Journal of Materials and Mechatronics: A started publishing in 2020. It is published by Yusuf KAYALI. Journal of Materials and Mechatronics: A is a peer-reviewed e-journal featuring original scientific articles in the fields of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Mechatronics, Mechanical, Automotive, Electrical, Electronics, Biomedical, Chemical, Physics, Computer Engineering. It is an international refereed scientific journal that will be published twice a year (June and December). There is no article fee and an open access policy has been adopted. The journal accepts scientific articles in English and Turkish via the Dergi Park system. The article evaluation period is approximately 3 months.

Journal of Materials and Mechatronics: A only publishes studies that reflect an original research with its findings and results.

Journal of Materials and Mechatronics: A folllows guides and politics published by Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) for ethical rules and responsibilities of authors, journal editors/subject editors, reviewers and publisher.

Plagiarism Check

Articles submitted to Journal of Materials and Mechatronics: A, are evaluated after passing through the Plagiarism Detection Program “ithenticate”. The similarity rate criterion is 25% or below. Similarity rate in a single resource should not exceed 5%. The manuscript, which does not pass similarity criterion as a result of the preliminary evaluation, is sent back to the author / authors again to make the necessary corrections without being evaluated.

Pre-checking the manuscript by author

The article submitted by the author must not have been previously published and submitted for evaluation to any journal.

The submission file must be in Microsoft Word 2010 and later.

URLs of references should be provided where available.

The text should be prepared according to rules specified in the author’s guide.

On the submission of the article, the instructions given in the Blind Referee link are applied.

The authors in the first submission sent to the journal cannot be added / removed later.

Blind Referee Process

Journal of Materials and Mechatronics: A is a peer-reviewed academic journal publishing scientific articles that go through the double-blind review process.

For review of submitted manuscripts, at least two referees are appointed by the editor (s) according to the content of the work and the expertise of the referees. All referee evaluation reports are sent electronically and anonymously. The names of the referees who made the assessment are not specified in the reports and in the journal due to the double blind process. However, after the evaluations, a letter of appreciation is sent to the referees.

Blind refereeing processes directly affect the quality of academic publications. The evaluation process is carried out with the principle of double-sided blind review. Referees cannot contact the authors directly, evaluation and referee reports are sent through the e-Mail management system. In this process, evaluation forms and referee reports are sent to the author (s) by the editor. Double-sided blind reviewing helps editors make decisions in an impartial manner to the authors. Authors also have the opportunity to improve their work by obtaining important information about their work.

Decision Making Process

The editors and the publisher send all works submitted for publication to at least two referees who are experts in their fields for evaluation. In case of a dispute between the referees, a third referee is appointed and the article is decided according to the majority’s decision. Evaluation forms filled in by the referees and corrections on the text, if they prefer, are sent to the authors by contacting the responsible author. The final corrected file from the author is re-evaluated by the referees and the field editor, and it is decided whether the study will be published or not.

Privacy

Studies sent to the referees for evaluation should be considered as confidential documents. Studies should not be shown to others and their contents should not be discussed. Where necessary, referees may seek advice from other colleagues, with the permission of the Chief Editor. The Editor-in-Chief can give this permission only in the event of an exceptional condition. The confidentiality rule also includes people who refuse to act as reviewers.

Impartiality Principle

No personal criticism should be made to the authors during the evaluation process. Evaluations should be made in an objective and contributing way.

Specifying a Source of information

The referees are obliged to inform the authors if there are any citations that are not cited in the study. Referees should pay particular attention to works that are not cited in the field or citations that overlap with similar works. The referees should inform the editors in the event of publication that is similar to any previously published work or information.

Information and Conflicts of Interest

Referees should not agree to evaluate if they have any collaborative connections with any author, company or institution for which they are asked for evaluating their work, and should inform editors of the situation as soon as possible.

Referees may not use unpublished works or parts of works in the manuscripts aubmitted to the journal without the written consent of the author (s) for evaluation. The information and ideas obtained during the evaluation should be kept confidential by the referees and should not be used for their own benefit. These rules include those who do not accept the reviewing.

Publication Language

Journal of Materials and Mechatronics: A (JournalMM), reviews research articles written in Turkish and English.

Publication Frequency

In Journal of Materials and Mechatronics: A (JournalMM), which has been publishing issues since 2020, a volume has been published every year since 2020 and each volume consists of 2 issues (June, December).

Open Access Policy

Journal of Materials and Mechatronics: A publishes original research articles without any fee or charge.

All articles accepted and published by Journal of Materials and Mechatronics: A are freely available, openly accessible. We follow the guidelines presented by Budapest Open - Access Initiative (BOAI) regarding the Open-Access.

Wage Policy

Journal of Materials and Mechatronics: A (JournalMM), does not charge the author / authors at any stage (submission, evaluation and publication of articles) for publication procedures.