ULAKBİM TR DIRECTORY Committee requests that the Ethics Committee Approval be obtained for research conducted in all disciplines, including social sciences, upon the change it has made in the journal evaluation criteria for the year 2020, and that this approval is stated and documented in the article.
Within the scope of TR INDEX Assessment Criteria, for studies that require ethics committee approval, the process started in 2020 upon this change in Article 8 (ethics committee name, date and issue number) in the method section of the article and also in the first / last part of the article. It is mandatory to take place on the page.
Accordingly, it will be sent to our journal for publication in the next period;
(1) In all studies conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from participants using questionnaire, interview, focus group study, observation, experiment, interview techniques(2) In research where humans and animals (including material / data) are used for experimental or other scientific purposes(3) In clinical trials on humans(4) In animal studies(5) In accordance with the law on the protection of personal data, it is necessary to include information about the ethics committee in retrospective researches in the relevant sections and to comply with research and publication ethics.• In case presentations to be sent other than research articles;(1) stating that the informed consent form has been received(2) obtaining and indicating permission from the owners for the use of scales, questionnaires, photographs of others,(2) It should be stated that the copyright regulations are complied with for the intellectual and artistic works used.• Ethics Committee Approval will not be required for review articles.For the articles that are currently in process in our journal and for which the Ethics Committee Approval is available, the responsible authors should add the information of the Ethics Committee Approval to their studies after the evaluation process is finalized and it is finalized to be published. Apart from this, retrospective ethics committee permission is not required for articles that are still in process, before 2020 have been used, produced from master's / doctoral studies (should be specified in the article), published in the previous year, accepted but not yet published. However, after the publication of the article has been accepted, the responsible author has stated “Istem has no responsibility for all ethical violations to be encountered in the study titled ……” on the last page of the article. It must be signed by adding a statement as. Our researchers who are not members of the university are also required to apply to the Ethics Committees in their regions for their research that requires ethics committee approval and obtain the Ethics Committee Approval.