ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND PUBLICATION POLICY

The scientific responsibility of the writings lies with the authors. Responsibility for all information provided belongs to the authors of the study. It is necessary that all authors have actively participated in the work. Each of the authors mentioned in the article must have made a meaningful contribution to the article. It is entirely the responsibility of the authors to obtain ethics committee approval for any study requiring ethics committee approval. All authors must actively participate in the study. The submitted articles must not have been previously published in any other scientific publishing body in order to be published in the journal. If the message has been submitted before at any meeting, the name, date and city of the meeting must be indicated.

In the process of reviewing the article, the following persons can access the article: editors, reviewers, members of the board of publishers. The only situation in which details of an article can be passed on to a third party without the author's permission is when the editor suspects serious abuse of research.

Everyone listed as an author is requested to meet the authorship criteria proposed by ICMJE (www.icmje.org). The ICMJE recommends that the authors meet the following four criteria:

1. to have made a significant contribution to the content/design of the study; or to the collection, analysis and interpretation of the data for the study.

2. to have prepared the draft paper or to have undertaken critical reviews of the important ideological content.

3. to have reviewed and approved the latest state of the paper prior to its publication.

4. to accept responsibility for all aspects of the work in order to guarantee that questions relating to the validity and accuracy of any part of the article are properly investigated and resolved.


The editors are obliged to take action when there is a suspicion of an ethical violation or if there is an allegation of a violation. This task covers both published and unpublished articles. COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics), (https://publicationethics.org/) is committed to implementing the flow schemes when the Journal of Forensic Medicine encounters allegations of abuse on the following or similar subjects.

1.When rebroadcast is suspected
2.When plagiarism is suspected
3. When fabricated data is suspected
4. Requests for change of authorship
5.When an undisclosed conflict of interest is suspected
6.When unfair or gift authorship is suspected
7. When an ethical problem is suspected in an article
8. Suspicion of ethical violations via e-mail, etc. When notified directly by
9. When suspected ethical violations are announced via social media

Studies presented to the Journal of Forensic Medicine are checked using intihal.net and/or ithenticate software. The similarity rate is expected to be less than 25%. The true measure of similarity is the author's compliance with the rules of citation and citation. If the similarity rate appears to be %1 and the reference and quotation process is not done correctly, it may also be related. In this regard, the reference and quotation rules must be known and carefully applied by the author.

The Journal of Forensic Medicine is committed to national and international standards of research and publishing ethics. The Law on the Press, the Law on Ideas and Works of Art and the Guidelines for Scientific Research and Publication Ethics of Higher Education Institutions have adopted the International Principles of Ethics in Publication (COPE), the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME). Turkey also undertakes to comply with the Decisions of the Editor's Workshop.

The protocol of clinical trials must be approved by the ethics committee of the institution concerned. All studies on humans should include a statement in the "Methods and Tools" section that the work has been approved by the relevant committee or that the study has been carried out in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration of Principles (https://www.wma.net/policy/). It should be indicated in the text in which all people involved in the study signed the informed approval form.

If the study uses the "animal" element, the authors have to indicate in the article's Tool and Methods section that they have protected animal rights in their work and have received approval from their ethics boards in accordance with the principles of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (www.nap.edu/catalog/5140.html).

Evaluation Process: Articles submitted to the journal are first reviewed in terms of the magazine standards. Articles that do not conform to the format requested by the magazine are returned to the author without further examination. All papers are first taken for pre-evaluation by the editor; then sent to the members of the advisory board for review. All articles are subject to editorial evaluation and correction; if necessary, the authors may be asked to answer some questions and fill in shortcomings. The evaluation may result in acceptance, minor revision, major revision or rejection. The paper decided to be published in the journal is taken into the printing process; at this stage, all information is thoroughly checked and checked for accuracy; it is pre-published and submitted to the author's verification and approval.

Articles are subject to a double-blind consultancy system. Neither the authors nor the reviewers have knowledge of the identity of the other. All articles are evaluated by two reviewers. The final decision regarding the articles belongs to the editorial board and the editor.

Publication Rights: According to the 1976 Copyright Act, all publishing rights of articles accepted for publication belong to the institution that publishes the journal. Authors must fill out the "Publication Rights Transfer Form" available on the website and send it online with the article.