Authors have the full responsibility for their publications in GRID-Architecture Planning and Design Journal. Boards of the Journal claims no responsibility for the opinions, thoughts and images of submitted and published texts.

It is the authors’ responsibility to ensure that the content of their articles fully comply with “The Directive for Scientific Research and Publication Ethics for Higher Education Institutions” enacted by The Council of Higher Education of Turkey and with the ethical standards for authors published by Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and In addition to all the provisions of the directive mentioned above, authors are reminded that:

• Not including the names and affiliations of persons who have actively participated in the research among the authors of the article,

• Not mentioning the names of persons and institutions who have financially contributed in the research within the article constitutes grievous ethical violation.

In addition

• The legal and ethical responsibility of the primary negligent author is not relieved by the written consent of the aggrieved parties, authors and institutions,

Therefore, in case of articles with fully overlapping content with the authors’ graduate theses, authors are obliged to include the names and affiliations of their thesis supervisors/advisors among the contributing authors.

Any legal damages resulting from the violation of “The Directive for Scientific Research and Publication Ethics for Higher Education Institutions” fully and solely belong to the authors.