Please find the two files below that you will use in the article submissiın process:

• Title Page
• Copyright Agreement and Acknowledgement of Authorship Form
  

Clinical and Experimental Health Sciences (Clin Exp Health Sci) is an international, scientific, open access journal published in accordance with independent, unbiased and double-blinded peer-review principles. The journal is the official publication of Marmara University Institute of Health Sciences and it is published quarterly on March, June, September and December. The journal publishes clinical, experimental research and observational articles, review articles, case reports, letters to the editor and editorial comments prepared in accordance with ethical guidelines in all disciplines of health sciences.

The journal publishes articles written in English. Clinical and Experimental Health Sciences aims to reach an international audience and will accept submissions from authors worldwide. It gives high priority to original studies of interest to clinicians and scientists in applied and basic health sciences.

The editorial and publication processes of the journal are shaped in accordance with the guidelines of International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), the Council of Science Editors (CSE), the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the European Association of Science Editors (EASE), and National Information Standards Organization (NISO). The journal conforms to the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing (doaj.org/bestpractice).

Originality, high scientific quality, and citation potential are the most important criteria for manuscript acceptance. Manuscripts submitted for evaluation should not have been previously published or submitted for publication elsewhere.

Peer-Review Process

Manuscripts submitted to the journal will first go through a technical evaluation process where the editorial office will ensure that the manuscript has been prepared and submitted in accordance with the journal’s guidelines. Submissions that do not conform to the journal’s guidelines will be returned to the submitting author with technical correction requests.

Manuscripts passing the technical evaluation process will go through a double-blind peer-review process and will be reviewed by at least two external, independent peer reviewers who are experts in their fields. The Editor in Chief is the final authority in the decision-making process for all submissions.

Creative Commons License

Articles are freely available to read, download and share from the time of publication under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) 4.0 International License.

MANUSCRIPT TYPES

Research Articles: The main text of research articles should be structured in the sequence of Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, and Conclusion. ‘Aim of the study’ should be clearly indicated as the last paragraph of the Introduction section. Information on ‘ethics approval’ should be provided as the first paragraph of the Methods section. Please check Table 1 for the limitations for Research Articles.

Review Articles: Review articles prepared by authors who have extensive knowledge on a particular field and whose scientific background has been translated into a high volume of publications with a high citation potential are welcomed. Eminent authors may also be invited for their contribution with a review article by the editor of the journal. Reviews should describe, discuss, and evaluate the current level of knowledge of a topic in health sciences and should guide future studies. Review articles should be structured as follows: Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, aim of the review, body of the article structured by headings and subheadings and Conclusion. Please check Table 1 for the limitations for Review Articles.

Case Reports: There is limited space for case reports in the journal and reports on rare cases or conditions that constitute challenges in diagnosis and treatment, those offering new therapies or revealing knowledge not included in the literature, and interesting and educative case reports are accepted for publication. The text should be structured as follows: Abstract, Introduction, Case Presentation, Discussion, and Conclusion. Please check Table 1 for the limitations for Case Reports.

Letters to the Editor: This type of manuscript discusses important parts, overlooked aspects, or lacking parts of a previously published article. Articles on subjects within the scope of the journal that might attract the readers’ attention, particularly educative cases, may also be submitted in the form of a ‘Letter to the Editor’. Readers can also present their comments on a published article in the form of a ‘Letter to the Editor’. Abstract, Keywords, and Tables, Figures, Images, and other media should not be included. The text should be unstructured. The article that is being commented on must be properly cited within this manuscript.

Editorial Comments: Editorial comments aim to provide a brief critical commentary by reviewers with expertise or with high reputation in the topic of the research article published in the journal. Authors are selected and invited by the journal to provide such comments. Abstract, Keywords, and Tables, Figures, Images, and other media are not included.

MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION

The manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with ICMJE-Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals (http://www.icmje.org/recommendations updated in December 2019). 

Manuscript Formatting Requirements

Manuscript Components

SUBMISSION

All the manuscripts should be submitted through the https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/clinexphealthsci system. Manuscripts submitted via any other way will not be evaluated.

REVISIONS
When submitting a revised version of a paper, corresponding author must submit a detailed “Response to the reviewers” that states point by point how each issue raised by the reviewers has been covered and where it can be found (each reviewer’s comment, followed by the author’s reply and page and line numbers where the changes have been made) as well as an annotated copy of the main document. Disagreements with any recommendations should be explained in details. Correspondent author should prepare a document in which her/his respond to each recommendations of reviewers and upload it as a separate file named “Response to reviewers”. Author's name should not appear on revised manuscripts. The revised manuscript must be uploaded with the same ID (Do not upload as a new submission).

