ETHICAL PRINCIPLES
International Journal of Public Finance – IJPF is committed to adhering to academic principles and ethical values in its publication policy. IJPF accepts ethical principles published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), and CoHE "Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Regulation".
The IJPF’s publication ethics principles and policies are designed to ensure that all stakeholders, including publishers, editorial boards, editors, referees, authors, and readers, comply with the expected standards of ethical conduct. These principles and policies serve the development and sharing of knowledge produced by the scientific method and impartially.
The following explanations were prepared to be international standards under open access guidelines and policies published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), and CoHE “Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Regulation”. All stakeholders must comply with the following principles.
Ethical Responsibilities of Publisher;
• International Public Finance Conference/Turkey, the publisher of IJPF, is a scientific platform held by the Department of Public Finance, which is determined by the Conference General Board, once a year since 1985. IJPF has aimed to examine new advances in the field of public finance, to discuss national and international fiscal issues and develop solutions, to establish the basis for the cooperation and exchange of knowledge of public finance scholars at the international level, and to connect scientific and social ties by bringing together public finance scholars and bureaucrats.
• Publisher appoints IJPF’s editors, editorial board, and the members of the international advisory board for three years. The expired member may be reassigned.
• According to the principles of Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) and Creative Commons (CC BY), the publisher undertakes that the articles published in the IJPF are open access continuously and can be archived and protected.
• Publisher protects the copyrights of articles published by IJPF and supervises the violations of scientific publication ethics. The publisher takes necessary measures in case of violations such as plagiarism, abuse, conflict of interest, and so on.
Ethical Responsibilities of Editorial Board;
• The members of the Editorial Board accept the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)’s principles and policy of publication ethics and evaluate decisions related to them.
• Editorial Board makes recommendations to increase the national and international prestige of the IJPF.
• Editorial Board pays attention to the scientific quality of the IJPF and the originality of the published articles.
• Editorial Board recommends indexes that the IJPF can be searched to improve its academic quality.
• Editorial Board strives to meet the needs of authors and readers.
• Cooperating with the editors, Editorial Board takes decisions on the publication of the articles to which the referee process is completed.
• Editorial Board keeps all information (author, referee, content, data, etc.) confidential.
• Editorial Board informs the editors in case of a suspicion of publication ethics such as plagiarism, abuse, conflict of interest, copyright infringement.
• Editorial Board undertakes to publish corrections, explanations, withdrawals, and apologies when necessary.
Ethical Responsibilities of Editor;
• Editors are responsible for protecting the principles and policies of publication ethics.
• Editors evaluate the articles submitted to IJPF regardless of religion, language, race, gender, world view, and beliefs of the authors.
• Editors strive to act transparently in matters such as disclosure, correction, and apology to meet the information needs of referees, author(s), and readers in the publication process.
• Following the purpose and scope of the IJPF, editors pay attention to the originality of the articles to be published and to contribute to the literature, researchers, and readers.
• Editors implement the blind-reviewing and evaluation process policies adopted by the IJPF, keep the referees’ credentials confidential, and ensure that each article is evaluated impartially and timely.
• Taking into consideration the referees’ professions, the conflict/unity of interest between the reviewers and the author(s), editors support impartially and independently to review of the articles submitted to the IJPF.
• Editors seek to ensure that the referee pool is composed of all public finance scholars and is continuously updated.
• Editors prevent to evaluations that are not scientific and do not comply with academic norms.
• Communicating with all stakeholders involved in the process evaluation, editing, and publication, editors ensuring that the article is prepared for publication by the publication policy.
• Editors protect both research data and individual data of authors, referees, and readers in the articles.
• If the articles require ethics committee approval and other authorizations, editors ask the author(s) these documentations. If they are missing, they reject the article.
• Editors investigate whether the articles have not been published and do not include plagiarism via the iThenticate. Besides, they ensure that the ethical violations of other stakeholders are supervised, and the necessary arrangements are made protecting the rights of the authors.
• In addition to be responsible for managing the referee process, editors consult to a third referee's assessment if two referees give different opinions for the article evaluated.
• If editors have a conflict of interest in the articles they editing, they will withdraw from the editorial position.
• Editors inform the author(s) on the last decision of the evaluation process.
• The editor can review ethics violations at any time.
Ethical Responsibilities of Referees;
• The principle of blind-reviewing is implemented in the referee process of the articles. Within this scope, the names or institutions of the authors are not notified to the referees and the identity of the referees is not disclosed to the authors.
• When the refereeing proposal is submitted, she responds within a reasonable time.
• Referees cannot communicate directly with authors. Also, article evaluation forms and notes on the text and correction requests are forwarded to the author(s) by the editors.
• Referees agree to review only articles related to their professions.
• Referees act impartially during the evaluation process and complete the process by observing the confidentiality principles.
• When referees find out that there is a conflict of interest, they refuse to evaluate the article and they inform the editors.
• Referees make constructive criticisms in the evaluation of the articles, avoiding statements not complying with academic norms, and personal comments involving insults and hostility.
• The referees are responsible for evaluating the articles they accept for review in due time.
• The referees do not insist on the reference to themselves or their colleagues. The sources proposed to the author(s) should be academically justified.
• The referees should respond to the process of revision and reassessment.
Ethical Responsibilities of Author(s);
• Author(s) submit the articles following the IJPF’s rules.
