Publication Ethics Statement

Publication ethics require authors, editors, referees and publishers involved in the production of academic knowledge to act within the framework of scientific honesty, impartiality and transparency. The International Journal of Sport Culture and Science expects all parties involved in the publication process to adhere to the following ethical principles:
- Originality and avoidance of plagiarism in scientific research,
- Correct citation and referencing,
- Disclosure of conflicts of interest,
- Conducting evaluation processes confidentially,
- Correction or retraction of research and publication errors.

Authors' Ethical Responsibilities
Author(s):
- Undertake that the studies they submit to our journal are original and have not been simultaneously submitted to another journal.
- Avoid all forms of plagiarism, forgery, distortion and re-publication.
- Responsible for the reliability and accuracy of the data used in their studies.
- Ethics committee approval must be obtained when necessary and must be clearly stated in the article.
- All sources used must be fully specified in accordance with the APA 7 reference system.

- All authors must fill out and sign the Copyright Transfer Form completely.

- If there is a conflict of interest regarding the study, they must declare this clearly.

- They must be ready to provide the raw data related to the study if requested by the editor.

- They must immediately share with the editor any significant errors they notice in their published or under evaluation articles and support the necessary corrections or retractions.

Ethical Responsibilities of Editors
Editor
- They must adopt an impartial, transparent and fair approach at every stage of the publication process.
- They must effectively manage communication between authors, referees and readers; they must protect confidentiality and impartiality in the process.
- They conduct the preliminary evaluation by evaluating the scientific contribution, originality and field suitability of the submitted articles.
- They are not involved in the evaluation process of the study in question in cases where a conflict of interest may occur.
- They ensure that the referees are determined according to the principles of impartiality and expertise.
- In case of suspected violation of publication ethics, it initiates the necessary investigations and implements the decisions of correction, retraction or explanation according to the results.

Ethical Responsibilities of Referees
Referees:
- Must conduct evaluations in accordance with the double-blind refereeing process and protect the confidentiality of the process.
- Must accept to evaluate only studies within the scope of their expertise.
- Must display an objective, scientific and constructive attitude in their evaluations.
- Must take care to complete the refereeing duty within the given time.
- In cases where there is a conflict of interest during the evaluation process, the editor must be informed and the referee must resign.
- When criticizing scientific content, personal criticism must be avoided and feedback must be provided within the framework of academic courtesy.

Responsibilities of the Publisher
- The journal management acts in accordance with the principles of impartiality and transparency during the publication process.
- In case an unethical situation is detected, it is responsible for the retraction, correction or editorial explanation.
- All published content is archived, protected and made available to the public.

Publication Policy
- All articles published in our journal are offered free of charge with an online open access policy.
- Articles are published after going through editorial control, plagiarism detection (iThenticate etc.) and double-blind refereeing processes.
- All content in our journal is licensed with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
- All articles are evaluated on the condition that an ethics committee document is submitted in studies requiring ethics committee approval.
- The Editorial Board may reject studies with low scientific contribution, ethically problematic or formally incomplete during the preliminary evaluation process.

-It has been prepared by taking into account the HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION ETHICS GUIDELINE and the guidelines and policies published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Plagiarism and Research Misconduct
- All submitted studies are checked for plagiarism using software such as iThenticate.
- Studies with a similarity rate above 20% are not evaluated.
- Unethical behaviors such as fake data, fabricated findings, deliberate distortion or adding/removing authors are seriously evaluated by our journal and may be reported to the relevant institutions.