Ethical Principles and Publication Policy
Iğdır University Journal of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences (Iğdır İİBF Dergisi) is a peer-reviewed, open-access, and periodical academic journal that is based on the principles of academic integrity, impartiality, transparency, accountability, and publication ethics in the scientific publishing process. The Journal aims to support qualified academic production in the field of economics and administrative sciences and to present original, scholarly, and ethically sound studies to the academic community.
The Journal’s ethical principles and publication policy aim to clearly define the responsibilities of authors, reviewers, editors, the editorial board, and the publisher. Preventing practices contrary to scientific publication ethics, ensuring that evaluation processes are conducted impartially, and protecting the academic quality of published studies are accepted as fundamental principles.
The Journal takes into account national and international standards of scholarly publishing in its publication processes. In this regard, practices concerning publication ethics, the peer review process, author responsibilities, editorial decisions, conflicts of interest, plagiarism, and unethical conduct are carried out in accordance with current principles of academic publishing.
The Journal aims to act in accordance with internationally accepted ethical principles in publication ethics and editorial processes. Accordingly, academic integrity, impartiality, transparency, accountability, author responsibility, review ethics, and the avoidance of plagiarism constitute the main elements of the Journal’s publication policy.
General Publication Policy
Iğdır İİBF Dergisi accepts original research articles and review articles written in Turkish or English. Provided that they are compatible with the Journal’s publication scope, book reviews, translated articles, and academic review essays may also be considered for evaluation if deemed appropriate by the editorial board.
Manuscripts submitted to the Journal must not have been previously published elsewhere and must not be under review by another journal simultaneously. Studies previously presented at scientific meetings and of which only the abstracts have been published may be submitted to the Journal, provided that this situation is clearly stated and that the study has been developed into article format.
The Journal publishes accepted studies online in accordance with the continuous publication model. Published articles are made freely accessible electronically.
The scientific, ethical, legal, and academic responsibility for the articles published in the Journal rests entirely with their authors. The opinions, evaluations, interpretations, data, findings, and conclusions presented in the articles are the responsibility of the authors; they do not necessarily reflect the institutional views of the Journal, editors, editorial board, reviewers, or publisher.
Peer Review Process
Manuscripts submitted to the Journal first undergo an editorial preliminary review. At this stage, the manuscript is evaluated in terms of its compliance with the Journal’s aim and scope, author guidelines, ethical principles, and academic publication standards. Manuscripts found suitable after the preliminary review are sent to the peer review process.
The evaluation process in Iğdır İİBF Dergisi is carried out in accordance with the principle of double-blind peer review. In this process, the identities of authors and reviewers are kept mutually confidential. Reviewer reports constitute one of the main bases of the editorial decision-making process. The final publication decision is made by taking into account reviewer reports, editorial evaluation, and the Journal’s publication policy.
Reviewers are expected to evaluate the manuscripts assigned to them in accordance with scientific criteria and in an impartial, constructive, and well-justified manner. Reviewers should not accept the evaluation of manuscripts for which they believe there is a conflict of interest and should inform the editors of such a situation.
Publication Ethics
Manuscripts submitted to the Journal must be free from violations of scientific publication ethics such as plagiarism, fabrication, falsification, duplicate publication, salami slicing, unethical authorship, ghost authorship, and failure to cite sources. If such violations are detected, the manuscript is removed from the evaluation process or rejected. When deemed necessary, relevant institutions may be informed.
Authors must upload an up-to-date plagiarism/similarity report for their study during manuscript submission. The similarity rate, excluding the reference list, must not exceed the limit determined by the Journal. Submissions without a similarity report or with a similarity rate that does not comply with the Journal’s rules may be returned to the authors at the preliminary review stage.
When deemed necessary, the editorial board may request research data files, ethics committee documents, permission documents, or additional explanations from the authors. Authors are responsible for retaining the data related to their published studies for a reasonable period and sharing them with the editorial board when necessary.
Responsibilities of Authors
Authors are obliged to declare that the manuscript they submit to the Journal is original, has not been previously published, and is not under review by another journal.
Authors must cite all sources used in their studies in accordance with academic citation rules. Page numbers must be provided for direct quotations. Quotations, data uses, or transfers of ideas without proper citation are considered ethical violations.
Individuals who have not made a meaningful academic contribution to the study must not be listed as authors. In multi-author studies, author contribution rates must be clearly stated. The order of authors must be determined with the knowledge and approval of all authors.
Authors must clearly declare any conflicts of interest, funding sources, project support, acknowledgements, and ethics committee information, if any. If authors detect an error or deficiency in their work, they must contact the editors and cooperate in correction or retraction processes.
Authors are responsible for all texts, data, analyses, citations, references, visuals, tables, findings, and conclusions included in their manuscripts. The scientific quality, ethical compliance, and academic reliability of the study submitted to the Journal are the responsibility of the authors.
AI-Generated Texts and Author Responsibility
In manuscripts submitted to Iğdır İİBF Dergisi, texts generated by artificial intelligence cannot replace the author’s scientific contribution. Artificial intelligence tools cannot be listed as authors; authorship belongs only to real persons who make scientific and intellectual contributions to the design, conduct, analysis, interpretation, and writing of the study.
The accuracy, originality, source appropriateness, citation reliability, ethical quality, and academic responsibility of texts generated or revised by artificial intelligence rest entirely with the author(s). Fabricated references, unverified information, incorrect citations, data manipulation, false statements, or non-original content produced through artificial intelligence tools are considered violations of scientific publication ethics.