• Author(s) submits original articles to IJPF. The articles previously published or sent to more than one journal at the same time are not submitted.
• Author(s) prepare their articles with due regard to ethics violations such as plagiarism, falsification, distortion, re-publication, slicing, or unfair authorship prescribed by “Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Regulation” published by CoHE.
• Author(s) fulfill suggestions for corrections by referees and editors or provide reasoned explanations if they do not agree with the comments.
• When ethics committee approval, other authorizations, or information and data related to the articles are necessitated, author(s) submit to editors these documentations.
• When they notice an error related to the published article or prior to publishing electronically, the author(s) applies to the editor to correct or withdraw them.
• Author(s) must sign the Copyright Transfer Form and upload it to the system. They are obliged to comply with this agreement.
NOTE: All stakeholders are expected to comply with IJPF publication ethics and policies. Please contact us, if you encounter an inappropriate situation in the articles published in our journal, or you notice a crucial error: infoijpf@gmail.com
PUBLICATION POLICY
1. All manuscripts proposed to the International Journal of Public Finance (IJPF) should not be previously published or submitted for publication elsewhere. The studies or their summaries which were presented in a conference can be accepted if it is stated in the manuscript before. Besides that, if the study is supported by an institution or produced from a thesis, this must be footnoted on the title. If the studies were wanted to be revoked for any reason, it is needed to apply to the admin with a letter. The publication committee considers that the authors will keep the rules as editorial principles and author guidelines.
2. There are no submission or processing charges, and no surcharges based on the length of an article, figures or supplementary data. Editorial items (Editorials, Corrections, Additions, Retractions, Comments, etc.) are published free of charge. Copyright of the manuscripts belongs to IJPF. No copyright payment.
3. The manuscripts sent to IJPF are controlled with the “iThenticate” screening program in terms of having plagiarism. If the similarity rate in the "iThenticate" screening program is less than 20%, the manuscript is included in the evaluation process. The other manuscripts are returned to the author(s) for the necessary corrections.
4. Manuscripts are sent via the "Manuscript Submission System" from the following link “https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/ijpf”. All correspondence related to the publishing process for your manuscripts is given through Online Manuscript Submission System. Articles sent via e-mail or post, which are independent of the system, will not be accepted.
5. Publication Committee entitled to reject the manuscripts if not conformable with the conditions concerning the orthography and grammar or return back to the authors for correction or reform them. All manuscripts submitted to IJPF are sent to at least two referees after the initial review of the editorial board with respect to formatting and content. After having positive feedbacks from both of the referees, the manuscripts are published. In case of having one positive and one negative feedback from the different referees, the manuscript is sent to a third referee. The reviewers are not apprised of the authors’ names or institutions in the submitted manuscript, and authors are not told the identity of the referees.
6. Manuscripts are welcomed both in English and Turkish. Turkish manuscript is required an English title and abstract.
7. The author’s name, surname, title, ORCID, institution, and e-mail address must be added.
8. IJPF is an open-access academic journal. Users have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link the full text of published articles. This corresponds to the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition.
The author retains the copyright of their work with a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY), so all articles are made freely available to the widest audience possible.
9. The responsibility of the idea that exists in the published articles belongs to the authors.
PEER REVIEW PROCESS
The aim of the peer-review process of IJPF is to ensure the publication of objective and original scientific studies in the scope of public finance. All published articles in the IJPF are peer-reviewed and all article submitted follows the procedure outlined below:
Initial Manuscript Evaluation: All articles submitted to the journal are firstly evaluated by the Editor and Editorial Board. Articles that fall outside the aims and scope of the journal or is not enough for the requirement of a scientific study are rejected or maybe wanted some revisions at this initial process. At this early stage, any article cannot be accepted for publication by the editor without a referee report.
The Policy of Peer Review: The IJPF uses the double-blinded reviewing, in which the names of referees and authors are kept at every stage of the process.
Referee Evaluation: After the initial evaluation, the articles are sent two referees which are determined editor and/or editorial board. If necessary, the number of referees can be increased by the editor or Editorial Board. The referees are chosen from the referee board according to their expertise.
Referees are asked to evaluate the manuscript’s originality, methodology, contribution to the literature, presentation of results and support for the conclusions, and appropriate referencing of previous relevant studies. Referees might accept the manuscript, reject the manuscript or might require a revision for style and/or content. For the publication of articles, two positive reports are required. In case one referee report is negative while the other is positive, the article is forwarded to a third referee for additional evaluation.
When a revision is required by the referee or referees, the author(s) is to consider the criticism and suggestions offered by the referees, and they should be sent back to the editor the revised version of the manuscript in 1 mount. If the revised manuscript is not sent, the manuscript is removed from the referee evaluation process. Referees may request more than one revision of a manuscript. Manuscripts that are not accepted for publication are not re-sent to their authors.
Final Evaluation: After favorable opinions of referees, the Editorial Board is made the final evaluation. The articles accepted for publication by Editorial Board are placed in an issue sequence.
Time of Peer Review Process: The peer-review process that has long time is an important problem. Naturally, the author(s) wish to take an answer to their submissions. IJPF aims to complete all peer-review processes within 8-10 weeks after submission (1 week for initial evaluation, 6-8 weeks for referee evaluation, and 1 week for final evaluation).
The author(s) that submit an article to the IJPF consider accepting of these peer review conditions and procedures.
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