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All submissions must be original, unpublished (including as full text in conference proceedings), and not under the review of any other publication synchronously.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.

ETHICAL PRINCIPLES

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.
• If the study is to be carried out in any institution or organization, approval must be obtained from this institution or organization.

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.

Plagiarism Check and Action Plan
Submitted manuscripts are scanned for plagiarism using İntihal.net. 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%.
If plagiarism is detected in an article submitted or published in our journal, our journal acts in accordance with the COPE principles (Plagiarism in a submitted manuscript - Plagiarism in a published article).

Correction, Retraction, Expression of Concern
When editors find minor errors in a published article that do not affect the findings, interpretations or conclusions of the study, they may consider publishing a correction note. However, if the article contains serious errors or ethical violations that invalidate the findings or conclusions, editors should consider retracting the article. On the other hand, if there is a suspicion of misconduct in the research or publication and there is evidence that the research findings are unreliable, or there has been no investigation or fair and outcome-oriented inquiry by the relevant institutions, editors may consider publishing a statement of concern. Correction, retraction or expression of concern processes are based on COPE Principles (1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8).

Ethical Violation Notifications
Readers can send an e-mail to turkfelsefeder@gmail.com if they notice a significant error or inaccuracy in an article published in Philosophy World or if they have any complaints about the editorial content (plagiarism, duplicate articles, etc.). We welcome applications as it will provide an opportunity for us to improve, and we will respond quickly and constructively. Our journal follows the procedure set out in the COPE Principles (1-2) regarding complaints.

Ethics Committee Approval
Our journal requires that all studies in scientific fields requiring ethics committee approval have obtained the relevant ethics committee decision. In this context, information regarding ethics committee approval (committee name, date, and decision number) must be clearly stated in the article text.
In line with the regulations implemented by Ulakbim TR Index since 2020, studies without ethics committee approval are not considered for publication in our journal.

Studies Requiring Ethics Committee Approval
Studies requiring ethics committee approval in our journal include the following:
• All research conducted using qualitative or quantitative approaches that involve collecting data from participants through methods such as surveys, interviews, focus group studies, observation, and interview techniques.
• Retrospective studies within the framework of the Personal Data Protection Law.
For such studies to be considered for evaluation, the relevant ethics committee approvals must have been obtained and clearly stated in the article text.

Relations with the Journal Owner and Publisher
The relationship between the editor and the publisher is based on the principle of editorial independence. In accordance with the written contract between the editor and the publisher, all editorial decisions are independent of the publisher and the owner of the journal.

Protection of Personal Information
All personal data sent to our journal are protected in accordance with legal regulations and ethical rules.

Protection of Intellectual Property Rights
Our journal is obliged to protect the intellectual property rights of all published articles and to defend the rights of the journal and the author(s) in possible violations.

Conflicts of interest
Our journal guarantees the independent and impartial completion of the publication process, taking into account the conflicts of interest between the author(s), reviewers and other editors. Our journal takes into account the COPE Principles (1-2) regarding potential conflicts of interest.

Use of Artificial Intelligence
The use of artificial intelligence-based tools in stages that do not directly affect the original content of the work, such as literature review and language control, is acceptable in articles submitted to our journal. However, such use must be carried out in accordance with ethical rules. The use of artificial intelligence for the creation of false data, content manipulation, or other unethical purposes is strictly prohibited.
In articles that utilize artificial intelligence-supported processes, this must be clearly stated in the article submission. All responsibility for the use of artificial intelligence lies with the authors.

Change of Author
Only the article is processed before acceptance. Authors are required to carefully review the list and order of authors before submitting their manuscript and provide the final author list at the time of original submission. Our journal adheres to the COPE Principles (1-2-3-4-5) regarding relevant changes.

PUBLICATION POLICIES
• 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. In thematic issues, doctoral students' work is also considered for evaluation with the approval of the editorial board.
• 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 double 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 submitted manuscripts must not have been previously published or submitted to more than one journal simultaneously.
• In studies with more than one author, the contribution rate and conflict of interest statements of the authors should be submitted to our journal at the article submission stage.

