Balıkesir Health Sciences Journal adopts the publishing principles determined by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE©) and expects the authors to comply with these in the studies they submit to the journal. Studies that violate these rules cannot be published in the journal. However, during article submission, authors are requested to fill out the conflict of interest form prepared by ICMJE.

You can find the relevant rules at the following links: ICMJE Recommendations WEB, ICMJE Recommendations PDF, ICMJE Conflicts of Interest

Balıkesir Health Sciences Journal has adopted the Open Access policy, and submission of articles to the journal, publication of articles and access to articles are free of charge. However, the journal archive is open to all and access to the archive does not require any membership. Works published in the journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC-BY-NC). No publication evaluation fee, publication fee or any other fee is charged for the publications submitted to our journal.

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In order for the articles to be published in the journal, they must not have been previously published/sent for publication in another journal and a positive report must be given by the referees.

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Provided that the licence holder is cited, you may distribute the work, copy it, work on it, and again by referring the owner you may make derivative works or do similar works.

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