Publication Ethics
Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University Journal of SBE attaches high importance to open access guidelines and policies of the Committee on Publication Ethics, such as the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors" and "COPE Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors." SBE Journal carefully follows the basic practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) in the context of ethics (authorship and contributorship; "conflict of interest" and "journal management"). The journal carefully monitors the resources provided by the Publication Ethics Committee (COPE) in order to achieve international ethical standards.
The ethical responsibilities of SBE Journal, the journal editor, reviewers, researchers, and authors are explained in detail below.
Ethical Responsibilities of Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University Journal of SBE
The editors of the SBE Journal meticulously examine the compliance of submitted studies with ethical principles. They take drastic measures to detect and prevent the publication of articles in which research abuse occurs, so that they do not encourage or knowingly allow such abuse to occur. If the editors of the SBE Journal detect violations of ethical principles (such as the manipulation of the data used or the use of fabricated data), this situation is reported to the institution where the article author works, and the article is not accepted for publication. SBE Journal and its editors are always ready to issue corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies as needed.
Authors have the right to request retraction, refutation, or correction of articles at any time before publication. However, they can request the retraction or correction of their article within five days after it has been published in an issue.
Ethical Responsibilities of Editors, Assistant Editors, and Field Editors
The editors and assistant editors of SBE Journal are responsible for everything published in the journal, including choosing the articles to be published in the journal. The editorial board and/or field editors of the journal guide the editor while making these choices, and the editor also takes into account the journal's publication policies in this process. In the selection of the articles to be published, the editor or assistant editors make evaluations according to their intellectual content, regardless of the gender, race, ethnic origin, religion, citizenship, and political values of the author. SBE Journal's editors and assistant editors never discriminate against authors, editors, or reviewers based on personal characteristics or identities. Rather, it embraces diversity and promotes equality at all stages of evaluation and publication. The editors and assistant editors of SBE Journal do not allow the use of unpublished material and other information and data in the texts submitted by the author(s) to the journal by anyone in their own work without the express and written permission of the author(s).
As can be understood from the statements mentioned above, the editors and assistant editors of SBE Journal meticulously comply with the conflict of interest, objectivity, confidentiality, and other issues determined in COPE.
Ethical Responsibilities of Reviewers
The referees who are requested to review/evaluate the work assigned to them by the editors and assistant editors of the SBE Journal may refuse to act as referees if they do not find the work assigned to them relevant to their field, do not find themselves competent to criticize, or cannot present a timely evaluation.
The referees will evaluate the articles as confidential files. For this reason, referees should not show the articles to anyone other than authorized people and should not discuss the articles. Information and ideas obtained during the arbitration process should not be used for personal gain.
Refereeing should be done in an objective, fair, and scientific manner. Reviewers should not criticize the authors personally and should avoid derogatory personal comments such as slander and insults. Reviewers should evaluate works regardless of the origin, gender, or political philosophy of the authors. Reviewers should also ensure a fair, blind peer review process for the review of manuscripts submitted to the journal.
During the peer-review process, if the referees notice a great deal of similarity or overlap between the article they are evaluating and another article, they should immediately notify the editors.
Reviewers should not evaluate papers where they know or guess the author or where there are conflicts of interest that may arise due to competition, cooperation, or any other relationship or connection between them.
During the peer-review process, the referees should assist the editor in editing and/or publishing the articles and should also assist the authors in order to increase the quality of the article.
Ethical Responsibilities of Authors
Articles sent to the Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University SBE Journal must be original. The articles must not have been previously published in another journal or submitted for evaluation in another journal. Submitting the same study to more than one journal at the same time is unethical and unacceptable. It is extremely important for the authors to pay attention to these issues. Authors who submit articles to the Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University Journal of SBE are deemed to have committed the above issues. The data used in the study should be presented meticulously in the study. A study should contain sufficient detail and source information. Fraudulent and deliberate false statements are unacceptable, as they may lead to unethical situations. In addition, authors must strictly comply with the writing rules of the journal. The authors should meticulously make the changes requested by the referee, assistant editors, language editor, or editor-in-chief. Additional documents requested by the editor or referees should be uploaded to the system. In cases where the requested changes are not made within the given time period, the articles will be returned to the author without being re-evaluated.
Authors may be asked to provide relevant raw data that may be needed during evaluation in connection with their work, so they should be prepared to provide access to this data and retain it for a reasonable period of time following publication of their work.
Authors should prove with documents that their work is original and conforms to ethical standards. In this context, authors should make direct or indirect citations according to APA standards and add the references to the bibliography section. In addition, authors should prove with a Turnitin or Identicate report that the similarity rate of their work is below 20% while uploading their work to the system.
An author who publishes in the journal of Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University SBE can publish again in the next one year as per the journal policy. In addition, a maximum of 20% of the number of publications in any volume of the Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University SBE Journal can be made by the staff of Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University.
Authors submitting a study to the SBE Journal should list the authors who contributed to the study after the first author in the contribution rate. In addition, the authors are obliged to declare that there is no conflict of interest among themselves. The responsible authors or the order of the authors cannot be changed for articles whose evaluation process has been completed.
Authors who submit articles to the Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University Journal of SBE are deemed to have committed to the ethical principles summarized/listed below, in addition to the Articles uploaded to the Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University SBE Journal through the Journal-Park system for evaluation. Articles should not be published in another journal or sent for evaluation:
- All sources included and used in the uploaded articles must be cited in line with scientific research methods and ethical principles.
- It is necessary to list authors according to their contribution rate.
- The works of the authors must be original, and the similarity rate must be below 20%.
- There mustn’t be an ethical violation regarding the participants used in the study, and ethical permissions must be obtained in accordance with the "Higher Education Institution Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive" and the ethical report must be uploaded to the system.
- In articles that do not require an ethical report, the authors undertake to sign and upload the document showing that their work does not require an ethical report.
- Authors are responsible for the opinions and suggestions they present. The journal cannot be held responsible for the expressions of the authors.
- If the submitted work is an article produced from the thesis or a paper presented at the conference before, the author should inform the journal editors.
- The authors agree to transfer the financial rights on the work they submit to the journal, especially all kinds of public transmission rights, including processing, reproduction, representation, printing, publication, distribution, and transmission via the internet, to Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University SBE Journal for unlimited use, and upload the signed version of the copyright transfer form to the system.
- Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University Journal of SBE has no responsibility for claims or lawsuits to be filed by third parties due to copyright, and the responsibility belongs entirely to the authors.
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