OUR JOURNAL POLICY ON ARTICLE SIMILARITY REPORT AND SIMILARITY RATE

Candidate articles must be sent with an originality report obtained from an academic plagiarism prevention program (For example: Ithenticate, intihal.net, etc.). This rate is accepted up to 20%. Studies with a similarity rate of over 20% will be returned at the pre-check stage.

Code of Ethics for Authors

Authors guarantee that their work is original, and when they include the ideas, language, images, graphics and tables of other researchers in their work, they must indicate this as a citation. Quoting without specifying the source is a cause of plagiarism.
Each author mentioned in the study is equally responsible for the content of the study. It is unacceptable that the name of the researcher is not included even though he/she has contributed to the study, or that his/her name is unfairly included even though he/she has not contributed to the study.
Authors must remain faithful to the findings of their research. Changing the findings, making up findings and conclusions, and conducting research based on them is out of the question. Tampering with data and materials, deleting them, removing them, or skipping the interpretation of difficult data is a confidence breaker.
Simultaneous submission of the study to journals is not possible. Authors cannot submit their previously published works to the journal.


Code of Ethics for Referees

Referees should be aware that the evaluation process is confidential and should not be shared with outside third parties.
Referees must submit an objective, unbiased, scientific, understandable and constructive evaluation report regarding the study within the specified period.
Referee reports will also include an evaluation of the scientific quality of the article (the subject addressed, the method used or the appropriate use of relevant literature). This evaluation, whether positive or negative, must be made about the content.
If it is understood that the study is plagiarized or has been previously published elsewhere, referees should notify the editor.

OUR JOURNAL POLICY ON CO-AUTHORITY

The studies to be included in our journal may have been prepared by one or more authors. In studies with more than one author, the names of the authors should be listed in line with their contributions to the work, and the wet signatures of all authors should be included in the "Copyright transfer form" and these signatures should be in accordance with the order of the authors in the study. The Copyright Transfer form will be requested later from the authors of the articles decided to be published. When sending an article, do not send it.


ETHICS COMMITTEE APPROVAL



In line with ULAKBİM 2020 criteria, ethics committee approval must be obtained for research conducted in all fields, including Social Sciences, on clinical and experimental humans and animals, and this approval must be stated and documented in the article. The board name, date and issue number information regarding the ethics committee approval received should be included in the method section of the article and on the first/last page of the article.

Studies requiring ethics committee approval are listed below:
1. All kinds of qualitative or quantitative research in which interview, focus group study, observation, experiment, survey and interview techniques are used and data are collected accordingly,
2. Situations in which humans or animals are used for experimental and other scientific purposes,
3. Clinical studies conducted on humans and animals,
4. Retrospective studies in accordance with the personal data protection law.

In case reports sent to the journal, it is important to include information that the volunteer/consent form has been signed.