The Journal of Academic Tourism Analysis (Journal ATA) adopts universally established scientific and publishing ethical standards, including RESPECT’s EU Code of Ethics for Socio-Economic Research, the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) “Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing,” and the “Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers.” Additionally, our journal considers the Higher Education Institutions Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive. Based on these principles and rules, there are responsibilities and rules that the editor, authors, and reviewers must adhere to during the publication processes of our journal. These are:

Editor’s Responsibilities and Rules to Follow

• The editor considers the principles of RESPECT’s EU Code of Ethics for Socio-Economic Research, COPE’s “Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing,” and the Higher Education Institutions Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive.
  
• The Journal ATA commits to evaluating submissions based on scientific content, regardless of the authors’ ethnic origin, gender preference, nationality, religious belief, or political philosophy.
  
• The journal commits to not publishing violating publication and research ethics, and all submitted papers are subject to plagiarism/similarity checks by the editor.
  
• The journal agrees to prevent conflict of interest or competition between authors and reviewers.
  
• No fees or other benefits are requested from authors for paper submission, evaluation, printing, publishing, processing, page, or colour pictures.
  
• Quotations can be made from papers published in the Journal ATA by citing the source. The editor is responsible for addressing copyright violations.
  
• The editor checks whether submitted papers fall within the journal’s scope, are correct/completely uploaded, and comply with the journal’s writing rules.
  
• For papers requiring revisions, specific time frames are provided (15 days for minor revisions, 30 days for major revisions, and 60 days for papers requiring major revisions by multiple reviewers).
  
• An informative email is sent to the corresponding author for accepted papers.
  
• Information shared on the website, such as names, titles, and email addresses, is used only for the specified purposes of the journal and is not shared for other purposes or with other parties.

Authors’ Responsibilities and Rules to Follow

• Authors must consider the RESPECT’s EU Code of Ethics for Socio-Economic Research, the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) “Core Practices,” and the Higher Education Institutions Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive when submitting the study to the Journal ATA. They must declare compliance with ethical rules through an Ethical Statement document.
• For papers requiring ethics committee approval, it is mandatory to submit the Ethics Committee document for publication application. Research requiring ethics committee approval includes any research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from participants using techniques such as surveys, interviews, focus group studies, observations, experiments, and interviews; the use of humans and animals (including material/data) for experimental or other scientific purposes; clinical research conducted on humans; research conducted on animals; and retrospective studies in accordance with the law on the protection of personal data.
• In case reports, it is stated that the “Informed Consent Form” has been obtained. Whether ethics committee approval and/or legal/special permission is required is stated in the method section and on the last page of the paper. If these permissions are required, it is clearly presented from which institution, on what date, and with which decision or number it was obtained.
• Authors must obtain permission from the owners to use scales, questionnaires, and photographs/images belonging to other researchers. They must appropriately cite other authors, contributors, or sources and properly indicate the relevant sources. They must declare compliance with copyright regulations for the intellectual and artistic studies used in the study with a “Copyright Agreement.”
• Authors authorize ATA Journal to publish the paper and identify itself as the original publisher through a "Copyright Agreement".
  
• Authors declare and undertake that the study they submit for evaluation to be published in the Journal ATA has not been published anywhere in Turkish or any other language before, has not been accepted for publication, is not under evaluation for publication in another journal, and will not be sent to another journal before the evaluation process in the Journal ATA is concluded.
• Authors declare and undertake the originality of the study they submit.
• Authors take all legal and scientific responsibility for the content of the study.
• The author who assumes responsibility for the study on behalf of the other authors in the process of submitting the study to the journal, communicating with the journal and the post-publication processes is accepted as the “corresponding author.” It is assumed that the corresponding author has reached an agreement with the other author(s) on all processes related to the study. The corresponding author informs the authors about the process and evaluations related to the study.
• Authors evaluate the study sent for final reading within 3 days. In a paper prepared based on master’s or doctoral theses submitted to the Journal ATA, the student who prepared the thesis and the advisor (if there is a second legal advisor) are accepted as the natural authors of the paper. Suppose the thesis student wants to prepare a paper based on the thesis study as a single author, they obtain a “Disclaimer of Authorship” document from the advisor stating that they have waived authorship and send it to the journal editor along with the paper. Suppose the thesis advisor wants to prepare a paper based on the thesis as a single author. In that case, they obtain a “Disclaimer of Authorship” document from the thesis student and present it.
  
• Authors respect the authorship rights of other authors and comply with internationally accepted rules in the order of authorship. In studies based on postgraduate theses, the thesis student is listed first, the thesis advisor second, and the second advisor third, if any. If they notice an error or mistake related to their study under review or in early view or published, they cooperate with the journal editor in retraction processes.

Responsibilities and Rules for Referees

• Referees should consider RESPECT’s EU Code of Ethics for Socio-Economic Research, COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics)’s Ethical Guidelines for Peer Referees and the Higher Education Institutions Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive when reviewing studies.
• Referees must keep the studies submitted for review as confidential documents.
• Referees should not show the studies to others or discuss their contents.
• Referees should not use the studies or parts of them under review in their own research.
• Referees must keep the information and ideas obtained during the review confidential and not use them for their own benefit.
• A referee invited to review a study must inform the editor within 5 days whether they can review the study.
• A referee who agrees to review must complete the review process within 15 days.

Publication Policy

• The Journal of Academic Tourism Analysis (Journal ATA ) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that has been published twice a year since 2021. Journal ATA publishes scientific studies prepared in Turkish and English. It is published through the TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM DergiPark system at
• https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/journalata. All paper-related processes are carried out through the DergiPark system.
• All papers are open-access and fully comply with open-access instructions; they can be read without being a journal user.
• Journal ATA does not pay royalties for papers.
• The Journal ATA is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. This license allows sharing, copying, reproducing, and adapting the study in any medium or format, provided that the original study is properly cited and not used commercially.
• All commercial rights associated with the paper belong to the authors.
• The copyright of the published paper belongs to the authors.
• Journal ATA uses a double-blind peer review system (At least three reviewers are assigned by the paper editor based on the content of the studies and the expertise of the reviewers. At this step, the manuscript and the review form are sent anonymously to all reviewers through the DergiPark System. The names of the reviewers are kept confidential. Authors cannot contact reviewers directly; reviewer evaluations and reports are sent to the editor through the system. The editor sends the reviewers’ evaluations and reports to the responsible author through the system.)
  
• The Editorial Board makes the final decision on the publication of a study that has received at least two “publishable” opinions as a result of peer reviews.
• Journal ATA provides reviewers with a written document stating that they have contributed to the journal as a reviewer, upon request.
• Journal ATA does not accept papers for any specific issue. Studies can be submitted to the journal at any time.
• Criticism, error correction, etc., related to published papers are prioritized for publication in the first issue following the date they are accepted after editor/reviewer evaluation. However, for such writings to be considered, They must meet scientific/academic content, feature and format conditions.
• To encourage new and original topics in the papers proposed to the journal; climate studies, the relationship between tourism and the environment, and interdisciplinary studies based on tourism are given priority for publication.