The study should not have been published anywhere before or should not be in the evaluation stage. The responsibility in this regard lies entirely with the authors. Artuklu KAIME journal and editorial board do not accept responsibility in this regard.

The studies submitted to our journal are put into the plagiarism program (Turnitin) before being subjected to the preliminary evaluation stage. If the similarity rate is 20% or more in the whole study or if the similarity rate from the same study is 3% or more, the study is rejected at the preliminary evaluation stage and returned to the author.

Our journal evaluates the studies through a 3-stage process. These processes consist of preliminary control stage, evaluation stage and editing stage. In the preliminary control stage, the manuscripts are evaluated according to whether they are compatible with the journal's spelling rules, publication policies and the fields of study accepted by the journal. Manuscripts that do not meet these conditions and whose similarity rate exceeds the above-mentioned rates are rejected at the pre-control stage and returned to the author(s). The manuscripts that are found successful at the pre-control stage are passed to the evaluation stage to be refereed.

Our journal uses the double blind referee method. Studies submitted to our journal are sent to 2 separate referees who are experts in their fields. Studies that are evaluated positively by 2 referees are accepted for publication. For studies where 1 referee gives a positive report and 1 referee gives a negative report, the study is sent to a third referee for evaluation. If the third referee also gives a positive report, the study is deemed suitable for publication. If both reviewers give a negative opinion, the study is rejected without the need to send it to a third reviewer and the author is notified of this situation. In order to ensure objective evaluation criteria, the referees are not informed about the authors and the authors are not informed about the referees.
The authors are notified that the manuscripts in which both referees give a favorable opinion are accepted for publication, and the manuscripts are queued for publication in the next issue by requesting a final edit from the authors.

• The number of in-house publications in an issue cannot exceed 10%.
• The same author cannot publish in two consecutive issues.
• Even if the referee reports are positive, the final decision of acceptance or rejection belongs to the editorial board.