The Turkish Journal of Archeology and Ethnography is an open access, free and peer-reviewed, printed and electronic publication in English and Turkish, which undertakes to comply with the standards of publication ethics at the highest level, fulfills the publication process without compromising the principles of transparency and justice, pays attention to the principles of confidentiality in the publication evaluation and peer-reviewing process. All parties involved in the publication process of the journal (editors, authors, peer-reviews and publisher) must comply with ethical norms. In this regard, the principles of acting in accordance with the principles of the Publication Ethics and Abuse Statement, which was prepared based on the guidelines and recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the Council of Science Editors (CSE), have been adopted.
The duties and responsibilities of all parties involved in the publication process of the Turkish Journal of Archeology and Ethnography have been determined on the basis of these principles, and they must comply with these guidelines in the context of their duties.Any type of unethical behavior is unacceptable, and any kind of abuse cannot be ignored. It is not possible to publish an article in the Turkish Journal of Archeology and Ethnography, if these guidelines are not followed and abuse is detected.
Duties of Editors
Fair play and editorial independence
Editors evaluate submitted manuscripts exclusively on the basis of their academic merit (importance, originality, study’s validity, clarity) and its relevance to the journal’s scope, without regard to the authors’ race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnic origin, citizenship, religious belief, political philosophy or institutional affiliation. Editorial board has full authority over the entire editorial content of the journal and the timing of publication of that content. Decisions to edit and publish are not determined by the policies of governments or any other agencies. All articles submitted to the journal are subject to the peer-review process if approved by the editor and/or the journal editorial board. The rejection of the articles that do not comply with the basic academic qualifications and the principles of the journal is made with a reasoned decision. Any article whose peer-review process is negative or not included in the process cannot be published in the Journal.
Confidentiality
Editors and editorial staff will not disclose any information about a submitted articles to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
Disclosure and conflicts of interest
Editors and editorial board members will not use unpublished information disclosed in a submitted article for their own research purposes without the authors’ explicit written consent. Privileged information or ideas obtained by editors as a result of handling the articles will be kept confidential and not used for their personal advantage. Editors will recuse themselves from considering articles in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships/connections with any of the authors, companies or institutions connected to the papers; instead, they will ask another member of the editorial board to handle the manuscript.
If conflicts of interest arise after the publication of the article, corrections will be published. The article in question will be removed from the Journal's digital format and article index.
Publication decisions
The editors/co-editors ensure that all submitted articles being considered for publication undergo peer-review by at least two reviewers who are expert in the field. The editorial board is responsible for deciding which of the manuscripts submitted to the journal will be published, based on the validation of the work in question, its importance to researchers and readers, the reviewers’ comments, and such legal requirements as are currently in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editorial board may confer with each other or reviewers in making this decision. Editorial board can guide the authors on issues such as expression disorders, spelling errors, etc..; it can also warn about issues related to working method, scientific and logical errors, content-related problems.
Involvement and cooperation in investigations
Editors (in conjunction with the publisher and/or society) will take responsive measures when ethical concerns are raised with regard to a submitted manuscript or published paper. Every reported act of unethical publishing behaviour will be looked into, even if it is discovered years after publication. If, on investigation, the ethical concern is well-founded, a correction, retraction, expression of concern or other note as may be relevant, will be published in the journal.
Duties of Reviewers
Contribution to editorial decisions
Peer review assists editors in making editorial decisions and, through editorial communications with authors, may assist authors in improving their manuscripts. Peer review is an essential component of formal scholarly communication and lies at the heart of scientific endeavour.
Promptness
Any invited peer review who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should immediately notify the editors and decline the invitation to review so that alternative reviewers can be contacted.
Confidentiality
Any article received for review are confidential documents and must be treated as such; they must not be shown to or discussed with others except if authorized by the editors (who would only do so under exceptional and specific circumstances). This applies also to invited reviewers who decline the review invitation.
Standards of objectivity
Reviews should be conducted objectively and observations formulated clearly with supporting arguments so that authors can use them for improving the article. Personal criticism of the authors is inappropriate. In order to ensure a standard in the evaluation process, reviewers must fill the Peer Review Committee Report in the documents section under the Article Submission tab and upload it to the process files section through Dergipark after the evaluation.
