ETHICAL PRINCIPLES
The ethical principles and publication policy of Atebe Journal have been prepared in accordance with the guidelines and policies published by the
Committee on Publication Ethics (
COPE).
Actions Contrary to Scientific Research and Publication Ethics
a) Plagiarism: Presenting the ideas, methods, data, applications, writings, figures, or works of others as one's own, either partially or entirely, without properly citing the original authors in accordance with scientific rules,
b) Fabrication: Producing data that is not based on research, editing or altering a submitted or published work based on false data, reporting or publishing such data, presenting research that has not been conducted as if it had been conducted,
c) Distortion: Tampering with research records and obtained data, presenting methods, devices, and materials not used in the research as if they had been used, excluding data that does not fit the research hypothesis from evaluation, manipulating data and/or results to fit relevant theories or assumptions, distorting or shaping research results in line with the interests of the persons and organisations providing support,
ç) Duplicate publication: Presenting multiple works containing the same results of a research as separate works in associate professorship examination evaluations and academic promotions,
d) Salami slicing: Presenting the results of a study as separate works in associate professorship examination evaluations and academic promotions by dividing them into parts in an inappropriate manner that disrupts the integrity of the study and publishing them in numerous publications without cross-referencing each other,
e) Unfair authorship: Including individuals who have not made an active contribution among the authors, not including individuals who have made an active contribution among the authors, changing the order of authors without justification and in an inappropriate manner, removing the names of those who have made an active contribution from the work during publication or in subsequent editions, including one's name among the authors by using one's influence despite not having made an active contribution,
Other types of ethical violations include:
a) Failing to acknowledge the individuals, institutions, or organisations that provided support for research-based publications,
b) Using theses or studies that have not yet been submitted or defended as sources without the owner's permission,
c) Sharing information contained in a work assigned for review with others prior to publication without the express permission of the author,
ç) Using resources, facilities, opportunities, and equipment provided or allocated for scientific research for purposes other than those intended,
d) Making unfounded, inappropriate, and deliberate allegations of ethical violations,
e) Publishing data obtained without the explicit consent of participants in surveys and attitude studies conducted as part of scientific work, or without the additional permission of the institution if the research is to be conducted at an institution,
f) Failure to comply with the obligation to inform and warn those concerned about possible harmful practices related to scientific research conducted by researchers and officials,
g) In scientific studies, failing to use data and information obtained from other persons and institutions to the extent and in the manner permitted, failing to respect the confidentiality of this information and failing to ensure its protection,
h) Making false or misleading statements regarding scientific research and publications in academic appointments and promotions,
Ethics Committee Approval
Our journal requires that all studies in scientific fields requiring ethics committee approval have obtained the relevant ethics committee decision. In this context, information regarding ethics committee approval (committee name, date, and decision number) must be clearly stated in the article text.
In line with the regulations implemented by Ulakbim TR Index since 2020, studies without ethics committee approval are not considered for publication in our journal.
Studies Requiring Ethics Committee Approval
Studies requiring ethics committee approval in our journal include the following:
• All research conducted using qualitative or quantitative approaches involving data collection from participants through methods such as surveys, interviews, focus group studies, observation, and discussion techniques,
• Retrospective studies within the framework of the Personal Data Protection Law.
For such studies to be considered for evaluation, the relevant ethical committee approvals must have been obtained and clearly stated in the article text.
Correction, Retraction, Expression of Concern
Editors may consider publishing a correction if minor errors are identified in a published article that do not affect the findings, interpretations, or conclusions. Editors should consider retracting an article when major errors/violations invalidate the findings and conclusions. If there is a possibility that the research or publication has been misused by the authors; if there is evidence that the findings are unreliable and the authors' institutions have not investigated the matter, or if a possible investigation appears unfair or inconclusive, editors should consider publishing a statement of concern. COPE principles are taken into account regarding corrections, retractions, or statements of concern.
Plagiarism Action Plan and Journal Measures
The journal respects intellectual property and aims to protect and encourage the original work of its authors. Articles containing plagiarism are contrary to standards of quality, research, and innovation. Therefore, all authors submitting articles to the journal are expected to adhere to ethical standards and avoid plagiarism in any form. If a writer is suspected of plagiarism in a submitted or published article, the work is first reviewed by the journal's Ethics Editor. This work is then reviewed by the Editorial Board. The journal then contacts the writer(s) to send their explanations within two weeks. If the journal does not receive a response from the author within the specified period, it will contact the author's university to request an investigation into the allegation.
