Jun 30, 2025
Publication Type
Articles
Research Article
ETÜ Sentez Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences is a scientific and peer-reviewed journal published electronically twice a year, in June and December. The aim of the journal is to publish original scientific studies prepared in the fields of economics and administrative sciences, in accordance with international publication standards and at a high level of quality. By doing so, the journal seeks to contribute to the accumulation, dissemination, and reinterpretation of scientific knowledge in the field of economics and administrative sciences, and to bring such knowledge into the realm of international academic debate. ETÜ Sentez aims to be a valuable source of scientific information for academics, practitioners, and policymakers, and to serve as a significant guide in solving the challenges of the modern economy through the results of applied research. Within this framework, ETÜ Sentez Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences welcomes not only original research articles prepared in accordance with scientific norms and ethical principles, but also articles such as reviews, letters to the editor, and technical notes from various disciplines.
The publication languages of ETÜ Sentez Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences are Turkish and English. The journal operates under the rules of the "Open Journal Systems (OJS)", and all peer-reviewed articles and papers approved for publication are assigned a “DOI” number upon completion of the publication process.
ETÜ Sentez Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences publishes scientific studies in the fields of Economics, Business Administration, Public Administration, International Relations, Finance, Econometrics, and related areas. The journal accepts original research articles, review papers, and letters to the editor, provided they are prepared in accordance with ethical guidelines. Additionally, ETÜ Sentez is open to interdisciplinary and comparative studies and welcomes theoretical models, empirical analyses, case studies, and policy-oriented research. The target audience of the journal includes academics, researchers, PhD and graduate students, policymakers, and industry professionals. The publication languages are Turkish and English. All articles undergo a double-blind peer review process and are evaluated in terms of scientific validity, originality, and methodological rigor.
To ensure the preservation and permanent accessibility of all published content, articles are archived in Dergipark, a national repository platform. Dergipark also allows LOCKSS to collect, preserve, and serve the journal’s content.
Types of Articles
Research articles present new knowledge based on original research. Acceptance of research papers is usually based on the originality and significance of the research. The main text of a Research Article should be structured with the subheadings Introduction, Literature, Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusion.
Review Articles
Articles prepared by experts who have a background in the subject of the article and whose knowledge is reflected in the international literature in terms of the number of publications and citations are evaluated. Authors may also be invited by the journal. Reviews should provide a comprehensive overview of the current state of knowledge on a topic related to the subject of the journal and should include discussions and evaluations of related research. Subheadings of review articles can be planned by the authors. However, each review article should include an “Introduction” and a “Conclusion” section.
- The table below shows the basic styles of in-text citations according to APA 7 Writing guide:
| Author type P | Parenthetical citation | Narrative citation |
| One author | (Ay, 2020) | Ay (2020) |
| Two authors | (Salas & D'Agostino, 2020) | Salas & D'Agostino (2020) |
| Three or more authors | (Martin et al, 2020) | Martin et al. (2020) |
Group author with acronym First citationa Subsequent citations Group author without acronym Stanford University (2020) | (National Institute of Mental Health [NIMH], 2020) (NIMH, 2020) (Stanford University, 2020) | National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH, 2020) National Institutes of Health (2020) Stanford University (2020) |
- Direct quotations should be given with the page number (North, 1992: 13)
- If more than one source is cited in the text, they should be shown in the same parenthesis and a semicolon should be placed between them: (North, 1992; Ferrer et al., 2016).
- When citing a study published by the same author in the same year, the citations should be separated as a and b: (Kaya, 2020a) and (Kaya, 2020b)
- All references cited within a paragraph in the text should be given in the bibliography.
- The references in the bibliography should be given alphabetically according to the surname of the author.
- If the work given in the bibliography has a DOI number, the DOI number should be indicated in the reference. If the publication does not have a DOI number but has a URL that readers can be directed to (for example, if it comes from an online journal that is not part of a database), the URL of the article can be added at the end of the reference. If neither is available, it is treated as a printed journal article without this information.
- In the titles of the references in the bibliography, only the first letter of the title, the first letters of proper names and the first letters required after punctuation marks are capitalized. Since the names of the journals in which the studies are published are proper nouns, all first letters are capitalized. Source titles should not be written in all capital letters or the first letters of all words should not be capitalized.
Use of punctuation to group information in bibliography list entries.
- A period should be placed after each of the bibliography elements: author, date, title and source. However, a period should not be placed after a DOI or URL as this may interfere with link functionality. Titles ending with a question mark do not need a period; the question mark replaces the period.
- Commas or parentheses should generally be used between parts of the same bibliography item. For example, in a bibliography for a journal article, commas are used between the last name and initials of each author and between the names of different authors, between the journal name and volume number, and between the journal issue number and page numbers.
- Commas are not used between journal volume and issue numbers. Instead, the volume number should be followed immediately by the issue number in parentheses.
- Punctuation that appears in an italicized bibliography item is also italicized (for example, a comma or colon in a book title). Punctuation between bibliography items is not italicized (for example, a period after an italicized book title or a comma after an italicized journal title).
-Studies that do not comply with the rules specified in the preliminary checks will be included in the evaluation process after the necessary corrections are made by the author.
Click here for examples of APA 7 citation system.
All research involving human subjects must be reviewed and approved by a review board, such as an ethics committee, before it is conducted. The name of the ethics committee that reviewed and approved the research, the ethics committee approval number and date must be included in the Methods section of the manuscript when submitted for publication. The journal also requires authors to submit a copy of the ethics committee approval as part of the manuscript submission process. This is to ensure that the research has been properly reviewed and approved and to enable the journal to verify that the research meets the ethical standards required for publication.
