ETHICAL RULES AND PUBLICATION POLICY

Researchers should pay attention to ethical principles during the data collection process.

-A wide variety of situations;

Publication Ethics

Plagiarism
• using another’s study as their own, forgetting references or inappropriate references,

Citation Manipulation
• submission of names as authors who did not contribute as authors / or ignoring the author' contribution and the order bases on their contribution percentages,

Fabrication
• submission of fake data and results in the manuscript,

Salami Slicing
• presenting it as a new publication by dividing the results of previous studies, are considered unethical behaviours. All articles that do not comply with accepted ethical standards are removed from the DEPARCH.

Peer-reviewed studies are studies that support and implement the scientific method. At this point, it is of great importance that all parties involved in the publication process (authors, readers and researchers, publisher, referees and editors) comply with ethical principles. DEPARCH Journal of Design, Planning and Aesthetics Research adheres to national and international standards in research and publication ethics. It complies with the Press Law, the Law on Intellectual and Artistic Works and the Higher Education Institutions Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive. DEPARCH has internalized the International Ethical Publishing Principles published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). It also undertakes to comply with the Decisions of the Editors' Workshop of Türkiye.

• Press Law (National Legislation)
• Law on Intellectual and Artistic Works (National Legislation)
• Higher Education Institutions Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive (National Legislation)
• Transparency and Best Practice in Academic Publishing (International Criteria)
• Editors' Workshop Decisions of Turkey (National Criteria)


Duplication
• duplication which means multiple publications of the same data and results,

Simultaneous submission of the same work to more than one journal

The author warrants that the submitted manuscript to the journal is not currently under submission or under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Plagiarism Review Report

DEPARCH Journal of Design, Planning and Aesthetics Research receives a similarity report for all manuscripts submitted the journal by uploading it to the iThenticate&Turnitin program. The similarity rate of the manuscript submitted to the journal should be below 20%. Manuscript with a similarity rate above 20% are rejected by the Editorial Board. The acceptable limit for the journal is 20% for general similarity and 5% for similarity with a single source. Although the similarity rate is 1%, if the citation and citation are not duly made, plagiarism may still be in question. In this respect, citation and citation rules should be known and carefully applied by the author.

Plagiarism, duplication, citation manipulation, research/data fabrication, salami slicing, copyright infringement, and concealment of conflict of interest are considered unethical behaviours. All articles that do not comply with accepted ethical standards are removed from the publication. This includes articles with possible irregularities and inconsistencies detected after publication.

Fabrication
• submission of fake data and results in the manuscript,

Protection of Participants' Personal Data

DEPARCH requires that all research involving personal or sensitive data or material relating to human participants that is not legally available to the public is subject to formal ethical review.

Handling Allegations of Research Abuse
DEPARCH Journal of Design, Planning and Aesthetics Research conforms to COPE's Ethics Toolkit for a Successful Editorial. DEPARCH editors; will take action to prevent the publication of articles in which plagiarism, citation manipulation, data tampering, data fabrication, and other research misconduct occur. In no event will the editors of DEPARCH knowingly allow such abuse to occur. If the editors of DEPARCH are aware of any allegations of research misconduct related to an article published in their journal, they will follow COPE's guidelines regarding the allegations.

Fundamental errors in published works
If the author detects errors and inaccuracies in the publication of the manuscript, they are responsible to inform the journal editor or publisher to correction of paper. deparch@selcuk.edu.tr
The author(s) is responsible for preparing the study according to the journal writing guidelines.

Ethical Violation Notices
When readers notice a major error or mistake in an article published in DEPARCH, or have any complaints about editorial content (plagiarism, duplicate articles, etc.), they can send an e-mail to the deparch@selcuk.edu.tr. Applications are welcomed, as it will provide an opportunity for improvement, and feedback is provided quickly and constructively.

Article correction, article retraction, and expression of concern
In cases the article must be withdrawn or removed after publication, DEPARCH electronic archive preserves all versions of the articles. COPE and ICJME guidelines are considered with regard to the correction, withdrawal, or expression of concern.