The journal will take the following serious measures against published articles found to contain plagiarism:
1. The journal will immediately contact the author(s)' university to take definitive action against the author(s) concerned.
2. The journal will remove the PDF copy of the published article from its website and disable all links to the full-text article. The label ‘Plagiarised Article’ will be added to the title of the published article.
3. The journal will disable the author's account and reject all future submissions from the author for a period of 3 years.
This journal checks submitted works for plagiarism: Articles undergoing preliminary review are scanned for plagiarism using Turnitin software. Authors are notified if plagiarism/self-plagiarism is detected. Editors may subject the article to plagiarism checks at various stages of the evaluation or production process, if necessary. High similarity rates may result in an article being rejected before acceptance and even after acceptance. This rate is expected to be less than 20%.
Relationships with the Journal Owner and Publisher
The relationship between the editor and the publisher is based on the principle of editorial independence. Pursuant to the written agreement between the editor and the publisher, all decisions made by the editor are independent of the publisher and journal owner.
Protection of Personal Information
All personal data submitted to our journal is protected in accordance with legal regulations and ethical rules.
Protection of Intellectual Property Rights
Our journal is responsible for protecting the intellectual property rights of all published articles and defending the rights of the journal and the author(s) in the event of possible infringements.
Conflicts of Interest
Our journal guarantees that the publication process is completed independently and impartially, taking into account conflicts of interest between author(s), reviewers, and other editors.
Complaints and Appeals to Our Journal
You may email any complaints or appeals regarding content, procedures, or policies under the responsibility of our journal or its editorial board members to atebe@asbu.edu.tr. Complaints and appeals submitted to our journal are carefully reviewed and evaluated in accordance with COPE principles.
STAKEHOLDERS' RESPONSIBILITIES
A) Editors' Responsibilities
1. Impartiality and Editorial Freedom: Editors evaluate submitted article proposals based on their relevance to the journal's scope and the importance and originality of the work. Editors do not consider the race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, nationality, or political views of the authors submitting article proposals. No institution other than the journal editorial board can influence the decision to revise or publish. Editors take care to ensure that published issues contribute to readers, researchers, practitioners, and the scientific field, and that they are of original quality.
2. Independence: The relationship between the editors (Editor and Associate Editors) and the publisher is based on the principle of editorial independence. According to the written agreement between the editors and the publisher, all decisions made by the editors are independent of the publisher and the journal owner. Editors must reject incomplete or flawed research that does not comply with journal policy, publication rules, and standards without any external influence.
3. Confidentiality: Editors do not share information about a submitted manuscript with anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, and the editorial board. They ensure that manuscripts reviewed by at least two reviewers are evaluated according to a double-blind peer review system and keep the reviewers confidential.
4. Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: Editors and editorial board members shall not use unpublished information from a submitted manuscript for their own research purposes without the author's express written permission. Editors shall not have a conflict of interest regarding manuscripts they accept or reject.
5. Ethical Concerns: Editors will take action when ethical concerns arise regarding a submitted manuscript or published article. They will continue their work processes without compromising intellectual property rights and ethical standards. Any reported unethical publishing behaviour will be investigated, even if it emerges years after publication. Editors follow COPE Flowcharts when ethical concerns arise. If ethical issues are significant, corrections, retractions may be applied, or concerns regarding the matter may be published in the journal.
6. Collaboration with Journal Boards: Editors ensure that all advisory board members advance processes in accordance with publication policies and guidelines. They inform advisory board members about publication policies. They ensure that advisory board members evaluate submissions independently. They may contribute to new advisory board members and make appropriate decisions. Submissions should be sent to advisory board members based on their expertise for evaluation. They interact regularly with the advisory board. They hold regular meetings with the editorial board regarding publication policies and journal development.
B) Responsibilities of Authors
1. Reporting standards: The authors of the original research must ensure that the work and results are presented accurately and that the significance of the work is then discussed objectively. The article proposal should contain sufficient detail and references.
2. Data access and storage: Authors must store the raw data of their studies. When required, they must submit it for editorial review upon request by the journal.
3. Originality and plagiarism: Authors must submit entirely original works, and if they have used the work or words of others, these must be properly cited. Plagiarism, in all its forms, constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable. Therefore, all authors submitting articles to the journal are required to provide a similarity ratio report.
4. Multiple, duplicate, redundant, or simultaneous submission/publication: Authors should not submit an article for consideration that has already been published in another journal. Submitting an article to multiple journals simultaneously constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.
