8. Publication of Studies Based on Surveys and Interviews
SKAD adopts the "Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors" and "Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers" principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) in order to provide ethical assurance in scientific periodical publishing. In this context, the following points should be followed in the studies submitted to the journal:
- Ethics committee approval must be obtained for research in all disciplines that require ethics committee approval, and this approval must be stated and documented in the article.
- In studies that require ethics committee approval, information about the approval (name of the committee, date and number) can be included in the method section. However, in case presentations in the article information form at the end of the article, information on the signature of the informed consent form should be included in the article.

Research requiring Ethics Committee approval is 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.

9. Policy on Publishing Supplementary or Special Issues
A special issue can be published once a year upon the request of the Editorial Board. All processes for articles submitted for inclusion in the special issue are the same as the standard article process.
- Supplement or Special Issue: These are issues published in addition to the regular issues of a journal published at regular intervals. It consists of congress/symposium etc. event proceedings or articles on a specific topic.
- The page numbers in Supplementary or Special issues are numbered differently from the regular issues during the year.
- The number of Supplementary or Special issues cannot be more than 1/3 of the regular period. Special issues containing abstracts of congress proceedings are not included in this scope.
- Rates of case reports, review and research articles (excluding congress abstracts) published in Supplementary or Special issues will be included in the rates of articles published in other issues.
- Gift issues are not accepted as special or supplementary issues. They are numbered and uploaded as regular issues.

Actions against scientific research and publication ethics are as follows:
(YÖK Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive, Article 4)
Plagiarism: Representing the original ideas, methods, data or works of others as one's own work in whole or in part without citation in accordance with scientific rules,
Forgery: Using non-existent or falsified data in scientific research,
Distortion: Falsifying research records or data, falsifying devices or materials that were not used in the research, falsifying or shaping the results of the research in line with the interests of the persons and organizations receiving support,
Republishing: Presenting duplicate publications as separate publications for academic appointments and promotions,
Slicing: Inappropriately and inappropriately dividing the results of a research into parts in a way that disrupts the integrity of the research and publishing them in more than one issue and presenting these publications as separate publications in academic appointments and promotions,
Unfair authorship: Including or excluding people who have not actively contributed, changing the order of authors in an unjustified and inappropriate manner, removing the names of active contributors from the work in subsequent editions, using one's influence to have one's name included among the authors even though one has not actively contributed,

Other types of ethical violations:
a) Failure to specify the persons, institutions or organizations providing support and their contributions in publications made as a result of research conducted with support,
b) Using theses or studies that have not yet been submitted or defended and accepted as a source without the permission of the owner,
c) Failure to comply with ethical rules in research on humans and animals, and failure to respect patient rights in publications,
ç) Violating the provisions of the relevant legislation in human biomedical research and other clinical research,
d) Sharing the information contained in a work that he/she has been assigned to examine with others before publication without the express permission of the author,
e) To misuse the resources, spaces, facilities and devices provided or allocated for scientific research,
f) Making baseless, unwarranted and intentional allegations of ethical violations,
g) Publishing data obtained in surveys and attitude surveys conducted within the scope of a scientific study without obtaining the explicit consent of the participants or, if the research is to be conducted in an institution, without obtaining the permission of the institution,
h) Damage to animal health and ecological balance in research and experiments,
ı) Failure to obtain the necessary permissions in writing from the authorized units in research and experiments before starting the studies.
i) Conducting research and experiments contrary to the provisions of the legislation or international conventions to which Turkey is a party regarding the relevant research and experiments.
j) Failure to comply with the obligation to inform and warn those concerned about possible harmful practices related to the scientific research conducted by researchers and authorities,
k) Not using the data and information obtained from other persons and institutions in scientific studies to the extent and in the manner permitted, not respecting the confidentiality of this information and not ensuring its protection,
l) Making false or misleading statements regarding scientific research and publications in academic appointments and promotions.

Authors' Responsibilities and Ethical Principles:
- The studies must be original and based on research.
- It should be ensured that the other authors whose names will be written in the article contribute to the research. It is against the ethics of science to list people who have no academic contribution as additional authors or to rank authors based on unscientific criteria such as title, age and gender without considering the order of contribution.
- In multi-authored articles, it should be clearly stated to which stage of the article the authors contributed and to what extent.
- The article should not be submitted to different journals at the same time and should not have been submitted to another journal before. If submitted, the publication process will be canceled.
- Authors submitting articles to the journal are assumed to have read and accepted the journal's publication and editorial guidelines, and the authors are deemed to have committed to what is expected of them in these guidelines.
- Citation and bibliography lists must be complete.
- There should be no plagiarism and fake data should not be included.
- As a result of the similarity screening, the similarity rate should not exceed 20% in order for the referee process to be initiated.
- An article is included in a maximum of 2 PRE-CONTROL processes, if the issues communicated to the author during this process are not corrected, the article will be rejected.
- Authors should not resubmit the same studies previously rejected in our journal. In such a case, the studies will be rejected.
- The corresponding author should inform the journal editor in case of any conflict of interest.
In this regard WAME may be cited.

Responsibilities and Ethical Principles of Reviewers:
- Reviewers should be aware that they are the main determinant of the academic quality of the manuscript to be published in the journal and should evaluate with the responsibility to enhance academic quality.
- Reviewers should only accept to review manuscripts for which they have the necessary expertise to make an appropriate assessment, can observe blind reviewer confidentiality, and can keep the details of the manuscript confidential in every way.
- After the article review process, no information about the reviewed article should be shared with others in any way.
- Reviewers should only evaluate the accuracy of the content of the articles and their compliance with academic criteria. The fact that the ideas put forward in the article differ from the referee's thoughts should not affect the evaluation.
- Referee reports should be objective and measured. Insulting, belittling and accusatory statements should be avoided.
- Referees should avoid superficial and vague statements in their evaluation reports. In evaluations with negative results, the deficient and defective issues on which the result is based should be shown concretely.
- Reviewers should evaluate the manuscripts within the time allotted to them. If they will not review, they should notify the journal within a reasonable period of time.

