Oksident

OKSİDENT is a peer-reviewed journal published twice a year in June and December.

Our journal includes articles on Judaism, Christianity, Muslim-Jewish Relations, Muslim-Christian Relations, Christian-Jewish Relations, religion-society and religion-politics relations in Europe and America.

Articles must be original or unpublished.

Our journal will primarily include articles that try to find answers to a question or provide solutions to a problem. Research articles, book reviews, literature reviews, and translations are also published in our journal.

Manuscripts must be submitted via the dergipark system. Click here for a visual description of how to send an article to a journal in the journal.

Articles (excluding abstracts and bibliography) should not exceed 6000 words (approximately 20 pages).

Articles may be written in Turkish or English.

Bibliography should be included at the end of the articles.

MECRA Citation System should be used in footnotes and bibliography.

Our journal uses the double-sided blind referee process. Referee names are not published in the journal.

Articles submitted to the journal are first passed through plagiarism query. Then, it is examined whether the article deals with a subject covered by the journal. Finally, “Preliminary Review” is completed by evaluating in terms of figures, footnotes and bibliography.

After the preliminary examination, the articles are sent to 2 referees for evaluation.

The article which receives positive reports from both referees is accepted to the journal. If the referees disagree about the publication of the article, the article is sent to the third referee.

The authors whose articles are accepted for publication are required to have an abstract of 150 words and a summary of 750 words in Turkish and English languages.

Authors who submit an article to our journal are deemed to have declared that they comply with the rules of scientific ethics.

Our journal does not charge any fee for application or publication.

1. The journal will immediately contact the university to which the author(s) are affiliated to take final action against the related author.
2. The journal will remove the PDF copy of the published article from its website and disable all links to the full-text article. The phrase Plagiarized Article will be added to the published article’s title.
3. The journal will disable the author’s account and reject all future submissions by the author for three years.

Submitted manuscripts that pass preliminary control are scanned for plagiarism using iThenticate software. If plagiarism/self-plagiarism is found, authors will be informed. If required, editors may resubmit the manuscript for similarity check at any peer-review or production stage. High similarity scores may lead to the rejection of a manuscript before and even after acceptance. The percentage of similarity score taken from each article, the overall similarity score is generally expected to be less than 20% excluding footnotes and bibliography.

Studies Based on Survey and Interview

1. Ethics committee approval should be obtained for research conducted in all disciplines that require ethics committee approval. This approval should be stated on the article’s first page, and the ethics approval document should be uploaded to the Dergipark system with the article.
2. In research that requires ethics committee permission, information about the permission (name of the committee, date, and number) is given in the method section and after the bibliography section of the article; In case reports, information about signing the informed consent/consent form should be included in the article.
   

• List of references and financial support;
• No plagiarism, no fraudulent data. As a result of plagiarism control, articles with a similarity rate of 20% or more are directly rejected in accordance with the journal’s publication policy.
• Forbidden to publish the same research in more than one journal.