It is aimed that all parties (authors, editors, referees and editorial boards) that have put forward a scientific study contribute to the proper progress of science. Compliance with scientific ethical principles is important in scientific studies prepared in accordance with this aim.

These ethical principles are based on the guidelines and policies published by Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). ERDEM Journal guarantees to adopt, fulfill and carry out the following ethical responsibilities of all parties at all stages of the publication process.

ERDEM journal is published by the Presidency of Atatürk Culture Center. The Editorial Board of the Journal acts with the awareness of the following ethical responsibilities:

The ERDEM Journal Editorial Board (Hereinafter, the “Editorial Board”) and the Editors/Assistant Editors are responsible for each article submitted to ERDEM Journal and even for all processes after its publication.

The Editorial Board is expected to voluntarily comply with international standards (ethical principles set by the Publication Ethics Committee (COPE): https://publicationethics.org/).

The Editorial Board is obliged to protect the property and copyright of each published article and to keep a record of every published copy.

The Editorial Board encourages academic integrity. The Editorial Board determines and secures the authenticity of the written works by auditing it through the plagiarism prevention program intihal.net prior to the publication of these works.

The Editorial Board should always be ready to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies if necessary.

The Editorial Board makes suggestions to increase the national and international recognition of ERDEM Journal.

The Editorial Board keeps the articles in all issues of the journal accessible electronically for free.

Editors and Assistant editors of ERDEM Journal must act on the basis of the open access guidelines published by COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) such as "COPE Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors", "COPE Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors" and “Code of Conduct”, and must have the following ethical duties and responsibilities:

The Editors/Assistant Editors are  expected to voluntarily comply with international standards (ethical principles set by the Publication Ethics Committee (COPE): https://publicationethics.org/).

The Editors/Assistant Editors are responsible for the publication of each article published in the journal in accordance with the journal publication policies and international standards.

Editors/Assistant Editors are responsible for taking measures related to intellectual property rights, unscientific-unethical behavior and plagiarism in the process of publishing articles and journals.

Editors /Assistant Editors, when deciding on the publication of articles, make sure that the articles are original and contribute to the readers, researchers and practitioners.

Editors/Assistant Editors, when making positive or negative decisions about articles, take into account the original value of the articles, their contribution to the field, the validity and reliability of the research method, the clarity of the narrative and the purpose and scope of the journal.

The Editors/Assistant Editors implement the blind refereeing and evaluation process policies included in the publication policies of the journal, keep the credentials of the referees confidential, and ensure that each article is evaluated decisively and within the period.

Editors/Assistant editors take into account whether there is a conflict of interest or unity of interest between the editors, referees and author(s) for an unbiased evaluation of the article.

Editors/Assistant Editors ensure the protection of personal data in the articles being evaluated; they protect the personal data of the author, the reviewer and the readers.

Editors/Assistant Editors take care of the protection of human and animal rights in articles, they care about the certification of the explicit approval of the participants of the article, the approval of the ethics committee for the participants of the article, and they reject the article when they do not have permission for experimental research.

Editors/Assistant Editors ensure that errors, inconsistencies, or misdirections in articles are corrected.

Editors/Assistant Editors are obliged to respond in an enlightening and explanatory way by carefully examining complaints from the author, the referee and the readers.

All articles submitted to ERDEM journal are evaluated through a double-sided blind refereeing process. Double-sided blind refereeing means keeping the authors confidential from the referees and the referees confidential from the authors in order to ensure an impartial, objective and independent evaluation process. Articles are sent to the referees from the journal management system (YAYSIS) for evaluation. Referees are required to fill out a form containing the contribution of the article they are evaluating to their field of study and their decisions about whether the article is publishable and their reasons for these decisions. The ethical responsibilities and roles of the referees of ERDEM journal are as follows:

Referees are expected to voluntarily comply with international standards (ethical principles set by the Publication Ethics Committee (COPE): https://publicationethics.org/).

