Ethical Guidelines

AYDIN GASTRONOMY is committed to adopting and fulfilling ethical behavior standards at every stage of the publication process. It strictly follows the general ethical guidelines provided by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). Depending on the principles and general publication conditions specified in these guidelines, editors, referees, and authors should take the following responsibilities according to professional and ethical standards. The proper and ethical process of publishing is dependent on fulfilling these responsibilities.

Ethical Responsibilities of Editors

The editor is responsible for conducting the publishing process of all articles published in the journal in accordance with the rules. The editor should make efforts to improve the quality and contribute to the development of the journal. The editor supports the freedom of expression of the authors. The editor takes care that the published articles are compatible with the knowledge and skills of the journal readers. The editor sends the articles to the referees who are suitable for their knowledge and expertise. It is ensured that the referees are scientists who evaluate the articles objectively, perform the refereeing process on time, evaluate the article with constructive criticism, and act in accordance with ethical rules. Thus, it is ensured that the articles are evaluated correctly by experts in the field. It should be noted that the reviewers do not have any conflict of interest with the author(s). The editor must ensure that the review process is double-blind and never reveal the identities of the authors to the reviewers or vice versa.

The Ethical Responsibilities of Reviewers

The reviewers must only review the manuscripts which align with their expertise fields. The referees should make the evaluation with impartiality and confidentiality. If reviewers notice any conflict of interest, they should refuse to evaluate the article and inform the editors. Reviewers are required to fill in the Referee Evaluation Form for the articles they evaluate. In this form, the reviewers should also state their final decision on whether the article they evaluated is publishable or not, and the reasons for their decision. The reviewers should make the assessment in a constructive language in accordance with academic etiquette; Personal comments that contain insults and hostility should be avoided. The reviewers are required to complete their evaluations within the time given to them and are expected to comply with the ethical responsibilities declared hereby.

The Ethical Responsibilities of Author(s)

Submitted articles must be original works in accordance with the specified fields of study. The names of people who do not contribute to the article should not be written as authors, it should not be suggested to change the author order, remove an author, or add an author of an article that is applied for publication. However, they should identify individuals who have a significant share in their work as co-authors. A study cannot be published without the consent of all its authors.

The bibliography list should be complete, prepared correctly, and the cited sources should be specified. Author (s) must not send manuscripts submitted for publication to another journal at the same time. Articles sent for publication should not contradict to scientific publication ethics (plagiarism, forgery, distortion, republishing, dividing, unfair authorship, not specifying the supporting organization). Ethics committee approval should be obtained for clinical and experimental studies on humans and animals that require an ethics committee decision, and this approval should be stated and documented in the article. All clinical studies submitted for publication to the AYDIN GASTRONOMY Journal; All kinds of research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from the participants using survey, interview, focus group work, observation, experiment, interview techniques, any work using identifiable human biological material and data, any research related to data considered as private/sensitive data within the scope of the Personal Data Protection Law is subject to the approval of the Ethics Committee. In studies that require ethics committee permission, information about the permission (name of the committee, date and number) should be included in the method section. It is necessary to obtain permission from the owners for the use of scales, surveys, photographs belonging to others and to document this situation. Also, it is necessary to state that copyright regulations are complied with for intellectual and artistic works.

The Ethical Responsibilities of Publisher

The publisher acknowledges that the decision-making process is the responsibility of the editor at all stages of the article publication process. The publisher is responsible for protecting the property and copyright of each published article and keeping a record of every published copy. The publisher is obliged to provide free access to all articles of all issues of the journal in electronic environment.

Notifying the Editor About the Violation of Ethical Principles

In case of noticing a situation against the ethical principles regarding a published article in the journal of AYDIN GASTRONOMY or in the evaluation process, a report should be sent to aydingastronomy@aydin.edu.tr