Ethical Principles and Publication Policy
Bartın University Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences is an international, peer-reviewed, scholarly, and open-access journal committed to the principles of research and publication ethics. The journal’s publication processes are conducted in accordance with the principles of scholarly integrity, impartiality, transparency, accountability, editorial independence, academic quality, open access, and the free circulation of scholarly knowledge.
International Standards and Fundamental Principles
The journal’s publication ethics and editorial processes are conducted with due consideration of the principles and guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA), World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), and relevant national and international academic publishing principles.
All parties involved in the publication process, including authors, reviewers, editors, section editors, members of the Publication Board, and the publisher, are required to act in accordance with ethical principles.
Ethical Principles
Author(s) submitting manuscripts to Bartın University Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences, manuscript reviewers, and editors are deemed to have explicitly and voluntarily undertaken and accepted the ethical rules and principles stated below.
All sources included and used in a work uploaded to Bartın University Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences through the DergiPark system for evaluation for publication have been cited in accordance with scientific research methods and ethical principles.
If the work has more than one author, all authors have made direct and joint academic and scholarly contributions to the work.
This work is an original work of the author(s).
All authors have seen the final version of the submitted manuscript and approved its conclusions.
The work has not previously been submitted anywhere for publication as an article and/or accepted for publication and/or held for publication in another journal, and it will not be submitted for evaluation for publication in another scholarly journal until the evaluation process of Bartın University Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences has been completed.
No ethical violation has been committed regarding the subject(s) used in the study, and all data collection methods have been conducted in accordance with the principles of scientific ethics.
All processes relating to the evaluation of the work, including reviewer reports, editor’s notes, etc., have not been and will not be shared with third parties.
The copyright of works accepted for publication belongs to the authors. Authors grant Bartın University Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences the right of first publication of their works.
The opinions and recommendations expressed in the manuscripts are entirely the responsibility of the authors.
If the work is an abstract previously presented at a scholarly meeting or a shorter version of such a work, this must be stated in the article.
The author(s) retain the copyright to the work. The author(s) grant Bartın University Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences a non-exclusive right to publish, archive, preserve, index, and distribute the work. This permission does not constitute a transfer of copyright to the journal or the publisher.
With regard to the work, Bartın University Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences and its relevant boards shall bear no responsibility for any claims or legal actions brought by third parties due to copyright infringement; all such responsibility belongs to the author(s).
The work contains no element constituting a criminal offence or statement contrary to law; no unlawful method has been used in conducting the research, all necessary legal permissions relating to the work have been obtained, and ethical rules have been observed.
Bartın University Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences employs a double-blind peer-review method in the evaluation process of manuscripts submitted to the journal. Accordingly, the identities of authors and reviewers are concealed throughout all stages of the evaluation process.
Bartın University Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences, which is published electronically twice a year, in May and November, is published as an open-access journal through the TÜBİTAK DergiPark Academic system. In addition to regular issues, special issues may also be published by decision of the Publication Board and the Editor.
Within the scope of open access, Bartın University Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences takes into account the TÜBİTAK DergiPark Academic open-access system and the principles of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI). Articles published in the journal are made openly accessible in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).
Authors whose articles are accepted are deemed to have agreed that their works may be shared with appropriate attribution and in accordance with the terms of the license. Accordingly, Bartın University Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences applies the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) to all articles it publishes. This license permits the use, sharing, and adaptation of the work, provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author and the source in which the work was first published and that the work is not used for commercial purposes.
When uploading a manuscript to the journal, the “plagiarism report” relating to the manuscript is also expected to be uploaded to the system as a supplementary file. Accordingly, please upload your plagiarism report (Turnitin and/or iThenticate, etc.) as a separate PDF file together with your manuscript. The title of the manuscript, the names of the authors, and the similarity percentage must be clearly visible in the relevant report.
