Ethical Principles and Publication Policy

PUBLICATION ETHICS

1) National and International Principles

Süleyman Demirel Law Review (SDLR) follows a policy in line national and international publication ethics standards. In this context; Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive determined by the Council of Higher Education (https://www.yok.gov.tr/Sayfalar/Kurumsal/mevzuat/bilimsel-arastirma-ve-etik-yonetmeligi.aspx), Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)), COPE Core Practices (https://publicationethics.org/core-practices) and COPE Publication Ethics Guidelines (https://publicationethics.org/guidance/Guidelines) and COPE, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Open Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing (POT), prepared in collaboration with Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA) and World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.1.12) is adopted.

The iThenticate program is used to determine the similarity rate of the studies sent to the SDLR for publication and whether there is an ethical breach. If it is determined that the 20% similarity rate is exceeded except for the bibliography and there is an ethical breach, the study is directly rejected without being sent to reviewers. While determining the studies to be published, the double-blind peer review process is followed, and these studies are evaluated by at least two reviewers from country or abroad. The authors are obligated to consider the corrections indicated by the reviewers.

2) Author’s Obligations

Studies submitted to the SDLR should be in accordance with the purpose, scope and writing of the SDLR. Accordance of the studies submitted to the SDLR with scientific and ethical rules is the responsibility of the author. Plagiarism, forgery, distortion, republishing, slicing, unfair authorship, not specifying the funders, institutions or organizations and their contributions are considered as behaviors contrary to ethical principles and publication policy.

By submitting his/her study for publication, the author acknowledges that the submitted study is original, has not been previously published elsewhere, and is not under evaluation for publication elsewhere, in another language.

All the sources used in the study should be indicated in the references in accordance with the procedure specified in the SDLR's writing rules. Copyright material (e.g. tables, figures or extensive quotations) must be reproduced only with appropriate permission and acknowledgement.

Translated works are published with the written permission of the author or the right holder of the publishing rights. For translated works, the permission of the person or institution for which permission has been obtained should be indicated in the first footnote by placing an asterisk (*) next to the right owner.

If there is more than one author in the study submitted to the SDLR, each author must have made a significant scientific contribution to the study. All authors are responsible for the study. The individuals who contribute to the study through the asterisk (*) to be placed in the title of the study, but do not have sufficient criteria to be an author, can be included in the “acknowledgements/information” section of the footnote.

The order of names in the author list of the study must be a co-decision. In a study where the evaluation process has started, it is not proposed to change the author responsibilities (adding authors, removing authors, changing the order of authors, etc.).

In a study where the evaluation process has starts, it is not proposed to change the author responsibilities (adding authors, removing authors, changing the order of authors, etc.).

The author must disclose financial relationships, conflicts of interest, and competition of interest that have the potential to affect the results of the research or scientific evaluation.

When the author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published paper, it is the author’s obligation to promptly cooperate with the Editor to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes.

Author(s) must write his/her name-surname, ORCID code, institutional affiliation, country-city, e-mail address information clearly, accurately, and completely.

3) Reviewers’ Obligations

Reviewers must have the necessary expertise to evaluate the study submitted to them.

Reviewers’ evaluations must be objective.

A reviewer who feels unqualified to review the topic of a manuscript, make an impartial and objective evaluation or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.

Reviewers must have no rivalry or conflict of interest with respect to the research, author(s) and/or the research funders. If a conflict of interest is noticed that will prevent a fair and impartial evaluation, the situation must be reported to the editor.

If any breach of research and publication ethics is detected in the study submitted for evaluation, this should be reported to the editor.

The study submitted for evaluation should never be shared or discussed with third parties. All information related to study is kept as confidential.

The Peer Evaluation Form must be filled in truthfully and must include a scientific evaluation. Feedback should be respectful, constructive, and objective.

4) Editors’ Obligations

General obligations: To investigate the views of the author, reader, reviewer, and editorial board on the development of the SDLR and to strive to prevent scientific breaches.

Relations with Authors: To create and renew guides for authors about the method of submission of studies to the SDLR, what is expected from authors, the writing rules of the SDLR, ethical principles, and other important issues.

Managing the process using COPE flowcharts when an ethical issue suspected.

Relations with Reviewers: To present the SDLR rules to the reviewers directly and them the most renew form.

Requiring reviewers to indicate possible conflicts of interest before evaluating a study.

Trying to appreciate of the reviewers contribution to the SDLR.

To follow the performances of the reviewers and to create a database about it.

Removing referees from the SDLR's database who consistently make rude, underperforming, or late evaluations.

5) General Principles Regarding Ethical Breaches

Studies submitted to the SDLR for publication are subject to peer review by going through a double-blind peer-review process to prevent ethical breaches. For the study to be published, it must be approved by both reviewers. If the study rejected by one reviewer is deemed appropriate to be published by the other reviewer, the final evaluation of the study is made by the third reviewer. Studies rejected by the third reviewer are reported to the author and rejected and excluded from evaluation.

The studies submitted to the SDLR are controlled by the editor or associate editors using the iThenticate similarity detection program. The similarity rate of the study with other studies should be less than 20%. Studies with a similarity rate of more than 20% are rejected without being sent to the reviewer. Bibliographic materials (bibliography, citations, etc.) are not included in the scan.

If an ethical breach or abuse is noticed by the Editorial Board before the publication of the study, it may be decided to return the study and not to publish it. If it is understood that there is an ethical breach or abuse after the study is published, the article is removed from publication. The COPE Guidelines are considered at this stage.

PUBLICATION POLICY

1) About

Süleyman Demirel Law Review (SDLR) has been published by Süleyman Demirel University Faculty of Law since 2011. The Review, which has the status of ““Double-blind Peer Reviewed Journal” indexed by ULAKBİM since 2017, is an open-access journal published bi-annually in June and December. Digital Object Identifier (DOI) number will be assigned for each article accepted for publication. The publication language of the Review is Turkish, English, and German.

The academic level of all articles should comply with the highest scientific standards and contribute to the legal doctrine.

Articles submitted to the SDLR should not be published elsewhere or be submitted to other journals simultaneously.

The article submission process is provided through the DergiPark system; that is always open for article acceptance. Publication processes can be observed transparently by the authors through the DergiPark system.

2) Licensing and Copyright

The Author/Authors agree that the articles will be published under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. CC BY-NC 4.0 license permits to copy and redistribute of the material in any medium or format other than commercial purposes as well as remixing, transforming, and building upon the material by providing appropriate credit to the original work.

3) Open Access Statement

SDLR is an open-access journal, and its content is available to users free of charge. The SDLR considers The Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) Declaration. According to this Declaration, "open-access" refers; to "free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited."

4) Privacy Statement

All data (name, contact information, address, etc.) shared by the Author/Authors shall be used exclusively for scientific purposes and not be shared with third parties.

Data concerning submitted articles shall be kept confidential until publication.

5) Archiving Policy

Articles published in the SDLR are archived with the LOCKSS system offered by DergiPark. Author/authors may self-archive their works in their repositories (own websites, etc.) provided that the URL of the SDLR is shared.

6) Price Policy, Sponsorship, and Advertisements

In SDLR no fees are charged for the author at any stage (submission, evaluation, and publication of articles) for publication procedures.

Sponsorship and advertising offers are not accepted.