RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION ETHICS

• Süleyman Demirel University Journal of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences (SDUJFEAS) observes and acts in accordance with the principles, standards and recommendations of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) and ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors). Therefore, articles submitted for publication in SDÜİİBFD must comply with international ethical standards.
• Süleyman Demirel University Journal of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences is an open access journal and accepts the Budapest Open Access Declaration.
• Süleyman Demirel University Journal of Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC). Therefore, the relevant source may therefore be copied, distributed, transformed and reused for non-commercial purposes, provided that proper attribution is given.
• All articles submitted for publication in Süleyman Demirel University Journal of Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences are scanned by the Turnitin plagiarism program.

Ethical Responsibilities of Referees

• A referee who is not sufficiently qualified to review the manuscript or who knows that he or she will not be able to review the manuscript quickly should inform the editor and apologize for the review process.
• Referees are obliged to keep the manuscripts they receive confidential and not to use the information obtained from the review process for their personal benefit.
• Referees should not share review reports or information about the manuscript with others and should not communicate directly with authors without the editor's permission.
• Referees should be attentive to potential ethical issues in the manuscript and bring them to the attention of the editor. This includes substantive similarity and overlap between the manuscript under review and any other published work of which the reviewer has personal knowledge.
• Reviewing should be done objectively. There should be no personal criticism of the authors, and reviews should be constructive, honest and polite.
• Referees should consult with the editor before agreeing to review a manuscript in which they have a potential conflict of interest arising from a competitive, collaborative or other relationship or connection with any of the authors.

Ethical Responsibilities of Authors

• Authors should declare the accuracy of any information provided during the application process and should not make misleading, false or incomplete statements.
  
• Authors should not have published or submitted their manuscripts for publication elsewhere.
• Authors must cite the sources of all quotations used in their articles.
• The authors declare that the article is their own work, that they have not plagiarized in any way, that all responsibilities arising from plagiarism belong to them and that the journal has no responsibility in this regard.
• Authors should undertake that they have made a scientific contribution to the article and it should be recognized that all authors have equal responsibility for the article.
• The corresponding author should undertake that all co-authors mentioned in the article consent to publication and to be named as co-authors. All persons who have made significant contributions to the study should be named as co-authors. Other people should be included in the acknowledgments section.
• Authors are obliged to declare the institutions/organizations supporting the submitted work, financial resources or conflict of interest.
• Authors should provide access to the data sets included in the article if deemed necessary.
• Authors should prepare the articles they submit for publication in the journal in accordance with the rules of research and publication ethics. Separate ethics committee approval must be obtained for the research conducted and for clinical and experimental human and animal studies that require ethics committee approval, and this approval must be stated and documented in the article.

Ethical Responsibilities of Editors

• Editors decide on the publication of articles by taking into account their originality and contribution to the scientific literature.
  
• Editors strive to keep the referee pool wide and up-to-date.
• Editors help to correct errors, inconsistencies or misdirections in the articles.
• Editors submit articles by taking into account the specialties of the field editors and referees, and support unbiased and independent evaluations.
• Editors prevent unscientific and unscientific evaluations that do not comply with academic rules.
• The editorial board decides which articles will be published in the journal. The editorial board evaluating the manuscripts of the authors should evaluate the manuscripts independently of race, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ethnicity, citizenship or political philosophy. The decision should be based on the accuracy, validity and significance of the article and the appropriateness of the scope of the journal. Existing legal requirements regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism should also be taken into account.
• The editor or any editorial board member should not disclose information about an article to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisors, and publishers.
• Unpublished material described in a submitted manuscript should not be used in the editor's or editorial board's own research without the express written permission of the author.

Is ethics committee approval required for all articles?

No. It is stated in the criteria as articles that require "Ethics Committee Permission".

Researches that require Ethics Committee permission are as follows.

• All kinds of research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from participants using survey, interview, focus group study, observation, experiment, interview techniques,
• Use of humans and animals (including materials/data) for experimental or other scientific purposes,
• Clinical trials in humans,
• Research on animals,
• Retrospective studies in accordance with the law on the protection of personal data,

Also;

• Stating that the "informed consent form" has been obtained in case presentations,
• Obtaining and indicating permission from the owners for the use of scales, questionnaires, photographs belonging to others,
• Stating that copyright regulations are complied with for the intellectual and artistic works used.

Should retrospective Ethics Committee Permission be obtained for publications produced from studies and theses completed in previous years?

• Before 2020, retrospective ethics committee permission is not required for articles that used research data, produced from master's / doctoral studies (must be specified in the article), applied for publication to the journal in the previous year, accepted but not yet published.

With these rules of the TR Dizin, is there a restriction on publications made outside universities?

No, it does not. Independent researchers can also apply to the Ethics Committees in their regions.

• In articles to be published in journals, it should be stated in the article whether ethics committee permission and/or legal/private permission is required. In studies requiring ethics committee permission, information about the permission (from which institution, on which date and with which decision or number number the permission was obtained) should be clearly presented and should be included in the method section and also on the first/last page of the article.

Within the scope of the information given above, it should be stated in the article whether ethics committee permission and/or legal/private permission is required for research article submissions to our journal. If it is necessary to obtain these permissions, it should be clearly presented from which institution, on which date and with which decision or issue number the permission was obtained and the relevant documents should be submitted to the journal management during the application.