Toplum ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi (Journal of Social & Cultural Studies) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Conflict Statement
Copyright Form
Contribution Rate, Conflict Of Interest And Statement Of Support Received
All authors of scientific papers submitted to the journal should take into account the International Standards for Editors and Writers of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics).
Authors are required to use their ORCID ID when submitting an article for consideration.
It is allowed all versions of the articles to be deposited in an institutional or other repository of the author’s choice without embargo.
Turnitin or Itenticate plagiarism reports should also be attached to the articles to be submitted.
“Journal of Social and Cultural Studies” (J-SCS) is published in Turkish and English. The journal is published twice a year, in June and December.
It is not guaranteed that the manuscript evaluation process will be completed in time for the first issue after submission.
Evaluation Process:
“Journal of Social and Cultural Studies” is open to submissions from all researchers, provided that at least one of the authors holds a PhD degree or is a doctoral student. An article should has been written by max. four authors.
Double-blind peer-review is valid in the journal. The articles prepared in accordance with the writing rules are presented to the reviewer for review after they have passed the editorial review. Reviewers may request corrections, reject or accept the article directly. For articles rejected or accepted as a result of reviewer evaluation, the editorial board may request a third reviewer evaluation or follow the decision of the first two reviewers. In cases where one of the two reviewers accepts and the other rejects the manuscript, the editorial board requests a third reviewer to evaluate the manuscript.
The articles previously published in another publication or in the evaluation stage by another publication are not accepted into “Journal of Social and Cultural Studies” publication process. All the ethical and legal responsibilities related to the published articles belong to the authors.. It is not guaranteed that the evaluation of a submitted article will be completed before the first issue to be published after the submission date.
Price Policy:
No fees are charged for publications, no fees are paid to the editors, the editorial board, and the reviewers and their owners. It is accepted that the authors who submit articles to the contact address for publication in the journal should read and acknowledge this copyright statement.
Open Access Policy:
“Journal of Social and Cultural Studies” (J-SCS) is published only in electronic form through its website & Dergipark. It adopts “Open Access Policy”.
All articles submitted to the journal are deemed to approve the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License under which the journal is licensed.
According to the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License the material can be copied, redistributed in any medium or format and adapted for any purpose, including commercially purposes, under the terms specified in https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.tr#.
“Journal of Social and Cultural Studies” (Toplum ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi) J-SCS supports the initiative of open access of the peer-reviewed journal literature included in the Budapest Open Access Declaration and offers all published articles free of charge in an environment that everyone can access. In this declaration, open access means that “scientific literature can be accessed, read, saved, copied, printed, scanned, linked to full text, indexed, transferred to the software as data and used for any legal purpose, without financial, legal and technical barriers via the internet”. Therefore, studies in this journal can be used as long as the author and original source are cited. No permission is required from the authors or the journal authorities. The work in this journal is available across search engines, websites, blogs and other digital platforms. These open access policies adopted by our journal can be accessed at http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read
Plagiarism Policy
Turnitin and iThenticate – Plagiarism Prevention Programs are used in many academic journals and “Journal of Social and Cultural Studies” to detect plagiarism in academic studies.
The program has a comprehensive academic content directly related to the evaluation of academic publications. Each document uploaded to Turnitin and iThenticate is compared to documents in a large database.
The authors who submit their works are deemed to have declared that they have not committed any ethical violation. The works of authors who are found to have plagiarized through the Turnitin and iThenticate programs are not included in our journals.
Journal editors review the reports qualitatively and quantitatively. The report on this subject is sent to the author and (if necessary) to the relevant institutions and organizations.
Contribution Rate, Conflict Of Interest And Statement Of Support Received:
Contribution rate, conflict of interest and statement of support received must be submitted by completing the form above. This form, together with the article and other documents, should be uploaded to the system during the application or sent to the editor via e-mail.
Ethical Rules for Authors:
All authors must have significantly contributed to the research.
All authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes.
Authors should read and sign the copyright agreement at the top of the page and send it to the contact address.
The articles previously published in another publication or in the evaluation stage by another publication are not accepted into “Journal of Social and Cultural Studies” publication process.
All the ethical and legal responsibilities related to the published articles belong to the authors.
It should be ensured that the articles, figures, drawings, findings and conclusions are made in accordance with the rules of academic publication and do not contain plagiarism in any way.
The author whose name is written first in the article is assigned as Corresponding Author and acts on behalf of all co-authors and ensures that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately addressed.
Role of the Corresponding Author
The Corresponding Author is responsible for the following requirements:
Ensuring that all listed authors have approved the manuscript before submission, including the names and order of authors;
Managing all communication between the Journal and all co-authors, before and after publication;
Providing transparency on re-use of material and mention any unpublished material included in the manuscript in a cover letter to the Editor;
Making sure disclosures, declarations and transparency on data statements from all authors are included in the manuscript as appropriate.
Ethical Rules for Editors:
Field editors and issue editors will examine whether the articles are original, scientific, or not, according to the criteria above.
A plagiarism report from the Turnitin or Itenticate plagiarism program will be evaluated by the issue editor. Articles that appear problematic will be reviewed by the editorial board.
The reviewer evaluation process will not be initiated for any article that is not approved by the Editor – Editorial Board.
Ethical Rules for Reviewers:
Peer-review is defined as obtaining advice on individual manuscripts from reviewers’ expert in the field.
Judgments are required to be objective.
Reviewers are required to have no conflict of interest.
Reviewers are required to point out relevant published work that is not yet cited.
Reviewed articles are treated confidentially.
Reviewers will evaluate the article in terms of academic quality as well as compliance with https://publicationethics.org/guidance standards and general international publication ethics.
On ethical issues, Reviewers and editors work on the principle of cross-checking.
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