PUBLICATION POLICY :

Manuscripts submitted for publication are subject to peer review. The UST / ICH accepts academic research that has not been previously submitted to another journal for publication. Submissions must be written in accordance with the standards put forward by the journal, and with a clear and concise language. Manuscripts that are submitted to the UST / ICH must be in accordance to national and international ethical rules and standards. Authors who submit their manuscripts to the UST / ICH bear the legal and other responsibilities that may arise from failing to observe these rules and standards.

ETHICAL RULES AND RESPONSIBILITIES :

Please click here to access the International Crimes And History (ICH) Journal, declaration form stating that the study does not require ETHICAL CONSENT FORM.



ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors) recommendations and COPE’s (Committee on Publication Ethics) International Standards for Editors and Authors will be used in the evaluation of the scientific articles sent to the Uluslararası Suçlar ve Tarih (UST)/International Crimes(ICH) journal.



Ethical Tasks and Responsibilities of Authors and Co-authors

1. Studies that require ethics committee decisions;

1.1.1. For research conducted in all scientific fields and for the clinical and experimental cases below on people and animals which require ethics committee decisions;

1.1.2. All kinds of research that are conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches which require gathering data from participants using questionnaires, interviews, focus group work, observation, experiments, discussion/negotiation techniques

1.1.3. Use of humans and animals (including material/data) for experimental or other scientific purposes,

1.2.1. Clinical studies conducted on humans,

1.2.2. Research conducted on animals,

1.2.3. Retrospective studies in conformity with the law on the protection of personal data, ethics committee approval must be acquired separately, this approval must be indicated in the article and documented.

1.3. Information regarding permission/authorization (committee name, date and issue no/number) must be included in the article’s “Method” section and additionally in the first/last page.

1.4. During the article upload, the Ethics Committee Approval file must also be uploaded to the system in addition to the article file.

1.5. Moreover, in case reports, information that the informed voluntary confirmation/consent form was signed must be included in the article.

2. It must be indicated in the article whether or not obtaining legal/exclusive permission is required. If the study contains a practice conducted in an institution, it must be clearly indicated on which date and which decision or issue number the permission was obtained from the relevant institution.

3. For the use of scales, questionnaires, photographs belonging to others, it is necessary that permission is obtained from the owners and that this is indicated in the article through providing the relevant references.

4. It must be stated that intellectual property rights regulations are complied with for the ideas and works of art used in the article.

5. All of the contributing resources of the study must be stated in the acknowledgement section of the article.

6. The authors of the articles submitted to the journal must certify that their articles are original and use citation methods for the citations made in their articles in accordance with ethical principles.

7. All authors are responsible for all sections of the article.

8. Authors must clearly state any kind of conflict of interest or overlap of interest in their articles. In cases where there is no conflict of interest or overlap of interest regarding the subject of the articles, this statement must nevertheless be present in the article. The most common types of conflict of interest are: financial support, education or other funding types, personal or institutional relations and memberships.

9. The articles submitted must not have been previously submitted to any other journal. They may be submitted to another journal for evaluation when the process is complete in a journal and the relevant article is rejected. Simultaneously submitting the same article to more than one journal constitutes unethical publishing behaviour. Moreover, the authors’ article must not been previously published elsewhere.

10. When an author encounters an important error or misstatement or inaccuracy in his/her published work, s/he is responsible for immediately informing the journal editor or publisher of this case and cooperating with the editor in order to withdraw or correct the article.

11. Researchers who have made significant contribution to the concept, design, performance, data collection and/or analyses in a study, researchers who have participated in the preparation of the articles or in their critical revision, and researchers who have approved of the final state of the articles and approved of their submission must be included into the study as responsible authors. Apart from this, authors who have made other contributions (for instance technical support, facilitators in writing and editing, general contributions etc.) must not be included to the authors list. However, the contributions by these people must be stated in the acknowledgement section.

12. In the case of a need for processes such as adding an author, changing the author order, removing an author for an article for which the evaluation process has started, an application may be made to the journal board with the approval of all of the authors. The journal board will the application and inform the author responsible of the decision.



