All manuscripts submitted to the ANADOLU Journal of the Aegean Agricultural Research Institute must be original studies that contribute to scientific innovation. Research should be conducted with academic integrity and prepared in accordance with scientific research and publication ethics.
ANADOLU considers it a fundamental responsibility that all stakeholders, including writers, referees, editors, readers, researchers, and publishers, adhere to ethical principles. In this context, ANADOLU adopts international publishing ethics standards and follows the guidelines and policies published in open access by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (https://publicationethics.org/).
ANADOLU Journal expects all stakeholders to adhere to publication ethics throughout the publication process. The ethical responsibilities of all stakeholders under ANADOLU’s publication ethics are presented in detail below.
Authors' Ethical Responsibilities
1. Authors should declare that the manuscript is original research or review, and no similar paper has been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. The cover letter should provide complete contact information (full address, telephone numbers, e-mail address, and ORCID) of the corresponding and co-authors. The manuscripts are not sent back to the author if it is not published.
2. ANADOLU encourages authors to prepare their articles according to the publication policy of ANADOLU. Manuscripts prepared using MS Word must be submitted to DergiPark.
3. Authors must use and/or cite other works accurately and appropriately.
4. If all work submitted for publication is to constitute a conflict of interest, and if relevant, it should be indicated.
5. The author (s) may request raw data on their framing of evaluation processes; in such a case, the author (s) should be ready to submit the expected data and information to the editorial board.
6. The author (s) must have evidence that they have the necessary permissions for the use of the rights of the data used in research/measurement tools/analyses. For submissions made since 2020, an "Ethics Committee Permission Approval" must be obtained in the following cases:
• Any kind of research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that requires data collection from the participants using surveys, interviews, focus group work, observation, and experimentation.
• Retrospective studies in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Law
The studies that require ethics committee approval, information about the permission (ethics committee name, date, and issue number) should be given in the method section.
7. The author (s) have an obligation to cooperate with the editor in informing, correcting, or withdrawing the journal editor or publisher if she/he find a mistake or error related to her/his early published or evaluation work.
8. Authors cannot have their work in the application process of more than one scientific journal at the same time. Each application can be started following the completion of the previous application. Published work in another scientific journal cannot be sent to ANADOLU.
9. Original research articles should be written properly according to the publication policy of ANADOLU.
10. It is not an approved way to produce more than one publication reporting on the same research.
11. Authors should clearly declare any kind of conflict of interest in their manuscripts. Absence of conflict of interest about the topic of the manuscripts should also be declared.
12. Authors should not use personally obtained information (conversations or correspondences) unless they have the permission of their sources.
13. Authors are obliged to be involved in the peer review process and should cooperate by responding to raw data. Authors should respond either positively or negatively to revision suggestions generated by the peer review process.
14. Changes in author ordering, removal or addition of a new author, and withdrawal of a manuscript can be realized by sending an application to the journal of ANADOLU.
15. Editor or members of the editorial board are not responsible for the author's opinions and manuscript contents. Authors are responsible for the ethical originality of and possible errors in their manuscripts. They are also responsible for all errors based on page editing before their proofreading.
Reviewers' Ethical Responsibilities
1. Peer-reviewing of a submitted manuscript is the control of its scientific content, scientific layout, and suitability according to the principles of the journal.
2. The reviewing process not only enables reviewers to forward their evaluations of the manuscript to the editors but also give them the opportunity to improve the contents of the manuscripts.
3. It should evaluate within impartiality and confidentiality.
4. Assessment should be done objectively only with respect to the content of the work. Nationality, gender, religious beliefs, political beliefs and commercial concerns should not allow it to influence the evaluation.
5. The privacy policy should destroy the work that has been reviewed by the review process. Only the final versions of the studies can be used after publication.
6. If the content of the manuscript fits the expertise field or scientific career of the reviewer, then she/he should complete the evaluation and send the report to the editor as soon as possible.
7. If a reviewer assigned for the evaluation of a manuscript is of expert of a field of science other than the manuscript content, then the reviewer should inform the assigning editor-in-chief and ask her/his withdrawal.
8. If she/he thinks that she/he is confronted with a conflict of interest during the evaluation process, she/he should refuse to examine the work and inform the editor of the journal.
9. If a reviewer is in a situation by being involved in one or more interests with the author(s), she/he should inform the editor and the assigning editor and ask for her/his withdrawal.
10. Reviewers do not share any information about the manuscript with third parties, and continue not to share information even after the manuscripts are accepted or rejected for publication.
11. Reviewers should construct their criticisms on a scientific background and include scientific evidence in their statements.
12. Reviewers should determine quotations in the manuscripts used without citing a reference. Statements, observations, conclusions, or evidence in published articles should be quoted with the citation of the related reference.
13. Reviewers should use polite language when making an assessment. Avoid humiliating personal interpretations of hostility, slander and insults.
14. The evaluation should be carried out on time and in accordance with the above ethical responsibility.
Editors' Ethical Responsibilities
1. All publications are judged based on their intellectual content, regardless of the author's gender, race, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, and political values.
2. A manuscript number will be mailed to the corresponding author within three days when the article has been processed.
3. Personal information about the articles is kept confidential.
4. The conflict of interest observed regarding the article must be explained.
5. The Editorial Board assumes the responsibility to make publishing decisions for the submitted articles, based on the evaluation of the candidate's articles, the editorial board policies of the journal, and the legally prohibited items against plagiarism and copyright infringement.
5. Editors provide peer review of submitted manuscripts by assigning at least two reviewers experts in the field.
6. The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for the decision to publish a manuscript, considering the importance of the manuscripts for researchers and readers, plagiarism, and copyright infringement as legal issues.
7. The editor-in-Chief / Head of Editorial Board is the only person responsible for journal content and on-time publishing.
8. The Editor-in-Chief can discuss with other editors and reviewers for her/his decision.
9. Editors and members of the Editorial Board of the journal are forbidden to share submitted manuscripts and their materials with third parties other than members of the Editorial Board.
10. All editors of ANADOLU, Journal of AARI, are independent in their evaluations and decisions in the journal. No external and/or internal factor can affect their decisions.
11. The Editor-in-Chief / Head of Editorial Board follows the strict application of ethics rules.
Actions disagreeable to publication ethics and scientific research
Plagiarism: Presenting the ideas, methods, data, practices, writings, figures, or works of others as one’s own without proper attribution to the original authors.
Fiction/ Distortion: Reporting or publishing data, as if they are result of scientific research.Falsifying research records and obtained data, showing methods, devices and materials as if they are used in the research evaluating data manipulating data and / or results to fit relevant theories or assumptions, in line with the interests of the persons and organizations whom supported the research.
Simultaneous submission: Submitting research article to journal which had been published in an another journal. Authors should declare that the manuscript is original research and no similar paper has been published or submitted for publication elsewhere.
Fraud: Producing data that is not based on research, editing or modifying the submitted or published work based on unrealistic data, showing as if a research has been conducted.
Disaggregating: To present the results of a research as separate works by disrupting the integrity of the research, and making numerous publications without referring to each other.
Unfair authorship: To include people who do not have contributions to the research article not to include those who have contributions to the article, to change the order of the authors in an unjustified and inappropriate manner.
Other ethical violations: Not to clearly state the support of individuals, institutions or organizations and their contributions in the publications of researches conducted with the support, not to obey ethical rules in human and animal researches and to take part in a work that is assigned to review as a referee. to share field information with third parties before publication.