In the process of implementing scientific methods and providing objectivity, referee evaluation is crucial. As components of publication process, the publisher, editors, authors and referees have to follow ethical principles in the production of scientific knowledge. In this scope, all the components of publication process of Journal of Research in Education and Society are expected to follow ethical principles in accordance with policy and guidelines of the Publication Ethics Committee (Committee on Publication Ethics, COPE).

Since the Journal of Research in Education and Society is in the process of application for TR index, Ethical Committee Approval is demanded for the articles as required by TR Index Evaluation Criteria. The authors have to submit Ethical Committee Approval Form for the articles requiring ethical committee approval which are submitted to be published since 13.02.2021.

TR Index-Journal Evaluation Criteria Article 8: For the articles requiring ethics committee approval from all disciplines including social sciences, the authors have to acquire ethics comittee approval and state this on the article and certify it. The authors are expected to include information about approval (committee name, date and issue) in methods and first/last page of their articles requiring ethics committee approval. The information of having participants sign informed consent form is expected to be stated on the articles.

For compilation articles, authors are not expected to submit ethics committee approval. Furthermore, if the articles do not require an ethical committee approval, it should be stated on the part of methods and first/last page of the article.

If ethical violation is confirmed like plagiarism, manipulating and falsifying data and using fabrication data, institution where the author works is informed officially, and the article is rejected. The journal keeps the right of demanding output documents of analysis results from authors in accordance with feedbacks given by editors and referees.

Journal of Research in Education and Society demands similarity report from the authors for their articles submitted. Except references, similarity rate can be 20% at most. If the article has higher similarity rate when it is submitted on Turnitin by journal, it can go through pre-evaluation process only after revision of author.

The copyrights of articles accepted to be published belong to the Journal of Research in Education and Society and, legal liability of article content belongs to the author.

Ethical Duties of Publisher
As a Publisher of Journal of Research in Education and Society, Gazi University is a non-profit higher education institute protecting public interest. ,

Journal of Research in Education and Society continue working for sharing scientific knowledge since 2014.

Gazi University is supposed to lead target group properly and use communication force it holds without expecting any benefit. Gazi University provides an electronical, open and free access of journal on the website.

Editorial Committee Responsibilities of Journal of Research in Education and Society
Editorial Committee of Journal of Research in Education and Society is responsible for all the articles submitted to Journal of Research in Education and Society and all process from submission to publishment. This responsibility requires implementation of scientific methods for the decisions about journal. The relation between editorial committee and publisher is based on independence principle. The decisions of editors are independent from publisher, other people and institutions.
• Editorial committee of Journal of Research in Education and Society strives for improving journal and enhancing publishing quality. .
• Editorial committee of Journal of Research in Education provides determination and implementation of publishment, blind review and ethical principles.
• Editorial committee of Journal of Research in Education and Society protect copyright of authors of articles published on Journal of Research in Education and Society.
• Editorial committee of Journal of Research in Education and Society is responsible for getting precaution of intellectual property rights and unscientific-unethical behaviours..
• Editorial committee of Journal of Research in Education and Society prepares and updates “Author Guide” including information needs of authors.
• Editorial committee of Journal of Research in Education and Society saves the correspondence about journal and records of every article.
            

Ethical Responsibilities of Editors and Field Editors
• Editors endeavor to meet the information needs of referees, author (s), researchers, practitioners and readers, to give feedback when necessary, to act in accordance with the principles of correction in the publication process and clarity in matters that require explanation.
• Editors perform their duties without discrimination based on the author (s) 'gender, religious or political belief, ethnic or geographical origin, act in a balanced, objective and fair manner.
• While deciding on the publication of the articles, the editors pay attention that the articles are original and contribute to the scientific literature, readers, researchers and practitioners.
• When making positive or negative decisions about the articles, editors 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 expression, and the journal's purpose and scope.
• Editors implement the policies of blind review and evaluation process, which are among the publishing policies of the journal, keep the identities of the referees confidential, and ensure that each article is evaluated objectively and in time.
• Editors send the articles to their field editors taking into account their field of expertise and support the impartial and independent evaluation.
• Field editors send the articles to the referees by taking their fields of expertise into consideration and support the impartial and independent evaluation. Field editors appoint at least two referees for each article, taking care that they are from different institutions. If at most one of these referees decides to refuse the article, the third referee will be appointed.
• Editors take into account whether there is a conflict of interest-unity of interest between field editors, referees and author (s) for unbiased evaluation of the article.
• Editors seek to ensure that the referee pool is made up of a wide variety and is constantly updated.
• Editors prevent unscientific evaluations that do not comply with academic ethics.
• Editors support author (s) freedom of expression.
• Editors are expected to be in an effective communication with the members involved in the publishing process and hold meetings at regular intervals.
• Editors ensure the protection of personal data in reviewed articles; protects the individual data of authors, reviewers and readers
• Editors pay attention to the protection of human and animal rights in the articles, they care about documenting explicit approval of the participants of the article, and they reject the article when there is no ethics committee approval regarding the participants of the empirical articles that require the decision of the ethics committee.
• Editors take precautions against misconduct. When there are complaints about misconduct, he makes an objective investigation and shares the findings on the subject.
• Editors ensure that errors, inconsistencies or misdirection in articles are corrected.
• Editors protect the intellectual property rights of the published articles and defend the rights of the journal and author (s) in case of violation. In addition, they take necessary measures to ensure that the content of published articles does not infringe the intellectual property rights of other publications; makes authenticity-similarity check.
• Editors take into account the consistent criticism of the articles published in the journal, and give the right to reply to the author (s) of the criticized articles.
• Editors publish submission and acceptance dates in articles.
• Editors also consider studies with negative results.

