Publication Ethics Statement

Artvin Coruh University Journal of Engineering and Sciences is a scientific research journal established in 2023. Our journal is a national and international peer-reviewed-indexed journal on engineering sciences and design, which is regularly published in January and September twice a year.


Scientific articles in the original research category, written in Turkish or English, are published in our journal. The articles in this category; The information produced is expected to have qualities such as being new, suggesting a new method or adding a new dimension to previously existing knowledge.

Our journal also includes publications such as case reports, questionnaires and reviews.

Original research articles written in English language have priority to be published.

Articles submitted for publication are evaluated by national and / or international referees. The final decision about the article is made by the editors.

The names of the referees who evaluate the articles are not notified to the authors (blind peer review). It is left to the author's preference for the referees to evaluate the articles without seeing the author's names (double-blind peer review). Authors who want to use this preference should upload their articles to the system by deleting their name and address lines.

Peer Review Process

It is expected that the articles sent to the referees will be evaluated within 30 days. If this period is exceeded, the editors appoint a new referee and withdraw the request from the former referee.

The decision to accept-reject the article is made by the editors. In line with the recommendations of the referees, a major (re-submit for evaluation) or minor (revision required) revision decision is made to improve the articles that are not deemed sufficient. Articles that do not reach the desired level and are not considered scientifically sufficient are rejected.

After the "resubmit for review" or "revision required" decision about the article, the necessary changes are expected to be made by the author within 40 days for the "resubmit for review" decision, and within 20 days for the "revision required" decision. Otherwise, the article will be rejected.

It is mandatory that the articles sent for publication should not be published anywhere or sent to any journal for publication.

All responsibility of the articles belongs to the respective authors. Articles should be prepared in accordance with internationally accepted scientific ethical rules. Where necessary, a copy of the Ethics Committee Report should be attached.

All articles submitted for publication in our journal will be scanned with the iThenticate: Plagiarism Detection Software package program and a similarity report will be created for each article before being submitted for editor approval. After the similarity report is checked by the journal editors, a correction will be requested from the author for articles with a result of more than 30%, excluding references. If the necessary correction is not made within 20 days, the article will be rejected. If the similarity rate is too high, the article is rejected before it is evaluated.

The copyrights of the articles accepted to be published in our journal are deemed to have been transferred to the journal.

Articles submitted for publication in our journal should be prepared according to the journal article writing format.

Conflict of Interest statement is requested by the authors, if any, at the application stage. Note that no Conflict of Interest has been declared even if the relevant notification is not specified, is added to the article at the typesetting stage.

Articles submitted for evaluation should be prepared according to the journal article writing format and there is no limit to the number of pages. The abstract of the article should contain at least 100 words, and the number of keywords should be at least 3 and at most 6.

No evaluation or application fee is charged for articles submitted to the Artvin Coruh University Journal of Engineering and Sciences.

For the articles accepted for publication, the relevant author is given 30 days for "page editing" and 10 days for "proofreading". Articles of relevant authors who do not return within these periods will be rejected.

Submitting authors must confirm the following:


1. Manuscripts must be the original work of the submitting author.

2. Submitted manuscripts must be unpublished and it should not contain any information that has already been published.

3. Any facts that might be perceived as a possible conflict of interest of the author(s) must be disclosed in the paper prior to submission.

4. Authors should cite all data sources used in the preparation of the manuscript.

5. Authors should accurately present their research findings and include an objective discussion of the significance of their findings.

6. Data and methods used in the research need to be presented in sufficient detail in the paper, so that other researchers can replicate the work.

7. Authors need to at least have the raw data readily available for presentation to the referees and the editors of the journal, if requested.

8. Republishing content that is not novel is not tolerated (for example, an English translation of a paper that is already published in another language will not be accepted).

9. If errors and inaccuracies are found by the authors after publication of their paper, they need to be promptly communicated to the editors of this journal so that appropriate actions can be taken.

10. Plagiarism, data fabrication and image manipulation are not tolerated.


Please note: It is unethical to submit a manuscript to more than one journal concurrently.


Reviewers must confirm the following:


1. Manuscripts are reviewed fairly based on the intellectual content of the paper regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, citizenship or political view of the author(s).

2. Any observed conflict of interest during the review process must be sent to the editor.

3. Information pertaining to the manuscript is kept confidential.

4. Information that may be a cause for rejection of publication must be sent to the editor.


Editors must confirm the following:

1. Manuscripts are reviewed fairly based on the intellectual content of the paper regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, citizenship or political view of the author(s).

2. Information pertaining to manuscripts is kept confidential.

3. Any observed conflict of interest pertaining manuscripts must be disclosed.