A) Article Evaluation Process

1. The Spelling and Plagiarism Check
In the Spelling and Plagiarism check, it is checked whether the manuscript complies with the journal's spelling rules. Plagiarism is scanned through the İntihal.net program, and manuscripts with a similarity report below 20% are passed to the pre-evaluation stage.

2. The Pre-evaluation
The Editorial Board evaluates submitted manuscripts prior to double blind peer-review and determines whether they are suitable for the submission. The Editorial Board evaluates the reviewers suggestion for the manuscript.
The pre-evaluation process is approximately 15 days. This period can be extended if necessary.

3. The Peer-Review
The manuscript is sent to two different referees by the section editors within the scope of double blind refereeing.
The reviewing process is approximately 30 days. This period can be extended if necessary.
If two of the reviewers report "unpublishable", the article is rejected by the Editorial Board.
If two of the reviewers report "publishable", the article is moved to the editing process after the approval of the Editorial Board.
If one of the reviewers reports "can be published" and the other reports "unpublished", the article is sent to a third reviewer. If the third reviewer’s evaluation is negative, the article is rejected; If it is positive, it is moved to the editing process after the evaluation and approval of the Editorial Board.
If the reviewers have revision suggestions, the reviewers form and the evaluation reports, if any, are sent to the author via the system and the author is asked to fulfill them.
If the reviewers report that the article will be published after the revision suggestions are fulfilled, the article is sent to the author for final checks and corrections.
The Editorial Board has the authority to reject an article that does not consider the Reviewers reports or the recommendations of the Editorial Board and does not provide any justification.

4. The Redaction Process
The article, which is corrected after the reviewer reports, is subjected to the editing process by the Editorial Board.
The completed manuscripts are sent to the authors for finalization.

5. The Editing and The Proof-Reading Process
In the editing process,
• the proof-reading is done,
• the typesetting of the articles is done,
• Metadata, submission date and acceptance date
• Author institution, e-mail information, ORCID numbers are edited and prepared for publication.
The Editorial Board is authorized for article ordering.

NOTE: The final decision regarding the acceptance or rejection of all manuscripts submitted to our journal is taken by the Editorial Board.

Referee Guidelines
Please follow the steps listed below in order to review an article sent through the system:
1. Log into the “Manuscript Handling System” by entering your username and password.
2. Click “Reviewer” on the upper menu.
3. Click “Articles” (“Submissions”) on the reviewer page.
4. You will now see the title and status of the article you have been requested to review. Click the magnifier icon found under “Show” on the left-hand side.
5. On the new page that appears, you will find information concerning the article and its English and Turkish abstracts. At the bottom, there is a question as to whether or not you accept to review the article. Click “I would like to review the article” in the green-shaded area to accept.
6. Once you accept to make a review, you can download the Article file. You can also review the article by using the evaluation form that will appear on the same page.
7. While filling in the form, if you click “Save” without completing your evaluation, you can return to the form later to complete the remaining sections.
8. Once you fill in the whole form and your evaluation is complete, click “Save and Finish”.

B) Copyright and Open Access Policy
The authors own the copyright of their works published in our journal and their works are licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0. Articles published in our journal are published as open access under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license.

License Scope
1) Share: You can copy and redistribute the work in any media or format.
2) Adapt: Mix, transfer and build on existing work
Under the following conditions:
3) Attribution: You must give proper credit, provide a link to the license, and provide information if changes have been made. You may fulfill them appropriately, but this does not imply that the licensor approves of you and the way you use them.
4) NonCommercial: You may not use this material for commercial purposes.
There are no additional restrictions: You may not impose legal conditions or technological measures that would legally restrict the use of the permissions provided by the License.

C) Archive Policy
All works published in our journal are digitally archived in LOCKSS. Our journal also allows authors to share their articles on their own web pages, web pages of their institutions and other storage areas. The full text of all articles published in our journal can be accessed free of charge at https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/felsefedunyasi/archive.

D) Special Issue Publication
With the decision of the Editorial Board, a special issue may be published once a year. For articles to be published in the special issue, the publication and evaluation principles are applied in the same way as they are applied in the planned issues.

E) Fee Policy
Article submission, evaluation and publication processes in our journal are completely free of charge. No fee is charged for articles submitted or accepted for publication. In accordance with our publication policy, sponsorship and advertising are not accepted and all expenses of our journal are covered by the publisher.