Manuscript Evaluation Process

1. Bilecik Şeyh Edebali University Journal of Social Sciences operates a two-stage process for the evaluation of submitted manuscripts: internal editorial review and external peer review.
2. Immediately after submission, the Editor-in-Chief/Editor-in-Chief checks the article for compliance with the journal's purpose and scope and adherence to ethical standards in research and writing.
3. Manuscripts that comply with the journal's editorial policy are sent to one of the Associate Editors for formal review.
4. The Associate Editor reviews the manuscript for conformity with the journal's editorial guidelines, and the manuscript is subjected to a plagiarism scan to detect plagiarism. The external evaluation process of the articles that complete these processes is initiated.
5. At the external evaluation stage, at least two external reviewers are selected by the Field Editor from among the experts who have research on the subject of the article. The referees are determined among researchers with at least a PhD degree in the relevant discipline.
6. The referees evaluate the article in detail in terms of its subject, method and results and give their opinion on whether it should be published or not.
7. Reviewed articles are subjected to double blind peer review. Articles accepted by at least two referees are prepared for publication.
8. The manuscript accepted for publication is read by the Editor-in-Chief/Editor-in-Chief for the last time. It is then sent for English language control.

Review Time: Pre-Publication
Number of Reviewers: Editorial Review and Two External Reviewers
Author-Reviewer Interactions: Mediates all interactions between editors, reviewers and authors.
Reviewer Interaction: Reviewers can only communicate with editors.
Time in Review: Average 90 Days / 13 Weeks
Suicide Prevention Similarity Screening: In Progress / ITHENTICATE

Application Period
Applications can be received at any time of the year except May and November.

Editor's Responsibilities
- The Editor evaluates manuscripts for scientific content without regard to the ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, citizenship, religious beliefs or political philosophy of the authors.
- The Editor conducts fair double-blind peer review of manuscripts submitted for publication and ensures that all information about submitted manuscripts is kept confidential before publication.
- The editor informs the reviewers that the manuscripts are confidential and that this is a privileged interaction. Reviewers and the editorial board cannot discuss manuscripts with other people.
- The anonymity of reviewers must be ensured. In certain cases, the editor may share a reviewer's review with other reviewers to clarify a particular point.
- The Editor is responsible for the content and overall quality of the publication. It is also his/her responsibility to issue a correction note or retraction when necessary.
- The Editor does not allow any conflict of interest between authors, editors and reviewers. He/she has full authority only to appoint reviewers and is responsible for the final decision on the publication of manuscripts in the Journal.

Responsibilities of Referees
- Reviewers should not have any conflict of interest related to the research, the authors and/or the research funders. Their judgment should be objective.
- Reviewers should ensure that all information about submitted manuscripts is kept confidential and should notify the editor/field editor if they are aware of copyright infringement or plagiarism on the part of the author.
- A reviewer who feels incapable of reviewing the subject matter of an article, or who knows that immediate review will be impossible, should notify the editor/field editor and be excused from the review process.

- The article contains new and important information,
- The abstract clearly and neatly describes the content of the article
- Defining the methodology in a coherent and understandable way
- Proving the interpretations and conclusions with findings
- Adequate references to other studies in the field
- Adequate language quality