Publication and Ethical Principles of Anatolia: Journal of Tourism Research
1. Journal title: Anatolia: Journal of Tourism Research has been published since 1990 as an interdisciplinary scientific/academic journal focusing on the tourism field of research.
2. Frequency of publication: The journal is published twice a year, in June and December.
3. Type of publication: The journal is published in print and online (open access).
4. Publication language: The publication language of the journal is Turkish. In addition, each article contains an unconstructed abstract written in Turkish and English.
5. Number of articles in one issue: Each issue has seven peer-reviewed articles and additional papers such as reports, event notes and article translations.
6. Manuscript evaluation: The reviewers of at least two academicians are applied for a manuscript submitted to the journal.
7. Reviewer list: The list of academicians who act as referees for the manuscripts submitted to the journal is published in the last issue of each year.
8. Time given to the authors for revision: Thirty days are given to the authors for pre-check and correction requests of the reviewers. The manuscript gets rejected if the authors do not submit the revised manuscript within this period.
9. Compliance with the universal ethical rules: The journal management agrees to comply with the scientific and publishing ethical rules determined at the universal level.
10. Editor’s responsibilities: Editors accept the obligation to evaluate the articles proposed to the journal in terms of scientific content, regardless of the authors' ethnic origin, gender preference, nationality, religious belief, or political philosophy. A fair and impartial anonymous peer review process is provided to publish the submitted manuscripts. It is ensured that all information about the submitted manuscript is kept confidential until published. The editors declare that the content and quality of the accepted paper will contribute to the scientific development of the field of tourism. Editors agree to prevent any conflicts of interest or competition between authors and reviewers.
11. Author’s responsibilities: Authors should ensure the originality of the manuscripts they submit and declare that the manuscript has not been published anywhere, in any language, or has not been submitted to another journal. Copyrighted materials such as tables, figures or other contributing quotations in the journal are published with the existence of valid permissions and copyright approvals obtained by the authors. For the use of scales, questionnaires and photographs/visuals belonging to other researchers, authors must obtain permission from the developers/owners and upload the permission document(s) in addition to the manuscript file in the first stage of the submission. Authors should cite other authors, contributors, and relevant sources appropriately. Method and application information should be carefully explained in terms of "reproducibility" in applied studies and the subject and content of the manuscripts. The corresponding author undertakes the responsibility for the article on behalf of co-authors during the submission and publication processes. She/he is also responsible for informing the co-authors about the process and evaluations regarding the manuscript. It is assumed that the corresponding author has reached an agreement with the co-author(s) in the publication process.
12. Reviewer’s responsibilities: The reviewers are responsible for evaluating the manuscripts in terms of scientific content. The research should not have a conflict of interest or competition with the authors or sponsors. Comments and decisions of the reviewers must be objective. Reviewers need to highlight the references that the authors missed citing. They are also obliged to keep all information about the submitted manuscript confidential and notify the editor when they become aware of copyright violations and plagiarism. When a reviewer thinks that the content of a submitted manuscript is incompatible with her/his scientific field and experience, or in cases where she/he cannot make a quick and comprehensive evaluation, the reviewer should inform the editor and reject to review of the manuscript.
13. Publication fee: The management of Anatolia: Journal of Tourism Research considers it against scientific ethics to request monetary payments for the articles published in the journal. Thus, we declare that there has been no such practice in the journal's thirty-year publication life, and it will not be after that as well.
14. Expertise in using the Turkish language: The journal management aims to contribute to the development of Turkish as a scientific language and expects the Turkish language and expression rules to be followed in the manuscripts submitted to the journal. Authors should use the common Turkish equivalents of concepts and words developed in foreign languages.
15. Publishing articles in subsequent issues: If an author recently published an article in the journal, she/he cannot publish a new paper in subsequent issues. A new article by the same author (even if it is joint work with different authors) can only be published in the fourth issue following the relevant issue.
16. Authorship in articles developed from graduate theses: In articles prepared based on master's or doctoral theses, the student and advisor(s) who prepared the thesis are accepted as the article's authors. However, suppose the student wants to prepare a solo-authored article based on the thesis. In that case, she/he is expected to receive a letter from the thesis advisor stating that the advisor has waived authorship and submitted it to the journal in the first stage of the manuscript submission process. This process also applies to the thesis advisor if she/he submits a solo-authored manuscript developed from the student’s thesis.
17. Author rank: The journal management expects that the authorship rights and author rank of a manuscript comply with standard rules applicable in the international arena. The thesis student is the first author of an article based on the graduate thesis. The thesis advisor is listed as the second author, and if any, the second advisor is the third author. Journal management is not a party to the conflicts about the authorship ranking after the article is published.
18. Withdrawal of the manuscript: Authors have the right to withdraw their manuscripts before the peer-review process starts. If the review process has started, no manuscript can be withdrawn until the first decision is received. Authors who withdraw their manuscripts twice within five years are blacklisted, and the manuscripts they submit later are not considered. If an ethical issue occurs after the manuscript is accepted and published, the article is retracted from publication.
19. Ethical standards: Anatolia: Journal of Tourism Research adopts the ethical standards determined by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
20. Ethics Committee Approval: In studies conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from the participants by using survey, interview, focus group discussion, observation, experiment, and interview techniques, approval obtained from an ethics committee should be submitted at the manuscript submission stage. Authors can answer TR Index's questions below to decide whether their research requires ethics committee approval:
1. Will your research involve human participants with or without their knowledge or consent at the time?
1.1. Will your research include animals?
2. Will your research expose anyone to physical or psychological harm, whether she/he is a participant or not?
3. Will you have access to personal information or data that allows you to identify individuals or companies’ confidential information?
4. Does your research pose a significant risk to the environment or society?
5. Are there any ethical issues raised by your research that require further ethical investigation?
If you answered 'yes' to any of the above questions, you must obtain an 'Ethics Committee Approval Certificate'.
21. Copyright: The copyright of the articles published in the journal belongs to Anatolia: Journal of Tourism Research. The article cannot be published in another journal or language without the written permission of the journal management.
22. Priority right: In case of having the following issues, the manuscripts submitted to the journal are published with priority in the first issue following the date of the acceptance decision:
1) Articles such as criticism and error correction about an article published in the journal. However, for such articles to be considered, they must meet the conditions of scientific/academic content, feature, and format.
2) To encourage new and original topics; climate studies, the relations of tourism with the environment, interdisciplinary studies based on tourism, studies examining the relations of tourism with philosophy, sociology, psychology and anthropology, culinary culture, and supply-demand relations in tourism are primarily published.
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