Research Article
Aim & Scope
Öneri Journal, published since 1994, seeks to consolidate its position as a scholarly vehicle of different fields of social sciences. The Journal publishes high quality, insightful, well-written papers that explore current and new issues in social sciences. Its objective is to provide a forum for the scholarly exchange of research findings in, and significant empirical, conceptual, or theoretical contributions to the field. The Journal operates with honesty, transparency, and business ethic to achieve higher scientific standards.
Öneri Journal is biannually (January and July) published scientific journal and welcomes submissions both in Turkish and English. The Journal’s scope includes theoretical and empirical studies in all disciplines of social, human and administrative sciences.
Author Guidelines
AUTHOR GUIDELINES
GENERAL RULES FOR SUBMISSION
- Öneri accepts articles both in English and Turkish.
- You are requested to identify funding/supporting organizations for the conduct of the research and/or preparation of the article as a footnote on the title page.
- Manuscript should not exceed 12,000 words, including footnotes, tables, figures, and references.
- Manuscript should be organized using the APA method of referencing (6th Edition). Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa).
- An extended abstract in English should be prepared in the range of 800-1200 words as a holistic text containing the aim, scope, method, findings, analysis and results of the article for submissions in Turkish. It should be placed at the end of the article and uploaded to the system as a single file.
- Ethics Committee Permission is required for any research carried out with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from participants using survey, interview, focus group work, observation, experiment, interview techniques.
Layout: All pages should be in A4 size with margins as 3cm top, 3cm bottom, 2cm right and 2cm left.
Abstract and Keywords: The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results and major conclusions. Manuscripts should contain Turkish and English abstracts with relevant keywords.
• Abstract and Keywords:V1 Regardless of whether the language of the article is Turkish or English, there should be abstracts in Turkish and English in the range of 100-200 words. Both abstracts should be arranged in 9 pt, as a single justified paragraph. There should be at least 3 keywords relevant to the article just under the abstracts with the title of Keywords in bold letters. Keywords also should be arranged in 9 pt with first letters as capital.
Ethical Principles and Publication Policy
Öneri is committed to maintaining the highest standards of publication ethics and to meeting and upholding the following principles of Core Practices prepared in accordance with the guidelines and policies developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) for journal editors.
- Submitted manuscripts should not have been previously published, or scheduled and/or evaluated to be published in another journal.
- Öneri adheres to the standards of COPE for publication ethics. Therefore, in cases of misconduct or violation of publication ethics, the journal will take the publication ethics flowcharts developed by COPE (https://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts) as a reference.
- In accordance with the double-blind peer review process, Öneri preserves the anonymity of authors and reviewers when submitted articles are sent for review.
- It is the journal’s responsibility to maintain the confidentiality of any information regarding authors. However, such information may be shared in a possible enquiry in order to investigate any allegations of misconduct. Öneri defines its principles regarding any allegations of misconduct in accordance with the guidelines prepared by the COPE and shares these principles with the stakeholders on its website.
- Text recycling, that is using the chapters of a single text in various publications of the same author without any reference, is unacceptable for Öneri. In such cases, the journal acts according to the relevant guidelines determined by the COPE.
- Öneri protects and supports freedom of expression under all circumstances. Moreover, the journal considers any racist, sexist or discriminatory content as hate speech and uses its right to refuse such contents without sending them for review.
- In case of a conflict of interest regarding an article, the journal openly supports intellectual and ethical standards; and defines relevant ethical principles that authors, reviewers, editor and editorial board should adhere to.
- In case of a conflict of interest regarding an article, the journal suspends the peer review process until the ambiguity is clarified; and it has the authority to request the Ethics Board Waiver Form, Interview Consent Form and other documents that need to be submitted from authors regarding their articles.
- Öneri is sensitive and responsible for publishing edited contents, commentaries, apologies and refutations.
- Editorial board of the journal are obliged to follow legal advices in case that repetitions in an article, that is coinciding texts in two different publications, violate any intellectual property rights.
Principles for Handling Allegations of Misconduct
Öneri adopts COPE’s guidelines regarding “allegations of misconduct” in cases of misconduct and violation. Hence, the journal defines in detail the liabilities of the publisher, editors, reviewers, the Scientific Board and authors prior, during and after the publication process in the Publication Ethics.
- In cases when an article is submitted to various publishers, comparing different versions of a single work submitted to various journals and explanations of authors and enquirers regarding the work in question enables to cooperate and make an effort in cases of suspected misconduct and violation and to act accordingly together with enquirers/authors and/or their institutions.
- Having regard to the significance of confidentiality in scientific publication process, Öneri shares information regarding authors and reviewers only in order to prevent suspected misconducts and to fulfill the obligation to handle such cases.
- Journal editorial board and theme editors have to make the first enquiries in suspected cases before sharing such information. Thus, sharing information is only at stake when the author does not respond, provides insufficient explanation or the said allegation of misconduct might affect more than one journal.
Policy of Screening for Plagiarism
Ethical violations such as plagiarism are unacceptable by Öneri and it is primarily author(s)’s responsibility to ensure that submitted articles do not contain such violations. All Submitted manuscripts are first passed through iThenticate software and studies presenting more than 20% similarity ratio are automatically rejected.
Price Policy
Publishing articles in journal of Öneri, downloading and reading of articles is free of charge.
Journal Boards
Owner on behalf of the Marmara University
Editor-in-Chief
Advisory Board
Senior Associate Editor
Associate Editors
Alparslan Nas completed his undergraduate and graduate studies in Cultural Studies at Sabancı University, followed by a doctorate from Marmara University Faculty of Communication, Department of Advertising, where he began his career as a research assistant. He was promoted to associate professor in 2018 and full professor in 2025. Prof. Nas is the author of numerous international publications, including the book Media Representations of the Cultural Other in Turkey (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and articles in prestigious peer-reviewed journals such as the European Journal of Cultural Studies, Feminist Media Studies, and the International Journal of Communication. Since 2020, he has served as the editor of the Turkish Review of Communication Studies. At Marmara University Faculty of Communication, he teaches courses including Introduction to Communication, Communication Theories, Sociology of Communication, Brand Communication, and Philosophy of Advertising. His primary research interests encompass critical studies of advertising and branding, gender and advertising, and topics in Turkish cultural studies.
Editorial Board
She completed his undergraduate education at Istanbul University. Özmen, who studied Classical Philology at the Faculty of Letters, started to work as a Research Assistant at Istanbul University, School of Communication in 1997. He completed his master's and doctorate education at Istanbul University, Department of Radio-TV and Cinema, and received his PhD in 2004. She has been University of Texas PanAm for post doctorate study. Seçkin Özmen, who received the title of associate professor in 2009, became a professor in 2014. Her work focuses on gender, media audience, television dramas, qualitative research methods, film studies and new media. He has articles published in national and international journals, book chapters and presentations to national and international symposiums and conferences. Özmen, who still continues his studies at Istanbul University, Faculty of Communication, Department of Radio and Television Cinema, speaks English and reads and writes Latin.
Advisory Board
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Öneri
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