality and should not share the manuscript or his/her report with anyone other than the editor.

e) S/he should not use any data derived from the article that s/he reviewed in his/her studies before its publication.

3. Responsibilities of the Editors

a) They share responsibility with the Editorial Board for accepting, rejecting or resubmitting an article for revision.

b) They check the congruence of articles, original scientific research, reviews, book reviews or documents submitted for publication in the journal with the ethical, general and spelling rules.

c) They should not be in conflict of interest with the authors, the study, the institutions or with those who provide financial support for the research. When they realize that there is conflict should withdraw from the editorship.

d) They should not violate confidentiality and should not share the manuscript with third parties other than the corresponding author(s), other editor(s), Editorial Board or referees.

e) They should not use any data the derived from article that has been accepted before its publication.

f) The names of the referees determined by the Editor and the Editorial Board should not be shared with the authors. The process of determining referees for the articles submitted by the editor or editors to the issue that they edit is carried out by the Editorial Board. The process of determining referees for the articles submitted by one of the members of the Editorial Board is carried out by the editor and other members of the Editorial Board.

II. GENERAL RULES AND ARTICLE EVALUATION PROCESS

1. The Editorial Board may reject the article without determining referees in case the article does not comply to the goals and domain of publication of the journal, ethical principles or author responsibilities defined above. The Editorial Board reserves the right to make the final decision on the acceptance of the article in terms of both its content and format.

2. When the manuscripts are accepted for publication, MEMLEKET Journal of Politics and Administration will possess the rights of processing, reproduction, representation, printing, publication, distribution, and all kinds of public communication, including transmission via the internet. However, intellectual property rights such as patent rights of the author, the right to use the entire article in his/her future books or other works without any payment, provided that the author gives a reference to the article, and the right to reproduce the article for his/her own purposes, provided that s/he does not sell the article.

3. The manuscript submitted to the journal must not have been published anywhere before or it should not be sent elsewhere for publication.

4. Unpublished manuscripts submitted to the journal will not be returned to the author.

5. Manuscripts submitted to the journal must comply with the spelling rules. Manuscripts that do not comply with the spelling rules will be rejected by the Editorial Board without initiating the peer review process..

6. Incoming manuscripts will be uploaded to programs such as Ithenticate, Turnitin, plagiarism.net, etc. and will be subjected to ethical review within the scope of both its content and format. Manuscripts that do not comply with ethical rules will be rejected by the Editorial Board without initiating the peer review process.

7. Manuscript proposals will be evaluated according to the blind peer review system. The Editorial Board will decide whether the manuscript will be published after a minimum of two referee reviews. After the manuscripts are received by the Editorial Board, a positive or negative response will be given to the author within three months.

8. In case of revisions are requested from the author, the revised version of the manuscript must be submitted to the Editorial Board within two months.

9. The length of the articles should not exceed 8,000 words. Manuscripts exceeding this limit will be evaluated by the Editorial Board and the editor.

10. The first page of the manuscript should include the title of the article in Turkish and English, an abstract in Turkish and English not exceeding 150 words, and 5 keywords in Turkish and English. Extended English Abstract in the range of 700-1000 words, 11 point font, single line spacing should be added to the article at the end of the bibliography.

11. When submitting their manuscripts, authors should provide their title, institution, contact address, telephone number, e-mail address and ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) number on a separate page (http://orcid.org)

12. Authors are not paid any royalties.

13. Manuscripts should be sent to MEMLEKET Journal of Politics and Administration

14. Special issue topics can be determined, and the editor of the special issue can be undertaken by a member of the Editorial Board or an external scholar.

15. In special issues, priority is given to articles submitted in the determined topic. Author(s) submitting articles outside the determined topic agree that their articles may be published in later issues.

16. In addition to scientific articles, MEMLEKET Journal of Politics and Administration prints “book reviews” and “article translations” related to the determined topics.