If the title of the article have been revised, these changes should be made both in the title page and Dergipark system (in Overview). If the abstract and bibliography of the article have been revised, these changes should be made in the Dergipark system (in Overview).

Revised manuscripts must be submitted within 15 days from the date of the decision letter. If the revised version of the manuscript is not submitted within the allocated time, the revision option may be canceled. If the submitting author(s) believe that additional time is required, they should request this extension before the initial 15-day period is over.

Accepted manuscripts are copy-edited for grammar, punctuation, and format. Once the publication process of a manuscript is completed, it is published online on the journal’s webpage as an ahead-of-print publication before it is included in its scheduled issue. A PDF proof of the accepted manuscript is sent to the corresponding author and their publication approval is requested within 2 days of their receipt of the proof.

Note: The abbreviated name of the journal is Clin Exp Health Sci.

AFTER ACCEPTANCE

Before publication, proofs of edited copy in .pdf format are submitted electronically to the corresponding author who is responsible for checking the accuracy of the material. 

MANUSCRIPT WITHDRAWAL

Withdrawing a manuscript that has been submitted to our journal for publication is never advisable and should only be considered when necessary. The manuscript withdrawal request must be made using the Manuscript Withdrawal Form. 

Ethical Responsibilities of the Publisher;

The publisher of the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Health Sciences is Marmara University Publisher, and is affiliated to the Marmara University Library and Documentation Department, which is a non-profit public institution. Clinical and Experimental Health Sciences journal is the scientific journal of Marmara University Institute of Health Sciences, covering all studies in the field of health sciences since 2011 and continues its publishing life successfully without compromising ethical principles. The journal is indexed in ESCI list.

Ethical Responsibilities of the Authors;

TR Index Journal Evaluation criteria were updated and the items related to the ethics committee approval, which required for scientific research were detailed. Therefore, the following criteria regarding ethics committee approvals will be sought / applied in the articles submitted to the Clinical and Experimental Health Sciences journal, which is mandatory for publications whose process started in 2020.

1. Researches requiring Ethics Committee approval are as follows;

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

Also,

• Stating that "Informed Consent Form" was obtained in case reports,
• Obtaining and indicating permission from the owners for the use of scales, questionnaires and photographs belonging to others,
• It should be stated that the copyright regulations are complied with for the intellectual and artistic works used.

2. Retrospective approval of the Ethics Committee is not required for the following studies: Using research data before 2020, produced from master's/doctoral studies (should be stated in the article), articles submitted for publication before 2020, accepted but not yet published.

3. It should be stated in the content of the article whether the ethics committee approval and/or legal/special ermission is required in the submitted articles. According to the above information, if these permissions are required, it should be clearly stated in the article from which institution, when and with which decision number the permission was obtained.

4. If the research requires the use of human and animal subjects, it must be declared that the research was performed in accordance with international declaration, guidelines, etc.

5. Researchers who are not members of the university can apply to the local/regional Ethics Committees.

Ethical Responsibilities of the Reviewers;

• To accept the evaluation process of articles in the field of expertise that do not have conflict of interest.
• To consider only the content of the study in the evaluation of the article.
• To complete the article's review process on time.
• Commenting in a constructive language to help improve the quality of the article while requesting revisions.
• To protect the confidentiality of the information in and related to the article.

The Responsibilities of Editors, Associate Editor and Field Editors;

• Editors agree to meet the information needs of reviewers, authors, and readers as soon as possible.
• When making positive or negative decisions about articles, editors take into account the original value of the articles, their contribution to the field, the validity and reliability of the research method, the clarity of the expression, and the journal's purpose and scope.
• Editors implement the blind review and evaluation process, which are among the journal's publishing policies, and support the evaluation of unbiased and independent evaluations.
• Editors ensure the protection of personal data in the articles evaluated.
• Editors take care to protect human and animal rights in articles. They do not consider articles that do not have the ethics committee approval and, if necessary, permission documents for the study.
• Editors conduct or request originality-similarity checks on the content of the articles.
• Editors examine the applications or complaints sent to the journal and make the necessary explanations.

Failure to Comply with Ethical Principles;

In cases where there is a situation or behavior that does not comply with the ethical principles regarding the articles published in the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Health Sciences, editorial process, reviewers or authors, this should be sent to cehseditor@gmail.com.