3. Ethical Principles and Publication Policy
ASA is an international peer-reviewed journal where original scientific articles, translations of articles, book reviews and book introductions in the fields of social sciences and humanities, especially language, literature, literary history, culture, linguistics, psychology, anthropology, philosophy, history, sociology are published in accordance with the ethical principles stated below. Articles submitted to ASA are published electronically with free access after double blind review processes. The following ethical principles and rules have been prepared in accordance with the Directive on Scientific Research and Publication Ethics of Higher Education Institutions and the Directive of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Ethical Responsibilities of Authors:
- The subjects of the articles to be sent to the journal of our faculty must be within the specified fields.
- The articles to be submitted to our journal must be original, must not have been published elsewhere before, or must not be in the evaluation process in another journal for publication.
- All sources used in the writing of the article should be indicated in the references appropriately; copyrighted materials should be used in accordance with the necessary permissions by observing copyright laws and agreements.
- In the Copyright Agreement Form, in articles with two or more authors, the name order given by all authors with a joint decision and the acceptance of the transfer of the copyrights of the articles finalised for publication to the journal should be officially stated.
- Authors should immediately inform the editorial board in case they detect an error in their manuscripts; they should carry out the correction or withdrawal process in co-operation. All responsibility for the published article belongs to the authors. No opinion and thought in the article can be attributed to the journal, editors, referees.
- All studies accepted by our journal are checked by iThenticate plagiarism detection programme. The matches resulting from the plagiarism check are examined and then a similarity report is created for the article. In line with the report, authors may be asked to make corrections to certain parts of their work or the work may be removed from the publication process.
- Manuscripts are subjected to a double-blind review process by the editor or one of the assistant editors and at least two referees. Plagiarism, forgery, distortion, duplication, slicing, unfair authorship, copyright infringement and concealment of conflict of interest are considered unethical behaviours.
Ethical Responsibilities of Reviewers:
- Double-blinding method is applied in the evaluation of the studies submitted to our journal. Thus, the identities of the referees and authors are kept confidential in order to ensure an unbiased, objective and independent evaluation process.
- Manuscripts are sent to the referees for evaluation via journalipark.
- Referees are only required to referee studies related to their fields of expertise.
- The referees should state their opinions on the manuscript they evaluate, their reasoned judgements on whether the manuscript is publishable or not in writing, and should not mention their names in order not to damage the double-blind evaluation process.
- Reviewers are responsible for evaluating the manuscripts in an unbiased and objective scientific manner.
- Referees are expected to complete their evaluations within the time allocated to them and to act in accordance with the ethical principles of our journal.
Ethical Responsibilities of the Editors:
- The editors objectively evaluate the articles submitted to the journal in accordance with scientific and ethical principles and organise the process of double-blind peer review in a fair manner.
- They ensure that all information and data regarding the articles submitted to the journal are kept confidential until the end of the article publication process.
- They are responsible for the overall quality of all content and publications in the journal. They can publish error pages or make corrections when necessary.
- Editors do not allow any conflict of interest between authors and reviewers. They are fully authorised to appoint referees and are responsible for making the final decision on the articles to be published in the journal.