ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Editors and Section Editors

Editors and section editors are bound by ethical responsibilities and duties as outlined in the COPE Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and the COPE Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors, which are openly accessible through the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Editors and section editors are responsible for:

Ensuring that all articles published in the journal comply with the journal’s editorial policies and international standards,

Enhancing the journal’s quality, originality, and readability,

Conducting editorial processes transparently without compromising intellectual property rights or ethical standards,

Preventing potential conflicts of interest among authors, reviewers, and third parties to maintain impartial and independent review processes.

Editorial decisions are based on the significance, originality, validity, clarity of presentation, and relevance to the journal’s aims and scope. Editors implement the journal’s Double-Blind Peer Review policy and ensure that each manuscript is processed in a fair, unbiased, timely, and conflict-free manner. When necessary, an independent external editor may be appointed to manage the review process of submissions authored by journal editors or editorial board members.
Reviewers

All manuscripts submitted to Syedra Health Journal undergo a double-blind peer review process. To ensure objectivity, each submission is reviewed by three independent experts in the relevant field.

Reviewers must:

Treat the submitted manuscript as confidential,

Declare any conflicts of interest to the journal,

Refrain from using the manuscript for any purpose prior to its publication,

Provide constructive, respectful, and objective feedback,

Complete the review in a timely and ethically responsible manner.

Authors

Authors are responsible for the scientific content and ethical compliance of their submissions. All experimental, clinical, and case report studies must comply with international ethical standards, specifically the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki: Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects (www.wma.net), and must be approved by an appropriate ethics committee.

Only studies that have received ethics committee approval and have been conducted in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration will be considered. Authors must clearly state in the "Methods" section that their research adhered to these principles, and that informed consent was obtained from participants. When requested, authors must be able to provide documentation of such consent and ethics approval (including the name of the committee and approval number).

For studies not requiring ethics approval (e.g., meta-analyses, systematic or invited reviews), authors must upload an exemption document from an appropriate body or submit a declaration letter signed by the corresponding author.

Animal studies must comply with the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (http://www.nap.edu/catalog/5140.html), and authors must state in the "Methods" section that they adhered to animal rights regulations and obtained ethics committee approval.

All authors must meet the authorship criteria defined by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE – www.icmje.org), which require:

Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data,

Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content,

Final approval of the version to be published,

Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring its accuracy and integrity.

The scientific and ethical responsibility of the manuscript lies entirely with the authors. All submissions will be screened by the journal's technical editorial board using a licensed plagiarism detection software (iThenticate/CrossCheck or intihal.net). The similarity rate in the main text (excluding references, tables, and figures) must not exceed 20%. Manuscripts exceeding this threshold or showing overlap with authors’ previous work will be rejected before peer review.

If plagiarism, citation manipulation, or data fabrication/falsification is suspected or detected, the editorial board will follow the COPE Guidelines and take appropriate actions.
Corresponding Author Responsibilities

The corresponding author is responsible for all communications with the journal from submission through publication and must upload the following documents:

Ethics Committee Approval,

Copyright Transfer Form (signed; no changes to author list or order after submission),

Author Contribution Form,

Conflict of Interest Form,

Publication Rights Agreement.

If the manuscript contains previously published material such as texts, tables, figures, surveys, or scales (including those requiring specific permissions or certificates for validity/reliability studies), the authors must obtain written permission from the copyright holders and submit it with the manuscript. Any identifiable patient images must be accompanied by signed consent forms and this consent must be stated in the “Methods” section.

If the manuscript or any part of it was previously presented at a scientific meeting or published in abstract form, this must be clearly indicated on the title page.
COPYRIGHT

All copyright for articles published in Syedra Health Journal belongs to the Faculty of Health Sciences, Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University.
DISCLAIMER
The views and opinions expressed in the articles published in Syedra Health Journal are those of the authors and do not reflect the views of the editors, editorial board, or publisher. The editorial team and publisher assume no responsibility or liability for the published content. The authors bear full responsibility for the content of their work.