Author Responsibilities
Bartın University Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences conducts every stage of the manuscript evaluation and publication processes professionally. Therefore, authors, as well as editors and reviewers, have certain responsibilities to fulfil. The journal’s expectations of authors are as follows:
Authors must ensure the originality of the works they submit to the journal. They must declare that the work has not previously been published anywhere, in any language, or submitted to another journal for publication.
Works must be prepared in accordance with the journal’s author guidelines. For the author guidelines, see:
When a work is uploaded to the journal through the system, author information and author order must be entered carefully. If an error has been made in the author order, if the order is to be changed, if a new author is to be added to the work, or if an author is to be removed from the work, the editor must be informed. In such cases, the justification for the change in authorship status must be submitted to the editor in writing.
Copyrighted materials, such as tables, figures, or other quotations, may be published only with valid permission and copyright approval. Authors are responsible for obtaining the necessary permissions and approval documents and submitting them to the journal.
Permission must be obtained from the owners for the use of scales, questionnaires, and photographs/images belonging to other researchers, and the relevant permission document must be uploaded to the system at the manuscript submission stage.
Authors must comply with the rules of Turkish language and expression throughout the work. In addition, Turkish equivalents should be preferred for foreign concepts and words that have commonly used equivalents in Turkish.
Authors may be asked to share the raw data relating to the work with the journal editors for editorial review. In such cases, authors are required to share the data.
Authors must appropriately cite other authors, contributors, or sources and list the relevant sources in accordance with the journal’s author guidelines. For detailed information on referencing and citation, see:
In addition to subject matter and content, methodological and implementation details in applied studies must be carefully explained in terms of “reproducibility.”
Authors must upload the revised version of their work, updated in accordance with the revisions requested during the evaluation process, to the system within the period granted to them.
When uploading the revised work to the system, a “Responses to Reviewers” file must also be uploaded. This file must include the authors’ revision notes and comments regarding the reviewers’ recommendations.
Authors may not request information concerning the reviewers assigned to their work. Bartın University Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences applies a double-blind peer-review system.
Before submitting their work to the journal, authors must review the journal’s research ethics guidelines and act in accordance with ethical rules. To review the ethical principles, see:
If the work involves human participants, authors must obtain ethics committee approval and upload the document to the system together with the work. In addition, the document number relating to ethics committee approval must be provided within the work.
Individuals or organizations that have made significant and meaningful contributions to the research must be acknowledged in the acknowledgements section of the work. Any financial support and project funding used must also be disclosed there.
If there is a conflict of interest relating to the work, authors must declare it at the time of submission to the journal. Based on the conflict-of-interest declaration, the editor decides how to proceed with the work. If there is no conflict of interest, authors are required to declare in the work that no conflict of interest exists.
The corresponding author is the author who assumes responsibility on behalf of the other authors for the submission of the work to the journal, communication with the journal, and post-publication processes. The corresponding author is responsible for informing the other authors about the process and evaluation notes relating to the work.
Reviewer Responsibilities
Works submitted to Bartın University Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences and approved following editorial review are evaluated by reviewers who are experts in the relevant field. Reviewers invited by the editor undertake the reviewing assignment by accepting the invitation sent through the system. The reviewer evaluation process is conducted through a double-blind peer-review system. At this stage, the expectations of Bartın University Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences from reviewers are as follows:
If reviewers consider that the content of the submitted work is incompatible with their scientific field or expertise, or if they are unable to conduct a prompt and comprehensive evaluation, they must inform the editor and request to be excused from the evaluation process.
Every work sent to reviewers is considered a confidential document. Therefore, reviewers must not share or discuss the works they review with anyone.
Reviewers must upload their evaluation reports to the system within the period granted to them. In the event of a possible delay, the editor must be informed and an extension must be requested.
Reviewers may not request access to the author information of the work they review. Every work is evaluated anonymously.
Reviewers are responsible for evaluating the work in terms of scholarly content and in a manner that contributes to improving the quality of the work.