Article Withdrawn
The editors of our journal may “withdrawn” the articles in Press (articles that have been accepted for publication but which have not been formally published and will not yet have the complete volume/issue/page information) in violation of our journal publishing ethical guidelines (such as multiple submission, fraudulent claims of authorship, plagiarism, dishonest use of data or the like).

Expression of concern
If there is a possibility of misuse of research or publication by the authors; If there is evidence that the findings are unreliable and that the authors' institutions did not investigate the incident, or if the potential investigation seems unfair or inconclusive, editors should consider issuing a statement of concern.

Publication of Studies Based on Survey and Interview
DEPARCH Journal of Design, Planning and Aesthetics Research follows the advice in guidelines and flowcharts on COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) for publication ethics. In this sense, all studies submitted to the manuscript are expected to comply with the following ethical guidelines of the journal.

Hazards and human or animal subjects
If the work involves chemicals, procedures or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, authors must clearly identify these in the manuscript.
If the work includes human and animal subjects, ethics committee approval must be obtained from the necessary institutions. The privacy rights of human participants must always be observed.

Legal/Private Permissions
It is also obligatory to obtain legal/special permission in qualitative or quantitative research that incorporates data collecting from the participants by using survey, interview, focus group interview, observation, and experimental techniques. Authors should use private information by obtaining the written permission from these sources.

In studies that require ethics committee permission, information about the permission (name of the committee, date, and number) can be found in the method section, as well as on one of the first/last pages of the article; In case reports, information about signing the informed consent/consent form should be included in the article.

Special Issue Publishing Policy
A special issue can be published in our journal once a year upon the request of the Editorial Board. Articles sent for inclusion in a special issue are first subjected to editorial review. Then the journal is examined for relevance to the manuscript submission guidelines and a similarity scan is performed to prevent plagiarism. After these stages, it is taken into the peer-review process in which the double-blind peer review is used.

Fair play and impartiality
Editors are responsible for evaluating the manuscript in terms of its intellectual content regardless of authors' gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnic origin, citizenship, religion, political philosophy, or institutional affiliation. The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for the editorial content of the journal and for arranging its publication time.

Dealing with Misconduct
The Editorial Board has the authority to withdraw the manuscript if they detect an error in a published work that invalidates the work or important parts of it and contains plagiarism and unethical behaviours. DEPARCH follows the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) to deal with these unethical issues.

DEPARCH Journal of Design, Planning and Aesthetics Research undertakes to apply it to COPE flow charts when faced with allegations of misconduct in the following or similar matters.
• What to do when rebroadcast is suspected
• What to do when plagiarism is suspected
• What to do when fabricated data is suspected
• What to do in requests for change of authorship
• What to do when an undisclosed conflict of interest is suspected
• What to do when unfair or gift authorship is suspected
• What to do when an ethical problem is suspected in an article
• Ethical violation suspected e-mail, etc. What to do when notified directly with
• What to do when a suspected ethical violation is announced via social media

Conflict of interest
The author should disclose any potential conflict of interest that may affect the results of manuscript that can be financial as employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert witness, patent applications / registrations and grants of other funding and personal or professional relationships and connections.
The authors should disclose where the support is obtained from if there is a sponsorship or financial funding that supports the study. If support is not received, it must be stated in the cover letter as “The author(s) declared that no financial support has been received no financial support”.

Complaint Procedure
This procedure applies to complaints about content, procedures or policies that are the responsibility of DEPARCH. Complaints can provide an opportunity and incentive for improvement, and we aim to respond quickly, courteously and constructively.

The complaint must relate to the content, procedures or policies that are the responsibility of DEPARCH or our editorial staff. Complaints should be emailed directly to deparch@selcuk.edu.tr and will be treated confidentially. The editor immediately responds to complaints. The editor follows the procedure outlined in the COPE flowchart regarding complaints.
Complaints are reviewed by the relevant member of the editorial team and if they cannot be resolved, the following processes are followed:
• If this initial response is deemed inadequate, the complainant may request that their complaint be forwarded to a more senior member of the journal.
• Complaints can be forwarded to the editor-in-chief if the complainant is not satisfied.
• A full response will be given within two weeks if possible.
COPE publishes a code of practice for editors of scientific journals. This will make it easier to resolve disputes with editors, journals, and publishers, but only after the journal's own complaints procedures are exhausted.

