ETHICAL PRINCIPLES
All parties involved in the publishing process (authors, Editorial Board and reviewers) are supposed to contribute to the improvement of science appropriately. In accordance with this aim, in scientific studies, convenience to ethical standards of behaviour is essential. These ethical standards, based on the instructions of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics), are accepted by our Journal. The Journal of the Faculty of Language and History-Geography expects all parties to voluntarily comply with these international standards [the ethical principles determined by COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) https://publicationethics.org/
Relations with Journal Owner and Publisher
The relationship between the editor and the publisher is based on the principle of editorial independence. In accordance with the written contract between the editor and the publisher, all editorial decisions are independent of the publisher and the journal owner.
Correction, Retraction, Expression of ConcernEditors may consider publishing a correction if minor errors are identified in the published article that do not affect the findings, interpretations and conclusions. In the case of major errors/violations that invalidate findings and conclusions, editors should consider retracting the article.
COPE principles are taken into account in relation to correction, withdrawal or expression of concern.
Confidentiality StatementAll of the data (personal information such as names and last names of authors, email addresses, etc.) collected and entered into the Management System of the Ankara University Journal of the Faculty of Languages and History-Geography (DTCF Journal) are solely to be used by the scholarly studies of the Journal and the Faculty of Languages and History-Geography. This data is not to be used for other purposes or shared with third parties on any account.
Protection of Intellectual Property RightsOur journal is obliged to protect the intellectual property rights of all published articles and to defend the rights of the journal and the author(s) in case of possible violations.
ComplaintsAny unethical behavior of the editors, referees, or authors of the Journal of Ankara University, Faculty of Language, History and Geography, or any unethical situation in the review process, in early view, or in a published manuscript should be reported to
dtcfdergisi@ankara.edu.tr. Our journal follows the procedure outlined in the
COPE flowcharts for complaints.
Conflicts of interestOur journal guarantees the independent and impartial completion of the publication process, taking into account the conflicts of interest between the author(s), reviewers and other editors.
Change of AuthorOnly the article is processed before acceptance. Authors are required to carefully review the list and order of authors before submitting their manuscript and provide the exact list of authors at the time of original submission.
Use of Artificial Intelligence
The use of artificial intelligence in processes that do not affect the originality of the article, such as literature review or language control, is acceptable in studies submitted to our journal. However, the use of artificial intelligence should be carried out within the framework of ethical rules and should never be used for unethical purposes such as fabricated data and manipulation.
For studies involving the use of artificial intelligence, it is mandatory to inform our journal about this situation at the article submission stage. All responsibility for the use of artificial intelligence belongs to the authors themselves.
Plagiarism Checker
Ankara University Journal of the Faculty of Languages and History-Geography requires that all manuscripts must be checked for plagiarism/similarity in line with publication ethics. Plagiarism check should be done through iThenticate software.
The article should be subjected to similarity check by the author using the iThenticate program and the similarity report should be uploaded to the journal system with the article. The matches that appear in the article through the software are examined in detail by the Editorial Board and the similarities with correct references and citations are extracted and reported. The Editorial Board makes its decision on the similarity process of the article in line with this report. Errors in the report may be requested to be corrected by the author or the article may be returned to the author. Authors should strictly avoid plagiarism, including self-plagiarism.
Articles with results with a similarity report exceeding 18%, except for the references section, are not evaluated.
Ethical Responsibilities of Stakeholders
International Standards for Authors
• The authors have to certify the submitted manuscripts to be their original studies. Plagiarism, fabrication, forgery, duplication, data falsification etc. are prohibited.
• Authors should neither give any physical/legal harm to the participants of a research nor psychologically abuse them. Additionally, authors have to give guarantee to the participants of their studies on the right of privacy and anonymity.
• Authors should define the persons or institutions sponsoring their research.
• Authors should assure that the manuscripts they submit have not been published before and they are not under evaluation in any other journal.
• Authors should be aware that all the references used in the manuscript are exactly given in the bibliography of the manuscript.
• On realising an important mistake or incorrectness in the article published, the author has to immediately inform the editor/the publisher of the Journal and either withdraw the article from the Journal or cooperate with the editor for correction.
• All studies involving human or animal subjects must be conducted in accordance with the
Declaration of Helsinki and
ARRIVE guidelines and approval must be obtained from the relevant ethics committee. In addition, the relevant ethics committee approvals and research details should be stated in the "Materials and Methods" section of the study.
• Authors have to inform the Journal about any situation regarding conflict of interest or collaborative interest.
The studies that require the approval of the Ethics Committee are listed below. Within this context, for the studies, the information on the permission obtained from the Ethics Committee should be stated in the article and a copy of the permission should be uploaded to the system of the Journal.
• All kinds of research carried out with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from the participants by using survey, interview, focus group work, observation, experiment and interview techniques,
• Use of humans (including material/data) for experimental or other scientific purposes,
• Retrospective studies in accordance with the law on the protection of personal data,
• Indicating that an “informed consent form” has been received in case reports,
• For the use of scales, questionnaires, photographs belonging to others, obtaining and indicating the permission gained from the owners,
• Indication of compliance with copyright regulations for the intellectual and artistic works used in the article.
