Publication Policy
The publication policy, article review and publication process of the Journal of Hemp and Biotechnology Research are given below.
- The Journal of Hemp and Biotechnology Research is a scientific publication of Yozgat Bozok University and is an international, refereed, open access periodical published electronically twice a year.
- Articles are reviewed by at least two referees.
- The refereeing process is carried out in accordance with the double-blind refereeing system.
- Articles are published according to their acceptance dates.
- The journal applies the open access system. Articles are accessed free of charge.
- No fee is charged for articles sent to the journal at any stage.
Ethical Principles
- Ethics committee approval must be added for articles that require ethics committee approval.
- Double-blind peer review is applied in which the reviewer(s) cannot see the author(s) and the author(s) cannot see the reviewers.
- Articles submitted to the journal should not have been published or accepted for publication in another journal or should not be under review for publication.
- The Copyright Form, in which the author(s) confirm their responsibilities regarding the work, must be originally signed by all authors and uploaded to the system during the first submission.
- The legal responsibility for the articles published in the journal belongs entirely to the author(s).
- The results of the research should be given openly and honestly, without any false, fabricated or inappropriate data manipulation.
- Authors should indicate the person or institution (sponsor) supporting the research.
- Authors should refer to all references used in the study and all responsibility in this regard belongs to the author(s).
- It should be noted that all authors have equal responsibility for ethical principles.
- It should be noted that all authors have equal responsibility for ethical principles.
- Plagiarism rate checks should be performed by the authors for all articles and this report should be submitted to the journal at the first submission step. The manuscript showing 10% or more similarity as a result of the report will not be sent to referees and will be rejected.
- Journal of Hemp and Biotechnology Research abides by the principles described by the Editorial Ethics Committee (COPE)'s Code of Conduct and Journal Editors' Best Practice Guidelines (https://publicationethics.org/resources/code-conduct) and not only uses transparency principles but also publishes articles that comply with the guidelines set by best scientific practice, COPE.

Editor's Responsibilities
-In Journal of Hemp and Biotechnology Research, the Editor, Associate Editors and Section Editors are expected to comply with the following responsibilities.
-Editors/Editors actively evaluate ways to improve the journal processes by taking the opinions of authors, readers, and editorial board members.
-Editors/Editors protect the information of article applicants within the scope of Personal Data Protection Law and do not share it with third parties.
-Editors/Editors ensure the publication of articles that have scientific originality and contribute scientifically to readers and researchers.
- Editors/Editors select the section editors and readers to be assigned to the submitted articles by taking into account their areas of expertise and take care to ensure that the evaluations to be made are impartial.
-Editors/Editors ensure the protection of intellectual property rights in the articles to be published.
Referee’s Responsibilities
Referees who will evaluate the articles submitted to Journal of Hemp and Biotechnology Research are expected to comply with the following responsibilities.
- Referee/Referees should accept article evaluation according to their own fields of expertise.
- Referee/Referees should adopt the principles of confidentiality and impartiality while evaluating articles.
- Referee/Referees should evaluate the article within the framework of academic and ethical rules, free from personal comments containing insulting and insulting personal comments.
- Referee/Referees should complete the evaluations within the time allocated to them.
Author's Responsibilities
Authors/authors who submit a study to Journal of Hemp and Biotechnology Research are expected to comply with the following responsibilities.
- The work that the author/authors request to be published must be original. All sources used in the study must be cited completely and in accordance with the spelling rules of our journal.
- If the author/authors have data obtained by methods such as experiment, questionnaire, interview, observation in their studies, they are obliged to submit to our journal the documents indicating that the necessary permissions have been obtained from the participants involved in obtaining these data and the Ethics Committee Approval obtained from the relevant institutional authorities.
- Author(s) should take care not to add people who do not make an academically meaningful contribution to the article as co-authors.
- Author(s) should indicate the institutions and sources supporting the study in the article.
- Author(s) are obliged to make the corrections suggested by the referees and editors. If these proposed corrections are refused without reasonable reasons, they are deemed to have accepted that the article will not be published.