Reviewers must clearly express their opinions on the work with supporting arguments. Reviewer reports must be objective and written in clear and comprehensible academic language.
Reviewers must check the reference list and in-text citations of the work. If there are statements that require citation but are not supported by references, the author must be notified. If copyright infringement or plagiarism is identified in the work, the editor must be informed.
If the work is found to contain substantial similarities with another published work, the editor must be informed.
Reviewers may not use the whole or any part of the works they review, or any materials used in the work, in their own studies. Reviewers must not evaluate a work where a conflict of interest exists. If any conflict of interest is identified, the editor must be informed.
Editor Responsibilities
Editors undertake to evaluate manuscripts submitted to the journal solely in terms of scholarly content, without taking into account the authors’ ethnic origin, gender preference, nationality, religious belief, or political philosophy. The confidentiality of all information concerning a submitted manuscript is guaranteed until publication.
Editors keep confidential the information and ideas obtained through peer review and do not use them for personal benefit. They ensure that section editors do not use such information either.
Editors may not use works submitted to the journal or specific parts of such works for personal research purposes. They ensure that section editors and members of the Editorial Board do not do so either.
Editors ensure that the content and quality of the submitted publication contribute to the scholarly development of the field of economics and administrative sciences. The final publication decision is based on the importance and originality of the manuscript, its contribution to the field and practice, the validity of the study, and its conformity with the scope of the journal. Although the final decision rests with the editors, they may consult section editors and reviewers when making this decision.
Editors do not evaluate manuscripts by authors with whom they have conflicts of interest arising from personal relationships. Such manuscripts are evaluated by section editors or members of the Editorial Board. This also applies where editors have a conflict of interest with an institution/organization mentioned in the manuscript.
Editors agree to prevent any conflict of interest or competition that may arise between authors and reviewers. Editors require authors to disclose all potential conflicts of interest before publication. If a conflict of interest that was not disclosed by the authors in the manuscript is identified after the work has been published, the work may be retracted by the journal editors. The published article is marked as a retracted article in accordance with the relevant publication ethics principles.
Publication Policy
The copyright of published articles belongs to the authors. Bartın University Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences holds the right of first publication and a non-exclusive right to publish, archive, preserve, index, and distribute the published version in accordance with open-access principles. Authors submitting manuscripts for evaluation are deemed to have accepted these conditions. Manuscripts must be submitted through the DergiPark system in accordance with the requirements specified under the heading “Author Guidelines.”
A manuscript submitted for publication must not have been previously published elsewhere. Works submitted to the journal are first evaluated by the Journal Editorial Office for compliance with the journal’s publication principles. The results of this stage of evaluation are communicated to the authors during the process following receipt of the work by the journal editors.
Manuscript-type submissions that are considered by the editor to merit peer review are sent to at least two reviewers specializing in the relevant field. During this process, the identities of the reviewers and authors are kept confidential. The journal editors conduct the final evaluation in accordance with the information received from the reviewers and send the reviewer reports to the authors. For works requiring revisions at the final evaluation stage, the evaluation process begins again.
Taking into account the final reports received from the reviewers, the editor conducts the final evaluation. Publication of a work submitted to the journal takes place in accordance with the results of the peer-review process and the opinions of the journal editors. The final evaluation of all manuscripts deemed publishable by the reviewers is conducted by the Publication Board. Once a decision of “Publishable” has been made, the manuscript is placed in the publication queue and the final stage is communicated to the author(s). After this stage, the author(s) may not request withdrawal.
The following behaviours, considered unethical during the preparation and publication stages of a work, are rejected:
Fabrication: Producing, reporting, or publishing data that do not exist in the research.
Falsification: Altering research materials, equipment, procedures, and research records or modifying results in a manner that may produce different outcomes.
Plagiarism: Using the ideas, methods, data, writings, and figures of others without attributing them to their owners.
Duplication: Submitting or publishing the same research results for publication in more than one journal.