Author(s) must comply with ethical and legal standards and provide information on the following issues to those participating in research to produce an article:
Participants in the research;
• should be informed that research will be conducted on them.
• should be informed that participation is on a voluntary basis, there is no sanction for refusing to participate, and participants can withdraw at any time without penalty.
• should be informed about the purpose of the research and the procedure to be followed in the research.
• should be informed about the means of communication that they would apply for answers to questions about the research.
• should be informed about a possible risk and inconvenience that may affect them in case they agree to cooperate.
• should be informed about how privacy will be protected.
Some of the actions considered to be against scientific research and publication ethics:
• Plagiarism: Showing others' original ideas, methods, data or works as their own work, partially or completely, without reference to scientific rules,
• Fraud: Using data that does not actually exist or has been falsified in scientific research,
• Distortion: Falsifying the research records or the data obtained, showing the devices or materials not used in the research as being used, distorting or shaping the research results in line with the interests of the people and organizations from which the support was obtained
• Republishing: To present repetitive publications as separate publications in academic appointments and promotions,
• Slicing: Dividing the results of a research into pieces in a way that disrupts the integrity of the research and inappropriately and publishing in more than one issue and presenting these publications as separate publications in academic appointments and promotions,
• Unfair authorship: Including non-active contributors among the authors or not including those who are, changing the author's order in an unjustified and inappropriate manner, removing the names of those with active contributors from the work in subsequent editions, using their influence to include their names among the authors, even though they have no active contribution,
• Not specifying the persons, institutions or organizations and their contributions in the publications made as a result of researches conducted with the support,
• Using theses or studies that have not yet been submitted or accepted as a source without the permission of the owner,
• Failing to comply with ethical rules in research conducted on humans and animals, not respecting patient rights in their publications, harming animal health and ecological balance, not obtaining necessary permissions,
• Misusing resources, spaces, facilities and devices provided or allocated for scientific research,
• To make false or misleading statements regarding scientific research and publications in academic appointments and promotions.
International Standards for Editors and Editorial Board
• The Editorial Board should act in a balanced, objective and fair manner while performing their duties without discrimination on the grounds of gender, religious or political beliefs, ethnic or geographical differences of the authors. The studies submitted to the Journal should be evaluated according to their content and the Editorial Board should not give any privilege to any author.
• The Editorial Board has to make efforts to enhance and improve the quality of the Journal.
• The Editorial Board has to put emphasis on scientific quality and originality to the utmost.
• The Editorial Board thoroughly checks the submitted manuscripts to determine its publication and to prevent misconducts. When the manuscript is not suitable for purpose and scope of the Journal, the study is rejected. If a misconduct is determined in a manuscript, the relevant author is responsible for withdrawal or correction of the manuscript according to the editor's and reviewer's feedback.
• The Editorial Board must keep confidential information regarding all articles submitted.
• The Editorial Board is in charge of taking publication decisions about the manuscripts submitted to the Journal.
• The Editorial Board has to make efforts to meet the needs of the authors and readers.
• The Editorial Board has to be always ready for announcing corrections, explanations, withdrawals and apologies when required.
• The Editorial Board should apply the necessary procedures, adhering to the Journal's policies and procedures, in case of a complaint that constitutes an ethical violation. It should give the authors an opportunity to respond to the complaint, and should not hesitate to apply the necessary sanctions, regardless of whom the work belongs to.
International Standards for Reviewers
• To help editors make a decision, reviewers have to accept to review the manuscripts related to their speciality and review objectively on time.
• Reviewers have to keep confidential information regarding the manuscripts.
• Reviewers have to review manuscripts objectively by criteria as originality, importance, appropriateness to the fields of the Journal.
• Reviewers should provide guidance that will help improve the quality of the manuscript to be published, and make their comments in a constructive and non-offensive language.
• Reviewers have to present to the attention of the Editorial Board any information that may cause the manuscript to be rejected.
• In any case of dispute or conflict of interest, reviewers have to inform the Journal about it.
Ethical Standards for Publishers
• Publisher, as one of the stakeholders in the production of a scientific study, is responsible for using its publishing power without any individual interest and for guiding its target audience correctly.
• Publisher protects the proprietary right and copyright of every published article and undertakes the task of archiving every published product.
PUBLICATION POLICY
The publication policy, article evaluation and publication process of Ankara University Journal of the Faculty of Languages, History and Geography (DTCF Journal) are given below.
1-Copyright and Open Access PolicyDTCF Journal is an open access journal. Based on the principle of dissemination of knowledge, it provides free access to all articles, including archives. The copyright of the works published in our journal belongs to the authors and is published as open access under the
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (
CC BY 4.0) license.
Click here for the Copyright form.
2-Archive Policy Articles published in our journal are digitally archived in
DSpace and
LOCKSS. In addition, published articles can be accessed by the author in the institutional archive of the university where the author works, in thematic archives or in any other archive without an embargo period. Thus, anyone can immediately access this publication free of charge. Articles published in our journal can be accessed free of charge at
https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/dtcfdergisi/archive.