5. Authorship of the article: Only those who meet the authorship criteria should be listed as authors in the article. These authorship criteria are as follows: (i) contributed to the design, implementation, data collection or analysis; (ii) drafted the manuscript or provided significant intellectual contribution or critically revised it; or (iii) reviewed the final version of the manuscript, approved it and agreed to submit it for publication. The corresponding author must ensure that all authors (as defined above) are included in the author list and must declare that the authors have seen the final version of the article and agreed to submit it for publication.
6. Declarations and conflicts of interest: Authors should disclose conflicts of interest at the earliest possible stage (usually by submitting a declaration form at the time of manuscript submission and including a declaration in the manuscript). All sources of financial support for the work should be declared (including grant/fund number or other reference number, if applicable).
7. Peer review process: Authors are obliged to participate in the peer review process and to cooperate fully by promptly responding to editors' requests for raw data, explanations, and evidence of ethical approval and copyright permissions. If a decision of ‘revision required’ is made initially, authors must systematically review their manuscripts in response to the reviewers' comments and resubmit them by the deadline provided.
8. Fundamental errors in published works: Should authors discover significant errors or inaccuracies in their published work, they are obliged to immediately inform the journal editors or publisher and to cooperate with the journal editors or publisher to correct the article with a typographical error (erratum) or to withdraw the article from publication. If editors or publishers learn from a third party that a published work contains a significant error or inaccuracy, they should request that the author immediately correct or retract the article or provide evidence of the paper's accuracy to the journal editors.
C) Responsibilities of Reviewers
1. Contributing to editorial decisions: Reviewers assist editors in their decisions and help authors improve their articles through editorial communication. They should indicate any deficiencies in the article, such as other articles, works, sources, citations, rules, and the like.
2. Timeliness: Any reviewer who does not feel qualified to review a manuscript proposal or knows that the manuscript review cannot be completed on time should immediately inform the editors and decline the review invitation so that a new reviewer can be appointed.
3. Confidentiality: All manuscript proposals submitted for review are confidential documents and should be treated as such. They should not be shown or discussed with others unless authorised by the editor. This also applies to reviewers who decline the review invitation.
4. Standards of impartiality: Comments on the article proposal should be made impartially, and suggestions should be made in a way that authors can use to improve the article. Personal criticism of authors is inappropriate.
5. Acceptance of sources: Reviewers should identify relevant published works not cited by the authors. The reviewer should also inform the editor of any significant similarity between the reviewed paper and any other paper (published or unpublished).
6. Conflicts of interest: Conflicts of interest should be disclosed to the editor. There should be no conflict of interest between reviewers and stakeholders of the article under review.
PUBLICATION POLICY
General Principles
1) Atebe Journal publishes academic studies in the fields of Social and Human Sciences, with a focus on Religion, Philosophy, History, and Sociology.
2) Only studies prepared in Turkish, English, and Arabic are accepted for publication in the journal.
3) Submitted articles must be consistent with the journal's aim and scope.
4) Original, unpublished works that are not under review by another journal and have been approved by each author in terms of content and submission will be accepted for review.
5) Articles will take an average of 10 weeks from submission to publication.
6) Works must be prepared in accordance with the journal's writing rules.
7) Articles must be submitted electronically via the ‘Submit Article’ section on the journal's website.
8) All documents and files must be submitted as Word documents (.doc or .docx).
9) Articles that do not use the ISNAD Citation System will be returned to the author for revision.
10) Articles exceeding the 10,000-word limit will be returned to the author to reduce the word count.
11) Articles must include a 350-400 word Turkish and English abstract and 5-8 keywords to facilitate electronic searching. This word limit applies to the Turkish abstract. The English abstract may be longer, provided it is identical to the Turkish abstract.
12) Once an article has been submitted to the Journal for publication, no author's name may be removed from the list of authors, no new name may be added as an author, and the order of authors may not be changed without the written consent of all authors.
13) Publication Decision: If deemed necessary by the reviewers, the author shall make the necessary changes. The Editorial Board makes the final decision on whether the revised text by the author will be published.
14) This journal checks submitted works for plagiarism: Articles that pass the preliminary check are scanned for plagiarism using Turnitin software. If plagiarism/self-plagiarism is detected, the authors are notified. Editors may subject the article to plagiarism checks at various stages of the evaluation or production process, if necessary. High similarity rates may result in an article being rejected before acceptance and even after acceptance. This rate is expected to be less than 20%.
