Ethical Principles and Publication Policy
The publication processes of the Journal of Health Sciences Arel University are carried out on the basis of the objective evaluation, development and sharing of qualified scientific articles in their fields such as clinical and experimental research articles in various branches of health, original case reports and literature reviews. In this context, the ethical rules that authors, journal editors, referees and publishers must comply with are listed below and have been prepared in line with the guidelines and policies published by the “Committee on Publication Ethics - COPE (https://publicationethics.org/)”.
The Journal of Health Sciences Arel University adheres to the principles set forth in the "Helsinki Declaration", "Good Clinical Practices Guide" and "Good Laboratory Practices Guide". It accepts the principle of compliance with the relevant regulations of the Ministry of Health. For research conducted on humans or animals, a copy of the Ethics Committee approval must be sent to the journal. If the relevant document is not sent to the journal, the article will not be evaluated. The author(s) should write the date and number of Ethics Committee approval in the "Sample and Method/Material and Method" section.

Publisher Responsibilities
• Journal of Health Sciences Arel University is published by Faculty of Health Sciences İstanbul Arel University.
• The publisher accepts that the decision maker and the refereeing process are the responsibility of the editor in the process of publishing an article in the Journal of Health Sciences Arel University.
• The publisher provides open, electronic and free access to the journal on the University's website.

Responsibilities of the Editor, Assistant Editors and Field Editors
• The editor and the editorial board are responsible for the publication and subsequent processes of the articles submitted for publication to the Journal of Health Sciences Arel University. The editor and the editorial board act impartially when making decisions about the journal and the articles published.
• Journal of Health Sciences Arel University editorial board strives to improve the journal and improve its publication quality.
• The editor and the editorial board ensure that the articles are evaluated by experts in their fields. It constantly renews the referee list according to the referees' fields of expertise.
• Attention is paid to whether there is a conflict of interest between the referees sent to evaluate the article and the authors.
• The editor and the editorial board do not disclose the information about the authors and the referees to both parties with the blind peer review process.
• When the authors request information about the status of the articles, information is given about the status of the article without harming the blind review process.
• The submission and acceptance dates of the article are published in the articles.
• The editor and the editorial board should pay attention to the protection of human and animal rights in the articles, they reject the article without the approval of the ethics committee.
• Editors should not have any personal and/or financial interests with the authors of the article they are assigned.
• The editor and member of the board who are in the list of authors of a submitted article are excluded from the evaluation process of that article.
• The editorial board should review all the articles uploaded to the system by the authors according to the journal rules created according to the index of the journal.
• The editorial board should first evaluate the suitability of each article uploaded to the system according to the FIRST CHECK List.
• The editorial board should pay attention to the confidentiality of the article evaluation process and should not be shared with third parties.
• All articles uploaded to the system should be evaluated by the editorial board in a completely impartial manner without any discrimination.

Responsibilities of the Referees
• In the article evaluation process of the Journal of the Faculty of Health Sciences of Arel University, the principle of two-way blind refereeing is applied.
• Referees cannot communicate directly with the authors, article evaluation forms and requests for corrections on the text are submitted to the author(s) via the editor and/or editorial board through the management system DergiPark.

Ethical Responsibilities of Referees
• Only articles related to their fields of expertise are sent to the referees. However, if the selected consultant thinks that the research in the article is not related to his field of expertise, if there is a conflict of interest with the article author(s), or if he thinks that it is not sufficient to evaluate this article, or if he cannot evaluate the article in a timely manner, he should notify the editor and withdraw from the evaluation process.
• In the refereeing process, all referees should evaluate the articles impartially, they should know that this process is confidential and should not be shared with third parties.
• Reviewers should keep the articles, associated materials and contents strictly confidential.
• Reviewers should not disclose the ideas of the authors.
• Referees should be honest, objective and free from personal biases in their evaluations, and should evaluate the scientific aspects of the article. They should not criticize the author personally, but should express their views openly using an academic and constructive language accompanied by data, avoiding insulting personal comments.
• Reviewers should make their decisions by evaluating only the scientific aspects of the article, without considering the race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnicity, citizenship or political philosophies of the authors.
• In addition to scientific evaluations, if the referees detect a situation where the ethical rules regarding the article are violated, they should notify the editor.
• Referees should upload their suggestions to the system within the time given to their opinions about the articles they accept to evaluate. If there is no return within the specified time, the relevant task may be canceled and a new referee may be appointed by the editors.

