Publication Principles

1. Journal of Engineering Sciences and Design is is an international peer reviewed e-journal and published four times a year in March, June, September and December.

2. The full-length original scientific research articles written in Turkish or English language are published. It is essential that the information created in the scientific study needs to be new, suggest a new method or give a new dimension to existing information.

3. Case studies, questionnaire studies, and surveys are not submitted and published in the journal since June, 2022.

4. The full-length original scientific research articles written in the English language have the priority of publication.

5. Articles submitted to the journal for publication are evaluated by national and/or international reviewers. The final decision is made by the editors.

6. Names of reviewers evaluating the articles aren’t informed to the authors (blind peer review). The names of the authors not to be seen by the reviewers (double-blind peer review) is left to the preference of the authors. The authors using this preference should delete the lines of name and address in the article.

7. It is expected that the reviewers evaluate the articles in 60 days. If this time is exceeded, the editorial board appoint a new reviewer.

8. Accept-decline decision about the article is taken by the editorial board. According to the reviewer's reports, major revision or minor revision can be decided. The articles, which aren’t reached the intended level or haven't seemed enough in terms of scientific perspective, are declined.

9. After the decision of major or minor revision about the article, the necessary changes should be made by the authors in 40 days for major revision, in 20 days for minor revision; else it is declined.

10. Articles submitted to the journal for publication must not be published in another journal or must not be sent another journal to be published.

11. All responsibility for the articles belongs to the authors. The articles should be prepared in accordance with international scientific ethics rules. If necessary, a copy of the ethics committee report must be added.

12. Articles submitted for a possible publication in the journal have been checked with iThenticate: Plagiarism Detection Software package program to compose similarity report since January 1, 2016. This report is sent to the editorial board to be checked. If the program detects more than 25% similarity except that the references, the editorial board requests the revisions from the authors. If the necessary changes does not make in 20 days, the article is declined. If the similarity rate is exceeded over 35%, the article is declined, too.

13. If one of the reviews is positive while the other is negative, the editorial board may send the article to the third reviewer or may reject the article in accordance with the reviewer report. Therefore, in order for an article to be published, it should take positive decisions from at least two separate reviewers.

14. Articles submitted to the journal for publication must be prepared to the article writing format of the journal.
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15. The authors must be declared to Conflicts of Interest in the submission process.

16. The opinions in the articles published in the Journal are not the opinions of the Journal and all the responsibility belongs to the authors. The Journal does not pay any royalties to the author(s) of the articles published.

17. Journal does not charged any publication or processing fee.

18. For articles admitted for publication into the journal, the corresponding author has 30 days for copyediting, 10 days for proofreading. If the corresponding author do not return in time, the article is declined.

19. Muhendislik Bilimleri ve Tasarım Dergisi / Journal of Engineering Sciences and Design is a journal that adopts Open Access policy and accepts that the scientific studies which are evaluated by reviewers in compliance with the definition of Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) would be published through Internet, are accessible, readable, downloadable, duplicable, deliverable, printable, scannable without any financial, legal and technical obstacles and can be referred, indexed, transferred to software as data and can be used for any kind of legal purposes. The authors and copyright owners accept that all the users have the right to access the studies without any fee. The authors whose articles are published by the Journal accept that their studies can be cited under the provisions of the protection of copyrights and Commons Attribution License. All the articles to be published in Muhendislik Bilimleri ve Tasarım Dergisi / Journal of Engineering Sciences and Designare licenced with Creative Commons Atıf 4.0 Uluslararası Lisansı (CC BY 4.0).

20. The applications of those articles that are not improper in terms of publication principles would not be accepted. The evaluation process of those articles whose deficiencies are noticed later on, would be terminated and the article would be rejected regardless of the stage of the evaluation process.

Last Update Time: 3/16/21, 8:55:43 AM