Volume: 3 Issue: 2, 7/28/23

Year: 2023

Aim

Journal of Quality and Strategy Management is an international peer-reviewed journal. It aims to publish original studies written in the area of quality and strategy, which will contribute to the area, and which are written in accordance with scientific methods.

Our journal aims to be a source of information for all researchers interested in the related area by providing free and open access. The journal’s aim is to increase the international visibility and accessibility of the qualified information developed in the area through scientific publishing and to contribute to the science world.

Scope

The journal accepts studies prepared in all areas related to quality and strategy management.

At least one article in each issue of the journal will include quality and strategy studies and case studies at universities.

Academic studies with the following requirements are published in Trakya University Journal of Quality and Strategy Management.

Main Article File, Cover File and Commitment Form are requested from the authors who submit their manuscripts to our journal. In order not to delay the peer-review process and to start the process immediately, it is important that the authors upload their files as indicated below.

Commitment Form; is a document that shows that the scientific responsibility for the study belongs to the authors, that scientific and ethical rules are followed, that the study has not been sent to another journal for evaluation, and that all authors have seen and approved the final version of the study.

In order for any article to be published in Journal of Quality and Strategy Management, it should not have been previously published or accepted to be published elsewhere. Papers presented at a conference or symposium may be accepted for publication if clearly indicated so beforehand.

All researches subjected to comparison of the products with their trade names are not in the scope of our journal.

Manuscripts should be typed on A4 format (29/7x21cm) paper with 12 pt and 1 line space. They are arranged properly margined (6.2 cm from top, 5.5 cm from bottom, 4 cm from right, 4 cm from left, 5.2 cm from header, 5 cm from footer), and not exceeding 8000 words.

First line of the paragraphs in the text will start 1 cm from inside. Title of the article will be written with capital letters starting from the left top of the page by leaving 4 lines empty space. Subtitles will be placed in accordance with the paragraph order (1 cm from inside).

Articles are submitted according to the order of Abstract, Introduction, Methods and Results.

"APA style” should be used in the articles.

Journal of Quality and Strategy Management is the official publication of Trakya University, and an international peer-reviewed academic journal. The journal is published twice a year (January-July).

The journal aims to publish original studies written in the area of quality and strategy, which will contribute to the area, and which are written in accordance with scientific methods.

The journal serves as a publishing tool for solving problems in the area of quality and strategy management.

The journal is based on independent and unbiased double-blinded peer-reviewed principles. Only unpublished papers that are not under review for publication elsewhere can be submitted.

Journal of Quality and Strategy Management does not accept multiple submissions and duplicate submissions even though the previous one was published in a different language. The authors are responsible for the scientific content of the material to be published. This Journal reserves the right to request any research materials on which the paper is based.

Authorship Criteria

Journal of Quality and Strategy Management follows the below authorship criteria of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and every corresponding author should fill the Authorship contribution form based on these criteria of COPE.

Only persons who meet these authorship criteria should be listed as authors in the manuscript as they must be able to take public responsibility for the content:

1. Made significant contributions to the conception, design, execution, data acquisition, or analysis/interpretation of the study,
2. Drafted the manuscript or revised it critically for important intellectual content,
3. Have seen and approved the final version of the paper and agreed to its submission for publication.

All persons who made substantial contributions to the work reported in the manuscript (such as technical help, writing and editing assistance, general support) but who do not meet the criteria for authorship must not be listed as an author, but should be acknowledged in the “Acknowledgements” section after their written permission to be named has been obtained. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate coauthors (according to the above definition) and no inappropriate co-authors are included in the author list and verify that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the manuscript and agreed to its submission for publication.

Publication Process

Journal of Quality and Strategy Management is an international peer-reviewed journal, published printed and online twice a year.

The journal is based on independent and unbiased double-blinded peer-reviewed principles. Only unpublished papers that are not under review for publication elsewhere can be submitted.

Journal of Quality and Strategy Management does not accept multiple submissions and duplicate submissions even though the previous one was published in a different language.

The authors are responsible for the scientific content of the material to be published. This Journal reserves the right to request any research materials on which the paper is based.

Articles to be published in journal are not supposed to be published anywhere else before.

Article's languages are Turkish and English.

No royalty payment is given to the article authors.

Journal of Quality and Strategy Management does NOT charge a fee for submission, processing, or publication from authors and reviewers. It is a 100% nonprofit initiative to encourage good social sciences publications.

Articles submitted to the journal are taken primarily preliminary examination in terms of form and content. Articles that are not suitable with writing rules are rejected no need for a reviewer assessment.

Authors have the responsibility for the ideas brought forward in the articles published in this journal and legal liability of the articles belongs to authors.

The author should apply for membership in order to add an article to the system and enter the system after confirmation and send the article.

The author can track their own article assessment process on their user account.

Accepted articles belonging to the same author(s) are not published in the same or following issues. Advisory Board makes the final decision about which article will be published in which issue.

Article texts, reference systems, and bibliographies should be prepared in American Psychological Association (APA) style.

Articles published in the journal are sent to at least two reviewers. Papers in accordance with the results of peer-review will be queued to be published. The authors about the identity of the reviewer, the reviewer is not informed about the identity of the authors.

Trakya University Journal of Social Science is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.

The whole editorial and peer review process can be divided into 15 successive steps:

1. First technical review by the Editorial Secretary
2. First review by the Editor-in-Chief: [immediate rejection, immediate revision, or further evaluation]
3. First similarity check
4. Commitment form check
5. First review by two or more external reviewers
6. Notification to the author in the direction of the review evaluation report
7. Revisions (if needed)
8. Reviewed articles check and forward to reviewers
9. Notification to the author in the direction of reviewer' second evaluation report
10. Check by Statics Editor
11. Final similarity checks by the Editor-in-Chief
12. Submission article
13. Assignment of DOI number
14. Final check by the author about page layout
15. Publication

Conflict of Interest

Journal of Quality and Strategy Management’s editorial review process is in accordance with the Good Editorial Practice set by international editorial organizations (EASE, COPE). Journal of Quality and Strategy Management requires that each author, reviewer, and editor must disclose to the editor-in-chief any conflict of interest related to family, personal, financial, political, or religious issues as well as any competing interest.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supporting a greater global exchange of knowledge. By “open access” to [peer-reviewed research literature], we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution and the only role for copyright in this domain is given to authors to retain control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.

No fee is charged from the author/authors for the publication process.

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