PRINCIPLES OF PUBLICATION ETHICS OF OUR JOURNAL

The author(s) accept that the submitted manuscript complies with PUBLICATION ETHICS and accepts ethical responsibility for the article. In the submitted scientific articles, the recommendations of the ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors) and the "International Standards for Editors and Authors" of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) should be taken into account.

Each author is equally responsible for the article content.


Ethical Responsibilities of Authors


· Authors prepare and submit their works as original.

· Authors ensure that the citations they make in the articles they submit are correct and complete.

· Authors are required to state and explain situations that may have a conflict of interest in the articles they submit.

Editor, referee and section editor can request raw data of the article from the author. Therefore, the author should be able to present the raw data of the submitted article.
· In studies that require an ethical report, the author must send the Ethics report together with the submission.

Authors are obliged to inform the journal for correction or retraction of the article in case of errors or inaccuracies in any of the pre-control, evaluation, editing and publication stages.

Authors cannot follow the process for the same article in two journals at the same time. When the process is completed in one journal and his article is rejected, he can send his article to the other journal. An article published in another journal cannot be sent to our journal.

If there is a need for processes such as adding an author, changing the order of authors, removing an author to an article whose evaluation process has begun in our journal, it can apply to the journal with the approval of all authors. The editorial board of the journal examines the application and notifies the responsible author of the decision.


Editors' Ethical Responsibilities


The editor and section editors must have the ethical duties and responsibilities specified in the "Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors" and "Cope Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors" published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) on our Dergipark page. These duties and responsibilities are summarized below.

· Editors are responsible for taking into account the feedback from readers and researchers about published studies and taking necessary actions and responses.

· Editors make their decision about the article based on the original value of the article, the aims of the journal and ethical rules.

· Editors should evaluate articles with high novelty and originality, and articles prepared by considering the journal's purposes and ethical rules.

· The editors should take into account the positive comments of the referees unless there is a justification.

· Editors are required to respond to requests and comments from authors with feedback.

· Editors and referees to be appointed should be selected in accordance with the subject of the article.

· Editors should take care that there is no conflict of interest or conflict of interest between the referee(s) and the author(s).

· Editors are responsible for guiding the referees in the article evaluation process and providing the information they request.

· Editors are obliged to hide the identity information of the author and referee by applying the blind refereeing process.

· Editors should take the necessary warnings and precautions for the referees to evaluate the article in a timely, impartial and scientific manner.

· Editors should consider the opinions and suggestions of the advisory board about the articles.

· Editors' decisions about the article should be independent of the journal owner and publisher.

· Editors are responsible for observing the journal publication principles, journal aims and international standards in the articles to be published in the journal.

· Editors are responsible for not transferring their personal information to third parties without the consent of the article authors.

· Editors are responsible for protecting human and animal rights in case the content of the article includes studies on humans and animals. It is responsible for rejecting the article if ethics committee approval is not sent for studies that require an ethics committee report.

· Editors are responsible for protecting the intellectual property rights of all articles submitted and published to the journal.

· Editors are responsible for clearly responding to complaints from referees, authors and readers.

· Editors are responsible for taking precautions against conflicts of interest that may arise between authors, referees and third parties in order to complete the impartial and independent evaluation processes of the articles.



Ethical Responsibilities of Referees


The referees are responsible for not evaluating the article if there is a conflict of interest.

The referees are responsible for evaluating the article by paying attention to the principles of confidentiality and impartiality.

The referees cannot use the work sent to them for any purpose until the evaluation process is completed and it is published.

The referees are responsible for not allowing the gender, nationality, religious beliefs and political views of the authors to affect the evaluation process.

Reviewers should use courteous and constructive language when evaluating the article.

The referees are responsible for evaluating the article on time and by paying attention to the ethical rules.

Plagiarism Policy

Necmettin Erbakan University Journal of Science and Engineering Sciences has started to check the manuscripts sent for publication as of 01.01.2020 through plagiarism software (Turnitin, iThenticate, etc.). The author should also send the document showing the similarity rate with the study. Studies with a similarity rate of more than 15% (excluding references) are not evaluated and returned to their authors. If a work published in the journal is found to be plagiarism, the Editorial Board reserves the right to take various actions, including retracting the article, reporting the issue to the department head, dean, and/or relevant institutions in the institution where the author works.