Ethical principles

SMJ has the highest ethical and scientific standards and the articles are free of commercial concerns. The Editorial Board works within the framework of the principles of the International Medical Journal Editors Council (ICMJE) and the Editorial Ethical Principles Commission (COPE).

For clinical research, the relevant ethics committee is in compliance with the "WMA Declaration of Helsinki - Ethical Principles in Medical Research with Humans", (for studies with experimental animals, "International Guiding Principles in Biomedical Research with Animals" and "Guide for the Use and Care of Laboratory Animals") approval must be obtained. While preparing case reports, the patient's privacy must be taken into consideration. Patient identifying information and photographs, hospital registration numbers and dates should not be used. For case reports, "Informed Consent" must be obtained. In experimental animal studies, the procedures performed to minimize pain and discomfort are included in the article should be explained.

Articles submitted for publication must not have been previously published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Plagiarism rules are followed by the journal and the maximum acceptable similarity rate is 20%.

Editorial policy

SMJ is published three issues a year (April, August, December). The language of the journal is both Turkish and English. Open access is provided. No fee is requested from the owners of scientific works published in the journal at any stage of the evaluation process. All responsibility for the opinions and conclusions in the articles published in SMJ belongs to the authors. The journal editors and editorial board do not accept any responsibility for the reliability and results of the research data. The journal recommends that all authors submit their own ORCID identifiers to be included in their articles. Articles are requested to be sent to the e-mail address 'smj@samsun.edu.tr' for evaluation.