Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Research (SOBBİAD) adopts the principles of academic publication ethics determined by national (Ulakbim TR Index Principles of Scientific Publication Ethics) and international (Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) etc.) organisations at all stages of the publication process and ensures that authors, reviewers and editors act in accordance with these principles. SOBBİAD attaches great importance to ethical principles and publication policy in terms of the production and development of qualified and original academic studies and the scientific knowledge on which these studies are based.
Articles submitted to the journal must comply with Research and Publication Ethics. Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Research takes into account the International Standards for Editors and Authors of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics).

Ethics committee approval must be obtained for research submitted to the journal that requires ethics committee approval (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; research using humans and animals (including materials/data) for experimental or other scientific purposes; clinical research on humans; research on animals and retrospective studies in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Law). Information about this authorisation (name of the committee, date and number) should be given in the method section and also on the first page of the article as a footnote. In case presentations, information on the signature of the informed consent/assent form must be included in the article.

For intellectual and artistic works, copyright regulations must be complied with and the compliance must be stated in the article. For the use of scales, questionnaires, photographs, etc. belonging to others, permission must be obtained from the owners and stated in the article.
Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Research (SOBBİAD) aims to publish on the axis of these general criteria by adhering to the following principles for authors, editorial board, editors and referees.
1. Responsibilities of the Editorial Board
1.1. Publication Decisions: The Editorial Board of the Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Research is collectively responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal will be published. The Editorial Board promotes academic integrity by following the Guidelines for Good Publication Practice defined by COPE. The Editorial Board reserves the right to withdraw manuscripts that it considers to be in breach of ethical rules and that are found to be highly similar in the iThenticate plagiarism prevention software. The refereeing of the article by the editorial board does not constitute a commitment to publication. Even if the referee process is positive, the decision of the editorial board is required for publication.
1.2. Objectivity: The Editorial Board evaluates articles based on their academic and scientific content, regardless of the author's race, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ethnic origin, nationality and political philosophy.
1.3. Plagiarism: Since plagiarism is an indicator of a low quality journal or a journal without a quality control system, the Editorial Board takes the issue of plagiarism very seriously and follows a strict policy on this issue.
The Editorial Board guarantees the originality of written works by uploading them to the iThenticate plagiarism prevention program before publication. In addition, the Editorial Board always investigates allegations of plagiarism and misconduct regarding published articles. If an article has plagiarised other works, or has used third-party copyrighted material without permission or with incomplete notification, the Editorial Board reserves the right to take various actions, including withdrawing the article and reporting the issue to the department head, dean and/or relevant academic institutions at the institution where the author works.

The Editorial Board considers it a mandatory application condition that an article sent to our journal has not also been submitted to the referee process of another journal.

1.4. Confidentiality: The Editorial Board guarantees the confidentiality of all materials sent to the journal and all correspondence with the referees, unless otherwise agreed with the relevant author and referees.

2. Author's Responsibilities
2.1.Pre-Publication: Authors should submit their original manuscripts to our journal. Authors should not submit the same manuscript to the referee process of more than one journal at the same time. Submitting the same article to multiple journals at the same time constitutes unethical behavior and is unacceptable. Authors are responsible for the authenticity and verification of the sources. Authors may be asked to provide research data supporting their work for review by the Editorial Board and/or to comply with the journal's open data requirements. The author reserves the right to withdraw his/her manuscript until the publication decision is made, provided that he/she notifies the editorial board of the journal.
2.2.Conflict of Interest: All authors should disclose in the manuscript any financial or personal relationships with other people or organizations that could be perceived to improperly influence their work.2.3. Plagiarism: Plagiarism can be done in different ways such as presenting someone else's work as one's own, copying someone else's work as it is or by changing its form without citation, and appropriating the results of research done by others. Plagiarism, no matter how it is done, constitutes unethical behavior and is unacceptable.

3. Responsibilities of Reviewers
SOBBİAD respects the blind review process.
3.1 Confidentiality: Reviewers are obliged to keep the articles they receive confidential and not to use the information obtained from the review process for their personal benefit. Reviewers should not share their reports or information about the manuscript with others and should not communicate directly with the authors without the editor's permission.

3.2. Ethical Issues: The reviewer should be attentive to potential ethical issues in the manuscript and bring them to the editor's attention. This includes substantive similarity and overlap between the manuscript under review and any other published work of which the reviewer has personal knowledge.

3.3 Objectivity: Refereeing will be conducted in an objective manner. Personal criticism of the author or authors is considered inappropriate. Reviewers should consult with the editor before agreeing to consider a manuscript in which they have a potential conflict of interest arising from a competitive, collaborative or otherwise relationship or connection with any of the authors.

Publication Policy
Application to the journal, evaluation, publication process and notifications are made via https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/sobbiad in the TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM JournalPark system. The article to be uploaded to the system in the application must be organized in accordance with the principles, format requirements, citation procedures and spelling rules of the language in which it is written, and the Copyright Transfer Form must be filled out and signed by all authors.
In accordance with SOBBİAD's plagiarism policy, all articles submitted to the journal are subjected to a similarity report with the Ithenticate program before they are submitted for peer review. The upper limit for similarity is 20%.
If the similarity report is higher than 20%, the article:
1- The editor may send it to the author for editing.
2- It may be rejected by the editor.
3- It can be sent to the editorial board for evaluation.
Application to the journal is free of charge. No fee is charged during or after the application, evaluation, publication stages.

Authors and referees should check the e-mail address they specify as the contact address, since communication with authors and referees is carried out through the https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/sobbiad address of the journal in the DergiPark system.
Authors can apply for more than one article. If more than one article of the author is accepted, only one article of the author can be published in one volume. The other accepted article of the author can only be published in the next volume.

In the first evaluation stage, the articles submitted to the journal are checked for the presence of the information required to be entered into the DergiPark system, the article file and the copyright transfer form, and whether they comply with the Journal's Article Publication Principles and Spelling Rules, and the unsuitable applications are rejected. In the preliminary evaluation stage, the eligible applications are examined by the editors and the editorial board in terms of their scope, journal policy, writing rules, original contribution to the field, and scientific expression. If the manuscripts meet the preliminary evaluation criteria, they are sent to two referees. In case two referees express opposite opinions, a third referee may be consulted. The identities of the referees and the author are kept confidential in accordance with the double blind review policy. The evaluation period given for the referees is 20 days from the date the referee accepts the evaluation. Referee reports are sent to the authors of the articles whose referee evaluation is completed via e-mail via the system. If a correction is requested, the corrected article and the correction report must be uploaded to the system within 20 days from the date the referee reports are sent to the author. In line with the referee reports, the editors and the editorial board decide whether the article should be published or not. Articles deemed suitable for publication are taken to the typesetting stage, and articles deemed unsuitable for publication are rejected. The scientific responsibility of the articles in the journal belongs to the author. All copyrights of the article after its publication in the journal belong to the Journal of Social and Humanities Research. No royalties are paid to the authors of published works. Articles published in the journal cannot be published and reproduced elsewhere without the approval of the Journal of Social and Humanities Research.

In accordance with the open access policy of the journal, the content of the journal, including the full texts of the articles, is available free of charge to all users. Published works can be quoted by citing the source.
Authors who submit articles to the journal for evaluation are deemed to have accepted the journal's “Article Publication Principles and Writing Rules” and the copyright conditions specified. The responsibility of the articles that do not comply with these rules and principles belongs to the author or authors. The Journal Editorial Committee has the right to “reject” articles that do not comply with the relevant rules and principles “during or after the evaluation process”.