15) All published articles are assigned a DOI as a permanent article identifier.
Article Evaluation Process
1-Preliminary Review and Plagiarism Screening
Articles submitted to our journal are reviewed at this stage for compliance with journal publication principles, academic writing rules, and the ISNAD Citation System. The similarity rate in the plagiarism scan conducted with Turnitin must be below 20%.
2-Field Editor Review
Studies that pass the preliminary review are evaluated by the field editor in terms of academic language, style, and content.
3-Peer Review Process (Academic Evaluation)
The studies are sent to at least two expert reviewers in the field under double-blind peer review. The reviewers present their opinions with justification. If one of the referee reports is negative, the study is sent to a third referee. Studies with at least two positive referee reports can be published. If the referees request corrections, the reports are forwarded to the author. The author makes the corrections within the specified time (corrections should be marked in red) and submits them to the subject editor. The subject editor checks the corrections made.
4-Language Editor Review
Manuscripts that have completed the peer review process are reviewed by our language editors. If deemed necessary, corrections are requested from the author.
5-Decision and Publication
Works that have completed all academic and linguistic stages are evaluated by the Publication Board, and a final publication decision is made. Works decided to be published are typeset and laid out to be ready for publication. Works with completed layout are published after final proofreading.
Copyright and Open Access Policy
Authors retain the copyright of their work published in our journal, and their work is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0. Articles published in our journal are published as open access under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence.
Licence Scope
1) Share: You may copy and redistribute the work in any medium or format.
2) Adapt: Remix, transform, and build upon the existing workite
Under the following conditions:
3) Attribution: You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so appropriately, but this does not imply that the licence holder approves of you or your use.
4) Non-Commercial: You may not use this material for commercial purposes.
There are no additional restrictions: You may not apply legal conditions or technological measures that would restrict the use of the permissions granted by the licence.
Archiving Policy
All works published in our journal are digitally archived in LOCKSS. Our journal also permits authors to share their articles on their own websites, their institutions' websites, and other storage areas. The full text of all articles published in our journal is freely accessible at https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/atebe/archive.
Special Issue Publication
The Editorial Board may decide to publish a special issue once a year. The publication and review principles for articles to be published in the special issue are applied in the same manner as for regular issues.
Fee Policy
Article submission, review, and publication processes in our journal are completely free of charge. No fees are charged for submitted or accepted articles. In accordance with our publication policy, we do not accept sponsorship or advertising, and all expenses of the journal are covered by the publisher.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy
Purpose of the Policy
ATEBE Journal considers the ethical, transparent, and responsible use of artificial intelligence technologies in academic publishing processes to be important. This policy has been prepared to determine how and to what extent authors can use artificial intelligence tools. The primary goal is to maintain academic integrity and publication quality.
General Principles
Purpose of Use
Artificial intelligence tools may only be used for technical support purposes, such as spell checking, grammar correction, and ensuring stylistic consistency. However, artificial intelligence should not be used directly in situations such as producing scientific content, conducting analysis, or generating original data.
Transparency
Authors are obliged to clearly state in the Ethics Statement section which tools they have used and at which stages they have utilised artificial intelligence in their articles.
Accuracy and Responsibility
The accuracy of content or suggestions provided by artificial intelligence must be verified by the author. Responsibility lies entirely with the author in the event that information is incomplete, incorrect, or misleading.
Impartiality
Authors must declare any conflicts of interest during their work. They must maintain an impartial scientific approach, taking into account the potential biases of artificial intelligence.
Privacy and Data Security
Personal or sensitive data must not be uploaded to artificial intelligence platforms under any circumstances. Actions must be taken within the framework of data security and ethical principles.
Citation
Artificial intelligence tools used should not be cited in the bibliography or footnotes. However, their use must be clearly stated in the Ethics Statement section.
Responsibilities
Authors
All scientific, ethical, and legal responsibilities arising from the use of artificial intelligence belong to the authors.
Editors and Reviewers
The editorial board and reviewers monitor the compliance of AI use with this policy. If unethical use is detected, the relevant submission may be rejected or retracted.
Policy Updates
This policy is regularly reviewed and updated as necessary in line with developments in artificial intelligence technologies.
ATEBE Journal's Commitment
ATEBE Journal commits to not using artificial intelligence tools in its peer review and editorial evaluation processes. The journal aims to raise awareness about the ethical and responsible use of artificial intelligence and to act with clear principles in this area.
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