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.