KATMAN Journal of Archaeological Science is committed to academic integrity, impartiality, and transparency in scientific publishing. The journal upholds international ethical publication standards for all stakeholders in the publishing process: authors, editors, reviewers, and readers.

Core Publication Policies:

• The journal operates on an open access basis, and all content is freely available.
• No submission or article processing charges are requested.
• All submissions undergo double-blind peer review.
• Plagiarism and ethical misconduct screening is conducted before peer review.
• Each published article receives a DOI number for proper citation and indexing.

Ethical Responsibilities:

Authors:

Must submit only original, unpublished work.
Are required to cite sources properly and follow academic citation standards.
If artificial intelligence tools are used, this must be explicitly stated.

Reviewers:

Should conduct objective and scholarly evaluations; must decline review in case of any conflict of interest.
Are expected to provide constructive and academically appropriate feedback.

Editors:

Must ensure scientific neutrality throughout the editorial process. Editors are responsible for taking action when they suspect ethical violations.

Ethical Misconduct:
We take plagiarism, data fabrication, improper citation, and duplicate publication seriously. The COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) guidelines will guide our actions in such cases.

All content published in the journal is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) 4.0 International License. This license encourages the dissemination and use of research published in the journal by enabling sharing and adaptation of the content for non-commercial purposes.

Publication Ethics Violations
Cases such as plagiarism, fabrication or falsification of data, improper citation, or the unauthorized reuse of the same data across multiple publications are treated with utmost seriousness. In such instances, the journal follows the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) to determine the appropriate course of action.