Ethical Tasks and Responsibilities of the Editor

1. The editor must come to a decision on the article according to the its original value, the objectives of the journal, and ethical rules.

2. The editor should only put articles wih high original value and which adhere to the journal objectives and ethical rules into the evaluation process.

3. So long as there is no significant reason, the editor and field editors must pay regard to the positive views of the reviewer/referee.

4. The requests and views from the authors must be replied to through feedback.

5. Referees must be selected in accordance with the article’s subject.

6. Attention must be paid to preventing conflict of interest and self-interest relationships between the referees and the authors.

7. The editor is responsible for guiding the referees during the article evaluation process and providing the requested information.

8. The editor is responsible for hiding the credentials of the author and referee based on the blind review practice.

9. The necessary warnings must be made and measures must be taken so that the referees evaluate the article in a timely, objective, and scientific manner.

10. Effort must be made to increase the number of referees.

11. The editor must pay regard to the opinions and recommendations of the advisory committee regarding the articles.

12. The editor’s decisions regarding the article must be independent from the journal owner and the publisher.

13. The editors is responsible for paying regard to the journal publication guidelines, journal objectives and international standards regarding the articles of the journal that will be published.

14. The editor is responsible for not conveying the personal information of the article authors to third parties outside of the authors’ consent.

15. The editor is responsible for the protection of human and animal rights in the case of studies being conducted on humans and animals present in the contents of the article. The editor is responsible for declining an article in the case of an ethics committee approval not being sent for studies in which an ethics committee report is required.

16. The editor is responsible for protecting the intellectual property rights of all of the articles that were submiteed to and published by the journal.

17. The editor is responsible for providing clear and illuminating responses to the complaints from Referees, authors, and readers.

18. The editor is responsible for taking precautions against conflict of interest and self-interest relationships that may occur between authors, Referees and third parties in order for the completion of the evaluation processes in an objective and autonomous manner.

19. The editor is responsible for the consideration of the feedback from readers, researchers, and implementers regarding the published studies and making the necessary responses and applying the necessary procedures.



Ethical Responsibilities of the Referees

1. Referees are responsible for not evaluating the article in the case of conflict of interest and self-interest relationships.

2. Referees are responsible for the evaluation of the article by paying attention to the guidelines of confidentiality and objectivity.

3. Referees cannot use the study delivered to them for any purpose until the evaluation process is complete and the study is sent for publication.

4. While evaluating the article, referees are responsible for not allowing the authors’ gender, nationality, religious beliefs, or political views to influence the evaluation.

5. Referees must use polite and constructive language while reviewing the article. Comments and statements containing insults, slander, and enmity must be avoided.

6. Referees are responsible for reviewing the article in a timely manner and in accordance with the ethical rules.



TR Index 2021 Criteria

Under the ethical rules title, the aspects below are also abided.

• Ethics committee approvals must be separately acquired for research conducted in all scientific fields including social sciences and for clinical and experimental studies on humans and animals which require an ethics committee decision, this approval must be indicated in the article and documented.

• Under this title, under separate titles for Referees, authors and editors, information must be provided regarding the ethical rules.

• A statement of accordance with the Research and Publication Ethics must be included in the articles.

• Ethical principles must be stated in the journal and/or the website under separate titles while refering to national and international standards. For instance; in scientific articles submitted to journals, ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors) recommendations and COPE’s (Committee on Publication Ethics) International Standards for Editors and Authors must be paid attention to.

• In studies that require ethics committee permission/authorization, information regarding the permission (committee name, date and issue number) must be included in the method section and additionally in the first/last page. In case reports, information that the informed voluntary confirmation/consent form was signed must be included in the article.

• The copyright regulations for the ideas and works of art used must be abided.

• At the end of the article; the Researchers’ statement of Contribution Ratio, Statement of Support and Appreciation if available, Conflict Statement must be included.

Note : Retrospective ethics committee permission is not required for articles that have used research data from before 2020, prepared from post graduate/doctorate studies (must be indicated in the article), applied for publication in the journal the previous year, were approved but not yet published. Please indicate in the declaration form that your study constitutes this case.