19 Mayıs Journal of Social Sciences adheres to high standards of publication ethics and expects all parties involved in the publication process—editors, reviewers, authors, and publishers—to comply with ethical guidelines. The journal follows the principles outlined by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
🔹 1. Publication Ethics and Responsibilities
Editors' Responsibilities
Editors evaluate submissions solely on the basis of academic merit, originality, and relevance to the journal’s scope, regardless of the authors’ race, gender, ethnic origin, political views, or institutional affiliation.
All manuscripts are subject to double-blind peer review.
Editors are responsible for taking action in cases of suspected misconduct, plagiarism, or ethical breaches.
Editors must maintain confidentiality regarding submitted manuscripts and shall not use unpublished data for their own research.

Authors’ Responsibilities
Authors must ensure that their submissions are original, unpublished, and not under consideration elsewhere.
All individuals listed as authors must have made substantial contributions to the research.
If the study involves human or animal participants, ethical approval must be obtained, and the details (name of the ethics committee, approval number and date) must be stated in the manuscript.
Authors are expected to provide access to raw data upon request.
Authors must inform the editorial board of any significant error discovered after publication.

Reviewers’ Responsibilities
Reviewers should accept only those manuscripts for review that fall within their area of expertise.
They must treat the content of submissions as confidential and avoid using unpublished data for personal gain.
Reviews should be objective, constructive, and free from personal criticism.
Reviewers must notify the editor in cases of suspected plagiarism or ethical concerns.
In case of conflicts of interest, reviewers must decline to review the manuscript.

🔹 2. Research Requiring Ethics Committee Approval
The following types of research require ethics committee approval and explicit disclosure in the manuscript:
Studies involving human participants through surveys, interviews, observations, experiments, or focus groups
Clinical trials or experiments conducted on humans or animals
Research using personal data protected by law (e.g., retrospective studies)
The ethics statement should include the name of the committee, approval number, and date, and should be clearly stated in the methodology section and on the title or final page.

🔹 3. Editorial Policy
Peer Review: All manuscripts undergo a preliminary editorial review and are then sent to at least two independent reviewers under a double-blind peer review process.
No Fees: The journal does not charge any submission or publication fees.
Continuous Submission: The journal accepts submissions on a rolling basis. Accepted manuscripts are queued for the next available issue.

Issue Frequency:
Issue 1: March 30
Issue 2: June 30
Issue 3: September 30
Issue 4: December 30

Timelines:
Preliminary check: 2–3 days
Reviewer invitation: 7 days
Review period: 12 days
Author revision period: 5 days (extensions possible upon request)
Manuscripts may only be withdrawn by the authors during the editorial screening phase. Once the peer-review process begins, withdrawal is at the discretion of the editors.

🔹 4. Open Access and Copyright
The journal supports Open Access. All articles are freely accessible without any subscription or payment.
Upon acceptance, authors must transfer the copyright of their article to the journal.

All content published in this journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license.