Research Ethics
Amasya University Journal of Economics, Trade and Marketing adheres to the ethical guidelines outlined in the guidelines and policies published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). See: https://publicationethics.org/guidance?f%5B0%5D=type%3A21

It is an open-access journal licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

Publication Ethics Principles

General Principles:
• Amasya University Journal of Economics Trade and Marketing is published 2 (twice) a year.
• Compliance with grammar rules is one of the most important issues for Amasya University Journal of Economics Trade and Marketing in scientific studies.
• Studies to be sent to Amasya University Journal of Economics Trade and Marketing must not have been published anywhere before and have not already been submitted for publication.
• The publishing language of Amasya University Journal of Economics Trade and Marketing is Turkish and English. The responsibility of the studies published in the journal in terms of science and language belongs to the author(s).
• Studies sent to Amasya University Journal of Economics Trade and Marketing are evaluated by the Editorial Board at the pre-flight stage, and those who can contribute to the literature are included in the referee process.
• No royalty payments are made to the author(s) for the works published in the journal.
• If the studies submitted to the journal are supported by any institution or produced from a thesis, this should be included on the first page containing author information.
• Ethics committee approval must be obtained for research conducted in all branches of science that requires ethics committee permission, and this approval must be stated and documented in the article.
• All articles are scanned for plagiarism using Ithenticate software. The similarity rate is required to be less than 15%.
• All articles identified with unethical behavior such as plagiarism, duplication, false authorship, research/data fabrication, article slicing, publication by slicing, copyright violation and hiding conflict of interest will be removed from publication. This includes articles containing possible irregularities or improprieties detected after publication.

Responsibilities of the author(s):
• Author(s) should not submit an article that they have published or sent for publication elsewhere, or more than one article at the same time, to Amasya University Journal of Economics Trade and Marketing.
• The author(s) must correctly cite the sources they use while writing the article, in line with ethical principles.
• The author(s) are responsible for making all changes requested by the referees. Studies will not be published unless the desired changes are made.
• The names of people who did not contribute to the article should not be written as authors, and changing the author order of an article applied for publication, removing or adding authors should not be recommended.
• Persons who have a conflict of interest regarding the article applied for publication must be notified to the editors.
• If authors are asked for information or data regarding their articles during the evaluation process, they must submit the requested information to the journal editorship.
• Author(s) must document that they have received permission to use the data they use in their articles, permissions for research and analysis, or the approval of the participants on whom they conducted research.
• The author(s) must contact the editor to inform, correct or withdraw when they notice an error regarding their article in the evaluation and early appearance stage or published electronically.

Ethical Responsibilities of Referees
- Assist editors in editorial decisions and help authors to improve their manuscripts through editorial communication. Completion of other articles, artefacts, references, citations, rules and similar deficiencies related to the article should be pointed out
- Reviewers are only required to review articles related to their field of expertise.
- Reviewers are expected to agree to review articles without any conflict of interest. Referees should inform the editor when they realise any conflict of interest and refuse to referee the relevant article.
- Reviewers should evaluate the manuscripts impartially and objectively.
- The style of the reviewers should be polite, respectful and scientific.
- Reviewers should avoid offensive, disrespectful and subjective personal comments. When referees are found to have made such unscientific comments, they may be contacted by the editor or editorial board to review and correct their comments.
- Reviewers are required to complete their evaluations within the time given to them and are expected to comply with the ethical responsibilities specified here.
- 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 an invitation to review.

Refereeing process

All articles submitted to Amasya University's Economics, Trade and Marketing Journal
are reviewed using a double-blind peer review method.
In the first stage, all submitted works are checked by the editor in terms of purpose, scope, method
and writing principles. If there are no deficiencies or errors in the text or
files, the editor assigns a field editor. The subject editor invites at least two different referees to review the article.
Referees who accept the evaluation complete their assessments within the time
allotted to them. If the evaluation is not completed within the given time,
the referee is granted an average of 7 additional days. Referee selection is made
using the Dergipark system, taking into account keywords and the article's subject. If the referee evaluation results in ‘Suitable for Publication’ for both referees,
the article is published. If both referees indicate ‘Not Suitable for Publication,’
it is rejected. If the referees request minor/major corrections,
the article is sent back to the author, who is expected to make the necessary corrections
and upload the revised work. If the revisions are made, the process continues. If one reviewer
accepts and the other rejects the article, it is sent to a third reviewer.
The process continues or concludes based on this reviewer's opinion. All
processes are conducted through DergiPark and are archived in the journal's
archive.


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Ethical Responsibilities of the Editor
- The editor should evaluate the submitted manuscripts in terms of originality, contribution to science, appropriateness to the subject and scope of the journal, and should consider them independently of the characteristics of the researchers such as gender, religion, race, ethnicity, ethnic origin, language and political opinion.
- The editor should initiate the evaluation process of the submitted manuscripts as soon as possible and ensure that the double blind refereeing system is applied in this regard.
- The editor undertakes that all information contained in the submitted manuscripts will not be shared with anyone other than the corresponding author, referees and the editorial board.
- When the editor detects a violation of scientific ethical rules in the submitted studies, he/she should act in accordance with the Directive on Scientific Research and Publication Ethics of Higher Education Institutions.
- The editor has full authority/responsibility to accept, reject or request changes in the submitted manuscripts.
- Editors and editorial board members may not use unpublished information in an article submitted for their own research purposes without the express written permission of the authors. Editors should not be in conflict of interest regarding the manuscripts they accept or reject

Studies Requiring Ethics Committee Authorisation
- All kinds of research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from participants using survey, interview, focus group study, observation, experiment, interview techniques
- Use of humans and animals (including material/data) for experimental or other scientific purposes
- Clinical trials on humans
- Research on animals
- Retrospective studies in accordance with the law on the protection of personal data