Journal Ethics Declaration

Editor's Obligations
1.1. Impartiality
The intellectual content of the submitted articles is evaluated regardless of the authors' race, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, ethnicity, political philosophy.
1.2. Privacy
All manuscripts should be treated as confidential documents. It should not be shown to anyone without the editor's permission. Administrators and editorial staff should not disclose information about the submitted article to anyone other than the author, referees and possible referees.
1.3. Disclosure of Information and Conflicts of Interest
Unpublished data in the submitted manuscript should not be used in their research by the editors or referees without the express consent of the author.
1.4. Release Decision
The editor of Communication and Organization decides to publish the submitted articles. The editor is guided by the Editorial Board's policy, which takes into account legal obligations regarding defamation, copyright and plagiarism. The editor can share the decision with other Editorial Board members or referees. In case of objection to the decision of the Reading Committee, the editor may request two new referees.

2- Arbitrators' Obligations
2.1. Editorial Decisions
While the article is in the refereeing process, the editorial roles of the editors are suspended and the referee process is not seen, so double-blind refereeing is preserved.
Reviewers assist the editorial team in making their decision and can also assist the author in improving the quality of the manuscript.
2.2. Delays and Deadlines
When a visiting reviewer does not feel competent enough to evaluate the research presented in the manuscript or realizes that he is unable to present his report in a timely manner, he should promptly inform the editor to allow him time to contact other reviewers.
2.3. Objectivity, Courtesy and Respect Standards
Reports should be objective. Personal opinions and criticisms directed to the author or offensive statements regarding the text content are not appropriate. The reviewer's opinion should be clear, well debated, and respectful to the author.
2.4. Representation of Resources
The referee should identify appropriate publications that are not cited by the author. Any such indicator must be accompanied by an appropriate interpretation. The reviewer should draw the attention of the editor to any similarity, any overlap between the article and previously published data.
2.5. Disclosure of Information and Conflicts of Interest
Information and ideas obtained through anonymous replay are confidential and should not be used for the personal benefit of the reviewer. Reviewers should not agree to review articles that could result in a conflict of interest arising from competitive, collaborative or other relationships with authors.

3- Authors' Obligations
The information contained in manuscripts submitted for publication should present the results of the authors' research and an objective discussion and significance of these results. Basic data must be presented accurately. Fraudulent and intentional misinformation is considered unethical and unacceptable.
A description of research done by others should always be given. Authors should refer to publications affecting the study in question.
3.1. Originality and plagiarism
Authors should ensure that they have written a completely original work, and if they have used other people's books or statements, it should be cited appropriately.
3.2. Multiple Application and Publishing
An author should not submit articles representing the same study to more than one journal (or book). Submitting the same article to more than one journal is unethical and unacceptable.
3.3. To whom the work belongs
Only authors with significant contributions to the work in question are accepted as authors. All contributors to the study should be included in the author list. If some aspects of the research project were involved in others, these should be mentioned in the acknowledgments. The lead author should make sure that all co-authors and only they are included in the list of authors of the article, that the co-authors have seen and approved the latest version of the article and agreed to submit the article.
3.4. Disclosure of Information and Conflicts of Interest
All authors should indicate any conflict of interest as a result of their biographical presentation that may affect their proposed publications. The funding of research projects that made the work possible should be specified.
3.5. Error in Printing
If the author detects a material error or mistake in his or her publication, his or her responsibility is to inform the editor quickly and to consider the withdrawal of the article or the publication of the information regarding the error in agreement with the responsible person.

Correction, Retraction, Expression of Concern
Editors of Selçuk University Journal of Social Sciences Institute (SUSBED) may consider publishing corrections if minor errors that do not affect the findings, interpretations and conclusions are detected in the published article. Editors should consider retracting the manuscript in the case of major errors/violations that invalidate the findings and conclusions. If there is a possibility of misuse of research or publication by the authors; If there is evidence that the findings are unreliable and the authors' institutions are not investigating the incident, or if the potential investigation appears unfair or inconclusive, editors should consider publishing an expression of concern. Regarding corrections, retractions or expressions of concern, the COPE guideline is taken into account.


Publication of Studies Based on Surveys and Interviews
Selçuk University Social Sciences Institute Journal (SUSBED) adopts the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) "Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors" and "Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers" in order to create ethical assurance in scientific periodical publishing. In this context, the following points must be observed in studies submitted to the journal:
1) For research conducted in all branches of science that require ethics committee permission (ethics committee approval must be obtained, this approval must be stated and documented in the article.
2) In research requiring ethics committee permission, information about the permission (committee name, date and issue number) can be found in the method section, as well as on one of the first/last pages of the article; In case reports, information about signing the informed consent/consent form should be included in the article.


Special Issue Publishing Policy
Selçuk University Journal of Social Sciences Institute (SUSBED) may publish a special issue once a year by the decision of the Editor or Publication Board. Articles submitted for inclusion in the special issue are first subjected to editorial preliminary review. The articles to be sent for the special issue are examined for compliance with the spelling rules and the plagiarism report is requested to be uploaded to the system to prevent plagiarism. After these stages, the articles are evaluated with a blind referee system.


Control Policy to Prevent Plagiarism
Ethical violations such as plagiarism cannot be accepted by Selçuk University Journal of Social Sciences Institute (SUSBED). It is primarily the responsibility of the author(s) to ensure that such violations are not included in the submitted manuscripts.
In order for the studies sent to the journal to be included in the evaluation process, the study is scanned by the authors in the iThenticate or TURNITIN program. If the similarity rate is over 15%, the relevant study cannot be published even if it receives referee approval. If the study is published before the situation is noticed, once the situation is noticed, access to the relevant study is blocked and the study is removed from the publication list and the full issue. Again, according to the report, the similarity rate of articles to a single source cannot be more than 3%. During the application, the author(s) must upload the TURNITIN or iThenticate report to the system along with the study.