ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND PUBLICATION POLICY
Publisher's Responsibilities
"Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems and Applications" began its publishing life in 2018 and is published by Bandirma Onyedi Eylül University, which is two numbers a year. The Publisher is a public institution and publishes scientific work with an open access policy. The following are the ethical responsibilities the publisher must adhere to.
• After the first evaluation of the scientific studies submitted to the journal is made by the editor, the field editors are appointed to the experts in the field and accept seizing the scientific evaluation process.
• The publisher provides the installation of the journal into electronic media and free access to journal publications due to its open access policy.
Author (s) Responsibilities
• Author(s) must have Ethics Committee Permission for research conducted in all disciplines that require ethics committee approval. Ethics Committee Permission must be specified and documented in the article. In researches requiring Ethics Committee Permission, information about the permission (name of the board, date and number) should be included in the method section and also on the first / last page of the article. In case reports, the information that the informed consent form was signed should be included in the article.
For more detailed information on Ethics Committee Persmission, click here.• The author(s) acknowledges and declares that the publications they submit have not been published in any journal before.
• Author(s) can not send the same article to more than one journal at the same time. For each post, they should wait for the shipping process to the previous journal to be completed.
• The author(s) agrees that the article they submit will be thoroughly examined.
• The authors(s) may request raw data from the studies if needed by the arbitrators in the evaluation processes. In such cases, the requested data from the author(s) is expected to be transmitted.
• The author(s) are obliged to correct the parts that are deemed incomplete or requested to be corrected as a result of scientific examinations of the arbitrators appointed by the editors/field editors of the articles.
• Author (s) should provide a Declaration of Contribution Rate of the researchers for multi-author articles at the end of the article; If there is an institution or organization where the articles are supported, they should submit a Statement of Support and Acknowledgment, and if there is a conflict, a Conflict Statement.
• The author(s) must show and refer to the bibliography in full for the scientific information they provide in the article.
• In the event of any conflict of interest, the author is obliged to share this situation with the publisher and journal editor, issue a statement of error, issue a compensation notice, or withdraw the work if deemed necessary, if the publication of the publication is found to be in violation of ethical principles.
• The author(s) should prepare the articles they have prepared in accordance with the topics and ethics rules accepted by the journal.
• The author(s) should prepare the articles they submit in accordance with the journal's spelling rules.
• The names of people who do not contribute to the article should not be given as authors.
• The author(s) accept that they have all the responsibilities arising from the articles in the article.
Reviewer’s Responsibility
In the evaluation processes of articles such as "Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems and Applications", reviewers use the double-blind evaluation method in which they do not see the author(s) in their reviewer. It is thought that the "double-blind peer-review" system positively affects quality. In this respect, the reviewer can not communicate directly with the author(s) and communicate with the forms opened on the journal's park system. The ethical responsibilities expected of the arbitrators are given below.
• Reviewers are expected to referee only articles in their area of expertise.
• They are expected to make their assessments within the framework of impartiality and privacy policies
• For the articles they agree to referee, they must make an assessment within the period given to them.
• When the arbitrators understand that there is a conflict of interest in the article, they should refuse to evaluate the article by informing the editor about the subject.
• Reviewers are expected to make a polite, constructive, and kind suggestion in a manner that does not offside the other person in their criticism.
• Reviewers are expected to be sure that there is no personal information in the files uploaded for the author(s) to view.
Editor’s Responsibility
The editor and field editors of the Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems and Applications must have ethical duties and responsibilities based on the guidelines "COPE Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors" and "COPE Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors" published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)as open access.
• Editors should actively evaluate the views of authors, readers, referees and editorial board members on the development and improvement of journal processes.
• Editors should conduct processes to improve the quality of the work published in the journal and show clarity and transparency in terms of publication in matters that require correction and explanation.
• Editors should make sure that the article provides academic integrity when deciding to publish articles.
• Editors are responsible for implementing the "Blind review and evaluation process" policies in the journal's editorial policies. In this context, editors should ensure that the evaluation process of each work is completed fairly, impartially and in a timely manner.
• Editors should take care that the published works contribute to the reader, researcher, practitioner and scientific literature and are of a unique nature.
• Editors should make a positive or negative decision based on the importance and validity of the studies, clarity of expression, and the journal's goals and objectives, and should not ignore the positive referee suggestions unless there is a serious problem with the article.
• Editors should be alert to intellectual property issues and work with their publisher to handle potential breaches of intellectual property laws and conventions. In addition, they take the necessary measures to ensure that the content of the published articles does not infringe the intellectual property rights of other publications; They do the authenticity-similarity check.
• Editors are responsible for ensuring the protection of personal data relating to subjects or images in the evaluated work. Responsible for refusing to work unless the express consent of the individuals used in the studies is documented. In addition, editors are responsible for protecting the individual data of the author, the referee, and the readers.
• Editors should ensure that all editorial board members advance processes in accordance with editorial policies and guidelines. The editorial board should inform its members about the publication policies and keep them informed of the developments.
• Editors; is obliged to ensure the protection of human and animal rights in the evaluated works. Ethics committee approval for the subjects used in the studies is responsible for refusing to work in cases where there is no permission for experimental research.
• Editors; is responsible for publishing every article published in the journal in accordance with the journal publishing policies and international standards.
• Editors; is obliged to take precautions against possible misconduct and misconduct. It is the responsibility of the editor to conduct a rigorous and objective investigation into the identification and evaluation of complaints, as well as to share findings on the subject.
• Editors; It guarantees that the publishing process of the works is completed independently and impartially, taking into account the conflicts of interest between the author (s), referees and other editors.
• The relationship between editors and publisher is based on the principle of editorial independence. In accordance with the written contract between the editors and the publisher, all decisions taken by the editors are independent of the publisher and the journal owner.
Some of the Actions Considered to be Against Scientific Research and Publication Ethics
• Plagiarism: Showing others' original ideas, methods, data or works as their own work, partially or completely, without citing scientific rules,
• Forgery: Using data that does not actually exist or has been falsified in scientific research,
• Distortion: Falsifying the research records or data obtained, showing the devices or materials not used in the research as being used, falsifying or shaping the results of the research in line with the interests of the people and organizations,
• Republishing: To present repetitive publications as separate publications for academic appointments and promotions,
• Slicing: To present these publications as separate publications in academic appointments and promotions by dividing the results of a research into pieces in a way that disrupts the integrity of the research and inappropriately, and publishing in more than one issue,
• Unfair authorship: Including people who do not have active contribution among the authors or not including those who are, changing the author's order in an unjustified and inappropriate manner, removing the names of those who have active contribution from the work in subsequent editions, including their names among the authors by using their influence even though they have no active contribution,
• Not specifying the supporting persons, institutions or organizations and their contributions in the publications made as a result of researches conducted with the support,
• Using thesis or studies that have not been submitted yet or have not been accepted as a source without the permission of the owner,
• Failing to comply with ethical rules in research conducted on humans and animals, not respecting patient rights in publications, harming animal health and ecological balance, not obtaining necessary permissions,
• Misusing resources, spaces, facilities and devices provided or allocated for scientific research,
• Making false or misleading statements regarding scientific research and publications in academic appointments and promotions.
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