Code of Ethics
The Journal of Islamic Sciences expects all stakeholders to carry the ethical responsibilities described below within the scope of publication ethics.
The following ethical duties and responsibilities are based on the guidelines and policies published in open access by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Publishing an article in a peer-reviewed journal is an essential building block in the development of a cohesive and respected knowledge network. It is a direct reflection of the quality of the work of the authors and their supporting institutes. Peer-reviewed articles support and shape the scientific method. It is therefore important for all parties involved in publishing - authors, journal editors, reviewers and publishing organizations - to agree on standards of expected ethical behavior:

1. Authorship
• The bibliography list must be complete.
• Plagiarism and fake data should not be included.
• The same research should not be attempted to be published in more than one journal and should comply with the ethics of scientific research and publication.
Actions against scientific research and publication ethics are as follows:
a) Plagiarism: Presenting the ideas, methods, data, applications, writings, forms or works of others as one's own work in whole or in part without citing the owners in accordance with scientific rules,
b) Forgery: Producing data that is not based on research, editing or modifying a submitted or published work based on untrue data, reporting or publishing them, presenting a research that has not been conducted as if it has been conducted,
c) Distortion: Falsifying research records and data obtained, falsifying methods, devices and materials that were not used in the research, excluding data that are not in accordance with the research hypothesis, manipulating data and/or results to fit relevant theories or assumptions, falsifying or shaping research results in line with the interests of the persons and organizations receiving support,
ç) Re-publication: Presenting more than one work containing the same results of a research as separate works in associate professorship exam evaluations and academic promotions,
d) Slicing: Presenting the results of a research as separate works in associate professorship exam evaluations and academic promotions by inappropriately dividing the results of a research into parts in a way that disrupts the integrity of the research and by making many publications without citing each other,
e) Unfair authorship: Including persons without active contribution among the authors, not including persons with active contribution among the authors, changing the order of authors in an unjustified and inappropriate manner, omitting the names of active contributors from the work during publication or in subsequent editions, using his/her influence to have his/her name included among the authors even though he/she has not made an active contribution,
f) Other types of ethical violations: Failure to clearly indicate the persons, institutions or organizations that provided support and their contributions to the research in the publications of the research conducted with support, failure to comply with ethical rules in research on humans and animals, failure to respect patient rights in publications, sharing the information contained in a work assigned to review as a referee with others before publication, misuse of resources, spaces, facilities and devices provided or allocated for scientific research, making completely groundless, unwarranted and deliberate accusations of ethical violations (YÖK Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive, Article 8).

2. Author's Responsibilities
• All authors must contribute significantly to the research.
• All data in the manuscript must be declared to be true and authentic.
• All authors must ensure retraction and correction of errors.

3. Editorial Responsibilities
• Editors have full responsibility and authority to accept or reject an article.
• Editors should not be in conflict of interest regarding the articles they accept or reject.
• Only articles that will contribute to the field should be accepted.
• Support the publication or withdrawal of corrections when errors are found.
• Keep the names of the referees confidential and prevent plagiarism/fake data.

Conflicts of Interest
A conflict of interest occurs when professional judgment about a primary interest may be influenced by a secondary interest (such as financial gain or personal competition). We believe that we need to know the competing interests of the authors in order to make the best decision about how to handle an article, and that readers should know them if we publish the article.
Any interest, financial or otherwise, that could cause one to be conflicted in one's work, significantly impair one's objectivity, or give an unfair advantage to any person or organization. All sources of financial support received during the conduct of the research and preparation of the manuscript and the role of sponsors in the study should be disclosed. If there is no source of funding, this should also be indicated. Examples of potential conflicts of interest that should be disclosed include consultancies, salaries, grants. Potential conflicts of interest should be disclosed at the earliest possible stage.
The editor/editorial board guarantees the independent and impartial completion of the publication process, taking into account conflicts of interest between the author(s), reviewers and other editors.

Complaints and Notifications
Readers may notify iletisim@islamiilimlerdergisi.org if they notice a significant error or inaccuracy in an article published in our journal or if they have any complaints about the editorial content (plagiarism, ethical violations, duplicate articles, etc.). Our journal follows the procedure outlined in the COPE flowcharts regarding complaints.

Appeal Process
In case of serious objections to the evaluations made by the editors and referees, the objection should be sent to iletisim@islamiilimlerdergisi.org. If, after reviewing the objection, it is found that the author is justified, the Editor may request the author to submit a revised version of the manuscript. It is important to include as much detail and evidence as possible in the letter of objection in order for the process to work properly. Only one appeal per article will be considered.