Appeal Process
We welcome serious objections to reviews by editors and reviewers. If you think we rejected your article because we misunderstood the scientific content, please send an objection message to our editorial team at deparch@selcuk.edu.tr. Do not try to submit a revised version of your article at this stage. If, after reading your objection letter, we understand that your objection is justified, we may invite you to submit a revised version of your article. Thus, your work is sent back to the external referee process. Please include as much detail as possible in the appeal letter. Finally, we can only consider one objection per article, so please take the time and effort to write the letter in detail to make your objection clear - you stand a chance, so use it well. We have found that prolonged negotiation over rejected articles is often unsatisfactory for both authors and editors, so we do not process multiple appeals for the same work.

Principles of Research Ethics
DEPARCH Journal of Design, Planning and Aesthetics Research maintains the highest standards in research ethics and adopts the international research ethics principles defined below. The compliance of the articles with the ethical rules is the responsibility of the authors.

Reporting standards
The data in the manuscript must be presented in an appropriate way and contain sufficient detail to provide the others can replicate it.

Responsibility for opinions in the manuscript, compliance with scientific and ethical rules belongs to the authors. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statement constitutes unethical behavior and will be unacceptable.

Originality and Acknowledgement of Sources
The authors are responsible to submit an original work and using another’s work/words a in an inappropriate way. The author should use copyrighted materials (for example, tables, figures, or large quotations) used in their manuscript with due permission and thanks.
The publications that are effective in the formation of the original version of the manuscript should be cited as a reference.
Plagiarism in all forms is unethical publication behaviour that is unacceptable.

Multiple, duplicate, redundant or concurrent submission/publication
The authors are responsible for not submitting the same manuscripts describing essentially the same research to more than one journal or primary publication as it is an unethical publishing behaviour and unacceptable. Authors should submit manuscripts that has not been published in any language before in its entirety or in part and is not currently under submission or under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Authorship of the manuscript
All authors should have a direct academic and scientific contribution to the submitted manuscript to the journal. All author(s) named in a manuscript should comply with the following criteria: 1) have participated in the design process, data collection and analysis/interpretation of the data reviewed; and 2) participated in the drafting and critical evaluation of the content; and 3) took the responsibility of checking the accuracy of the study and approving the final version. Author(s) are responsible for specifying their contribution percentages in the cover letter according to their participation rates in the processes.

Others who have not directly participated in these different stages but have participated in substantive aspect of manuscript should not be recognised as authors; however, their contributions should be mentioned in the “acknowledgments” section with permission.

The corresponding author is responsible for confirming that all authors who contributed to the manuscript by complying with the criteria stated above are included in the list and approved the final version.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest
The author should disclose any potential conflict of interest that may affect the results of manuscript that can be financial as employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert witness, patent applications / registrations and grants of other funding and personal or professional relationships and connections.
The authors should disclose where the support is obtained from if there is a sponsorship or financial funding that supports the study. If support is not received, it must be stated in the cover letter as “The author(s) declared that no financial support has received no financial support”.

Hazards and human or animal subjects
If the work involves chemicals, procedures, or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, authors must clearly identify these in the manuscript.
If the work includes human and animal subjects, ethics committee approval must be obtained from the necessary institutions. The privacy rights of human participants must always be observed.

Legal/Private Permissions
It is also obligatory to obtain legal/special permission in qualitative or quantitative research that incorporates data collecting from the participants by using survey, interview, focus group interview, observation, and experimental techniques. Authors should use private information by obtaining the written permission from these sources.
The consent of the legal guardian of children and custodians or those with a confirmed mental illness must be obtained.

Fundamental errors in published works
If the author detects errors and inaccuracies in the publication of the manuscript, they are responsible to inform the journal editor or publisher to correction of the paper.
The author(s) is responsible for preparing the study according to the journal writing rules.