ETHICAL PRINCIPLES
General Principles
The International Journal of Public Finance – IJPF is committed to adhering to its publication policy's academic principles and ethical values. 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".
In the process of uploading, evaluating and publishing the manuscripts submitted to the IJPF system, the editors, the editorial board, the advisory board, and other officials must comply with the principles of confidentiality, transparency and impartiality.
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 to develop and share knowledge produced by the scientific method 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 the Conference General Board has determined once a year since 1985. IJPF has aimed to examine new advances in the field of public finance, discuss national and international fiscal issues and develop solutions, establish the basis for the cooperation and exchange of knowledge of public finance scholars at the international level, and connect scientific and social ties by bringing together public finance scholars and bureaucrats.
• Publisher appoints IJPF's editors, editorial board, and international advisory board members for three years. The expired member may be reassigned.
• The publisher protects the authors' copyrights of the articles published in IJPF and observes the violations of scientific publication ethics. The publisher takes necessary measures in case of plagiarism, abuse, conflict of interest, etc.
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 recommends increasing 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 decides to publish 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, or copyright infringement.
• Editorial Board publishes corrections, explanations, withdrawals, and apologies when necessary.
Ethical Responsibilities of the Editor;
• Editors are responsible for protecting the principles and policies of publication ethics.
• Editors evaluate the articles submitted to IJPF regardless of the authors' religion, language, race, gender, worldview, and beliefs.
• 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 published articles and contribute to the literature, researchers, and readers.
• Editors implement the double-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 and the conflict/unity of interest between the reviewers and the author(s), editors support impartially and independently reviewing the articles submitted to the IJPF.
• Editors seek to ensure that the referee pool comprises all public finance scholars and is continuously updated.
• Editors prevent evaluations that are not scientific and do not comply with academic norms.
• Communicating with all stakeholders involved in the process of 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) for this documentation. 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 that the necessary arrangements are made to protect the authors' rights.
• In addition to being responsible for managing the referee process, editors consult a third referee's assessment if two referees give different opinions for the article evaluated.
• If editors have conflicts of interest in their edited articles, they will withdraw from the editorial position.
• Editors inform the author(s) of the last decision of the evaluation process.
• The editor can review ethics violations at any time.
Ethical Responsibilities of Peer Reviewers;
• The principle of double-blind reviewing is implemented in the review process of the articles. Within this scope, the names or institutions of the authors are not notified to the reviewer, and the reviewer's identity is not disclosed to the authors.
• When the reviewing proposal is submitted, she responds within a reasonable time.
• Reviewers cannot communicate directly with authors. Also, the editors forward article evaluation forms, notes on the text, and correction requests to the author(s).
• Reviewers agree to review only articles related to their professions.
• Reviewers act impartially during the evaluation process and complete the process by observing the confidentiality principles.
• When reviewers find out a conflict of interest, refuse to evaluate the article and inform the editors.
• Reviewers make constructive criticisms in evaluating the articles, avoiding statements not complying with academic norms and personal comments involving insults and hostility.
• The reviewers evaluate the articles they accept for review in due time.
• The reviewers do not insist on referencing themselves or their colleagues. The sources proposed to the author(s) should be academically justified.
• The reviewers 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 presented.
• Author(s) prepare their articles regarding 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) fulfil suggestions for corrections by referees and editors or provide reasoned explanations if they disagree with the comments.
• When ethics committee approval, other authorizations, or information and data related to the articles are necessitated, author(s) submit these to editors documentations.
• When they notice an error related to the published article or before publishing electronically, the author(s) applies to the editor to correct or withdraw them.
• Author(s) must sign and upload the Copyright Transfer Form to the system. They are obliged to comply with this agreement.
NOTE: All stakeholders must comply with IJPF publication ethics and policies. Please contact us if you encounter an inappropriate situation in the articles published in our journal or 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 presented at a conference can be accepted if stated in the manuscript before. Besides, if the study is supported by an institution or produced from a thesis, this must be footnoted in the title. If the studies were wanted to be revoked for any reason, it is necessary to apply to the admin with a letter. The publication committee considers that the authors 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 the author(s). IJPF is responsible for protecting authors' copyrights—no copyright payment.
3. The manuscripts sent to IJPF are controlled with the "iThenticate" screening program regarding plagiarism. The manuscript is included in evaluating the similarity rate in the "iThenticate" screening program, which is less than 20%. 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. Independent of the system, articles sent via e-mail or post will not be accepted.
5. Publication Committee is entitled to reject the manuscripts if they are not conformable with the conditions concerning the orthography and grammar or return them to the authors for correction or reform. All manuscripts submitted to IJPF are sent to at least two referees after the initial review of the editorial board concerning formatting and content. After positive feedback from both referees, the manuscripts are published. In case of 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, abstract and extended summary.
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.
9. The author retains the copyright of their work with a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY-NC). The CC BY-NC 4.0 license permits the work to be shared, copied, reproduced in any size and format, and adapted, including re-editing, transforming, and building upon the original work, with proper attribution. However, the result cannot be used for commercial purposes. For more details, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
10. The authors are responsible for the idea in the published articles.
11. All articles published in the IJPF have been archived in DergiPark and abstracting indexes since 2016.
PEER REVIEW PROCESS
The peer-review process of IJPF aims 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: The Editor and Editorial Board first evaluate all articles submitted to the journal. Articles that fall outside the aims and scope of the journal or are not enough for the requirement of a scientific study are rejected or maybe want some revisions during 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 external double-blind 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 to two referees who are determined editors and/or the editorial board. If necessary, the editor or Editorial Board can increase the number of referees. 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. If one referee's report is negative and the other is positive, the article is forwarded to a third referee for additional evaluation.
When the referee or referees require a revision, the author(s) must consider the criticism and suggestions the referees offer. They should be sent back to the editor with 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 the favourable 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 takes a long time is a significant problem. Naturally, the author(s) wish to bring 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 one week for final assessment).
The author(s) that submit an article to the IJPF consider accepting these peer review conditions and procedures.
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