Editors' Responsibilities and Ethical Principles:
- Editors should accept manuscripts that will contribute to the relevant fields specified in the journal policy.
- Editors should not have any conflict of interest/relationship with the accepted or rejected articles.
- Editors have full responsibility and authority to accept or reject an article.
- It is the responsibility of the editors to keep the names of reviewers and authors mutually confidential.
- Only articles that will contribute to the field should be accepted.
- When errors are found, they should support the publication or withdrawal of the correction.
- It is the duty of the editors to complete the preliminary review, refereeing, editing and publishing processes of the articles submitted to the journal in a timely and healthy manner.
- Editors should not nominate people who do not contribute to the journal as editorial board members or associate editors.

2. Publication Policy

Any article considered for publication in SKAD must fulfill the following criteria:
- Originality
- No ethical violations
- Contain clear messages to be communicated to the scientific community
- The level of contribution to researchers in the field and its importance in terms of social sciences
- Current areas and topics of interest to researchers in the field of social sciences
- Structural and logical integrity
- Research results are based on scientific evidence
- Appropriateness of the scientific method

Evaluation of Articles
Article submission is made at https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/skad. Articles sent via e-mail will not be evaluated.

Preliminary Review and Plagiarism Scanning
It is examined for compliance with the journal's spelling rules and a similarity scan is performed to prevent plagiarism. The manuscript is screened for similarity using a similarity program. The similarity rate must be less than 20% and not more than 3% from a single source. If the similarity rate is more than 20%, the study is either rejected or sent back to the author to reduce the similarity rate. The preliminary review is completed within a maximum of 5 days.

Editor / Field Editor Review
The manuscript that passes the preliminary review and similarity screening stage is reviewed by the relevant editor / field editor in terms of subject, scope, language and academic competence. This review is completed within a maximum of 5 days.

Refereeing Process (Double-Blind Refereeing)
The manuscripts that pass the preliminary review and editorial review are carried out in confidentiality within the framework of double blind refereeing. According to the double-blinding strategy, authors who submit a manuscript to the journal do not have access to information about which referees will evaluate their manuscripts. Likewise, the reviewers who evaluate an article cannot know which author(s)' work they are evaluating. In other words, the author and referee identities of an article in the evaluation process are kept confidential and the evaluation process is completed. Reports are also stored in the Article Management System. For detailed information, please visit the Referee Guidelines page.

Author Edit
Authors take into account the criticisms and suggestions of the referees and the Editorial Board. If there are issues they disagree with, they have the right to object with their justifications. They edit the article within the scope of the reports and upload the final version of the article to the system.

Field Editor Control
The field editor checks whether the author has made the requested corrections in the text. If there is a "Major Revision" in the referee reports, it sends the article to the relevant referee. If there is an "Acceptance" or "Minor Revision", if the corrections have been made, it can direct the article to the language control stage (The control process is completed within a maximum of 7 days). If he/she determines that the corrections have not been made, he/she sends the article to the author again. If the author does not make the corrections again, the article may be rejected. Manuscripts that are not accepted for publication are not deleted from the system. The process phase and all files are recorded in the system.

Turkish Language Check
The manuscripts that pass the referee process are reviewed by the Turkish Language Editor and, if necessary, corrections are requested from the author. The checking process is completed within a maximum of 15 days.

English Language Control
Manuscripts that pass the Turkish language check are reviewed by the English Language Editor and, if necessary, corrections are requested from the author. The review process is completed within a maximum of 15 days.

Editorial Board Review
Articles that pass technical, academic and linguistic reviews are examined by the Editorial Board and the final publication status is decided. In case of objection from the members, the Board decides by majority vote.

Typesetting and Layout Phase
The works that are decided to be published by the Editorial Board are typeset and edited and made ready for publication.

Writing Language
SKAD publishes articles in Turkish and English. Articles published in Turkish also include an abstract in English. Articles published in English do not have to include a Turkish abstract. If the article is written in a language other than English, an extended English abstract should be added after the bibliography. The extended abstract should be the same as the writing rules of the article and should be maximum 750 words.

Change of Author
SKAD accepts authors according to the statement on the Title Page of the manuscript. Therefore, it is the authors' responsibility to submit the final version of the full author ranking. Requests for change of authorship (e.g., removal/addition of authors, change of order, etc.) after manuscript submission are subject to editorial approval. The Editorial Board will investigate such cases and act according to the COPE flowcharts.

Requests for change of authorship should be submitted to the Editor in a formal letter stating the reasons for the change. The letter must be signed by all authors and include their consent to the change of authorship. If the request is approved by the Editorial Board, authors are required to submit a new Copyright Agreement Form according to the final order list.

Appeal and Complaint
The Editorial Board of the journal processes appeals and complaints in accordance with the COPE guidelines. Authors can contact the Editorial Office directly for their appeals and complaints. When needed, an impartial representative is appointed for issues that the Editorial Board cannot resolve internally. The Editor-in-Chief will make the final decision in the decision-making process for appeals and complaints.

Disclaimer of Responsibility
The views expressed in the articles published in the journal reflect those of the author(s) and not those of the Editor-in-Chief, Editors, Editorial Board and Publisher. The Editor-in-Chief, Editors, Editorial Board and Publisher accept no responsibility or liability for such cases. All responsibility for the published content lies with the authors.

Average time for the preliminary review of articles: 5
Average time articles were reviewed: 60
Average publication time of the article: 90