Ethical Responsibilities of Referees
• The Journal of Research in Education and Society applies the principle of double-blind refereeing, in which the author (s) do not know referees and the referees do not recognize the author (s) during the article evaluation process. Referees cannot communicate directly with the author (s); The article evaluation forms and the notes stated on the text and the requests for correction are conveyed to the author (s) by the editors through the journal management system. Referees who will evaluate the articles submitted to the Journal of Research in Education and Society should bear the following ethical responsibilities:
• Referees should only agree to evaluate articles related to their field of expertise.
• Referees should make the assessment in neutral and confidentiality. In accordance with this principle, they should evaluate the articles they have reviewed in accordance with scientific and ethical rules, and avoid giving any information that may reveal their identity.
• When the referees understand that there is a conflict of interest, they should refuse to evaluate the article and inform the editors.
• Referees should make the assessment in a constructive language in accordance with academic ethics; and avoid personal comments containing insults and hostility.
• Referees should evaluate the article, which they accept, within the time limit.

Ethical Responsibilities of Authors
Ethical responsibilities of the author (s) who apply to the Journal of Research in Education and Society are:
• The author (s) should not send an article published anywhere or should not submit more than one article at the same time to the Journal of Research in Education and Society, and must declare their acceptance of these rules by filling out the Copyright Transfer Form of the journal.
• Author (s) must submit an original article to the Journal of Research in Education and Society.
• If the article is produced from the author's postgraduate thesis or a project, the author (s) should indicate this as a footnote in the article.
• If the article is partially or completely presented in any scientific symposium / congress, the author (s) should indicate this as a footnote in the article.
• The author (s) should correctly cite the sources they use during the writing of the article in line with ethical principles.
• The author (s) should determine the similarity rate in their articles and send it to the journal if it does not exceed the limit of 20%.
• The names of persons who do not contribute to the article should not be written as authors; It should not be recommended to change the order of the authors of an article submitted for publication, to remove or add authors. Co-authors' contribution rate in the articles should be declared at the end of the article.
• Notify the editors who have a conflict of interest, if any, about the article for which the application is made for publication, and include this information at the end of the article.
• Support and Appreciation Statement should be included at the end of the article.
• Author (s) should submit the expected information to the editors in case information or raw data are requested from them during the evaluation process.
• Author (s) are obliged to keep the data of their published articles for 5 years.
• Author (s) should contact the editor to inform, correct or retract when they notice an error about the article that is under evaluation or published electronically.
• The author (s) received ethics committee approval for empirical research requiring ethics committee decision; The name of the ethics committee should be stated on the first / last page of the candidate article and in the method section, and the document showing the ethics committee decision should be uploaded to the system with the application of the article. In addition, case reports should include information about obtaining the informed consent / consent form in the article.
• The author (s) should present in the article the evidences that they adhere to ethical principles in the data collection process (such as obtaining permission from others to use documents such as scale, questionnaire, photograph). It should be stated in the articles that research and publication ethics and copyright regulations for intellectual and artistic works are complied with. If the research was carried out on human and animal subjects, it should be reported that the research was conducted in accordance with ethical principles.
• Ethics committee approval is not required from the author (s) for review articles. However, for articles that do not require an ethics committee decision, it should be stated in the first / last page and method section of the article that an ethics committee decision is not required.

Publication Policy
The Journal of Education and Social Research is a national peer-reviewed scientific journal, published electronically twice a year (June and December), observing the double-blind refereeing process. The language of the journal is Turkish or English.
The Journal of Research in Education and Society, as a journal that is aware of the need for easy access to information in order to advance scientific studies, supports the initiative of open access to peer-reviewed journal literature and offers all published articles free of charge in an online environment that everyone can read and download. Given the role of knowledge sharing in the advancement of science, open access is of paramount importance to researchers and readers. Therefore, articles in this journal can be used as long as the author (s) and original source are cited. No permission is required from the author (s) or publishers.
Articles sent to the Journal of Education and Society Research are taken to the pre-evaluation stage, where the appropriateness of the template, additional files and similarity ratio is checked. The articles that pass this stage are assigned a field editor according to the subject area. The field editor appoints two referees from different institutions, suitable for the subject area. If the two referees decide that "it can be accepted exactly" or "can be published after revisions", the acceptance of the article is made after the evaluation of the editor. When the referees want to see the article again after the revision, it is sent by the author (s) as a second round evaluation to the referees who request a revised article. At the end of all evaluation processes, the article, which is approved by both referees, is accepted after the field editor's evaluation. If a referee gives a refusal, the field editor appoints a third referee. The article that receives two rejections in total is rejected by the editor. After the article receives acceptance approval, it is sent to Turkish and English language corrections, source checks are carried out. These processes are carried out with the author (s). After the author (s) perform the editing process, the layout of the article is made and the article is sent to the author for final reading. After receiving the publication approval from the author, the page number and Digital Object Identifier (DOI) are given to the article and the article is ready to be assigned to the issue. Which articles will be published in the next issue is determined by the editorial board, depending on the density of the journal and considering the submission and acceptance dates of the articles. The order in which the articles will be published is also determined by the editorial board, taking into account the subject areas and types of the articles.