Peer Review
Peer Review Policies
• Manuscripts that have not been published before or that are not yet under evaluation in another journal for publication and that are approved by each author are accepted for evaluation.
• Submitted and pre-checked manuscripts are scanned for plagiarism using Intihal.net software.
• The Ortacag Arastirmalari Dergisi operates a double anonymized review process. The editor will first evaluate all studies for suitability for the journal. Articles deemed appropriate are sent to two editorial board members for a preliminary evaluation to evaluate the article's scientific quality. After the editorial board members notify the editor of their decision to send the article to the referee process via the Internal Evaluation Form, the field editor is appointed and sent to three independent expert referees.
• Care is taken to ensure that the independent external referees selected by the field editor to evaluate the article are not from the same institution or affiliated with the author. In other words, academics related to the field at the institution where the author studied and worked are excluded from refereeing.
• The Editor-in-Chief evaluates manuscripts regardless of the author's ethnicity, gender, nationality, religious beliefs, and political philosophy. It ensures that the articles submitted for publication undergo a fair double-blind peer review.
• The Editor-in-chief does not allow any conflict of interest between authors, editors, and reviewers.
• The Editor is responsible for the final decision regarding acceptance or rejection of articles. The Editor's decision is final.
• Editors are not involved in decisions about papers that they have written themselves or have been written by family members or colleagues, or which relate to products or services in which the editor has an interest. Any such submission is subject to all of the journal's usual procedures.
• Reviewers should ensure that all information regarding the submitted articles remains confidential until the manuscript is published and should report any copyright infringement and plagiarism on the author's part to the editor.
• If the referee does not feel qualified about the article's subject or if it does not seem possible to provide a timely response, he should notify the editor of this situation and ask him not to involve himself in the referee process.
• During the evaluation process, the editor clearly states that the manuscript submitted for review to the reviewer is the exclusive property of the authors, and this is a privileged communication. Reviewers and editorial board members cannot discuss articles with other people. Care should be taken to keep the identities of the referees confidential.
Review Process
Model of Peer Review: Double-blind
Double-blind peer review: After plagiarism control, eligible articles are evaluated by the editor-in-chief for originality, methodology, importance of the subject covered, and compatibility with the scope of the journal. The editor ensures that the manuscripts go through a fair double-blind review and, if the article conforms to the formal principles, it submits the incoming article to evaluate at least two referees from the country and/or abroad.
Review Timing: Pre-publication
Mediation: Editors mediate all interactions between reviewers and authors
Days between submission & last decision: Average 8 weeks from submission to publication. Of those sent externally for review in 2018, the median time to first decision for research papers was 60 days.
Check for Plagiarism: Yes – Turnitin. The Ortacag Arastirmalari Dergisi routinely screens article submissions for Plagiarism.
Peer Review Policies: URL
Number of Reviewers Review Each Manuscript: Three
Time Allowed: 15 days. This period can be extended by adding 5 days.
Journal Acceptance Rate: We publish about 42% of the articles we receive each year. Roughly one thirds of all submissions are rejected without sending them for external peer review.
Decisions: In order for the manuscript to be accepted by the Editor, at least two reviewers must make an acceptance decision.
Suspect Research or Publication Misconduct: Reviewers should notify the Editor when they suspect research or publication misconduct. The editor is responsible for carrying out the necessary actions by following the COPE recommendations.
Editor-in-Chief screens every research paper on the day it is submitted. If the editor feels the paper merits further evaluation, it gets sent to an assistant editor for a more detailed review. The assistant editor usually takes each article from start to finish for research articles. We aim to reach the first decision on all manuscripts within two or three weeks, but the initial decision is often made within a few days of submission. If we do not think The Ortacag Arastirmalari Dergisi is the right journal for the work, we will promptly let authors know so they may submit their work elsewhere without delay. The usual reasons for rejection at this stage are insufficient originality and the fact that the topic falls outside the journal's purview.
The next step for your research article is our Editorial Board meeting. The members will read your article and discuss its importance, originality, and scientific quality. To make editorial decisions for research articles, we focus mainly on the research question: even when the overall subject is relevant, topical, and important we may reject the article because the study didn’t ask a research question that added enough. Of course, we will also reject work if it has serious flaws. Everyone attending the manuscript meeting is asked to declare relevant competing interests at the start, and anyone with an important competing interest will either leave the room or speak last when the relevant article is being discussed (depending on the nature and extent of their interest).
If your article is potentially suitable for The Ortacag Arastirmalari Dergisi , the section editor will send your article for two external peer reviewer. Reviewers advise the editors, who make the final decision. We ask reviewers to sign their reports and declare any competing interests on any manuscripts we send them. The final decision is made by the Editor-in-chief after external peer review processes.
Some articles may also be seen by The Ortacag Arastirmalari Dergisi's ethics editor and, in cases where the editor suspects serious research misconduct, by appropriate third parties.
We aim to reach a final decision on publication within 6 to 8 weeks of submission for all articles. If we make an offer of publication subject to revision we usually ask authors to return their articles to us within the subsequent month.
The Ortacag Arastirmalari Dergisi provides open access to peer-reviewed research as part of its commitment to readers and authors. We make all our research articles freely available online.
If you notice any error in your published article, email the editor-in-chief who will advise you whether a correction can be made.
Peer Review Principles for Papers Submitted by The Editorial Staff
Editorials and analysis articles written by The Ortacag Arastirmalari Dergisi's own editors do not undergo external peer review. Articles reporting original research done at the Ortacag Arastirmalari Dergisi are independently peer-reviewed. During this period, those editors cannot enter the journal system, user accounts are disabled.
