ACTIONS AGAINST SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION ETHICS

In accordance with Article 8 of the Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive of the Council of Higher Education, acts against scientific research and publication ethics are as follows:
a) Plagiarism: Presenting the ideas, methods, data, practices, writings, figures or works of others as fully or partly their own work, without giving any references in accordance with scientific rules.
b) Forgery: To produce the data that is not based on any research, to edit or change the presented or published work based on untrue data, to report or publish them, to present an unfinished research as if it has been complete.
c) Distortion: To forge research records and obtained data; to present methods, devices and materials that are not used in the research as if they have been used; to contain the data that are not suitable for the research hypothesis; to manipulate the data and/or results in order to fit the relevant theory or assumptions; to forge or shape research results in their own interests.
ç) Republishing: To indicate more than one work containing the same results of a research as if all of them are separate works in associate professor examination evaluations or in academic promotions.
d) Slicing (Salami-Slicing): Publishing parts of a study in multiple papers instead of providing the full story in a single paper and applying with these multiple papers to the academic promotion by dividing the results of a research in a way that violates the integrity of the research.
e) Unfair authorship: Including people who do not have any contributions in the work; not including those who contribute actively among the authors, inappropriately changing the order of authors without any justification, removing the names of those who contributed actively from the work at the time of publication or in subsequent editions; to include his name among the authors by abusing his/her official influence.
f) Other Types of Ethical Violations: Not giving any references about the supporting institutions, organizations or contributors in the publication of a supported research; not abiding by the ethical rules in research on humans or animals; not respecting the rights of patients in the publications; to share information about the submitted study before it is published as an assigned referee on this submitted study; to misuse the resources, places, facilities and devices provided or reserved for a scientific research; to make intentionally a false, baseless, groundless ethical violation accusation against somebody.
To sum up, below listed are some unethical behaviors:
• Representing people who do not contribute intellectually to the study as authors.
• Not specifying the people who contributed intellectually to the study as authors.
• Not specifying if the study was produced from the author's master's/doctoral thesis or a project.
• Slicing, publishing more than one study from a single study.
• Disclosure of conflicts of interest regarding submitted works

SUBMITTING PLAGIARISM PROGRAM AND CRITERIA

All studies submitted to the Journal should be scanned with software program such as Turnitin (https://www.turnitin.com/), Ithenticate, İntihalnet etc. before uploading to the dergipark. Studies with a similarity rate above 25% (bibliography, quotes and text with less than 7 words should be excluded) will not be accepted for publication.