Ethics Policy

Articles concerning clinical-empirical research on humans and animals require the approval of an ethics committee. The title of the article should be given a footnote which includes the information regarding the institution of the ethics committee and the date of approval.

• Researchers, whose research include human participants, should receive the informed consent of the participants with regard to the applications to be made during the research process. An explanation about the informed consent of the participants should be added to the methods section of the article.
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• Received articles are reviewed taking account of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines in cases of data diddling, reference manipulation and plagiarism.
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• Articles which result in a plagiarism percentage over %15 after a Turnitin check will be disqualified during the pre-review process.
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Principles of Publication

• Humanitas - International Journal of Social Sciences is a double-blind peer-reviewed international journal, published twice a year in Spring and Autumn by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University. The aim of the journal is to publish research papers in the fields of social and human sciences, which would evaluate contemporary and historical issues and matters of concern with a scientific approach.
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• Humanitas is indexed in MLA, EBSCO, CEOOL, ASOS, TEİ, COPERNICUS.
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• Original and scientific articles are accepted as representing the domains of Psychology, Sociology, Philosophy, History, Geography, Archeology, Linguistics, and Literature.
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• The articles that are submitted to Humanitas should be based on research, be original, follow ethical rules, and should not have been published or sent to be published before. The papers presented at scientific conferences are taken for evaluation to be published if they have not been published in other journals or conference books on condition that the information regarding the conference is given as a footnote. This ethic responsibility belongs to the writer.
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• The language of publication is Turkish, but articles in German, French, and English are also accepted.
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• The form of the article should be organized according to the publication principles and the complete version, including References, is sent via Dergipark system. Authors are required to use ORCID.
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• The articles submitted to be published via Dergipark are checked by the publication committee for their form and content before they are reviewed and eventually published. The texts that are confirmed to correspond to the publication principles are evaluated scientifically by at least two reviewers according to double-blind independent and unprejudiced peer-reviewing principles. The reviewers have the authority to declare the manuscript acceptable or not for publication, or suggest it be corrected, re-written, re-arranged, or proofread. However, the last decision belongs to the publication committee.
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• If the article is not properly organized according to the scientific publication principles, it is not taken into peer -review process and is rejected.
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• The writers, whose texts are published in our journal, are responsible for all the scientific, orthographical and legal aspects.
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• Articles in the journal are published with open access.
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• The writers of the articles published in the journal are not paid for royalty.