Volume: 23 Issue: 2, 5/10/23

Year: 2023

Research Article


Ege Academic Review (EAR) is a multi- and interdisciplinary peer-reviewed academic research journal which is published online with the official support of the Ege University Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences. The principle purpose of the journal is to publish scholarly work in economics, business and international politics. The publication language of the journal is English.


The following is a non-exhaustive list of areas that are primarily considered to be within the scope of EAR (by alphabetic order): 

  • Applied Econometrics
  • Comparative Politics
  • Energy Economics 
  • Financial Economics
  • Human Resource Management
  • International Politics
  • International Political Economy
  • Management
  • Marketing
  • Operations Research
  • Organizational Theory&Behaviour
  • Politics
  • Public Administration
  • Regional Economics
  • Quantitative Methods

EAR welcomes original articles primarily based on empirical research and is particularly interested in comparative studies, case studies, cross-country studies. The journal strongly encourages interdisciplinary and comparative publication that addresses local, national, regional and international issues and problems. 

Submissions are evaluated on their academic rigor and methodological soundness.

Peer Review and Publication Policy

The editorial board reserves the right to reject manuscripts if they do not meet scholarly originality, or conform to journal aims and scope or follow submission guidelines.

Articles submitted to EAR are published only in English and they should be proofread to meet essential rules of English. Manuscripts requiring extensive language editing may be rejected before being sent out for review.

All submitted works undergo scholarly peer-review process. Articles are initially screened for relevance, originality and contribution by the editors. Only manuscripts of sufficient quality that meet the aims and scope of EAR will be sent out to at least two referees for double-blind reviewing. The editors may return manuscripts for revisions or to organize them in the house journal style. While the views of external reviewers are of primary influence on editorial decisions, the editorial board remains responsible for final decisions (not) to publish submitted manuscripts.

Publication Ethics and Conflicting Interests

Authors will be held responsible for academic integrity and publication ethics. We encourage authors to refer to EAR’s “ethical principles and publication policy” and to include a declaration of any conflicting interests in the cover letter.

Online Manuscript Submission

EAR is hosted on Dergipark, a web based online submission and peer review system. Visit https://dergipark.org.tr/eab to login and submit your article online. If you don’t have an account, please create a new one.

Any correspondence, queries or additional requests for information on the manuscript submission process should be sent to the EAR editorial office as follows:

Fatma Demircan Keskin

Ege University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Science, Bornova, 35100 İzmir, Turkey
E-mail: eab@mail.ege.edu.tr

Gül Huyugüzel Kışla
Ege University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Science, Bornova, 35100 İzmir, Turkey
E-mail: eab@mail.ege.edu.tr

All editorial correspondence should be addressed to:

Editor-in-Chief,
Assoc. Prof. A. Nazif Çatık, Ege University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences.
E-mail: eab@mail.ege.edu.tr


1. Starting Submission:

Before submitting your manuscript to EAR, please ensure you have read the journal’s aims and scope.  Authors should first determine their manuscripts’ scholarly area or contribution (business, economics or international relations). They also need to submit a cover letter explaining concisely how their submission fits in journal’s aims and scope and contributes to scholarly literature.  Authors may also use the dialog box to contact the editor.

2. Submission Information:


Authors should fill their names and addresses, the title and abstract of their manuscripts in related fields. Keywords and JEL codes need to be submitted. Scientific databases and search engines use this information for indexing and abstracting. 

3. Manuscript Uploading:
Authors should follow the instructions to upload their manuscripts. THE MANUSCRIPT MUST NOT CONTAIN ANY CLUE REGARDING AUTHOR(S)’ IDENTITY OR AFFILIATION.

4. Submission Confirmation:
Submission is completed after running a final check of the uploaded files.

Uploaded files should include:
- Manuscript (with no information about the authors)
- Abstract
- Cover Letter (including author(s) name, surname, institution, e-posta, address, ORCID no)
- Copyright Agreement Form (can be downloaded during submission)
- Similarity Report (iThenticate/Turnitin can be used. Manuscripts with more than 20% overall similarity scores (including references and quotations) cannot be accepted for consideration. The similarity score of the articles with a single reference should be at most 2%.)

