Upon the change in the journal evaluation criteria for 2020, the ULAKBIM TR INDEX Committee requires that Ethics Committee Approval be obtained for research in all disciplines, including social sciences, and that this approval must be stated and documented in the article.

Upon this change in Article 8 within the scope of TR INDEX Evaluation Criteria, it is now mandatory to include the information about the permission (ethics committee name, date and number of the ethics committee) in the method section of the article and also on the first/last page of the article for studies that require ethics committee approval, the process of which started in 2020. Accordingly, the following articles will be sent to our journal for publication in the following process;

(1) In all research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from participants using survey, interview, focus group study, observation, experiment, interview techniques

(2) In research in which humans and animals (including materials/data) are used for experimental or other scientific purposes

(3) In clinical trials on humans, information about the ethics committee should be included in the relevant sections of retrospective studies and research and publication ethics should be complied with.

• In case reports to be submitted other than research articles;

(1) indicating that the informed consent form has been obtained

(2) obtaining and indicating permission from the owners for the use of scales, questionnaires, photographs belonging to others; and

(3) for the intellectual and artistic works used, it must be stated that copyright regulations are complied with.

• Ethics Committee Approval will not be requested for review articles.