Ethical Principles

Authors must first fill in the Authorship Contribution Form and upload it to the system. You can download the Authorship Contribution Form here.

It is essential that all stakeholders involved in studies published in BELGU Journal act in accordance with scientific ethical principles. These ethical principles are contained in the guidelines and policies published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Accordingly, BELGU Journal acts in accordance with the publication ethics flowcharts (https://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts) determined by COPE in case of any abuse or violation of publication ethics.

Ethics Committee Approval

Ethics committee permissions are not requested for every article. It is requested for articles that require "ethics committee approval". Research that requires ethics committee approval;

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

Also;

Indicating that an "Informed Consent Form" was taken in case reports (case analysis), Obtaining and stating permission from the owners for the use of scales, questionnaires, photographs belonging to others,
It should be stated that copyright regulations are complied with for the intellectual and artistic works used.

Of the types of regularly published studies, systematic reviews, discussion articles, and secondary analyzes of appropriately anonymized datasets do not require ethics committee review. However, in such studies, the status of ethical issues should be clearly stated in the methods section of the article.

Evaluation process

Articles sent to BELGU go through a double-blind peer-review process. In cases where there is a difference of opinion between the referees, the article is sent to a third referee. The processes related to the articles published with the approval of the referee and the approval of the editor can be followed through Dergipark in terms of being ethical, clear, understandable and accountable.

The referee evaluations, which are sent to the journal by filling out the evaluation form, must be carried out in full confidentiality. The referees cannot publish the information in the studies sent to them, even partially. After the referee reports, if the article has been accepted for publication, the authors are responsible for making their work suitable for referee criticism. If the authors do not consider it appropriate to make changes on their work, they explain the reasons. In this case, the final decision can be sent to a new referee or decided by the editors.

Similarity Rate

At the stage of article submission, authors should upload the similarity scanning report (iThenticate or Turnitin) to the system with their work. The studies of the authors who do not send the similarity screening report will not be evaluated. In case of detection of plagiarism in the studies, the study is rejected. The similarity rate in the study should not exceed 20%.

Author Copyright

In the studies submitted to BELGU for publication, the authors undertake that the work has not been previously published elsewhere and has not been sent elsewhere for publication.
In the works accepted for publication, the authors are expected to sign the copyright form and send it to the journal. With this form, the authors give permission to BELGU journal to publish their work. You can download the Copyright Form here.

It is assumed by BELGÜ that the necessary permissions for the publication of all third-party copyrighted material on BELGÜ have been obtained by the authors. All responsibilities of the articles belong to the authors. Unpublished manuscripts are not returned.

Privacy Statement

All information obtained during the article evaluation and publication process will be archived for the purposes of the journal. This information will not be shared with third parties and institutions, except for referees and scientific advisory boards.