Ege Academic Review

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. 

• 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.