Ethical Principles

In scientific studies including the following issues, documents showing the permission of the ethics committee should be submitted to the journal and necessary information should be provided in the article:

• Questionnaires, interviews, focus group studies, observations, experiments and interviews, any work carried out with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from participants using techniques are required ethics committee approval.
• The use of humans and animals in experimental or other scientific studies
• Clinical studies on humans, clinical studies on animals, retrospective studies in accordance with the law on protection of personal data

In addition, information regarding the signature of consent document in case reports should be included in the article. To use content such as photographs, scales, and surveys that do not belong to the authors of the article, permission should be obtained from the owners of these contents and should be specified in the article.

All studies submitted to the Journal of Interdisciplinary Innovation Studies should not have been published in any language and should not be under evaluation in another journal. All articles should be prepared by considering the general ethical rules specified by the " Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)". In this context, Authors, Reviewers and Editors must adhere to the given international standards.

Authors, Reviewers and Editors must adhere to the given international standards. Some important points are mentioned below:

Qualification and Responsibilities of Editor:

• He/she Pays attention to freedom of thought.
• Strives to bring the journal to a better point and to ensure that the studies to be published are of higher quality.
• Behaves transparently when corrections and explanations need to be made.
• Pre-evaluates the articles within the scope of the journal, unless there is a significant problem.
• It prevents problems that may occur during the closed inspection process.
• Selects according to the subject in the appointment of referees related to the work.
• Provides and guides the information needed by the referees.
• Takes action to avoid conflict of interest between the referee and the author.
• Keeps the identity information of referees and authors confidential.
• Enables the referees to evaluate the articles in an objective manner in the context of impartiality and scientific.
• Ensures that referee pools are constantly updated and are large.
• Communicates effectively with those involved in the entire broadcast process, holds meetings with editorial board members at specific times.
• Considers the expertise of the board member in the articles to be sent to the board members for evaluation.
• His/her decisions should be independent of the publisher and the owner.
• He/she ensures that a fair process based on the principle of impartiality is operated in the evaluation of the articles submitted to the journal and that the evaluation is completed on time.
• He/she Protects the individual data of readers, reviewers, and authors.
• He/she Ensures the protection of human and animal rights in the case of human and animal experiments in the articles. In such studies, if the approval of the ethics committee and the necessary permissions are not documented, the article is rejected.

Ethical Principles for Reviewers:

• In the evaluation of the article, he/she should make constructive comments based on courtesy and avoid derogatory comments.
• He/she should perform an objective evaluation and should not go beyond the scope of the study. Although closed review, that is, blind arbitration, should not allow matters such as religion, language, race, political opinion and commercial concern to affect the evaluation.
• He/she should complete the process based on impartiality and confidentiality.
• Before the article starts the review phase, if he/she detects a possible conflict of interest, he/she should not review the publication and should inform the editor.
• He/she should refuse evaluation if the study is outside his / her field of expertise.
• He / she should respond positively or negatively to the invitation for evaluation and conclude the article he / she accepts to evaluate in time.
• After evaluating the article, the document related to the article should be destroyed.

Ethical Principles for Authors:

• When he/she sends an article to the journal for evaluation, he /she should not send the same publication to another journal simultaneously.
• He/ she should make sure that the article he will send to the journal is original.
• He/she should give the results of a research as a single article without compromising the integrity and quality of that research.
• Regardless of the state of the article (evaluation, early edition, published), whenever an error is seen in the article, it should inform the editor to correct or withdraw it.
• In case of situations requiring data usage permission, research permission, ethics committee permission, participant approval in the article, the necessary documents and statements should be submitted.
• The articles should not include authors who are not contribute in the in study, and should not make requests such as adding and removing authors during the evaluation process and publishing, and changing the order of the author.
• He/she should accurately cite the sources used in the article and do so within the ethical principles.
• In the articles that do not require the ethics committee approval, he/she should declare that this permission is not required, on the last page of the article and in the method section.
• The contributions of the authors to the article should be written in an explanatory way according to author guidelines.

Plagiarism control

All studies submitted to Journal of Interdisciplinary Innovation Studies are checked using IThenticate® plagiarism detection software. In accordance with the similarity report from the software, the editor/editorial board decides if it is rejected or keep further evaluation process with the referees.

Publication Policy

Istanbul Arel University Graduate Education Institute Journal of Interdisciplinary Innovation Studies publishes twice a year (January and July) in the following disciplines and in multi-disciplinary fields that include these disciplines.

Science

Mathematics
Physics
Chemisty
Biology
Statistics
Molecular biology and genetics

Engineering, Architecture and Natural Sciences
Computer Science and Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Bioengineering
Environmental Sciences and Engineering
Electrical Electronics Engineering
Industrial Engineering
Geomatic engineering
Civil Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Mining Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Materials and Metallurgical Engineering
Mechatronic Engineering
Earth Sciences and Engineering
Interior architecture
Architecture
City and region planning

Health Sciences
Anatomy
Nutrition and Dietetics
Child Development
Child Health and Diseases
Physical therapy and Rehabilitation
General Surgery
Nursing
Internal diseases
Healthcare Management
Social Services
Medical Biochemistry
Medical Biology and Genetics
Medical Pharmacology
Medical Microbiology
Medical Pathology

Social Sciences
Atatürk's Principles and the History of the Republic
Western Art and Contemporary Art
Philosophy
Finance
Journalism and Media Studies
Developmental Psychology
Visual communication design
Public relations
Public administration
Classical Turkish Literature
Clinical Psychology
Public Finance
Business
Aviation Management
Psychometry
Advertising
Cinema
Political Science
Social Psychology
Sociology
Tourism
Turkish Language
Economy
International Relations
International Trade
Applied Psychology
Management Information Systems

Fine Arts
Traditional Turkish Arts
Music
Plastic arts
Performing Arts
Cinema
Design
Restoration and Conservation of Artworks