Ethical Principles and Publication Policy

• The Journal of Economics and Political Sciences (JEP) is committed to the highest standards of publication ethics. JEP adopts the ethical publishing principles published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) and ULAKBIM. Manuscripts submitted to the journal must be original.
• Manuscripts submitted to the journal must not have been published elsewhere and must not have been submitted to another journal for publication. Each manuscript is double blind reviewed by one of the editors and at least two referees.
• Plagiarism, false authorship/denied authorship, research/data fabrication, fabricated data/results, article slicing, slicing and dicing, submitting the same publication in more than one place, copyright infringement and concealment of conflict of interest are considered unethical behaviors. The author(s) have an obligation to cooperate with the editor in correcting or retracting any errors or inaccuracies in the published, early view or under review manuscript. All manuscripts that do not comply with accepted ethical standards will be withdrawn from publication. This includes manuscripts containing possible irregularities or non-compliances detected after publication.

Research Ethics

The journal upholds the highest standards of research ethics and adopts the international principles of research ethics defined below. It is the responsibility of the authors to ensure that manuscripts comply with ethical guidelines. The principles of integrity, quality and transparency must 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. Any 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, written informed consent must be obtained from participants who decide to participate in the research. If the study is to be conducted in any institution or organization, the approval of the legal guardian of children and those under guardianship or those with a certified mental illness must be obtained. In studies with a human element, it should be stated in the “method” section that “informed consent” has been obtained from the participants and ethics committee approval has been obtained from the institution where the study is conducted.

Copyright

During submitting an article to JEP, authors are required to read and approve the following copyright form on the web site.

The author(s) acknowledge the following:

- That the submitted article is the original work of the author(s) and that they have not plagiarised,
- That all authors have participated in this study as principal participants and that they take full responsibility for this study,
- All authors have seen and approved the final version of the submitted manuscript,
- That the article has not been published elsewhere or submitted for publication,
- Authors accept and undertake that the text, figures and documents in the article do not violate the Copyrights of other persons.
- Authors allow DUZCE UNIVERSITY to publish the intellectual work under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence.
- The copyrights of all papers accepted for publication in JEP as a result of referee evaluation belong to the authors.
- Author(s) are required to sign and submit the Copyright Form alongside with their paper to JEP for evaluation. With this agreement, the authors declare that they transfer the right to make editorial corrections in the manuscript to be published to JEP.
- All responsibility for the manuscripts submitted to JEP within the framework of the rules belongs to the author(s).
- No royalties are paid for the published articles.

Protection of Personal Data

Editors are responsible for protecting the personal data of authors, reviewers and readers. Editors are also responsible for ensuring the protection of personal data of the subjects or images included in the studies evaluated in JEP. In the absence of an explicit consent document of the individuals used in the studies submitted to JEP, the editors are responsible for rejecting the study.