If the article reports the findings of a survey or interviews, the authors should verify that participants gave informed consent to participate in the study and allowed their personal information to be recorded. If there are quotes or other attributable statements, these should be anonymized or it should be stated that the person has agreed to have their name included in the article.
It is the authors' responsibility to protect the anonymity of study participants and to ensure that the research is conducted respecting the principles of confidentiality. This is particularly important for photographs that may reveal the identity of the participants, as publication of such photographs without appropriate consent may violate the rights of the participants.
To protect the anonymity of participating patients, authors should obtain signed consent forms from participants or their legal representatives. These authorization documents should state that the participants consent to the publication of the photographs and specify any restrictions or conditions on the use of the photographs. Information about the consent for publication of the photographs should be provided in the manuscript.
All submissions are scanned with similarity detection software (iThenticate and, where necessary, Academic Plagiarism for confirmation) multiple times during the peer review and/or production processes. When discussing the previous work of others (or your own), we endeavor to ensure that you cite the material correctly in all cases. Authors are strongly advised to avoid plagiarism and unethical behavior, exemplified below.
- Citation manipulation: When an author manipulates the citation count of the journal or other publications in various ways, such as making his or her own citations, over-citing articles from the same journal, or adding honorary citations or stacks of citations.
- Self-plagiarism: The practice of using overlapping passages or sentences from an author's previous publications without proper attribution. This is considered a form of plagiarism, which means using someone else's work (in this case the author's own work) without proper attribution.
- Slicing: The use of the same data from a research study in several different papers. This is considered unethical as it means reporting the same hypotheses, population and methods in more than one paper.
- Data manipulation/falsification: Manipulation of research data to give a misleading impression. This can include manipulating images, extracting outliers or ‘unreliable’ results, changing data points and other forms of manipulation. This is also considered a form of research misconduct as it involves presenting false or misleading information as if it were real data.
In cases of alleged or suspected research misconduct, such as plagiarism, citation manipulation or data falsification/production, the Editorial Board will follow the appropriate COPE flowcharts to ensure that allegations or suspicions are dealt with in a fair, transparent and consistent manner.
Significant contribution to the conceptual conception or design of the study or to the acquisition, analysis or interpretation of data for the study. Draft or critically revise the work for substantial intellectual content, Final approval of the version to be published. Agreeing to be responsible for all aspects of the work to ensure that questions about the validity and accuracy of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
Agreeing to take responsibility for all aspects of the work to ensure that questions about the validity and accuracy of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved. In addition to taking responsibility for the parts of the work to which they have contributed, an author should also be able to identify which parts of the work other authors are responsible for. This ensures that the contributions of all authors are correctly and appropriately recognized. Using CRediT (Classification of Contributing Roles), authors can provide information on individual contributions at the time of submission. All authors are expected to agree on their individual contributions in accordance with the information shared by the lead author. The authors' statement of contribution will be published with the final manuscript and should accurately reflect the contributions made to the study. Authors must have confidence in the integrity of their co-authors' contributions. This means that they must trust that their co-authors conducted the research ethically and responsibly and that the data and results presented in the manuscript are accurate and reliable. Individuals who do not meet all four of the authorship criteria should not be included as authors on the manuscript. To recognize their contributions and provide transparency about their contribution to the research, they may be acknowledged on the title page of the article.
If the editorial board suspects ghost, honorary or gift authorship, the submission will be suspended and the relevant COPE flowchart and COPE Policy on authorship and contribution will be followed.
If allegations of violations are made directly by whistleblowers, the Editorial Board will follow the relevant COPE flowchart. When concerns are raised about an article published on a social media site, the journal will follow COPE's flowchart on how to respond to whistleblowers. In some cases, independent experts may be appointed for unresolved allegations.
The editorial board can share information with other editors-in-chief to investigate possible ethical violations and conduct investigations more efficiently and effectively. When communication with the editor-in-chief is necessary, the editorial board will follow the relevant COPE recommendations. Where necessary, the journal may contact institutions about suspected ethical violations by researchers and provide evidence to support these concerns. COPE guidelines will be followed in this process.
In the decision-making process, the editor-in-chief has final authority in all appeals and complaints. In some cases, a neutral representative is appointed for issues that the Editorial Board cannot resolve internally. The Journal follows a fair and transparent process for handling appeals and complaints and aims to protect the integrity of the scientific record.
ETU Sentez Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences does not view preprints as “pre-published works” but rather as an opportunity for authors to make their work accessible and discussable on a non-commercial preprint server prior to submission to the journal. However, authors are responsible for ensuring that their manuscript is placed on the preprint server and for providing the DOI number during the submission process. If the article is accepted and published in the journal, authors are responsible for updating the archived preprint and linking to the published version of the article. This helps to ensure that readers have easy access to the most up-to-date and accurate information. ETU Sentez Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences does not view preprints as “pre-published works” but rather as an opportunity for authors to make their work accessible and discussable on a non-commercial preprint server prior to submission to the journal. However, authors are responsible for ensuring that their manuscript is placed on the preprint server and for providing the DOI number during the submission process. If the article is accepted and published in the journal, authors are responsible for updating the archived preprint and linking to the published version of the article. This helps to ensure that readers have easy access to the most up-to-date and accurate information.
Permissions Policy
The contents of the journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) 4.0 International License. Under this license, users may share, adapt, reproduce, and distribute the content of the journal for non-commercial purposes, provided that the original author and the journal are properly attributed.
Statements or opinions in articles published in the journal are solely those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the editors, editorial board and/or publisher. The editors, editorial board and publisher are not responsible for the content of the articles and cannot agree with the views expressed in these articles. It is the authors' responsibility to ensure that their work is accurate and well-researched and that the views expressed in their articles are their own. The editors, editorial board and publisher provide a platform for authors to share their work with the scientific community.