Authors must not include any content generated by artificial intelligence tools in their manuscripts without subjecting it to scientific review, verifying its accuracy, and confirming its sources. The theoretical framework, method, analysis, findings, discussion, and conclusions of the manuscript must remain under the academic responsibility of the author(s).
Presenting AI-generated texts as academic work without authorial supervision, making the original contribution of the study unclear, or eliminating the traceability of scientific responsibility is not acceptable. The editorial board may request an explanation from authors regarding the use of artificial intelligence when deemed necessary.
Studies Requiring Ethics Committee Approval
Ethics committee approval must be obtained for qualitative or quantitative studies that require data collection from human participants through surveys, interviews, focus group interviews, observations, experiments, scale applications, and similar methods. Ethics committee information must be clearly stated for studies involving human and animal subjects, clinical research, studies involving the use of personal data, and all research requiring ethics committee approval under the relevant legislation.
For studies requiring ethics committee approval, the name of the committee, decision date, and decision number must be included in the manuscript. The ethics committee approval document must be uploaded to the system during submission. For studies that do not require ethics committee approval, this situation must be clearly stated in the relevant section of the manuscript.
Authors are obliged to comply with participant rights, the principle of voluntary participation, informed consent, protection of personal data, and confidentiality principles during the research process. If scales, surveys, photographs, visuals, datasets, or similar materials belonging to others are used, the necessary permissions must be obtained and this must be stated in the manuscript.
Responsibilities of Reviewers
Reviewers should accept only those manuscripts that fall within their area of expertise. During the evaluation process, they must act in accordance with the principles of impartiality, confidentiality, and scientific rigor.
Reviewers must evaluate manuscripts on the basis of scientific criteria, not personal opinions. Reviewer reports must be clear, well-justified, constructive, and written in an academic style. Personal, offensive, derogatory, or non-scientific statements must be avoided.
Reviewers must keep the information they obtain during the evaluation process confidential and must not use such information for personal or academic benefit. In cases of conflict of interest, personal connection, competition, or any circumstance that may prevent an impartial evaluation, reviewers must decline the review invitation or inform the editor.
Responsibilities of Editors
Editors are responsible for conducting the evaluation process of manuscripts submitted to the Journal in an impartial, transparent, consistent, and scientifically appropriate manner. Editorial decisions must be made independently of the author’s identity, institution, title, gender, nationality, views, or similar personal characteristics, and must be based solely on the academic quality, originality, method, ethical compliance, and relevance of the manuscript to the Journal’s publication scope.
Editors must consider the suitability of reviewers’ fields of expertise when assigning reviewers and must seek to prevent situations that may give rise to conflicts of interest. They must ensure that the peer review process is conducted in accordance with the principle of double-blind peer review.
Editors must act in accordance with the principles of openness, courtesy, and academic responsibility in their relations with authors, reviewers, and readers. They must carefully examine complaints, appeals, correction requests, or retraction requests concerning publication ethics and initiate the relevant processes when necessary.
Responsibilities of the Publisher
Iğdır İİBF Dergisi is published under the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences of Iğdır University. The publisher observes the academic independence of the Journal and the impartiality of editorial decision-making processes.
The publisher supports the electronic accessibility, archiving, and sustainability of the Journal. The publisher accepts that academic decisions regarding the acceptance or rejection of manuscripts are made in accordance with editorial processes and peer review evaluations.
Plagiarism and Unethical Conduct
All manuscripts submitted to the Journal are checked for plagiarism/similarity. Plagiarism, use of fabricated data, falsification of data, failure to cite sources, publishing the same study in more than one venue, artificially dividing a study for publication, unethical authorship, ghost authorship, concealment of conflicts of interest, and presenting AI-generated content as academic work without proper authorial supervision are considered unethical conduct.
When there is a suspicion of unethical conduct, the editorial board conducts the necessary review. Depending on the nature of the violation, the manuscript may be rejected; if it has already been published, a correction or retraction process may be initiated. When necessary, the author’s affiliated institution may be informed.
Correction and Retraction Policy
If an error, deficiency, or ethical problem is detected in a published study, authors must contact the editorial board. Depending on the nature of the error, the editorial board may initiate a correction, statement, or retraction process.
Minor typographical or formatting errors that do not affect the scientific content may be corrected. If serious errors or ethical violations that undermine the scientific reliability of the study are detected, the retraction process may be initiated.
Conflict of Interest and Funding Statement
Authors must clearly declare any financial, institutional, personal, or academic conflicts of interest that may affect their work. If there is no conflict of interest, this must also be stated in the manuscript.
If the study has been supported by any institution, organization, project, or fund, the funding information must be clearly stated. Studies without financial support must also include a statement to that effect.
Copyright and Citation
For manuscripts submitted to the Journal, authors must complete the copyright form and upload it to the system during submission. Articles published in the Journal may not be quoted, in whole or in part, without proper citation.
Authors are responsible for the content, data used, citations, ethical declarations, opinions, evaluations, and conclusions included in the studies published in the Journal. The Journal, editors, editorial board, reviewers, or publisher cannot be held responsible for the opinions and evaluations expressed in published manuscripts.
Confidentiality Principle
Manuscripts submitted to the Journal, reviewer reports, author information, and editorial correspondence are handled within the framework of confidentiality. Information obtained during the peer review process is not shared with third parties and is not used for purposes other than evaluation.
Final Provision
Iğdır İİBF Dergisi aims to conduct scientific publishing processes in accordance with ethical principles, academic standards, and a continuous improvement approach. The Journal continues to develop its publication policies and ethical principles in line with current standards of scholarly publishing.