Article Evaluation Policy
1. ULUM Journal of Religious Studies is published by Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University Faculty of Islamic Sciences.
2. ULUM publishes academic studies in the field of religious studies.
3. ULUM is published online twice a year on 31 July and 31 December.
4. ULUM accepts academic works such as research papers, book reviews, doctoral thesis abstracts and translations.
5. ULUM's publication languages are Turkish, English, Arabic.
6. Studies in the book review type are accepted only from specialists with doctoral degrees.
7. All expenses of the journal are covered by the Publisher. The publication of articles and the execution of article processes in the journal are free of charge. No processing fee or submission fee is charged for articles submitted to the journal or accepted for publication.
8. Submitted articles must be in accordance with the purpose and scope of the journal.
9. Articles that have not been published before or that are not yet under evaluation in another journal for publication and that are approved by each author are accepted for evaluation.
10. Submitted and pre-checked articles are scanned for plagiarism using Turnitin software.
11. After the plagiarism check, the appropriate articles are evaluated by the editor-in-chief in terms of originality, methodology, importance of the subject and compatibility with the scope of the journal.
12. Selected articles are sent to at least two national/international referees for evaluation by double-blind refereeing.
13. The publication decision is made by the Editorial Board after the arrangements made by the authors in line with the requests of the referees and the referee process.
14. The pre-examination and refereeing process takes an average of 11 weeks.

Review Time: Pre-release
Number of Reviewers: Three Internal Reviewers (Editorial Review) - Two External Reviewers (Peer Review)
Author-Reviewer Interaction: Editors mediate all interactions between reviewers and authors.
Reviewer Interaction: Reviewers can only communicate with editors.
Time in Review: Average 100 Days / 14 Weeks.
Plagiarism Prevention Similarity Scan: Doing – Turnitin.

Author’s Responsibilities
1. The author must comply with research and publication ethics.
2. The author should not attempt to publish the same work in more than one journal.
3. The author should fully indicate the works he has used in the writing of the article in the bibliography.

Editor's Responsibilities
1. The editor evaluates the articles in terms of scientific content, regardless of the ethnic origin, gender, citizenship, religious belief or political opinion of the authors.
2. The editor makes a fair double-blind peer-review of the articles submitted for publication and ensures that all information about the submitted articles is kept confidential before publication.
3. The editor informs the reviewers that the manuscripts are confidential and this is a privileged interaction. The referees and editorial board cannot discuss the articles with other people. Anonymity of referees should be ensured. In certain cases, the editor may share one reviewer's review with other reviewers to clarify a particular point.
4. The editor is responsible for the content and overall quality of the publication. It is also his/her responsibility to issue a correction note or implement a withdrawal as necessary.
5. Editor; does not allow any conflict of interest between authors, editors and referees. Only the referee has full authority to appoint and the Editorial Board is responsible for the final decision regarding the publication of the articles in the journal.

Responsibilities of the Referees
1. Reviewers should not have any conflicts of interest regarding the research, authors and/or research funders.
2. The evaluations of the referees should be objective.
3. The language and style used by the referees should not be offensive to the author.
4. Reviewers must ensure that all information regarding submitted articles remains confidential until the article is published.
5. Reviewers should notify the editor if they notice copyright infringement or plagiarism in the work they are reviewing.
6. A reviewer who feels inadequate to review an article or thinks that he/she will not be able to complete the review within the specified time should withdraw from the review process.
7. During the refereeing process, the referees are expected to make their evaluations by considering the following: Does the article contain new and important information? / Does the abstract clearly and neatly describe the content of the article? / Is the method coherent and clearly defined? / Are the comments and conclusions made substantiated by the findings? / Are adequate references given to other studies in the field? / Is the language quality adequate?
8. Click here to access the forms used in ULUM Journal of Religious Studies.

Article Evaluation Process: Bilateral Blind Refereeing
1. Articles that have not been published before or that are not yet under evaluation in another journal for publication and that are approved by each author are accepted for evaluation. Submitted and pre-checked articles are scanned for plagiarism using Turnitin software. After plagiarism control, eligible articles are evaluated by the editor-in-chief for originality, methodology, importance of the topic covered, and compatibility with the journal scope.
2. The Editor-in-Chief evaluates articles regardless of the authors' ethnicity, gender, nationality, religious beliefs, and political philosophy. It ensures that the articles submitted for publication undergo a fair double-blind peer-review.
3. Selected articles are sent to at least two national/international referees for evaluation.
4. If the referees deem it necessary, changes are made by the author. The Editorial Board decides whether to publish the text corrected by the author.
5. The editor-in-chief does not allow any conflict of interest between authors, editors and referees. It has full authority to appoint an arbitrator.
6. If the referee does not feel qualified about the subject of the article or if it does not seem possible to provide a timely response, he should notify the editor of this situation and request that he be removed from the referee process.
7. Reviewers and editorial board members cannot discuss articles with other people. Care should be taken to keep the identities of the referees confidential.
8. If the author does not agree with the referee's opinions, he is given the right to object and defend his opinions. Provides mutual communication between the field editor, author and referee, while maintaining confidentiality. If both referee reports are positive, the study is submitted to the Editorial Board with a proposal to evaluate its publication. If one of the two referees has a negative opinion, the study is sent to a third referee. Studies can be published with the positive decision of at least two referees.