-Ethical Committee Approval





The Journal Writing Style

1. Font - Times New Roman 12-point font style is to be used throughout the text
2. Page Format - On an A4 size paper:
Top, bottom, left and right margins: 2,5 cm (0,98 inches)
Paragraphs should be justified
No hyphenation
Paragraphs should have an indent of 0,5 cm.
3. Paragraph Format - In the indent and spacing section of paragraph tab:
Left and right section should be 6 pt (0,6 line)
Line spacing should be 1,5.
4. Word Limits - Articles submitted should not exceed 10,000 words, including all notes and references.
5. Headings- Main section headings should be centered and bold.
6. Author Names - Author names should not appear anywhere in the manuscript. Manuscripts including author names are not processed and returned.
7. Abstract- Abstracts should have number of words between 150-200 and should not include citations. There is no need to submit abstract, keywords in Turkish during the submission process.
8-. Key Words - Between 5-8 words.
9. Main Text - The manuscript should include an introduction, a conclusion and other relevant sections.
10. References -  EAR adheres to the APA reference style. View the Publication Manual of American Psychological Association (6 edition) to get your manuscript conform to journal style of referencing.

ENDNOTES
Please use endnotes instead of footnotes. Endnotes should be marked by consecutive superscript numbers in the related part of the text, and listed at the end of the article.

The authors whose articles are published are kindly requested to check their articles and if there is any mistake, to inform us within 4 days at the latest from the date of publication.

Ege Academic Review Ethical Principles and Publication Policy

For Editors
Publication decisions:

• All manuscripts submitted for publication are initially screened by the editorial board for quality, authenticity, legal and ethical issues, and for compliance with the aims and scope of the journal. All submissions are checked with duplication-checking software to detect plagiarism and to avoid duplicate and redundant publication.

• Submissions that are out of scope, or need extensive language editing, or significantly overlap with previously published works, or are otherwise inappropriate are rejected or returned to the author without external peer review.

• The editorial board reserves the right to decline manuscripts for consideration unless they follow submission guidelines (http://onlinedergi.com/eab/YazarlarBilgi.aspx) or comply with legal requirements regarding, among others, libel, copyright infringement, violation of personal privacy and plagiarism.

• Editorial decisions on manuscripts submitted to the journal for publication are made by editors and based on external and independent peer review reports. The editors may typically accept or reject articles, or return them for revisions or resubmissions.

• The editor-in-chief is ultimately responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should (not) be published.

• The editors and editorial board members are excluded from peer reviewing and publication decisions when they are authors or have contributed to a manuscript. The editor-in-chief shall manage all usual procedures of the journal and make eventual publication decisions on such manuscripts.

Peer review:

• The editors shall ensure that the peer review process is fair, unbiased, and timely.

• Ege Academic Review strictly adheres to a double-blind reviewing policy. All articles must typically be reviewed by at least two external and independent reviewers, and where necessary the editors seek opinions of additional reviewers and/or of the editorial board members.

• The editors shall select reviewers with proper expertise in the relevant field, taking account of potential conflicts of interests and the need for appropriate, inclusive and diverse representation.

• The editors shall review all disclosures of potential conflicts of interest and reviewers’ assessments and recommendations for revision or citation (for instance of their or editors’ own works) in order to determine whether there is any potential for bias or discrimination and to avoid it.

• The editors and peer reviewers are committed to assessing manuscripts solely for their intellectual content without regard to its origin, or race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

• The editors and journal staff shall maintain transparency and integrity of all records by using the journal’s standard electronic submission system and official e-mail for all journal submissions, review and communications.

Confidentiality:

• The editors are committed to protecting the confidentiality of all material submitted to the journal and all communications with reviewers, unless otherwise agreed with the relevant authors and reviewers.

• The editors protect reviewers’ identities, unless reviewers have agreed to disclose their names.

• The editors and journal staff are committed to keeping privileged information or unpublished materials disclosed in submitted manuscripts confidential and not using for personal advantage.