Referees are required to referee articles related only to their field of expertise.

Referees should act with the awareness that they are the most fundamental determinant of the academic quality of the article to be published in the journal and evaluate it with the responsibility of improving academic quality.

Referees must comply with the principle of confidentiality, they are obliged not to use the information obtained from the arbitration process for their personal benefit; they should not share their reports or information about the article with others.

When the referees understand that there is a conflict or unity of interest, they should inform the editors, refusing to evaluate the article.

Referees should only evaluate the accuracy of the content of the articles and their compliance with academic criteria. Whether the opinions expressed in the article differ from the opinions of the referee should not affect the evaluation.

Referees should conduct the evaluation in a constructive manner in accordance with academic etiquette and avoid personal comments containing insults and hostility.

In case of any abuse of the author(s) (e.g., plagiarism or similar unethical activities), they should immediately inform the relevant editor.

Referees are required to complete their evaluations within the time given to them and are expected to comply with the ethical responsibilities set out above.

The author(s) are expected to voluntarily comply with international standards (ethical principles set by the Publication Ethics Committee (COPE): https://publicationethics.org/).

Articles submitted for publication should not contradict the ethics of scientific research and publication contained in the “Regulation on Scientific Research and Publication Ethics in Higher Education Institutions” (plagiarism, forgery, distortion, republication, slicing, unfair authorship, other types of ethical violations).

It is expected that the submitted articles will have original content that contributes to their fields. Authors cannot make an article submission that is created by largely verbatim copying from the contents of their previously published books to ERDEM. This situation is considered as a clear ethical violation, ethical violation procedures are officially initiated against the author, the article is withdrawn, and this violation is shared with the relevant Institutions and announced in the necessary platforms.

Applications can be made with the texts of articles created using scientific data obtained as a result of master's, doctoral theses and research projects - provided that the source is specified.

Author(s) are required to refer and/or quote all the resources that they use in their article (authors, online pages, personal interviews, etc.) in a complete and accurate form.

The author(s) may not have their works in the application process of more than one journal at the same time. Each application can be started after the completion of the previous application. A work published in another journal cannot be sent to ERDEM Journal.

Scientific articles submitted to the journal must take the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics)'s International Standards for Editors and Authors into account.

The name of the people who did not contribute to the article should not be written as the author. Changing the author order, removing and/or adding the author is not recommended for articles submitted for publication.

The author(s) should inform the editors about the people that have unity of interest and/or conflict of interest with the article submitted for publication.

The author(s) may be asked for raw data on their articles within the framework of the evaluation processes, in such a case, the author(s) should be ready to submit the expected data and information to the editorial board and the scientific board.

The author(s) must certify that they have the rights to use the data they use in their articles, the permissions related to research-analysis or the approval and consent of the participants they are researching on have been obtained.

If the authors notice any mistakes in their articles that is in the evaluation and early access stage or that is published online, they are required to contact the editor to provide information and to correct or withdraw their article.

The author(s) must indicate on the first-last page and method section of the candidate article the name, decision date and issue of the ethics committee approval and upload the document indicating the decision of the ethics committee to the system along with the application of the article for the research that requires collecting data by quantitative or qualitative methods such as experiment, survey, scale, interview, observation, focus group study that requires a decision of the ethics committee. In addition, information about the receipt of the informed consent form in case reports should be included in the article.

The author(s) must provide evidence that they have regarded the ethical principles in the data collection process (such as obtaining permission from others to use documents such as scales, questionnaires, photographs) within the article. It should be noted that the articles comply with research and publication ethics, as well as copyright regulations for ideas and works of art.

If an unethical situation regarding an article that is in the evaluation process, early access or published in the ERDEM Journal appears, or if there is a situation or behavior regarding authors, referees or editors that does not comply with the ethical principles occurs, it must be reported via the internet adress erdemdergisi@akmb.gov.tr.