Ethical Principles and Publication Policy

Adıyaman University International TÖMER Language Journal is committed to maintaining high standards of publication ethics and scientific integrity. The journal follows national and international principles of research and publication ethics, including the recommendations of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics), ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors), and the ethical requirements of TR Dizin.

All parties involved in the publication process, including authors, reviewers, editors, editorial board members, and the publisher, are expected to comply with ethical principles.

1. Publication Policy

Adıyaman University International TÖMER Language Journal is an international, peer-reviewed, open access scholarly journal published under the coordination of Adıyaman University Turkish Teaching Application and Research Center (ADYÜ TÖMER).

The journal publishes two issues per year, in June and December.

The publication languages of the journal are Turkish and English.

The journal publishes original research articles, review articles, and book reviews in the fields of linguistics, language teaching, Turkish as a foreign/second language, translation studies, philology, and related interdisciplinary areas.

No submission, evaluation, publication, or processing fee is charged from authors.

2. Open Access Policy

Adıyaman University International TÖMER Language Journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Unless otherwise stated, articles published in the journal are made available under a Creative Commons license. Authors retain responsibility for the content of their work.

3. Peer Review Policy

All scholarly manuscripts submitted to the journal are evaluated through a double-blind peer review process. In this process, the identities of authors and reviewers are kept confidential.

Each manuscript that passes the preliminary editorial review is sent to at least two independent reviewers who are experts in the relevant field. If the reviewer reports differ significantly, the manuscript may be sent to an additional reviewer.

The final decision regarding acceptance, revision, or rejection is made by the editor or editorial board on the basis of reviewer reports, scientific quality, ethical compliance, and relevance to the journal’s aim and scope.

4. Editorial Responsibilities

Editors are responsible for ensuring a fair, transparent, unbiased, and timely evaluation process. Editorial decisions are based solely on the academic quality, originality, methodological soundness, ethical compliance, and relevance of the manuscript.

Editors must protect the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts and reviewer reports. Editors must not use unpublished information contained in submitted manuscripts for personal or academic advantage.

Editors must take necessary measures in cases of suspected plagiarism, duplicate publication, data fabrication, falsification, unethical authorship, conflict of interest, or other forms of publication misconduct.

5. Author Responsibilities

Authors must submit original manuscripts that have not been published previously and are not under evaluation elsewhere.

Authors are responsible for the scientific, ethical, and legal content of their manuscripts. All sources used in the manuscript must be cited accurately and completely.

All individuals listed as authors must have made a significant scholarly contribution to the study. Individuals who did not contribute to the study must not be listed as authors. Changes in authorship after submission require a justified request and written approval of all authors.

Authors must disclose all potential conflicts of interest, financial support, institutional support, and funding sources.

Authors must provide raw data, ethics documents, permissions, or additional information when requested by the editorial office.

6. Reviewer Responsibilities

Reviewers must evaluate manuscripts objectively, impartially, confidentially, and within the assigned time.

Reviewers should accept review invitations only for manuscripts that fall within their area of expertise. They must decline the invitation if there is a conflict of interest.

Reviewer comments should be constructive, respectful, and academically justified. Personal criticism, offensive language, and discriminatory statements are not acceptable.

Reviewers must not share, copy, use, or disclose any information from unpublished manuscripts.

7. Ethics Committee Approval

Ethics committee approval is required for research involving data collected from participants through surveys, interviews, focus groups, observations, experiments, or similar methods; studies involving human or animal subjects; clinical or experimental studies; and studies involving personal or retrospective data.

For studies requiring ethics committee approval, the name of the ethics committee, date, and approval number must be stated in the manuscript. The ethics committee approval document must also be uploaded during submission.

In studies requiring informed consent, authors must state that informed consent was obtained from participants.

8. Plagiarism and Similarity

All manuscripts submitted to the journal must be checked for similarity. Manuscripts containing plagiarism, duplicate publication, data fabrication, data falsification, salami publication, inappropriate authorship, or undisclosed conflicts of interest are rejected.

The similarity rate should not exceed 20%, excluding references and direct quotations. The editorial office reserves the right to evaluate similarity reports independently.

9. Copyright and Permissions

Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to use copyrighted materials, including tables, figures, scales, questionnaires, photographs, and other third-party materials.

The legal, scientific, and ethical responsibility of published articles belongs to the author(s). Views expressed in published articles do not necessarily reflect the views of the journal, editors, editorial board, ADYÜ TÖMER, or Adıyaman University.

10. Correction, Retraction, and Complaints

If an author discovers a significant error in a published article, the author must immediately inform the editorial office.

The journal may publish corrections, expressions of concern, or retractions when necessary. Allegations of publication misconduct are evaluated in accordance with ethical guidelines and the principles of transparency, confidentiality, and fairness.

11. Artificial Intelligence Use

Artificial intelligence tools cannot be listed as authors. If authors use artificial intelligence tools for language editing, translation support, data processing, coding, analysis, visualization, or text generation, this use must be clearly declared in the manuscript. Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, ethical compliance, and integrity of the submitted work.

12. Archiving and Preservation

The journal aims to ensure the long-term preservation and accessibility of published content through the DergiPark infrastructure and other appropriate digital archiving systems.