PUBLICATION ETHICS
Each study sent to JEF is subject to plagiarism checks during the preliminary review process. Accordingly, studies with a similarity rate of over 15% in the preliminary review conducted by JEF editors are not evaluated.
JEF is based on the obligations determined by COPE (Code of Conduct for Journal Editors) regarding publication ethics and misconduct for editors, authors and referees in journal publishing.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF EDITORS
JEF editors are responsible for the content and publication quality of the journal and have the right to negotiate with referees when making publication decisions in this context. The JEF editor-in-chief and editors comply with the following principles during the evaluation process within the framework of scientific and academic acceptances:
1. Impartiality and publisher freedom: Editors evaluate submitted article proposals by taking into account their suitability for the scope of the journal, the importance and originality of the work. Editors do not take into account the race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, nationality or political views of the author/s submitting the article proposal. Other institutions than the journal editorial board cannot influence the decision to correct or publish.
2. Confidentiality: Editors do not share information about a submitted manuscript with anyone other than the corresponding author, referees, and the editorial board.
3. Disclosure and disagreements: Editors and editorial board members do not use unpublished information presented in a submitted manuscript for their own research purposes without the express written permission of the authors.
4. Publishing decision: Editors ensure that all manuscripts accepted for publication are peer-reviewed by at least two expert referees in the field. Editors are responsible for deciding which work to publish from the submitted manuscripts, based on the validity of the work in question, its importance to researchers and readers, the comments of the referees, and other legal requirements.
5. Ethical concerns: Editors will take measures when ethical concerns arise regarding a submitted manuscript or published article. Any reported unethical publishing behavior, even if it occurs years after publication, will be investigated. Editors follow COPE Flowcharts in case of ethical concerns. If ethical issues are significant, corrections, retractions may be applied or concerns about the subject may be published in the journal.
REVIEWER DUTIES
1) Contribution to the review process: Assists editors in the review process and helps authors improve their articles through editorial communication.
2) Time: A reviewer who believes that the article referred for review is not related to his/her area of expertise or that he/she cannot complete the article review in a timely manner should inform the editors as soon as possible and decline the review invitation. This will ensure that a new reviewer is assigned. Reviewers must evaluate the article they have accepted for review within the time limit.
3) Confidentiality: All article proposals sent for preliminary review are confidential documents and should be considered as such. They should not be shown or discussed with others unless authorized by the editor. This also applies to reviewers who decline the review invitation.
4) Impartiality standards: Comments on the article proposal should be made impartially and suggestions should be offered in a constructive manner to help the authors improve the article. Personal criticisms directed at authors are not appropriate.
5) Acknowledgement of sources: Reviewers should identify relevant published studies not cited by the authors. The reviewer should also inform the editor of any significant similarity between the reviewed article and any other article (published or unpublished).
6) Conflicts of interest: Reviewers should decline to review the article and inform the editors if they understand that there is a conflict of interest/conflict of interest.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF AUTHORS
1) An article submitted to JEF must be original and the author(s) must undertake that the article is an original study that has not been published in any journal before.
2) When applying for publication of their article in JEF, the author(s) must upload all the documents specified in the application conditions to DergiPark in a complete, complete and approved manner.
3) The data used in the research should be presented meticulously in the article. A study should include sufficient detail and source information. Fraudulent and deliberately false statements are unacceptable as they may lead to unethical situations.
4) Authors must meticulously comply with the journal template, writing rules, and academic writing standards. In this context, they must make changes requested by the referee, editor, or editor-in-chief in a timely and meticulous manner.
5) Names of people who did not contribute to the article should not be written as authors, and it should not be suggested to change the order of authors, remove authors, or add authors to an article submitted for publication.
6) Authors must correctly cite the sources they use during the writing of the article in accordance with ethical principles.
7) Authors must indicate that they have received ethics committee approval for research requiring data collection with quantitative or qualitative methods such as experiments, surveys, scales, interviews, observations, focus groups, etc. that require an ethics committee decision; the ethics committee name, decision date, and number must be stated on the first and last pages of the candidate article and in the method section, and the document showing the ethics committee decision must be uploaded to the system together with the application of the article. In addition, information regarding the receipt of an informed consent/approval form in case reports must be included in the article.
8) Authors must provide evidence in the article that they have taken care of ethical principles during the data collection process (such as obtaining permission from others to use their documents such as scales, surveys, photographs). Articles must state that research and publication ethics and copyright regulations for intellectual and artistic works have been complied with. If the research was conducted on human and animal subjects, it must be stated that the research was conducted in accordance with international declarations, guidelines, etc.
9) Authors should not publish the text describing the same research in more than one article. It is unethical to submit the same study text to more than one journal at the same time.
10) When author(s) notice an error in a published article, they must contact the editor to inform, correct or retract it. When a new issue is published through the JEF DergiPark system, requests for changes must be made within 5 days from the date the journal is published.
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