Ethics Committee Permission is required for studies to be published since 2020 in line with the decisions taken by Ulakbim TR Index. Studies requiring Ethics Committee Permission are listed below. When uploading your work to the journal, you must upload your Ethics Committee document with your article file. If your study is not included in the study group requiring ethics committee approval, you must sign the declaration form indicating this situation and indicate the relevant situation in your article text.

Studies Requiring Ethics Committee Permission

• All kinds of research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from participants using questionnaires, interviews, focus group work, observation, experimentation, interview techniques,
• Using human and animals (material / including data)  experimental or other scientific purposes,
• Clinical studies on humans,
• Clinical studies on animals,
• Retrospective studies in accordance with the law on protection of personal data.
  

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It should be noted that there are copyright regulations for the intellectual and artistic works used.

For the use of scales, questionnaires and photographs belonging to others, permission must be obtained from the owners and specified.

In case presentations, it should be stated that the "informed consent form" was obtained.

Note:

For the articles that have been accepted but not yet published (research data before 2020 were used, produced from master's / doctoral studies (should be specified in the article), a publication application was made to the journal in the previous year) retrospective ethics committee approval is not required. Please indicate in the declaration form that your work carries this situation.

To reach the declaration form stating that the study does not require Ethics Committee Permission, please CLICK HERE.

Studies Requiring Ethics Committee Permission and Accepted for Publication

In studies requiring ethics committee approval, information about permission (name of the board, date and number) should be included in the method section and on the first / last page of the article.
In case presentations, the information that the informed consent form was signed should be included in the article.

For detailed information, you can reach the journal with the information in the contact menu.