ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITY

Medical Journal of Ankara Training and Research Hospital publishes papers conforming ethical and scientific standards. The ethical, scientific and legal responsibilities of the articles published in the journal belong to the author(s) and do not reflect the opinions of the editorial board members.

The journal pays regard to the highest ethical and scientific standards and the absence of commercial concerns among the articles. This framework does not include any commercial product advertisements. The editors and editorial board do not give any guarantees and take no responsibility for the features and explanations of the commercial products included in the published articles.

Papers submitted for publication must not have been previously published elsewhere or submitted for publication. Direct quotations, tables, or illustrations that have appeared in copyrighted material must be accompanied by written permission for their use from the copyright owner and authors.
All articles are subject to review by the editor and two or more referees if they are convenient to stylistic rules and published following the revisions made by the authors if needed.

Ethics Committee Approval should be obtained for all prospective and retrospective studies, including experimental animal studies, and for other studies that require ethics committee approval in accordance with the current legislation, and in the “MATERIAL AND METHOD” section of the article, the institution, approval number and date of receipt of the Ethics Committee Approval (day-month-year) should be specified.

The Journal adheres to the principles outlined in the Helsinki Declaration (https://www.wma.net/policies- post/wma-declarationof- helsinki-ethical-principles-for-medical-research-involving-human-subjects/) and holds that all reported research involving ‘Human beings’ conducted by following such principles. Reports describing data obtained from research conducted on human participants must contain a statement in the “Material and Methods” section indicating approval by the ethical review board and affirmation that “Informed Consent” was obtained from each participant.

All papers reporting experiments using animals must include a statement in the “Material and Methods” section giving assurance that all animals have received humane care in compliance with the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (https://www.nap.edu/catalog/5140/guide-for-the-care-and-use-of-laboratory-animals) and indicate approval by the animal experiment ethical review board.

Case reports should be accompanied by “Informed Consent” whether the identity of the patient is disclosed or not. It is the author's responsibility to obtain and present consent to the authorities if requested by following the Personal Data Preservation code.

If the proposed publication has a commercial interest or a funder directly or indirectly, the author must include in the cover letter a statement indicating that the author(s) has (have) no financial or other interest in the product or explain the nature of any relation (including consultancies) between the author(s) and the manufacturer or distributor of the product. It is the authors’ responsibility to prepare a manuscript that meets ethical criteria.

SCREENING FOR PLAGIARISM

Medical Journal of Ankara Training and Research Hospital implements a zero-tolerance policy against plagiarism. As a result of this policy, all manuscripts submitted to the journal should be scanned by a licensed application (iThenticate or Turnitin) and the similarity report should be uploaded to the system together with the article files. Acceptable similarity rate should below 20%. Articles with a higher similarity rate than accepted will be rejected without being evaluated. 

OPEN ACCESS AND ARTICLE PROCESSING

Medical Journal of Ankara Training and Research Hospital provides open access for academic publications.
The journal provides free access to the full texts of all articles immediately upon publication. The journal gives permission to all users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose.
The journal does not request any charges for article processing or article submission.

There is no charge for readers to download journal contents for their own scholarly use.
The journal is free to all at any time. To provide this the journal relies on physical resources of Ankara Training and Research Hospital and the free online article evaluation system and online publishing opportunities of DERGİPARK scientific journals publication platform, the voluntary work of the editorial team and advisory board, and the continuing support of the network of peer reviewers.

COPYRIGHT STATEMENT

Articles published in Medical Journal Ankara Training and Research Hospital are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution – Non-Commercial-Share with Same License 4.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) International License and are allowed to be shared in accordance with the license terms. All copyrights belong to the publisher of the journal. However, articles published in the journal may be used, copied, reproduced and adapted, provided that they are non-commercial, attribution appropriately, and in compliance with the licensing conditions stated above. The opinions and suggestions contained in the published studies are entirely the responsibility of the authors. No copyright fee is paid for articles published in the journal.
Authors should fill in the "Copyright Transfer Form" and send it together with the manuscript. Manuscripts submitted without a Copyright Transfer Form will not be evaluated.