The Ethics Policy is aimed at all stakeholders (author, editor, referee, publisher and reader) who produce a scientific study, to contribute to the progress of science correctly. Compliance with scientific ethical principles is important in scientific studies prepared in accordance with this goal.


These ethical principles have been accepted by us on the basis of the directive prepared by the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) and are suggested to be adopted by the stakeholders, and some of them are presented below.
To be sure of the accuracy of the data related to the study, to keep the records of the research in order and to be able to give access to these data upon possible request.

Publication Policy, making sure that the article you submitted is not published or accepted elsewhere.

Studies submitted to our Journal for publication must have the quality of original work that has not been published in any way before or sent to be published elsewhere. When submitting their work, individuals are obliged to declare that the work has not been published on any other platform before, in whole or in part, and that they have not evaluated for publication. In case of a contrary situation, the author will be held responsible in accordance with the relevant sanctions.

Authors agree to waive the copyright of their work, and must transfer the copyright of their work to the INSTITUTION together with the submission for evaluation. This transfer becomes binding upon the acceptance of the article for publication. No part of the printed material can be used elsewhere without the written permission of the publisher.

The publication processes of the journal are the International Board of Medical Journals (ICMJE), the World Medical Editors Association (WAME), the Council of Science Editors (CSE), the Publication Ethics Board (COPE), the European Association of Science Editors (EASE) and the National Information Standards organization (NISO). It is executed in accordance with the guidelines.

The authors; All unregistered rights other than patents, copyrights, the right to reproduce the work for their own purposes provided that they do not sell the work, the right to use all or part of the work in the author's own books and other academic works, provided that the source is indicated, on personal websites provided that the work credential is specified, or the university reserves its rights, such as the right to keep it in its open archive.

When using previously published content, including ancillary images, tables or any other content in print or electronic format, authors must obtain permission from the copyright holder. The legal, financial and criminal responsibility in this matter belongs to the authors.

Authors who will submit a study to our journal must fill in the "Copyright Transfer and Conflict of Interest Declaration Form" document.

The journal does not charge for submission, processing or publication of manuscripts and even for color reproduction of photographs.

Authors should also upload the plagiarism report when uploading the work. Plagiarism is the most common and serious ethical issue affecting scientific writing. KTO Karatay University Journal of Health Sciences tries to take the necessary precautions in order not to allow any form of plagiarism. In addition, articles are scanned with a plagiarism software (iTenthicate, Turnitin) to detect overlapping and similar text samples. Articles with a similarity score of more than 20% are not accepted for publication.