Acknowledgementof sources
Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that is an observation, derivation or argument that has been reported in previous publications should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also notify the editors of any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other manuscript (published or unpublished) of which they have personal knowledge.
Disclosure and conflicts of interest
Any invited referee who has conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies or institutions connected to the article and the work described therein should immediately notify the editors to declare their conflicts of interest and decline the invitation to review so that alternative reviewers can be contacted.
An author whose article has been published in the Turkish Journal of Archeology and Ethnography cannot act as a peer review for the same issue. Similarly, an article of an author cannot be published if the author acted as a peer review for that issue. The article of the author who acts as a peer review is published in the next issue.
Duties of Authors
Reporting standards
In order not to cause loss of time and energy for both parties, the articles sent to the Turkish Journal of Archeology and Ethnography should be prepared in accordance with the content, purpose, scope, publication principles and writing rules of the journal by the author. Authors of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed and the results, followed by an objective discussion of the significance of the work. The manuscript should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Review articles should be accurate, objective and comprehensive, while editorial 'opinion' or perspective pieces should be clearly identified as such. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behaviour and are unacceptable.
If "revision is required" decision is made in the initial peer review evaluation, the authors should respond to the comments of the referees systematically, literally and in a timely manner, reviewing and resubmitting their articles to the journal by the deadline given.
Authors are obliged to respond systematically and in a timely manner to the requests from the editors during the editorial process and to suggestions for corrections at the layout stage. Articles of authors who do not fulfill these obligations will be rejected.
Data access and retention
Authors may be asked to provide the raw data of their study together with the manuscript for editorial review and should be prepared to make the data publicly available if practicable. In any event, authors should ensure accessibility of such data to other competent professionals for at least 10 years after publication (preferably via an institutional or subject-based data repository or other data centre), provided that the confidentiality of the participants can be protected and legal rights concerning proprietary data do not preclude their release.
It is considered an unethical and unethical publishing behavior to withdraw the articles whose peer-review process is ongoing from the publication process. In such cases, any publication of the relevant author/authors to the Turkish Journal of Archeology and Ethnography for 5 years is not accepted.
Originality and plagiarism
Authors should ensure that they have written and submit only entirely original works, and if they have used the work and/or words of others, that this has been appropriately cited. Publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the work reported in the article should also be cited.
Plagiarism takes many forms, from "passing off" another's paper as the author's own, to copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of another's paper (without attribution), to claiming results from research conducted by others. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable. Before the peer review process plagiarism screening is carried out, and a maximum similarity rate of 20% is allowed, except for the bibliography. Articles exceeding this rate are not accepted to the Journal. In the event that scientific misconduct and plagiarism are detected after the publication of the article, the publication in question is removed from the journal's digital format and article index. The articles of the author(s) who commit such abuse are not accepted to the Turkish Journal of Archeology and Ethnography for a period of 5 years.
Authors can submit only their original work to and obliged to cite their citations in the content by attribution and reference appropriately. Articles derived from master's and PhD theses are accepted in the Journal. But these are not expected to be exactly the same. The articles derived from theses should state this information at the first page. It is also unacceptable for authors' articles to contain a copy of their own book or part of the article.
The editors and editorial board members of the Turkish Journal of Archeology and Ethnography are not responsible for the views and content of the articles published in the Journal. Issues related to the originality of the article and scientific errors are the responsibility of the authors.
Multiple, duplicate, redundant or concurrent submission/publication
Papers describing essentially the same research should not be published in more than one journal or primary publication. Hence, authors should not submit for consideration a manuscript that has already been published in another journal. Submission of a manuscript concurrently to more than one journal is unethical publishing behaviour and unacceptable. An article published in the Turkish Journal of Archeology and Ethnography should not be published in another journal in the future. In case such abuses are detected, articles of the author will not be accepted to the Journal for 5 years. The publication rights of the author(s) in our journal are protected under CC-BY-NC-SA [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.tr]. This license allows the source to be copied, edited, distributed and reused for non-commercial purposes, provided that attribution and maintaining the same license.
Authorship of the article
Only persons who meet these authorship criteria should be listed as authors in the manuscript as they must be able to take public responsibility for the content:
(i) made significant contributions to the conception, design, execution, data acquisition, or analysis/interpretation of the study;
(ii) drafted the manuscript or revised it critically for important intellectual content;
(iii) have seen and approved the final version of the paper and agreed to its submission for publication.
