Ethical Principles

Perceptions is committed to maintaining high standards of publication ethics and to ensuring the integrity, quality, and credibility of the research it publishes. The journal follows the principles and guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

The journal ensures that all manuscripts are evaluated solely on the basis of their academic and scholarly merit, without discrimination based on the author's race, religion, nationality, gender, political views, academic seniority, or institutional affiliation.

Authors are expected to present an objective discussion of the significance of their research and to provide sufficient methodological details and references to allow the work to be properly evaluated and, where applicable, replicated. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements are unacceptable. Review articles should likewise be objective, comprehensive, and accurate.

Authors must ensure that their submissions are original. Any use of the work, ideas, or words of other researchers must be appropriately acknowledged and cited. Plagiarism in any form is unethical and unacceptable. Similarly, submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal simultaneously is considered unethical and unacceptable.

The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that all co-authors have approved the final version of the manuscript and agreed to its submission for publication. Authors must disclose any actual or potential conflicts of interest that could influence the research or its interpretation.

For research involving human or animal participants—including surveys, interviews, observations, experiments, and focus group studies—authors must obtain approval from the relevant ethics committee or institutional review board, where required. The relevant approval should be clearly stated in the manuscript and documented by providing the name of the ethics committee, the date of approval, and the approval/reference number.

Authors are also responsible for ensuring that their submissions comply with applicable copyright regulations, particularly when using tables, graphs, illustrations, images, photographs, or other copyrighted material.

Reviewers must treat manuscripts received for review as confidential documents. They must not use unpublished information, data, arguments, or ideas contained in a manuscript for their own personal or professional advantage. Reviews should be conducted objectively, constructively, and respectfully, with comments and recommendations presented clearly and in a manner that can help authors improve their manuscripts.

Reviewers should inform the editors if they do not have the expertise necessary to evaluate the manuscript or if they are unable to complete the review within a reasonable period. They should decline to review manuscripts in which they have an actual or potential conflict of interest.

Editors should evaluate manuscripts solely on the basis of their academic and scholarly merit, without discrimination based on the author's race, religion, nationality, gender, political views, academic seniority, or institutional affiliation. Editors must not use unpublished information or ideas contained in submitted manuscripts for their own research without the written consent of the authors.

Editors are also responsible for taking appropriate and timely action in response to ethical concerns or complaints regarding submitted or published manuscripts. Where necessary, they should follow established procedures for investigating allegations of research or publication misconduct and take appropriate corrective action.

Publication Policy

Open Access

Perceptions adopts an open access policy. All published content is freely and immediately accessible to readers without financial, legal, or technical barriers.

Licensing and Copyright

Perceptions retains the copyright and publication rights for articles published in the journal. Authors who wish to republish or reproduce their articles, in whole or in part, in another publication or format must obtain prior written permission from the journal.

Any authorized republication must acknowledge the article's original publication in Perceptions and provide the relevant bibliographic information.

Archiving

The journal archives all published issues and articles through the DergiPark platform for long-term access and preservation.

Plagiarism

All manuscripts submitted to Perceptions undergo a similarity check during the initial evaluation stage using the plagiarism detection software provided through DergiPark. Unattributed quotations, inadequate citation, self-plagiarism, and other forms of academic and publication misconduct are considered violations of the principles of scholarly publishing.

If plagiarism or another ethical violation is detected, the manuscript will be rejected without proceeding to further evaluation. Where necessary, appropriate post-publication action, including correction or retraction, may be taken in accordance with established publication ethics procedures.

Use of Artificial Intelligence

AI-assisted tools may be used in manuscripts submitted to Perceptions for purposes such as language editing, summarization, technical writing assistance, or limited research support. If AI tools are used to an extent that contributes to the generation of substantive content, interpretation of data, creation of visuals, or the development of the manuscript's principal arguments, such use must be clearly disclosed in the manuscript.

AI systems cannot be listed as authors. Authors remain fully responsible for the originality, accuracy, ethical integrity, and entire content of their submissions, regardless of whether AI-assisted tools have been used.

To protect the confidentiality and integrity of the peer-review process, manuscripts submitted for review must not be uploaded to or processed through AI systems.