Journal Policy

Studies sent to our journal are sent to at least two referees and their names are kept confidential from each other.

No fee is charged for the studies sent to the journal (free for fee).

Number-based articles are not accepted in our journal. The reason why the article is not accepted for the issue is the variability that may occur in the duration of the evaluation processes.

Article acceptance continues. The articles accepted as a result of the referee processes are put in the queue for the first issue to be published.

In our magazine, which is published as 4 issues annually; Issues are published on the 30th day of March, June, September and December. The evaluation process for the works uploaded to the system in the last 15 days of the relevant months is started after the issue is published.

In our journal, the pre-control and referee assignment period takes place within an average of 7-10 days. After the referee process starts, the referees have a 15-day invitation period and a 30-day evaluation period. Since this process may vary according to the referees, it is not possible to give precise information about whether the work you will submit will be able to catch up with the numbers whose article acceptance is ongoing.

The correction period given to the authors is 15 days, and the works that are not requested for corrections within this period will be rejected. An extension period can be added for this period if the editors are consulted. Authors can withdraw their work only during the pre-check phase. In other cases, if peer-review processes have been initiated, studies can only be returned by the editors.

Our journal has adopted the Open Access Policy and serves only in Dergipark.

The copyright of the works sent to our journal must be transferred to our journal.

Ethical Principles

Our ethical principles, which are adopted and need attention, are listed below.

YÖK Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive
Higher Education Institutions Ethical Behavior Principles
TÜBİTAK - Research and Publication Ethics Committee Regulation and

COPE

Ethical rules to be followed by the editor:

1) The editor should ensure that the submitted articles are evaluated only according to the quality of the work and the comments of the referees, regardless of the characteristics of the authors such as religion, language, race, ethnicity, political thought and gender.
2) The editor should reject the article in case of ethical violations.
3) The editor keeps the information about the articles sent to the journal confidential, and should not share this information with anyone other than the responsible author, referees and the editorial board.
4) The editor should ensure that the peer-review process is done with double-blind refereeing.
5) The editor should not use the information presented in the article for their own research.
6) The editor has full responsibility to reject, accept or request changes to the articles submitted to the journal.

Ethical rules that authors must follow:

1) Authors must declare that the work they sent is original and has not been published before.
2) Authors must declare that the work is not currently under review in another journal.
3) All authors named in the study must have contributed to the experimental design and implementation of the study, or to the analysis and interpretation of the data.
4) Authors should provide access to the data sets used in the article, if deemed necessary.
5) If the authors realize that there is an important mistake in their published article, they are required to inform the editorial board.
6) Authors should submit ethics committee approval to the journal for studies that require ethics committee approval. If "Ethics Committee Approval" is required for the research; Information regarding the approval of the Ethics Committee (name of the ethics committee, the number and date of the approval document) should be stated in the article.

Within the framework of ethical rules; Studies that require Ethics Committee Permission for evaluation in the journal are as follows:

- All kinds of research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from the participants by using survey, interview, focus group work, observation, experiment, interview techniques,
- The use of humans and animals (including material/data) for experimental or other scientific purposes,
- clinical studies on humans,
- Studies on animals,
- Retrospective studies in accordance with the personal data protection law.

Ethical rules that referees must follow:

1) Referees must agree to arbitrate on matters they feel have sufficient expertise.
2) Referees must agree to referee studies that they think they can evaluate as timely and adequate.
3) Reviewers should respect the confidentiality of peer-review and should not reveal any information about the work beyond what has been published, during or after the review process of an article.
4) Referees should not use the information they obtain during the refereeing process for their own or others' advantage.
5) Reviewers should notify the journal editorial board when they suspect plagiarism or other ethical violations.
6) Arbitrators are open to potential conflicts of interest.