Ethical Principles and Publication Policy
Publication Ethics Statement
Eurasian Dental Research will adhere to the highest standards in publication ethics and ethical publishing published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) and World Association of Medical Editors (WAME). All articles to be submitted must be original, unpublished, and not in the process of being evaluated in another journal. Each article will be double-blindly reviewed by one of the editors and at least two reviewers. Plagiarism, duplication, false authorship/denied authorship, research/data fabrication, article slicing, slicing, copyright infringement and concealment of conflict of interest will be considered unethical behaviors. All articles that do not comply with accepted ethical standards will be removed from publication. This includes articles with possible irregularities and inconsistencies detected after publication.
Research Ethics
The journal will observe the highest standards in research ethics and adopt the international research ethics principles defined below. The compliance of the articles with the ethical rules is the responsibility of the authors. Principles of integrity, quality and transparency should be ensured in designing the research, reviewing the design, and conducting the research.
The research team and participants should be fully informed about the purpose, methods and possible uses of the research, the necessities and risks, if any, of participating in the research. Research participants should take part in the research voluntarily and should not be under any coercion. Harm to the participants should be avoided. The research should be planned in such a way that it does not put the participants at risk. It should be clear about research independence, and if there is a conflict of interest, it should be stated. In experimental studies, written informed consent should be obtained from participants who decide to participate in the research. The consent of the legal guardian of children and custodians or those with a confirmed mental illness must be obtained. If the study will be carried out in any institution or organization, approval must be obtained from that institution or organization. In studies with a human element, it should be stated in the “methods” section that “informed consent” was obtained from the participants and ethics committee approval was obtained from the institution where the study was conducted.
Responsibility of the Author
Compliance of the articles with scientific and ethical rules is the responsibility of the authors. The author must provide assurance that the article is original, has not been previously published elsewhere, and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere or in another language. Applicable copyright laws and agreements must be observed. Copyrighted material (for example, tables, figures, or large quotations) should be used with due permission and acknowledgment. All authors must have a direct academic and scientific contribution to the submitted article, in this context “author” is someone who has made a significant contribution to the conceptualization and design of a published research, to the acquisition, analysis or interpretation of data, to writing the manuscript or to critically reviewing it in terms of content. Other conditions for being an author are to plan or perform and/or revise the work in the article. Funding, data collection, or general supervision of the research group alone does not confer authorship. All individuals listed as authors must meet all the criteria listed, and any individual who meets the above criteria may be listed as an author. The naming order of the authors should be a joint decision. All authors must indicate the author rank on the Copyright Agreement Form signed.
All individuals who did not meet the criteria for authorship but contributed to the study should be listed in the “thanks/information” section. Examples of these are people who only provide technical support, help with writing, or just provide general support, and financial and material support. All authors must declare financial relationships, conflicts of interest, and competition of interest that have the potential to affect the results of the research or scientific evaluation. If an author detects a significant error or inaccuracy in his or her published article, it is their responsibility to immediately contact and cooperate with the editor for correction or retraction of these inaccuracies.
Editor and Reviewer Responsibilities
The editor-in-chief evaluates articles regardless of the authors’ ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, religious beliefs, and political philosophy. He or she ensures that the articles submitted for publication undergo a fair double-blind peer-review. He or she guarantees that all information regarding the submitted articles will remain confidential until the article is published. The editor-in-chief is responsible for the content and the overall quality of the publication. If necessary, he or she should publish an error page or make corrections. The editor-in-chief does not allow any conflict of interest between authors, editors and reviewers. He or she has full authority to appoint a referee and is responsible for making the final decision on the articles to be published in the Journal.
Reviewers should not have conflicts of interest with the research, with the authors and/or with the financial supporters of the research. They should reach an impartial judgment as a result of their assessment. During the evaluation process, the editor clearly states that the articles submitted for review to the reviewers are the exclusive property of the authors and this is a privileged communication. Reviewers and editorial board members cannot discuss articles with other people. Care should be taken to keep the identities of the reviewers confidential. In some cases, with the decision of the editor, the comments of the relevant reviewers regarding the article can be sent to other reviewers who have commented on the same article, and the reviewers can be enlightened in this process.
Publishing Policy
Submitted articles must be in accordance with the purpose and scope of the journal. Manuscripts that are original, unpublished and not in the process of evaluation in another journal, whose content and submission have been approved by each author, are accepted for evaluation. After the article is sent to the journal for publication, the name of any of the authors cannot be deleted from the list of authors without the written consent of all authors, a new name cannot be added as an author, and the order of authors cannot be changed.
Plagiarism
Pre-examined articles are scanned for plagiarism using software such as iThenticate, Turnitin and İntihal.net. If plagiarism/self-plagiarism is detected, the authors are informed. If necessary, the editors can subject the article to plagiarism control at various stages of the evaluation or production process. High similarity rates can cause an article to be rejected before or even after it is accepted. Depending on the type of article, this rate is expected to be less than 20%.
Double-Blind Reviewing
After plagiarism control, eligible articles are evaluated by the editor-in-chief for originality, methodology, importance of the topic covered, and compatibility with the journal scope. The editor ensures that the articles go through a fair double-blind review and, if the article complies with the formal principles, they submit the incoming article to at least two reviewers from the country and / or abroad, and if the reviewers deem it necessary, the editors approve the publication after the requested changes are made by the authors.
Copyright
Authors own the copyright of their work published in the journal and their work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.tr. The CC BY-NC 4.0 license permits the work to be shared, copied, reproduced in any size and format other than for commercial use, and adapted, including re-editing, transforming, and building upon the original work, with proper attribution.
Reviewing Process
Articles that have not been published before or that are not yet under evaluation in another journal for publication and that are approved by each author are accepted for evaluation. Articles are sent to at least two national/international reviewers for evaluation. The publication decision is made by the editor-in-chief after the arrangements made by the authors in line with the requests of the reviewers and the review process.
The evaluations of the reviewers should be objective. During the review process, the reviewers are expected to make their evaluations by considering the following points.
- Does the article contain new and important information?
- Does the abstract clearly and properly describe the content of the article?
- Is the method coherent and clearly defined?
- Are the comments made and conclusions proven by the findings?
- Are adequate references given to other studies in the field?
- Is the language’s quality adequate?
Reviewers should ensure that all information regarding the submitted articles remain confidential until the article is published, and should report any copyright infringement and plagiarism on the part of the author to the editor. If the reviewer does not feel qualified about the subject of the article or if it does not seem possible to provide a timely response, he should notify the editor of this situation and ask him not to involve himself in the review process. During the evaluation process, the editor clearly states that the articles submitted for review to the reviewers are the exclusive property of the authors and this is a privileged communication. Reviewers and editorial board members cannot discuss articles with other people. Care should be taken to keep the identities of the reviewers confidential.