Least Publishable Units: Producing numerous publications by dividing the results of a study into parts in an inappropriate manner that compromises the integrity of the research.
Failing to acknowledge the support of an institution or organization in presentations and publications containing the results of funded research.
Removing the names of individuals who have actively contributed to the research and manuscript without the written agreement of the co-researchers and authors; adding new author(s) for contributions that do not justify authorship; or changing the order of authors.
Articles published in the journal are not official statements; they are published under the names of their authors and reflect the authors’ views. They do not reflect the views of the Faculty. If works possessing the characteristics described above, in other words, works that do not comply with publication ethics, are inadvertently published despite the review process, responsibility rests with the author(s) of the work.
Material from articles in the journal may be reproduced or quoted provided that the source is cited. Individuals or organizations quoting and publishing such material are legally responsible for any distortions that may exist in the content of the article. The Publication Board may change words in the manuscript where deemed necessary.
No fee (royalty) is paid for articles published in the journal. Manuscripts submitted to the journal are not returned, whether or not they are published. The copyright of published articles and works belongs to the authors, and their legal and scholarly responsibilities also rest with the authors. Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).
Special Issue Publication Policy
A special issue may be published once a year upon the request of the Publication Board. Articles submitted for inclusion in a special issue are first subjected to preliminary editorial review. They are then examined for compliance with the journal’s author guidelines, and similarity screening is conducted to prevent plagiarism. Following these stages, they are taken into the peer-review process using the double-blind peer-review model.
Corrections, Retractions, and Expressions of Concern
Editors may consider publishing a correction if minor errors that do not affect the findings, interpretations, or conclusions are identified in a published article.
Editors should consider retracting an article where major errors or violations invalidate the findings and conclusions.
Where there is a possibility of research or publication misconduct by the authors; where there is evidence that the findings are unreliable and that the authors’ institutions have not investigated the matter; or where a possible investigation appears unfair or inconclusive, editors should consider publishing an expression of concern.
COPE guidelines are taken into account with regard to corrections, retractions, and expressions of concern.
Plagiarism Action Plan and Prevention Processes
The journal checks works submitted for review for plagiarism. Manuscripts that pass the preliminary screening are screened for plagiarism using TURNITIN/Ithenticate software. If plagiarism/self-plagiarism is detected, the authors are informed.
Editors may, where necessary, subject the article to plagiarism screening at various stages of the evaluation or production process. High similarity rates may result in rejection of an article before acceptance or even after acceptance. The total similarity rate must be below 20%. The similarity rate from any single source must not exceed 3%.
The journal respects intellectual property and aims to protect and promote the original works of its authors. Manuscripts containing plagiarism are contrary to standards of quality, research, and innovation. Therefore, all authors submitting articles to the journal are expected to comply with ethical standards and avoid plagiarism in any form.
If plagiarism is suspected in a submitted or published manuscript, the work is first examined by the journal’s Ethics Editor. The work is then reviewed by the Editorial Board. The journal subsequently contacts the author(s) to request their explanations within two weeks. If the journal does not receive a response from the author within the specified period, it contacts the university with which the author is affiliated and requests that the allegation be investigated.
The journal will take the following measures against published manuscripts found to contain plagiarism:
The journal will contact the university with which the author(s) are affiliated for the necessary action to be taken concerning the relevant author.
The published article will be marked as a retracted article, with the necessary explanations provided in accordance with the relevant publication ethics and retraction principles.
The journal deactivates the author’s account and rejects the author’s future submissions for a period of 5 years.
Complaints and Appeals Process
Authors, reviewers, readers, or other interested parties may submit their complaints and appeals concerning the publication process, editorial decisions, allegations of ethical misconduct, or published content to the journal editors in writing.
Complaints and appeals are reviewed impartially. Where necessary, opinions may be obtained from the Editorial Board, Publication Board, or independent subject experts. The appeals process is conducted within the framework of the scholarly grounds underlying peer-review decisions and the principles of editorial evaluation.