3-Charges, Sponsorship and AdvertisementDTCF Journal does not charge the author/authors at any stage. The whole process related to the article is carried out free of charge. In addition, the journal does not accept sponsorship and advertising offers. All expenses of our journal are covered by the publisher.
4-Article Evaluation Process
Manuscripts submitted to the DTCF Journal go through the following processes.
Appraisal Process
The manuscripts are initially evaluated by the Editors and the Editorial Board. Manuscripts that do not comply with the aims and scope of the Journal, that are not written in accordance with the Turkish and English grammatical structures, that are not original, or that are outside of the publishing policies are declined.
The manuscripts that are not uploaded with the Copyright Notice Text and similarity report to the system are not evaluated. If plagiarism is detected in an article submitted or published in our journal, our journal acts in accordance with the COPE principles (Plagiarism in a submitted manuscript - Plagiarism in a published article). Moreover, the Editors and Editorial Board can return the manuscripts by applying a quota according to the density of the number of applications. In the case of a declined manuscript during the appraisal process, the author is informed by the Editor within a fortnight at the latest following the submission date. For the manuscripts that are found acceptable the review process begins.
For manuscripts submitted to the DTCF Journal and requiring an ethics committee decision, ethics committee approvals must be obtained and these approvals must be specified and documented.
Authors can obtain the ORCID number required for the application from https://orcid.org/register. The ORCID number must be given in the registration form in accordance with the standards. (For example:
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-0097).
Blind-Peer-Review Method
All manuscripts submitted to the DTCF Journal are evaluated with a double-blind peer-review process without revealing the identities of the authors and reviewers.
Review Process
According to their subjects, manuscripts are sent to reviewers from the relevant fields. The member of the Editorial Board that examines the work may suggest at least two reviewers according to their areas of expertise from the DergiPark reviewer pool, or may suggest new reviewer(s) in line with the research area of the manuscript. The reviewer suggestions forwarded by the member of the Editorial Board in charge are evaluated by the Editor, and the manuscript is sent to reviewers. The reviewers are deemed to have accepted in advance that they will not share any information and document regarding the review process with third parties or organizations.
Reviewer’s Evaluation Process
The reviewers are given 20 days to send their reports. Authors must respond to the reviewer’s suggestions and revise their works within 10 days at the latest. Reviewers may suggest not more than two rounds of revision for the same manuscript. Reviewers are required to evaluate the revised work (submitted after at most two rounds of revision) and arrive at a decision, “accept” or “reject” on the manuscript. In order for the manuscripts submitted to our journal to be published, at least two referees must give a publishable decision. If one referee gives a positive opinion and one referee gives a negative opinion, the article is sent to a third referee.
Result of the Review
The reviewer reports are evaluated by the member of the Editorial Board in charge within a fortnight at the latest. Based on the reviewers’ reports, the member of the Editorial Board forwards the decision on the manuscript to the Editor.
Decision of the Editorial Board
A manuscript being accepted for publication by the reviewers is presented to the Editorial Board. The Editorial Board has the right not to publish the manuscript and in the manuscripts, decided to be published, the Editorial Board can make minor corrections, when necessary, that will not change the meaning and integrity of the study. The opinions and legal responsibility in the published articles belong to the authors.
Instructions for Revision and Guidelines for Uploading the Manuscript
The Editor, the members of the Editorial Board and/or reviewers may suggest at most two rounds of revision for the manuscripts that are under evaluation by the DTCF Journal. Authors are to submit their revisions thoroughly, clearly and in time. Red font color should be selected during the revision process so that the editor and referees can check it.
Objecting to the Result of the Evaluation
Authors retain the right to object to the reviewers’ reports about their submission to the DTCF Journal. Authors should submit their objections to the result of the evaluation of their manuscript and/or reviewers’ suggestions and comments in an academic manner outlining their reasons for objecting to the result of the evaluation by email. Objections will be examined by the Editorial Board, and authors will receive a positive or a negative notification within 30 days at the latest regarding the status of their objection. In the event that the author’s objection is found acceptable, the Editorial Board will re-start the evaluation process by assigning different reviewers from relevant area of research.
5-Special Issue Policy
With the decision of the Editorial Board, a special issue may be published once a year. The publication and evaluation principles for the articles to be published in the special issue are applied as applied in the planned issues.
A) Yunus Emre Special Issue
“Yunus Emre Special Issue” of our journal was made available to our readers on 12/29/21. This issue was published under the editorship of Prof. Dr. Erdoğan UYGUR. Please click here to access our special issue.
B) 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE REPUBLIC OF TURKEY SPECIAL ISSUE-2023
The “100th ANNIVERSARY OF THE REPUBLIC OF TURKEY SPECIAL ISSUE-2023” of our journal was made available to our readers on 10/29/23. This issue was published under the editorship of Prof. Dr. Erdoğan UYGUR. Please click here to access our special issue.