Design Nexus : Interdisciplinary Journal of Design Studies

QUESTION: Should retroactive ethics committee approval be obtained for publications derived from studies and theses completed in previous years?

Retroactive ethics committee approval is not required for articles that used research data prior to 2020, were derived from master's/doctoral studies (this should be stated in the article), and were submitted to the journal in the previous year, accepted, but not yet published.

Research requiring ethics committee approval is as follows:

- All types of research conducted using qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from participants using survey, interview, focus group, observation, experiment, and discussion techniques; Use of humans and animals (including materials/data) for experimental or other scientific purposes; Clinical research conducted on humans; Retrospective studies in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Law;
Also; Stating that an "Informed Consent Form" was obtained in case reports; Obtaining and stating permission from the owners for the use of scales, questionnaires, and photographs belonging to others; Stating that copyright regulations have been complied with for the intellectual and artistic works used.