Peer-review Process
The texts that will be sent to the journal should be prepared according to the author guidelines of the journal. The articles that are sent for being published are gone through the processes of Pre-Control and Peer-Review Evaluation.
1. Pre-Control Process
The articles sent to our journal are evaluated by the Editorial Board. The studies that are considered as inadequate are returned to the author by the Editorial Board before the process of peer-review. The articles which are considered as adequate in the pre-control process enter into the process of peer-review for the evaluation or are sent to the author for meeting the requirements. The author highlights the changes with red on the article sent. The articles that have been investigated for three times but cannot complete the pre-control process are returned to the author and are not put into process again in the same publication period. Pre-control process is completed in maximum 20 days.
2. Referee Evaluation Process / Peer-Review Process
The articles considered as successful by the Editorial Board in the pre-control process are included to the process of peer-review. The “Field editor” appointed follows up the process according to the issue of the article.
The field editor presents the article primarily for evaluation of at least two reviewers who have a doctoral dissertation, book, or article related to the issue. The process of peer-review is carried out confidentially in the scope of double-blind peer review implementation. The reviewers/ referees are asked for filling in online article evaluation form according to their views and opinions about the article that they have investigated and writing their ideas about the article on the text box. Authors have the right of opposition and defence for their ideas on the condition that the authors disagree with the idea of reviewer. The field editor provides reciprocal communication between the author and the reviewer by maintaining the confidentiality. The process of peer-review is completed in maximum 30 (20+10) days. Reviewers promise that they will not use the articles that they have evaluated for their own benefits and they will not share any knowledge or documents related to the article with third parties.
It is required that an article has positive evaluation from at least two reviewers for being approved to the journal. An article can be sent to the third reviewer on the condition that it has one positive evaluation and one negative evaluation. An article cannot be published on the journal when it has two negative evaluations from the reviewers.
When the reviewers demand revision for the articles they have examined, related reports are sent to the authors and they are asked for revision on their articles. It is required that they complete revision in maximum 10 days. The author highlights the changes with red on the article and presents it to the field editor.
The field editor controls whether the author has completed the required changes in the article or not and does this in maximum 7 days. On the condition that the reviewer wants to see the article after author’s revision, the reviewer/ referee will check the article again and the reviewer will complete this in maximum 7 days. This process is ended following that the ideas of the reviewers are examined by the editors in maximum two weeks.
3. Conflict of Interest Declaration Form
The studies having more than one author should include contribution rate statements of support and appreciation statement, if there are, and statement of conflict at the end of the study completing the process of peer-review. The author has maximum 7 days for these processes.
4. Language Control
(Turkish and Foreign Language), and if it is required, revision will be demanded. The control process is completed in maximum two weeks. Language editors may ask for revision from the author.
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