In addition to the articles submitted to UDEKAD in accordance with the publication rules, the plagiarism report of İthenticate is requested from the authors and is checked for plagiarism before publication. In plagiarism control, the similarity rate should not exceed 20%.

Manuscripts sent to UDEKAD must not be published elsewhere or should not be sent for publication. Papers presented in symposiums may be published provided that they are not published.

UDEKAD has a strict understanding of publication against plagiarism and predatory journalism.

The publication process at UDEKAD is the basis of the improvement and dissemination of information objectively and respectfully. Therefore, the procedures in this process improve the quality of the studies. Peer-reviewed studies are the ones that support and materialize the scientific method. At this point, it is of utmost importance that all parties included in the publication process (authors, readers and researchers, publisher, reviewers and editors) comply with the standards of ethical considerations. 

UDEKAD expects all parties to hold the following ethical responsibilities.

Ethical Guidelines for Authors

• All authors must warrant that their article is their own original work. They should include citation as long as they use other person’s ideas, language, pictures, graphs and tables. Without citing the source, copying even a single sentence from your work other works and papers leads to plagiarism.
• All authors named in the work are held accountable for the content of the paper. Including authors who have not contributed to the research or exluding authours who have contributed is unacceptable.
• Concurrent submission is not acceptable. Authors must not submit a manuscript to more than one journal simultaneously. Related to this subject, authors should not submit previously published work, as well.
• Authors should be loyal to the findings of their research. Fabrication of data, making up data or result and reporting them, is unacceptable. Manipulating the data, materials, deleting, omitting or supression of conflicting data without justification causes mistrust. Authors must avoid making defamatory statements in their papers as this can be construed as impugning any person’s reputation.
• It is authors' responsibility to ensure that the submitted article is of a quality that contributes to the academic field.
• The works must be original and based on research.
• It should be made sure that other individuals shown as co-authors, have contributed to the research. It is contrary to the scientific ethics to add some, who are not academic contributors to the article, as co-authors or to put in order co-authors with non-academic criteria such as title, age, and gender regardless of the order of contribution.
• It is assumed that authors who submit articles to the journal read and accept the publishing and writing principles of the journal and the writers are deemed to have committed themselves to these principles.
• Citations and bibliography should be complete and realistic.
• Authors should take into account the Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive specified by the Higher Education Council.

Ethical Guidelines for Reviewers

• Reviewers should be aware that the peer review process is confidential and should not be shared with anyone outside the process.
• Unbiased consideration should be given to each manuscript  by the reviewers.
• Reviewers should provide a comprehensive and constructive peer review report and recommendation in a timely manner.
• Reviewers should inform the Editor if the manuscripts are plagiarized or published elsewhere.
• Referees should act with the awareness that they are the most basic determinant of the academic quality of the article to be published in the journal and should evaluate it with a view increasing the academic quality.
• Referees should only accept the articles that they have the expertise necessary to make an appropriate appraisal. Also, they should only accept the articles that they can adhere to the double-blind peer-review secrecy and they should keep the details of the article in every way confidential.
• Referees should only evaluate the correctness of the content of the articles and the appropriateness of the academic criteria. The opinions put forth in the article by authors may differ from those of the referees. The differences should not affect the evaluation.
• Referee reports should be objective and moderate. Defamatory, derogatory and accusatory statements must be avoided.
• Referees should avoid superficial and ambiguous expressions in evaluation reports. For the evaluations that resulted negative, the missing points and imperfections of the article must be shown clearly and concretely.
• Referees must evaluate the articles within the time-frame granted to them. If they will not evaluate the article, they must notify the journal within a reasonable time.

Ethical Guidelines for Editors-in-Chef/Editorial Board Members

• Editors and editorial board of the journal keep the peer review process confidential and do not share process with anyone outside.
• Without regarding race, sex, language, religion, nationality, seniority or institutional affiliation; editors and editorial board should give unbiased consideration to each manuscript submitted for consideration for publication.
• Upon receiving a claim that submitted article is plagiarized,  under consideration elsewhere or has already been published, editor has the duty to investigate the matter.
• Editors should accept the articles that may contribute to the relevant areas expressed in the scope of the Journal to the evaluation process.
• Editors should not be in any conflict of interest with the accepted or rejected articles nor take advantage from them.
• Editors have all the responsibility and authority to accept or reject a submission.
• Editors should take the necessary effort to ensure that the articles submitted for publication will be scanned to prevent plagiarism that is an academic dishonesty.
• It is the responsibility of editors to complete the review, refereeing, editing and publishing processes of the submitted articles in a timely and healthy manner.
• Editors should give priority to academic concerns and criteria when accepting the articles to the journal.

In addition;

Duties of the Publisher: UDEKAD is committed to ensuring that commercial revenue has no impact or influence on editorial decisions. In addition, UDEKAD will assist in communications with other journals and/or publishers where this is useful to editors. Finally, we are working closely with other publishers and industry associations to set standards for best practices on ethical matters, errors and retractions–and are prepared to provide specialized legal review and counsel if necessary.

If there is a violation of any of the above mentioned policies in papers submitted to UDEKAD, the manuscript will be rejected or removed. 

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