All persons who made substantial contributions to the work reported in the manuscript (such as technical help, writing and editing assistance, general support) but who do not meet the criteria for authorship must not be listed as an author, but should be acknowledged in the "Acknowledgements" section after their written permission to be named as been obtained. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate coauthors (according to the above definition) and no inappropriate coauthors are included in the author list and verify that all coauthors have seen and approved the final version of the manuscript and agreed to its submission for publication.
Disclosure and conflicts of interest
Authors should—at the earliest stage possible (generally by submitting a disclosure form at the time of submission and including a statement in the manuscript)—disclose any conflicts of interest that might be construed to influence the results or their interpretation in the article. Examples of potential conflicts of interest that should be disclosed include financial ones such as honoraria, educational grants or other funding, participation in speakers’ bureaus, membership, employment, consultancies, stock ownership, or other equity interest, and paid expert testimony or patent-licensing arrangements, as well as non-financial ones such as personal or professional relationships, affiliations, knowledge or beliefs in the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript. All sources of financial support for the work should be disclosed (including the grant number or other reference number if any).
Acknowledgement of sources
Authors should ensure that they have properly acknowledged the work of others, and should also cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work. Information obtained privately (from conversation, correspondence or discussion with third parties) must not be used or reported without explicit, written permission from the source. Authors should not use information obtained in the course of providing confidential services, such as refereeing manuscripts or grant applications, unless they have obtained the explicit written permission of the author(s) of the work involved in these services.
Hazards and human or animal subjects
If the work involves chemicals, procedures or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, the authors must clearly identify these in the manuscript. If the work involves the use of animals or human participants, the authors should ensure that all procedures were performed in compliance with relevant laws and institutional guidelines and that the appropriate institutional committee(s) has approved them; the manuscript should contain a statement to this effect. Authors should also include a statement in the manuscript that informed consent was obtained for experimentation with human participants. The privacy rights of human participants must always be observed.
If the articles sent to the Turkish Archeology and Ethnography journal were obtained by the use of humans and animals for experimental or scientific purposes, and if clinical studies were conducted on them, the "Ethical Principles Statement Form" in the journal documents section should be filled and sent. Responsibility for the permissions related to the data collected through survey, interview techniques, and interview methods belong to the authors and the journal management cannot be blamed for legal responsibilities that may arise in these matters.
Peer review
Authors are obliged to participate in the peer review process and cooperate fully by responding promptly to editors’ requests for raw data, clarifications, and proof of ethics approval, patient consents and copyright permissions. In the case of a first decision of "revisions necessary", authors should respond to the reviewers’ comments systematically, point by point, and in a timely manner, revising and re-submitting their manuscript to the journal by the deadline given.
Fundamental errors in published works
When authors discover significant errors or inaccuracies in their own published work, it is their obligation to promptly notify the journal’s editors or publisher and cooperate with them to either correct the paper in the form of an erratum or to retract the paper. If the editors or publisher learns from a third party that a published work contains a significant error or inaccuracy, then it is the authors’ obligation to promptly correct or retract the paper or provide evidence to the journal editors of the correctness of the paper.
When authors notice a significant error during the publication process, they are obliged to report this error to the editor.
Duties of the Publisher
Handling of unethical publishing behavior
In cases of alleged or proven scientific misconduct, fraudulent publication or plagiarism, the publisher, in close collaboration with the editors, will take all appropriate measures to clarify the situation and to amend the article in question. This includes the prompt publication of an erratum, clarification or, in the most severe case, the retraction of the affected work. The publisher, together with the editors, shall take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred, and under no circumstances encourage such misconduct or knowingly allow such misconduct to take place.
The Publisher and the Journal do not discriminate on the basis of age, color, religion, creed, disability, marital status, veteran status, national origin, race, gender, genetic predisposition or carrier status, or sexual orientation in its publishing programs, services and activities.
Participation and Cooperation in Investigations
The responsibility of the articles published in the journal belongs to the authors. The Turkish Journal of Archeology and Ethnography will assist in judicial and administrative investigations that may arise in cases of plagiarism and scientific misconduct, as well as the suspicions raised regarding the articles published in the Journal, by presenting the information and documents in its possession to the relevant institutions and authorities upon request.
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