PUBLICATION ETHICS
JIMEP is an international, peer-reviewed and multidisciplinary journal that publishes scientific articles in the field of social sciences. Published online twice a year, Jimep magazine aims to be one of Turkey's leading platforms for new findings and discussions in all fields of social sciences.
Jimep magazine is committed to maintaining the highest ethical standards. The publishing ethics of the journal are based on the rules of the COPE editorial ethics committee.

EDITOR'S RESPONSIBILITIES
Accountability:
The editors of the journal are responsible for deciding which of the articles will be published. The editor can guide according to the editorial board policies. The editor can meet with the referees and the members of the scientific committee on ethical violations such as plagiarism and copyright violations.
Impartiality:
The review process and publication decision will take place regardless of the authors' race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnicity, nationality, or political philosophy.
Privacy:
The editor(s) and any editorial staff will not disclose any information about a submitted article other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisors, and publisher, as appropriate.
Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest:
Unpublished material disclosed in a submitted article will not be used in an editor's own research without the express written consent of the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review will be kept confidential and will not be used for personal advantage. Editors make fair and impartial decisions regardless of commercial concerns and ensure a fair and appropriate peer review process. Editors refrain from reviewing articles for which they have conflicts of interest arising from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or affiliations with any of the authors, companies, or (possibly) articles. affiliated institutions. Editors will require all contributors to disclose relevant conflicts of interest and to publish corrections if conflicts of interest arise after publication. If necessary, other appropriate measures will be taken, such as publishing the recall or expressing concern.
Participation and Cooperation in Investigations:
Editors (along with the publisher and/or the community) take sensible action when ethical concerns arise regarding a submitted manuscript or published article. Every reported unethical publishing behavior will be addressed, even if discovered years after publication. RAST editors follow COPE procedures (https://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts) when dealing with suspected abusive behavior. Upon investigation, if well-founded ethical concern is identified, a correction, article removal (withdrawal), statement of concern, or other relevant note will be published immediately.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF REFEREES
Contribution to Editorial Decisions:
Peer review helps the editor make editorial decisions and can assist the author in improving the article through editorial communications with the author.

Speed:
Any selected reviewer who feels unqualified to review the research reported in the article or knows that it is impossible to review immediately should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.

Privacy:
All manuscripts received for review should be treated as confidential documents. It should not be shown to others or discussed with others unless authorized by the editor.
Objectivity Standards:
Investigations should be done objectively. The author's personal criticism is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Acceptance of Resources:
Reviewers should identify relevant published work not cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation or argument has been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the attention of the editor any significant similarity or overlap between the reviewed article and other published articles of which he has personal knowledge.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest:

Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review should be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider articles containing conflicts of interest arising from competitive, collaborative or other relationships or affiliation with any author, company or institution linked to the articles.


AUTHOR RESPONSIBILITIES
Reporting standards:

Authors should present their results clearly, honestly and without fabrication, falsification or inappropriate data processing. Authors should explain their methods clearly and precisely so that their findings can be validated by others.

Authenticity, plagiarism and its sources
Authors must comply with publication requirements, where the submitted work is original, not plagiarized, and has not been published elsewhere - fraudulent or intentionally false statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable. If an author has used the work and/or words of others, that original is appropriately cited or cited and accurately reflects individuals' contributions to the work and its report.

Data Access and Storage:

Authors may be asked to provide raw data in connection with an article for editorial review and should in any case be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable period of time after publication.

Ethic:
Authors should only submit papers related to studies that are conducted ethically and responsibly and comply with all relevant legislation.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest:

All authors must disclose in their manuscript any financial or other material conflict of interest that could be interpreted as affecting the results or interpretation of their article. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

Authorship of the Article:

Authorship should be limited to those who have made significant contributions to the concept, design, execution or interpretation of the reported work. All significant contributors should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others involved in certain important aspects of the research project, they should be considered or listed as contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all eligible co-authors and inappropriate co-authors are not included in the article, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the article and agree to submit it for publication.

Multi, Redundant or Simultaneous Broadcast:

An author should generally not publish articles describing the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same article to more than one journal at the same time constitutes an unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.

Main mistakes in published works:

When an author notices a material error or inaccuracy in his or her own published work, it is the author's obligation to notify the journal editor or publisher immediately and to cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the article. If the editor or publisher learns from a third party that a published work contains a material error, it is the author's obligation to promptly retract or correct the article or provide proof to the editor of the authenticity of the original article.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE PUBLISHER

The publisher provides editors with reasonable practical support to follow the COPE Code of Conduct for the Journal. The publisher defines the relationship between the publisher, editor, and other parties in a contract, respects confidentiality (e.g. for research participants, authors, reviewers), protects intellectual property and copyright, and promotes editorial independence.