Preliminary Review and Plagiarism Screening
The study is reviewed by the editor for compliance with journal publication principles, academic writing rules and ISNAD Citation System, and is screened for plagiarism using the Turnitin program. The preliminary review is completed within a maximum of 15 days. The plagiarism similarity rate must be less than 20%. Even though the similarity rate is 1%, if the citation and citation are not duly made, plagiarism may still be in question. In this respect, citation and quotation rules should be known and carefully applied by the author:

Attribution/Indirect Citation: If a reference is made to an opinion, discussion or determination in a source and the cited opinion is lined up with the citing researcher's own words, a footnote (1) should be placed at the end of the sentence. If the reference is to a certain page or page range of the work, the page number should be given. If there is a reference to the whole work, that is, if it is cited in a way that requires the reader to examine the whole work, the footnotes include "See about this.", "See about this opinion.", "See about this discussion." or just “see.” The source should be indicated after the statement.

Quotation/Quote: If the relevant part is taken from the referenced source exactly as it is, without touching the dot and comma, the quoted part is "given in double quotes" and the source is indicated by giving a footnote number at the end. Existing quotations in the directly quoted text are written using 'single quotes'. If the directly quoted part is longer than three lines (more than forty words), it is shown as a separate paragraph. In order to distinguish long quotations from the main text, it should be preferred to write in a font size one smaller than the normal text size and indent the entire paragraph from the left at the beginning of the carriage line. Some words, sentences and paragraphs can be omitted from the directly quoted text, provided that the meaning is not changed. Three dots (…) are put in place of the removed parts. It would not be correct to write the part that is quoted from a source without enclosing it in "double quotes" and to only write the source at the end. If these rules are not followed, the author may be accused of publication ethics (Plagiarism) (see. www.isnadsistemi.org).

Section Editor Review
The study, which has passed the Preliminary Review and Plagiarism Screening phase, is examined by the relevant field editor in terms of problematic and academic language-style. This review will be completed in a maximum of 15 days.

Referee Process (Academic Evaluation)
The study, which passes the review of the section editor, is submitted to the evaluation of at least two external referees who have a doctoral thesis, book or article on the subject. The arbitration process is carried out in secrecy within the framework of the double-blind arbitration practice. The referee is requested to either state his opinion and opinion on the study he has examined on the text or justify it with a minimum 150-word explanation on the online referee form. If the author does not agree with the referee's opinions, he is given the right to object and defend his opinions. Provides mutual communication between the section editor, author and referee, while maintaining confidentiality. If both referee reports are positive, the study is submitted to the Editorial Board with a proposal to evaluate its publication. If one of the two referees has a negative opinion, the study is sent to a third referee. Studies can be published with the positive decision of at least two referees. The publication of book and symposium evaluations and doctoral thesis summaries is decided upon the evaluation of at least two internal referees (relevant section editors and/or editorial board members).

Correction Phase
If the referees want correction in the text they have examined, the relevant reports are sent to the author and he is asked to correct his work. The author makes the corrections with the "Track Changes" feature turned on in the Word program or indicates the changes in the text in red. Submits the edited text to the field editor.

Section Editor Control
The section editor checks whether the author has made the requested corrections in the text.

Referee Control
The referee requesting correction checks whether the author has made the requested corrections in the text.

Abstract and Extended Summary
The authors of the studies, about which both referees have decided to be "publishable", are asked to expand the öz/abstract part of the articles to 350-400 words.

Turkish Language Control
Studies that pass the peer-review process are reviewed by the Turkish Language Editor and Editor-in-Chief, and if necessary, corrections are requested from the author. The control process is completed within a maximum of 15 days.

English Language Control
The works that pass the Turkish language control are reviewed by the English Language Editor and if necessary, corrections are requested from the author. The English language editor's control process is completed within a maximum of 15 days.

Editorial Board Review
The articles that have passed technical, academic and linguistic examinations are examined by the Editorial Board, and whether they will be published or not, and if they will be published, in which issue they will be included. The Board decides by majority vote. In the event of a tie, the final decision is made in the direction of the editor's decision.

Typesetting and Layout Phase
The typesetting and layout of the works decided to be published by the Editorial Board are made ready for publication and sent to the author for review. This stage lasts for a maximum of 15 days.

Data Submission to National and International Indexes
The data of the published issue is transmitted to the relevant indexes within 15 days.