Publication Policy
Philosophy World is a double-blind peer-reviewed open-access academic journal published semi-annually (July and December).
Philosophy World publishes original articles, researchs, comments, book reviews, critiques, and translations covering all disciplines of philosophy, especially ontology, epistemology, axiology, and aesthetics.
Philosophy World is an academic journal that operates spelling and plagiarism control, pre-evaluation, blind peer-review, proofreading, and editing processes.
Articles submitted for publication in the Philosophy World are subject to double-blind peer-review evaluation by at least two referees.
The journal's publication policy is based on nationally and internationally accepted academic standards.
In order to submit a research article to the journal, a doctorate degree is required. Ph.D. students can send the works they have prepared with their advisors to the journal.
Articles must be submitted up to 2 months before the publication period of the journal. Articles whose reviewal or editorial processes have not been completed when the publication date of the journal comes are postponed to the next issue.
All manuscripts are subject to pre-evaluation and blind peer-review processes. The pre-evaluation process takes approximately 15 days and the reviewing process takes approximately 30 days. The stated times may be extended from time to time due to delays caused by the referees.
Submitted studies must not have been published previously or must not be under consideration elsewhere.
More than one work by the same author is not published in a single issue.
The compliance of the manuscripts with the ethical committee decisions required by TR-Dizin will be checked. In this context:
For studies/articles that require data collection from individuals using scales, questionnaires, interviews, and other data collection tools, approval from the Ethics Committee of the university to which the author is affiliated is obligatory. The certificate of approval should be attached to DergiPark as an additional file.
In manuscripts with more than one author, the contribution rates of the authors must be stated.
Philosophy World does not charge any fee from the authors for the article evaluation and publication process. No fee is paid to the authors.

Archiving Policy
To guarantee that all papers published in the journal are maintained and permanently accessible, articles are stored in Dergipark which serves as a national archival web site and at the same time permits LOCKSS to collect, preserve, and serve the content.

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement
Philosophy World is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics. It is important that all parties involved in the publication process of the journal (authors, reviewers and editors) are expected to agree on the following ethical principles. Guidelines and policies published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) as open access should be considered.

All submissions must be original, unpublished (including as full text in conference proceedings), and not under the review of any other publication synchronously. Each manuscript is reviewed by one of the editors and at least two referees under double-blind peer review process. Plagiarism, duplication, fraud authorship/denied authorship, research/data fabrication, salami slicing/salami publication, breaching of copyrights, prevailing conflict of interest are unnethical behaviors.

All manuscripts not in accordance with the accepted ethical standards will be removed from the publication. This also contains any possible malpractice discovered after the publication. In accordance with the code of conduct we will report any cases of suspected plagiarism or duplicate publishing.

Research Ethics

The Philosophy World adheres to the highest standards in research ethics and follows the principles of international research ethics as defined below. The authors are responsible for the compliance of the manuscripts with the ethical rules.

- Principles of integrity, quality and transparency should be sustained in designing the research, reviewing the design and conducting the research.
- The research team and participants should be fully informed about the aim, methods, possible uses and requirements of the research and risks of participation in research.
- The confidentiality of the information provided by the research participants and the confidentiality of the respondents should be ensured. The research should be designed to protect the autonomy and dignity of the participants.
- Research participants should participate in the research voluntarily, not under any coercion.
- Any possible harm to participants must be avoided. The research should be planned in such a way that the participants are not at risk.
- The independence of research must be clear; and any conflict of interest or must be disclosed.
- In experimental studies with human subjects, written informed consent of the participants who decide to participate in the research must be obtained. In the case of children and those under wardship or with confirmed insanity, legal custodian’s assent must be obtained.
- If the study is to be carried out in any institution or organization, approval must be obtained from this institution or organization.
- In studies with human subject, it must be noted in the method’s section of the manuscript that the informed consent of the participants and ethics committee approval from the institution where the study has been conducted have been obtained.

Plagiarism

Submitted manuscripts are scanned for plagiarism using iThenticate. If plagiarism/self-plagiarism will be found authors will be informed. Editors may resubmit manuscript for similarity check at any peer-review or production stage if required. High similarity scores may lead to rejection of a manuscript before and even after acceptance.  The overall similarity score is generally expected to be less than 20%.

All parties are expected to bear the following ethical responsibilities within the scope of the publication ethics of Philosophy World.

1. Responsibilities of Authors
• All named authors must contribute significantly to the research. There should be no unfair authorship.
• Actions against scientific research and publication ethics such as plagiarism, distortion and slicing should be avoided.
• All data in the article must be genuine and original.
• All authors must ensure retraction and correction of errors.
• The bibliography list should be complete.
• The same research should not be attempted to be published in more than one journal. Submitting the same article to more than one journal simultaneously with a request for publication is unethical behavior.
• Persons, institutions, or organizations that provide support for research carried out with support and their contributions to the research should be stated.
• Authors should not consider referee reports as personal criticism; should correct within academic limits and, if necessary, should respond to criticisms according to academic criteria.
• Authors should submit their articles in accordance with the journal's writing rules.

2. Responsibilities of Reviewers
• The evaluation process should be impartial and unbiased.
• If the subject of the work is outside of the field of study, he/she should not accept the review proposal.
• Reviewers are given 14 days for article evaluation. If the publication process of the journal is appropriate, additional time may be given for requesting reviewers.
• Checked articles are not shared with others by the reviewers, and the reviewer cannot use the information and data in his/her own studies before the work is published.
• Reviewers should not have a conflict of interest with the research, authors, and/or research funders.
• Reviewer evaluations must be objective. The academic adequacy of the manuscript should be taken as a basis and criticisms against the personalities of the authors should not be mentioned.
• Reviewers are expected to provide explanations to support their evaluations.
• Even if the author's ideas contradict the reviewer’s, the reviewer should respect the author's ideas to take place in the literature.
• Reviewers should indicate relevant published but not cited works.
• Reviewers should not put their personal approaches and value judgments ahead of academic style and scientific impartiality when evaluating articles and should be constructive in their criticism.

3. Responsibilities of Editors
• Articles submitted for publication are evaluated according to academic criteria. In the evaluation of the articles gender, religion, race, ethnicity, institutional relations, etc. of authors are never used as a criterion.
• Editors have full responsibility and authority to accept or reject an article.
• Editors should not have a conflict of interest regarding the accepted or rejected articles.
• Only articles and translations that will contribute to the field should be accepted.
• Editors should support the publication of corrections or retraction of the article when errors are found in the article.
• Editors should keep the names of reviewers confidential and prevent studies against publication ethics, especially plagiarism/fake data.
• The contents of the articles submitted to the Philosophy World but not published cannot be used by the editor and the Editorial Board.

Correction, Retraction, Expression of Concern
Editor should consider publishing correction if minor errors that do not effect the results, interpretations and conclusions of the published paper are detected. Editor should consider retraction if major errors and/or misconduction that invalidate results and conclusions are detected.

Editor should consider issuing an expression of concern if there is evidence of research or publication misconduct by the authors; there is evidence that the findings are not reliable and institutions of the authors do not investigate the case or the possible investigation seems to be unfair or nonconclusive.

The guidelines of COPE and ICJME are taken into consideration regarding correction, retractions or expression of concern.