Correction, Retraction, Expression of Concern
If the published article contains minor errors that do not affect the findings, interpretations and conclusions, the Editors may consider publishing a correction. In the case of major errors/omissions that invalidate the findings and conclusions, the Editors should consider retracting the manuscript. Editors should consider issuing a statement of concern if there is a possibility of research or publication misconduct by the authors; if there is evidence that the findings are unreliable and that the authors' institutions have not investigated the incident; or if the potential investigation seems unfair or inconclusive. COPE principles are taken into account in relation to correction, withdrawal or expression of concern.

Protection of Participants' Personal Data
Rize Journal of Theology requires that all research involving personal and sensitive data or materials about human participants that are not legally available to the public be subject to formal ethical review.

Ethics Committee Approval
For research in all disciplines that require ethics committee approval, an ethics committee decision must be obtained and information regarding the decision must be stated in the manuscript text. Our journal does not evaluate studies that do not have an ethics committee decision.

Research Requiring Ethics Committee Approval
All kinds of research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from participants using survey, interview, focus group study, observation, experiment, interview techniques, Use of humans and animals (including materials/data) for experimental or other scientific purposes, Clinical research on humans, Research on animals, Retrospective studies in accordance with the law on the protection of personal data.

Also;
Indication of compliance with copyright regulations for the intellectual and artistic works used. Obtaining and indicating permission from the owners for the use of scales, questionnaires, photographs belonging to others. In case presentations, it should be stated that the “informed consent form” has been obtained.

NOTE: Scientific research on humans and animals must be conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and ARRIVE guidelines and approval must be obtained from the relevant ethics committee. Studies without ethics committee approval are not evaluated in our journal. Board approval should be indicated on the first page of the article with the name of the board, date and issue number.

Special Issue Publication Policy
Special issues can be published once a year in our journal in line with the decision of the Editorial Board. Articles submitted for special issues go through the same evaluation processes as the articles in our regular issues.

Publication Policy
• Our journal is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that has been published electronically twice a year (March and November) since 2006.
• The article acceptance dates of our journal, which is published electronically twice a year (March and November), will be December 1-January 15 for the March issue and April 1-September 15 for the November issue.
• In our journal, research articles, review articles, translated articles and case reports in the field of religious studies in Turkish and English are evaluated.
• Original, unpublished manuscripts that are not in the evaluation process in another journal and whose content and submission have been approved by each author are accepted for evaluation.
• Manuscripts submitted for publication are subjected to double blind peer review by at least two reviewers. In addition, it is confirmed that the articles have not been published before and do not contain plagiarism through the Intihal.net program offered by Dergipark.
• Articles submitted to our journal must be organized according to the ISNAD footnoted citation system (2nd Edition), our journal's Article Template and Writing Rules. Articles that do not comply with the journal's spelling rules and article template will be rejected without evaluation. As stated in the Editorial Policy, the article will be rejected if it receives one rejection and one major revision.
• The copyrights of the works published in the Journal of Islamic Sciences belong to their authors. Authors consent to the publication of their intellectual work by the Journal of Islamic Sciences under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license.
• Articles published in our journal are digitally archived in LOCKSS.
• Articles published in our journal are published as open access under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. Published articles can be accessed free of charge at https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/islamiilimler/archive.
• The publication of articles in the journal and the execution of article processes are not subject to any fee. No processing or submission fee is charged for articles submitted to the journal or accepted for publication. The Journal of Islamic Sciences does not accept sponsorship and advertisement in accordance with its publication policies. All expenses of the Journal of Islamic Sciences are covered by Çorum Çağrı Education Foundation.

Principles of Research Ethics
The Journal of Islamic Sciences observes the highest standards in research ethics and adopts the international principles of research ethics defined below. It is the responsibility of the authors to ensure that their articles comply with ethical rules.
• The principles of integrity, quality and transparency should be ensured in the design, review of the design and conduct of the research.
• The research team and participants should be fully informed about the purpose of the research, its methods and possible anticipated uses, and the requirements and risks, if any, of participation in the research.
• Confidentiality of information provided by research participants and confidentiality of respondents must be ensured. The research should be designed to protect the autonomy and dignity of the participants.
• Research participants should take part in the research voluntarily and should not be under any coercion.
• Harm to participants should be avoided. The research should be planned in a way that does not put participants at risk.
• Research independence must be clear and explicit; any conflict of interest must be stated.
• In experimental studies with human subjects, the written informed consent of the participants who decide to participate in the research must be obtained. Consent must be obtained from the legal guardian of children and those under guardianship or with a confirmed mental illness.
• If the study will be conducted in any institution or organization, approval must be obtained from this institution or organization that the study will be conducted.