Declaration of Conflicts of Interests:

• Any potential editorial conflicts of interest are declared to the editor-in-chief or journal owner prior to the appointment of the editor.

• The editors must not be involved in decisions about papers which they have written themselves or co-authored, or have been written by family members or colleagues or which relate to products or services in which the editor has an interest. Any such submission must be subject to all of the journal’s usual procedures, and peer review must be handled independently of the relevant author/editor and their research groups/colleagues.

• The editors maintain and promote consistent ethical policies. They oversee and act to enforce those policies as needed in a fair and consistent manner.

For Reviewers

• Peer review assists the editors in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.

• Reviewers must maintain the confidentiality of the review process and not share the review or communication with the editor with anyone, and not use privileged information that they obtain during the review process for personal advantage. Reviewers must not reproduce information, or unpublished material in, or any part of the manuscript under review in their own research, and not contact the authors directly without permission from the editor.

• Reviewers must immediately alert the editor of any real or potential competing interest that could interfere with the objectivity, impartiality and integrity of their reviewing and decline to review where appropriate. If in doubt about whether a conflict exists, a reviewer should seek the views of the editor.

• Reviewers should be alert to potential legal and ethical issues in the paper and should inform the editor about any legal or ethical breaches, including libel, defamation, violation of personal privacy, plagiarism, or any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published work.

• Reviewers are expected to act fairly and impartially, and provide objective and constructive reviews. In assessing the submitted works, the reviewers and the editors should limit themselves solely to the intellectual and scientific content of the paper.

• Reviewers should report their views and suggestions clearly with supporting evidence and arguments. Reviewers are expected not to use insulting, hostile, or defamatory language and be timely in their reviews. Reviewers should avoid requesting that authors cite reviewers’ own works unless there is a strong scholarly rationale for this.

For Authors
• The authors should ensure that their work is entirely original and written by themselves. If the authors have used the work and/or words of others, they should ensure that this has been appropriately cited or quoted and permission has been obtained where necessary.

• The Copyright Transfer Agreement, signed by the corresponding author includes a warranty that the manuscript is an original work, has not been published before, and is not being considered for publication elsewhere.

• The authors should warrant that their work does not infringe on any rights of others, including privacy rights and intellectual property rights.

• The authors should ensure that their data is true and not manipulated, and that their data is their own or that they have permission to use data reproduced in their paper.

• Plagiarism in all its forms, and fraudulent or deliberately inaccurate information constitute unethical behaviour and are unacceptable. Such behaviour may even lead to legal action or result in professional investigation and sanction. Manuscripts suffering from such unethical issues are immediately rejected and not allowed for re-submission. Their authors are

• The manuscripts must not have appeared elsewhere and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere while under consideration by Ege Academic Review. Authors should not submit the same work or describe essentially the same research in more than one journal.

• In general, authors should not submit for consideration in the journal a paper that has been published previously, except in the form of an abstract, a conference or working paper, or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis. In any case, the authors are expected to inform the editor about the history of their submitted paper.

• The authors should ensure that authorship of the paper is accurately represented and that all individuals credited as authors participated in the actual authorship of the work and that all who participated are credited and have given consent for publication.

• Authors must, upon request, be willing to provide original data (whether quantitative data sets or qualitative source material) on which their research draws and should be ready to keep them for some reasonable time after publication.

• Authors should list all funding sources for research and other sources of support (such as funding for writing or editorial assistance or open access publication, or provision of research materials) in their acknowledgement section of the manuscript.

• It is not possible to publish studies that require ethical committee approval within the scope of TR Dizin Journal Evaluation Criteria (https://trdizin.gov.tr/kriterler/) without obtaining ethical committee approval.

• For any research that involves collecting data from participants using observation, experiment, focus group, interview, or survey techniques, obtaining "ethical committee approval" is mandatory. 

• For studies outside of this scope, a signed document stating that the relevant study does not require ethical committee approval by all authors must be scanned and uploaded to the system. Otherwise, the studies will not be evaluated.

Submission Fee
The Journal of Ege Academic Review do not charge authors any fee for submitting and publishing their articles.