Text & Analysis adheres to international standards of research and publication ethics. Our journal adopts the International Ethical Publishing Principles published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME). Authors submitting articles to the journal must comply with the ethical rules listed below, which are determined under these principles.

Text & Analysis expects authors to submit original research that has not been previously published. These articles should not be submitted to another journal at the same time. Under ethical principles, authors should not present research results in more than one publication in a way that disrupts the integrity of research and inappropriately divides research results into sections; they should share the preliminary data of their study if requested by editors and referees, and they should keep these data after the article is published. When authors detect a significant error or inaccuracy in their published papers, they should immediately inform the journal editor and cooperate to retract or correct the paper.

All articles published in Text & Analysis are open access. During the article evaluation and publication process, no fee is charged to the authors and no royalties are paid to the authors.
Authors of the article submitted to Text & Analysis should be limited to those who have contributed significantly to the study. Authors should be determined before the article is submitted. It is not acceptable to add people who have not contributed to the work as authors (“gift authorship”) or to remove people who have contributed (“ghost authorship”)

Authors of the article submitted to Text & Analysis should mention the organizations and financial sources that supported their work, if any, in the contribution and acknowledgment section.

The papers submitted to Text & Analysis must be the authors' original research. When the work of other researchers is included in the article, it should be appropriately cited and listed in the references. All submitted articles are checked and evaluated using iThenticate plagiarism detection software. Articles with a similarity rate higher than 15% are not assessed.

Articles submitted to Text & Analysis requiring data collection through questionnaires, scales, interviews, or observations must obtain ethics committee permission. The article should state evidence of compliance with ethical rules during the data collection (e.g., securing permission for scales, questionnaires, or photographs belonging to others).

Ethical Responsibilities for Authors

• Authors bear academic, ethical, and social responsibilities.
• Authors must submit original and previously unpublished research to the journal and follow the writing guidelines specified on the journal’s website.
• Authors should not commit ethical violations such as plagiarism, exploitation of labor, inaccurate reference, or forgetting references in their articles; otherwise, the article will be rejected.
• Authors should indicate the organizations that support their work in their articles.
• If there are more than one author contributing to the study, the order of the authors' names should be decided consensually by the authors.
• Authors should inform the journal editors immediately if they detect errors or inaccuracies in their published articles.
• Authors should inform the journal editors immediately if they detect errors or inaccuracies in their published articles.
• Authors cannot publish the same article in more than one journal, partly or completely, without any justification, permission or cross-reference.
• Authors may withdraw their articles only during preliminary evaluation (before the blind refereeing process is initiated).
• For studies involving human participants that require ethics committee approval, authors must obtain approval from the ethics committee and submit a statement confirming that the necessary permissions have been obtained from the participants and that their rights have been respected. Studies requiring ethics committee approval are as follows:
     o Qualitative or quantitative research that requires data collection from participants using surveys, interviews, focus groups, observations, experiments, and interviews,
     o The use of humans and animals (including materials/data) for experimental or other scientific purposes,
     o Clinical studies on humans,
     o Research on animals,
     o Retrospective studies under the law on the protection of personal data.
• In addition to the requirements above, it is also mandatory to obtain the necessary permissions regarding the following issues:
     o Stating that the “informed consent form” has been obtained in the case reports,
     o Obtaining permission from the owners for the use of scales, questionnaires, and photographs belonging to others and indicating these permissions,

     o Indication of compliance with copyright regulations for the intellectual and artistic works used.                                                                                                      

Ethical Responsibilities for Referees

• Referees should be aware that they take the primary role in determining the academic quality of the articles to be published in the journal and should act with the responsibility of increasing academic quality.
• Referees should only agree to review articles that belong to their area of expertise, where they can respect the blind review process and keep information about the article confidential. Also, they should avoid sharing any information about the article with others after the review process.
• The role of the referees is solely to evaluate the accuracy of the paper's content and its compliance with academic standards; the fact that the views presented in the paper differ from the personal views of the referees should not affect the evaluation.
• Referee reports should be objective and moderate, avoiding insulting, demeaning, and accusatory statements. They should not use superficial and ambiguous statements, and they should clearly state the deficient and inaccurate issues that lead to negative conclusions.
• Referees should evaluate the articles within the deadline given to them. If they cannot, they should notify the journal within one week.
Ethical Responsibilities for Editors
• Editors are responsible for ensuring the quality of published material and maintaining the integrity of the published record.

• Editors can follow one of the following steps according to the referees’ recommendations:
     o Accepting the article without any changes,
     o Accepting the article after minor revisions or corrections,
     o Requesting authors to edit their papers and reinitiating the referee review process,
     o Rejecting the study.
• Editors’ decisions are based solely on academic criteria, and they take full responsibility for these decisions.
• Editors ensure a fair and impartial evaluation of the studies and act under the principle of freedom of expression.
• Editors conduct processes under intellectual property rights and ethical standards.
• Editors protect the confidentiality of authors and referees; they manage the review process following these confidentiality principles. Since the evaluation process is carried out in a double-blind system, identity information is kept confidential. The referee list of each issue is announced in the relevant issue.
• Editors ensure that all papers are reviewed by qualified referee
• Detailed information about the process for authors is provided in the Editorial Guidelines.
• Editors consider whether there are any potential conflicts of interest between authors and referees during referee assignments.
• Referees are urged to use impartial, scientific, and objective language when evaluating the manuscript.
• Discourteous and unscientific reviews are banned or censored.
• Editors are responsible for protecting the intellectual property rights of all published articles and defending the rights of the journal and authors in case of possible violations.
• Editors consider criticism of the articles published in the journal and constructively approach these criticisms. They publish criticism and discussion papers on the article.

Ethical Responsibilities for the Editorial Board

• The members of the Editorial Board accept the editorial ethics principles and policies of Text & Analysis and evaluate decisions related to them,
• The Editorial Board provides suggestions to increase the recognition of the journal, 

• In cases of suspected violations of scientific publication ethics, such as misconduct, plagiarism, conflict of interest, and copyright violations, they inform the journal’s editorial team to clarify the situation,
• The Editorial Board provides suggestions about indexes in which the journal can be included to increase its academic quality.
• The members of the Editorial Board must refrain from submitting articles to the journal or serving as referees during their term of office.

Ethical Responsibilities for the Publisher and Concessionaire

• The publisher of Text & Analysis is Dokuz Eylül University Publications on behalf of Dokuz Eylül University.
• The concessionaire of Text & Analysis is the Dean of the Faculty of Letters on behalf of Dokuz Eylül University.
• In cases of suspected violations of scientific publication ethics, such as misconduct, plagiarism, conflict of interest, and copyright violations, the publisher and the concessionaire must take the necessary measures to clarify the situation.