Publication Ethics

TAY Journal, has adopted a number of ethical policies to ensure the development and dissemination of information within the framework of ethical principles, impartiality and respect. At this point, it is important that all stakeholders (authors, editors, reviewers, readers, publisher) comply with ethical behavior standards. The ethical duties and responsibilities in TAY Journal have been prepared in consideration of the guidelines and policies published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) as open Access. If stakeholders need any clarification on the following statements, they can refer to the original COPE guidelines document.

Ethical Duties and Responsibilities of Editors

• Striving to meet the information needs of readers and authors
• Managing processes to improve the quality of articles published in the journal
• Ensuring the development of the journal in the national and international arena
• Maintaining processes in accordance with intellectual property rights and ethical standards
• Supporting the free expression of ideas
• Being explanatory and transparent in matters requiring explanation
• To make updates in publishing processes and ethical policies by following the research on refereeing and publishing in order to contribute to the development of the journal

• Taking into account feedback from readers and responding to this feedback in an explanatory and informative manner
• Ensuring that the published studies contribute to the readers and are of original quality
• Making decisions by taking into account the interests, needs and expectations of readers

• Informing authors about the publication process and ethical policies
• Publishing the Writing Rules and Author Guide List to facilitate the process of submitting and evaluating authors' articles
• To take the articles that fall within the scope of publication of the journal to the preliminary evaluation stage, unless they contain a serious problem
• To examine the articles in terms of importance, originality, clarity of expression, contribution to scientific literature, journal publication policy, aims and objectives of the journal and to make positive or negative decisions according to these issues
• Providing explanatory and informative notifications and returns to authors
• Responding positively to authors' requests to withdraw their articles that are still under review
• Ensuring that the principle of blind refereeing (double-blinding method) works properly and that the evaluations are made in an unbiased manner
• Avoiding potential conflicts between authors and reviewers
• Ensuring that articles are fairly evaluated based on the intellectual content of the manuscript without regard to gender, race, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, political affiliation, values and paradigmatic orientation of the authors
• To ensure that reviewers compose their evaluation reports in a courteous, descriptive and constructive language
• To consider the objections of the authors to the reviewer and editor decisions/reports and to initiate a new evaluation process if deemed appropriate
• Ensuring the protection of authors' personal data
• To cooperate with the editorial board on whether the articles submitted to the journal should be sent to referees or not

• The author(s) can identify reviewers to whom their article should not be sent due to conflict of interest and/or ethical reasons.
• The author(s) can withdraw the unpublished manuscript while it is under review.
• The author(s) can object to referee reports and editorial decisions.
• Due to material errors that occur during the publication process, the author(s) can request corrections (erratum) for problematic sections in their work published in the initial issue, or for information errors originating from them.

• Determining the reviewers in accordance with the subject of the article
• Providing reviewers with the information and guidance they will need during the evaluation phase
• Monitoring for conflicts of interest between authors and reviewers
• Encouraging reviewers to conduct their evaluations in an impartial, scientific, constructive and explanatory manner
• Responding to reviewers' questions about the journal's publication and ethical policies
• Reminding to reviewers regarding the evaluation time
• Keeping information about arbitrators confidential
• Taking the necessary steps to enrich the reviewer pool

• To hold periodic meetings with the editorial board for the development of publication policies and the journal
• To support the development of the journal by taking into account the feedback from the board
• Ensuring that board members are impartial
• Contacting the relevant board member about the evaluation of the candidate article according to the subject of the article
• To encourage the board to evaluate the articles impartially and independently within the framework of scientific criteria
• To cooperate with the editorial board on whether or not the manuscripts submitted to the journal should be sent to the referees

Ethical Responsibilities of Authors

• It is unethical to submit work to more than one journal at the same time. The author(s) should submit to the journal articles that has not been published anywhere before and has not been submitted anywhere for publication.
• The work submitted by the author(s) is expected to be original. The author(s) is required to cite and/or quote all the sources has used completely and accurately.
• Situations and relationships that may constitute a conflict of interest, if any, should be clearly stated.
• The author(s) should notify the journal editor or publisher if they notice an inaccuracy or error in their article under review, in the forthcoming issue, or in the published article, and cooperate with the editor in the correction or retraction process.
• Persons who did not contribute to the creation of the article should not be listed as authors.
• Author(s) should not request procedures such as adding or removing authors or changing the order of authors for an article for which the evaluation process has started.
• Author(s) should submit the expected data and information to the editorial board and scientific board in case raw data regarding their articles are requested within the framework of the evaluation processes.
• Author(s) must document that they hold the rights to use the data in their manuscript and have obtained the necessary permissions for research and analysis, or that they have acquired consent from participants.
• Author(s) must indicate that ethics committee approval has been obtained for research in which they collect data using quantitative or qualitative methods such as experiments, surveys, scales, interviews, observations, and focus groups that require ethics committee approval; the name of the ethics committee, the date of the decision, and the subject number of the article accepted for publication must be stated in the method section of the article; and the document showing the ethics committee decision must be uploaded to the system together with the article. In addition, information regarding the receipt of the informed consent/approval form in case reports must be included in the article.
• Ethics committee approval is not requested from the author(s) for review articles. However, in articles that do not require ethics committee approval, it should be stated in the method section of the article that ethics committee approval is not required.
• Author(s) should provide evidence that they pay attention to ethical principles during the data collection process (such as obtaining permission to use other people's documents such as scales, questionnaires, photographs). It should be stated in the articles that research and publication ethics and copyright regulations for intellectual and artistic works are complied with. If the research was conducted on human and animal subjects, it should be reported that the research was conducted in accordance with international declarations, guidelines, etc.

Ethical Responsibilities of Reviewers

• Reviewers should agree to evaluate only articles related to their area of expertise.
• Reviewers should evaluate articles based on the intellectual content of the article without being influenced by factors such as gender, race, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, political affiliation, values and paradigmatic orientation of the authors.
• If reviewers encounter any conflict of interest during the review process, they should decline to review the article and notify the situation to the editor.
• Reviewers should conduct their evaluations with impartiality and confidentiality.
• Reviewers should report to the editor any information that would lead to the rejection of the article (noticing that the article has been submitted to another journal at the same time, detecting plagiarism/slicing, etc.).
• Reviewers should prepare their evaluation reports using a courteous, explanatory, and constructive language. They should avoid personal comments containing hostility, insults and slander.
• Reviewers should destroy the manuscripts they evaluate in accordance with the principle of confidentiality. Referees may use the manuscripts they have reviewed only after publication.
• Reviewers should evaluate the manuscript they agree to evaluate in a timely manner and in accordance with the ethical responsibilities above.

Ethical Responsibilities of the Publisher

• The publisher should accept that the responsibility for the evaluation and decision of the articles submitted to TAY Journal lies with the editors.
• The publisher must retain ownership and copyright of each article published in TAY Journal) and keep a record of each published copy.
• The publisher should take measures against all forms of scientific misconduct, citation mongering and plagiarism against editors.
• The publisher must provide open, electronic and free access to the journal's information and articles on TAY Journal's web page.

If You Encounter an Unethical Situation

If you encounter any behavior that does not comply with the above-mentioned ethical responsibilities of the editors, reviewers, authors, and publisher at TAY Journal, or if you encounter an unethical situation regarding an article in the review process, in early view, or in a published article, please report it via e-mail to bayramtay@tayjournal.com.

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