Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement
International e-Journal of Educational Studies (IEJES) is a tri-quarterly academic journal published on behalf IEJES by the Tamer KUTLUCA, at Dicle University located in Diyarbakır, Türkiye. At IEJES, we attach high importance to the integrity of our academic content, publication ethics and process as well as maintaining authors’ research integrity. We also do our best to follow the guidelines and resources provided by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) to reach and maintain international publication standards.
This section outlines our basic principles that we apply to our journal, which we believe will be useful for researchers and authors who wish to publish their articles in our journal.

Editorial Board and Editorial Process
IEJES works with experts from a wide range of areas in the context of educational sciences. These experts compose the body of our management board, advisory board and editorial board. These boards are also responsible for recommending, contacting, assigning reviewers, or approving the final version of the manuscripts before they are published. Manuscripts that are submitted for evaluation go under rigorous initial screening for compliance with our publication ethics and malpractice statement under the supervision of the Chief Editor. A list of our other editorial board members can be found here.
IEJES never discriminates against authors, editors or peer reviewers based on personal characteristics or identity. On the contrary, embeds diversity and promotes equity at every stage of evaluation and publication. The Management Board takes good publication practices seriously and follows the guidelines provided by Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) on publication ethics such as peer reviews, ethical guidelines for peer reviewing, and editing peer reviews. Basically, these good practices may include editorial board participation, edition of peer reviews, managing the relationship between the reviewers, authors and/or editorial board members, sharing of information among editors-in-chief regarding possible misconduct, authorship disputes, ethical editing, and retraction.

Authors and Authors Responsibilities
The authors who submit their manuscripts to “International e-Journal of Educational Studies” are expected to comply with the following ethical responsibilities:
• Author(s) must submit original studies to the journal. If they utilize or use other studies, they must make the in-text and end-text references accurately and completely.
• People who have not contributed to the study at the intellectual level should not be indicated as author.
• If the manuscripts submitted to be published are subject of conflicting interests or relations, these must be explained.
• During the review process of their manuscripts, author(s) may be asked to supply raw data. In such a case, author(s) should be ready to submit such data and information to the editorial and scientific boards.
• Author(s) should document that they have the participants' consent and the necessary permissions related with the sharing and research/analysis of the data that are used.
• Author(s) bears the responsibility to inform the editor of the journal or publisher if they happen to notice a mistake in their study which is in early release or publication process and to cooperate with the editors during the correction or withdrawal process.
• Authors cannot submit their studies to multiple journals simultaneously. Each submission can be made only after the previous one is completed. A study published in another journal cannot be submitted to “International e-Journal of Educational Studies”.
• Author responsibilities given in a study (e.g.: adding an author, reordering of author names) whose review process has begun cannot be changed. Authors’ names and surnames, affiliations, e-mail addresses, ORCIDs must be clearly stated as footnotes if their manuscript is accepted and approved for publication.

Peer Review Process
IEJES adopts a double-blind peer review system in which the reviewers do not know each other's name and any other detail. Similarly, the reviewers and authors do not know each other's name or any other detail. Peer review process is completed in 7 steps detailed below.
1. Authors upload their manuscript using the MS Word template with their plagiarism report through DergiPark system.
2. The assigned editor reviews the manuscript and the plagiarism report, and s/he does a second plagiarism analysis with Turnitin or IThenticate software.
3. If the similarity rate is within the range stated by the journal (20% max.), the manuscript is examined by the editorial board in terms of its suitability for the journal's scope. If the manuscript is suitable for the journal’s scope, then the manuscript is examined in terms of writing rules of the journal. If the manuscript does not comply with the writing rules, it is sent back to the authors for correction. After the authors make the relevant corrections, they upload the manuscript to the system. After the positive results of these stages, the blind review starts.
4. Three different reviewers are assigned through the system depending on the subject of their study fields. The reviewers evaluate the research in 15 days. This period can be extended for another 15 days, if necessary. New reviewers are assigned to replace the referees who do not complete their evaluation in 30 days.
5. In the review process, the reviewer evaluation form containing the reviewer’s feedback and the manuscript file with the feedback of the reviewer are sent back to the authors. The author is given 15 days for revision. The revised manuscript form that the authors prepare is forwarded to the reviewers for second evaluation, if required. This process continues until the reviewers make their final decision.
6. The final decisions of the reviewers are evaluated by the editorial board. If the manuscript is accepted, it is sent to the page-setting and then assigned to the relevant issue. At the time of publication of the relevant issue, the accepted manuscript is published online on DergiPark system. If the research is rejected, it is sent back to the author/s with the reasons of rejection.
7. Manuscripts can only be published with the decision of editorial board and at least two referees reporting positive opinions.

IEJES provides its reviewers with an appropriate manuscript management system (DergiPark) that provides help and support to facilitate the review process.
Reviewers are responsible for maintaining an objective evaluation process and they should not have any conflict of interest. Additionally, they are expected to improve the quality of the manuscripts by recommending relevant published work (maybe not yet cited). It is also the responsibility of the editor of the manuscript and the reviewers to treat the assigned manuscript confidentially before publication. Reviewers can also complain about any research issue that they identify including plagiarism, duplicate or concurrent publication, research errors, research standard violations, and undisclosed conflicts of interest directly to the Chief Editor. If this is required, the reviewer(s) should include the details of their complaint and provide evidence to solve the dispute in a short time and effectively.

Open Access Policy
IEJES is a fully open-access journal and it provides free and unlimited access to the articles that it publishes without any form of restriction, subscription, or requirement. This benefit results in higher visibility, readership and citation. An open-access policy also helps disseminate knowledge as widely as possible. Based on its open-access policy, the journal allows readers to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of its articles and allow readers to use them for any other lawful purpose. Thus, IEJES lets researchers remix, adapt, and build upon the articles published on its website non-commercially, as long as they credit IEJES and license their new work under identical terms. All the articles published on the IEJES website are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC-BY). Because of its open-access policy, IEJES does not allow others to commercially share the articles that it publishes.

Copyright and Access
Authors retain the copyright of their papers without restrictions, but they are responsible for the content of their article published in the journal. Authors also grant IEJES non-exclusive first publishing rights to publish their articles.
Authors confirm that their articles' content does not bind the owner, editor, co-editors, or advisory board members of IEJES.
Authors declare that their articles are original and have not been published previously or are not under consideration of publication elsewhere.

Archiving
IEJES uses DergiPark hosting services and editorial workflow management system provided by TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM. DergiPark system saves each document and manuscript uploaded to the system electronically. Additionally, the editors who are assigned to manage the workflow of manuscripts are individually responsible for saving and backups, which is supervised by the Chief Editor. In the event that IEJES starts to use a different hosting service and an editorial workflow management system, all the backups will be transferred to that system and access to the new website will be preserved.

Publishing Schedule
IEJES is a tri-quarterly electronic academic journal published in April, July, and October.