Ethical Responsibilities of Authors
• The ethics committee permission obtained should be documented and uploaded to the system as a separate file. The information in the ethics committee file uploaded to the journal must be compatible with the title of the article and the names of the authors.
• Ethics committee approval should be obtained for research that requires ethics committee approval, and this approval should be stated in the appropriate sections according to the article writing rules. Information about the ethics committee approval (name of the committee, date and number) should be stated in the method section, and also on the last page of the article (under the heading "Ethics Committee Statement"). Case reports should include information that the informed consent form was signed (under the heading “Informed Consent Statement”). Ethics committee approval in reviews.
• Authors must comply with the copyright regulations for the intellectual and artistic works used (such as specifying the source for the use of images, permission for the use of scale).
• The authors are responsible for reporting all personal and financial relations that may be related to the study.
• If there is a supporting institution in the research, its information must be stated in the method section.
• The articles of the author(s) submitted for publication to the Journal of Health Sciences and Life must not have been published in another journal or submitted for publication to another journal at the same time.
• Only contributors should be named to articles (people who have made significant contributions to the design, conduct, implementation, data collection or analysis/interpretation of the study; people who contributed to the hypothesis and draft of the study and critically revised the intellectual content; who have seen and approved the final version of the article). and those who have agreed to its publication). In the articles sent for publication, a change in the order of authors, adding or removing an author should not be requested.
• Author(s) should cite the sources they used while writing the article in line with ethical principles.
• The author(s) should obtain the necessary ethics committee documents in the research articles, the ethics committee name, decision date and number should be stated in the method section of the article. It should also document similarity reports using the iThenticate (http://www.ithenticate.com/) program. Ethics committee approval is not required from reviews.
• When information and raw data about the evaluated articles are requested, the author(s) should submit it to the editor or the editorial board.
• The author(s) should inform the editor or the editorial board when they notice an error in the evaluation and early view stage or in the electronic environment regarding the article they have sent, and should contact to correct or withdraw it.
• Article uploaded to the system; If the thesis is within the scope of a summary poster presentation or a summary oral presentation, this information should be included on the title page ("This article was prepared using the data obtained from the author's master's/doctoral thesis." / "This article was presented in the congress of ..... It was presented as an oral/poster on ...."). Full-text papers with the same method section, findings or discussion are not accepted into the journal publication process as an article.

Plagiarism and Unethical Behaviors
Articles with a similarity rate (excluding references) of less than 20% of the articles sent for publication to the Journal of Health Sciences Arel University are evaluated (iThenticate). Articles exceeding this rate are sent back to the authors for review or correction, and if plagiarism or unethical behavior is detected, they are rejected for publication. The responsibility for plagiarism and unethical behavior in the processes that are under the responsibility of the author regarding the article belongs to the author(s).

Some Unethical Behaviors in the Article
• Mentioning people who did not contribute to the study as authors.
• If the article is produced from the author's master's/doctoral thesis or a project, if it is presented anywhere, it is not stated.
• Not specifying conflicts of interest regarding submitted articles.
• Deciphering the double-blind peer-review process for the article.

Complaints Policy
Complaints regarding any material published in the Journal of Health Sciences Arel University must be made within six months from the date of first publication. In case of any complaints about the article processes or the article, the related complaints should be reported to the journal editorial office with their justifications via ausbyd@arel.edu.tr e-mail address.

Publication Policy
All responsibilities that may arise due to the published articles belong to the authors.
The copyright of the articles published in the Journal of Health Sciences Arel University belongs to the Journal of Health Sciences Arel University. No royalties are paid to authors.
In case the article is accepted, the Copyright Transfer Agreement signed by all authors should be sent to the editor.
Responsibility for the opinions expressed in the articles belongs to the authors.
In order not to damage the integrity of scientific articles, advertisements and similar promotions will not be included in the article.
The publication languages of the journal, which publishes articles in electronic environment three times a year, in April, August and December, are Turkish and English.
No fee is charged from the author or institution under any name.
All articles submitted to the Journal of Health Sciences Arel University;
• First of all, the journal is checked by the editor, assistant editor and field editor according to the writing rules. Articles that are not found appropriate according to the journal's publication policy and rules are returned to the author without further examination. If necessary, corrections may be requested from the authors.
• Articles prepared in accordance with the journal's writing rules and whose plagiarism rate (iThenticate or Turnitin) do not exceed 20% are included in the evaluation process by the editor. At this stage, if the editors consider the article to be scientifically inadequate, they can reject the article, send the article to the author or initiate the refereeing process.
• At least two referees are invited for the scientific evaluation of the articles approved by the editor. The referee is expected to upload his comments/suggestions/corrections to the system within the evaluation period.
• Referee suggestions and editorial board suggestions, if any, send the article to the author for revision. The revision request is uploaded to the system as a revised article within the specified period (making corrections does not mean that the article will be published for sure). Changes made to the revised article should be explained on a separate page.
• Revised articles uploaded to the system within the specified period are checked by the editorial board. Editors can send the article back to the referee process after revision or make a revision/accept/rejection decision.
• If one referee decides a major, the other referee makes a minor decision, a major correction is made. After the final corrections, the final decision is made as a result of the editorial evaluation.
• A decision of rejection by one referee may be sent to the third referee if the other referee decides to accept or revise. The final decision is made by the editor, taking into account the referee's suggestions.
• The articles revised by the authors and accepted by the editors are sent to the layout editor after they are evaluated in terms of spelling and language. Final checks are made after the layout and revisions can be requested from the author when necessary. After all checks are made and the acceptance decision is made, the article is assigned to the relevant issue and queued for publication. All these cases are sent to the responsible author via e-mail to their registered addresses in the system.
• After the articles are published, according to the DergiPark rules, the authors are given a certain period of time for control, within this period, the authors have to notify the editors of any changes. Since no changes can be made at the end of this period, authors who do not respond are considered to have approved the final version of the article.