General Aim

The Journal of Akdeniz Sanat (ASD) is an eleven-year-old open-access journal in the field of research in art and design. It has recently undergone a radical transformation. We’ve renewed its design throughly, updated publishing rules, reformed managerial and advisory boards, tightened review process and take necessary measures to increase scientific credibility of our articles. Being confident of what we have been realizing for the sake of higher academic standarts, it is our primary aim to make ASD an internationally reputable academic journal in the field of research in art and design.

ASD carries out a Double-Blinded Peer-Review process where neither writers nor reviewers know the identity of each other. A formal pre-evaluation for the submitted papers is applied by the editor team. Then, at least two peer-reviewers who are eligible (with a Ph.D. degree or Art Excellency degree in a related field with topic of paper) are appointed for the paper. If the paper is rejected by both of the reviewers then paper evaluation process is stopped. When one reviewer accepts but the other does not, then a new reviewer is charged. Only after two of the reviewers give approval, the paper is taken to publishing phase. For the revision requests from the reviewers, writers are given at least 15 days. However, where necessary this period can be extended for a limited time. Revised papers are mostly sent back to reviewers for the last approval. Only when reviewers let the editor team to give the last decision for the minor revisions, then editor team can give final approval for the publication.

Scope, Content and Definitions

Definitions

Journal: The Journal of Akdeniz Sanat of Akdeniz University,

Owner: Dean in the name of Faculty of Fine Arts of Akdeniz University,

Editorial Board: Distinguished academics publishing in the field of artistic research, who are charged with by the departments of faculty and/or picked and appointed by the Dean’s Office.

Advisory Board: Distinguished senior academics picked from at least five universities by editorial board.

Peer-Reviewers: Distingushed academics holding Ph.D. or Efficiency in Arts Degrees.

Editor: Senior academics from the departments of Faculty of Fine Arts of Akdeniz University, who are appointed by Dean’s Office.

Assistant Editor: Senior and/or junior academics from the departments Faculty of Fine Arts of Akdeniz University, who are appointed by Dean’s Office.

Secreteriat: Junior academics picked by the editör.

Objectives and Scope

1. The purpose is to set the rules and norms as to Journal of Akdeniz Sanat published by Faculty of Fine Arts of Akdeniz University.

2. Aim is to make a common academic platform to be mutually formed by different disciplines in the field of fine arts.

3. The journal publishes academic papers of the subjects in relation with social science and humanities as long as they focus on the art.

4. The journal publishes in twice a year (January and July since 2018).

5. The journal is a national peer-reviewed journal. It is indexed by Dergi Park. Indexing monitoring process is undergoing for Ulakbim TR-Dizin.

Content

1. Papers submitted to the journal should be contributive for the field, being prepared with appropriate research methods, theories and models.

2. Journal publishes original research and review articles, in which eventually an established or a new concept, theory or model is explained and criticised.

3. Papers should be submitted in accordance with the publication principles and the format adapted by the journal.

4. Author, who submits his/her paper to the journal, is considered to have approved the ethical codes of the journal.

Roles

The committees of the journal

1. Tasks of editorial board:

. Editorial board hold meetings when necessary.

. Reviews the papers submitted to the journal in terms of their compliance with format and appropriateness in the field.

. Makes a decision as to the publication of paper, considering the peer-review results.

. Makes a decision to publish a special issue with an absolute majority.

2. Tasks of Peer-Reviewers:

. Reviews the papers in respect to their quality to meet publication principles, focusing on content, method and originality, and decides if it is eligible to be published or not.

. Responsible for completing the form to be sent by journal team (editor, assistant editor or secreteriat).

. The number of peer-reviewers can vary depending on the subject and conditions of articles.

3. Tasks of editor and assitant editor(s):

. Coordinate between editor and editorial board

. When necessary, editor proceeds the tasks of editorial board. If this is the case, editor takes approval of owner.

. Identifies and picks the distinguished experts to be peer-reviewers, considering researchers academic performance (theses, publications and field of expertise)

. Matches papers with appropriate peer-reviewers.

. Arranges the accepted papers in an order suitable for publication.

. Coordinates with assistant editor.

. When seen necessary, editor calls for editorial board to hold a meeting.

4. Tasks of Secretariat:

. Provides assistance in technical issues and other staff.

. Corrects misspellings and rearranges the papers (if necessary) according to printing and designpatterns.

Evaluation

1. Papers found eligible to be published by editorial board or editör are sent to two peer-reviewers from the field. In case that both reports of peer-reviewers are affirmative, the paper is accepted to be published for the next issue. If one of the reports of peer-reviewers is negative, then the paper is sent to another reviewer. The papers found eligible after peer-reviewers’ reports with corrections are sent back to the authors (via e-mail or other ways) to be revised and revisions should be completed in 15 days most. Revised paper may be sent back to reviwers in case it is seen necessary by editorial board or the editör. Those papers, which are not refused but not completed till the date of publish, may be proceeded for the next issue on the compromise between the editör and the author(s).

2. After two approvals from the peer-reviewers of the field, papers are published by the last decision made by the Editorial Board. Authors must take into consideration of the views and evaluations of peer-reviewer, Editorial Board and the editor and make their revisions accordingly. In case of disagreements, the author(s) has/have the right to oppose by writing their reasons for their dissensus on separate paper. 

3. Approved papers are put in an order by the editor by their subject and relevance.

4. Authors of the papers rejected are informed by e-mail and/or other proper ways of communication.

5. Before the main reviewing process, papers submitted to the journal are examined by the secreteriat in case of inconvenience to the spelling and grammatical rules, and according to the convenience of the subject and plagiarism reports of programs (such as iThenticate).

Updated on August 15, 2019.

Concept and Mission

Art has no boundaries; thinking on art has no boundaries, either. However, the art is contextual. Meaning of art can best reveal itself if contextual elements are considered throughly: including, the art object itself, the artist, technical conditions, political and aesthetic movements and approaches, economic base etc.. The local information can only and as long as be seen useful if it becomes a gate opening to universal wisdom. Therefore, all the information documented on local cases must be connected to theoretical and practical questions on the raison d’etre of the art.

Akdeniz Sanat is a peer-reviewed journal, whose editorial identity is based on the notion expressed above. The journal publishes academic papers on all the subjects focusing on art. Major aim is to contribute to the accumulation of artistic knowledge. In doing so, it gives priority to the improvement of the tradition of artistic research.

Updated on August 15, 2019.

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