Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice

Erciyes Journal of Sports Science is committed to ensuring high-quality scientific publications that meet standards of academic excellence. The ethical duties and responsibilities set forth below are based on international standards.

📋 Referenced International Standards:
This policy has been prepared based on the "Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors" published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
🔗 Visit COPE Website

1. Duties and Responsibilities of Editors
Editors are responsible for enforcing strict ethical policies coupled with a rigorous blind peer-review process.

Area of Responsibility	Requirements
Publication Decisions	Decisions are based on the paper’s importance, originality, and scope. Race, gender, belief, or political philosophy are disregarded.
Confidentiality	Information about a submitted manuscript is not disclosed to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, and the publisher.
Conflict of Interest	Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted paper will not be used by the editors for their own research without the author's written consent.

2. Duties and Responsibilities of Reviewers

Contribution: Assists the editor in making decisions and helps the author improve the paper.
Confidentiality: Manuscripts must be treated as confidential documents and not discussed with others.
Objectivity: Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism is inappropriate.
Source Acknowledgement: Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors.

3. Duties and Responsibilities of Authors

🚫 Plagiarism Policy: [Journal Name] has zero tolerance for plagiarism. All manuscripts are checked for similarity. If the similarity rate is above 25% or data fabrication is detected, the manuscript will be rejected.

✅ Expected Behaviors	🚫 Prohibited Behaviors
Providing and retaining raw data. Active contribution of all listed authors. Disclosure of financial support and conflicts of interest. Obtaining Ethics Committee Approval (IRB) for human subjects.	"Salami slicing" or multiple publications. Ghost authorship or concealing authors. Data fabrication or falsification. Citation manipulation.

4. Open Access and Copyright
🔓 Open Access Policy:

Erciyes Journal of Sport Science adopts the open access policy in line with the Budapest, Berlin, and Bethesda Open Access Declarations.

Licensing: Articles are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Authors retain copyright but allow the work to be shared freely with proper citation.

5. Management of Ethical Violations

Ethical issues raised by readers or reviewers are examined in accordance with COPE guidelines.

Erratum: Published for minor errors.
Retraction: Applied in cases of serious errors invalidating results or ethical misconduct.

Last Update Time: 12/5/25

All articles published in our journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).