How does the peer review process for the articles work?

The Turkish Journal of TESAM Academy has five phases for peer-reviewing:

Articles sent to the Journal first pass through the general evaluation of the Managing Editors. Articles that cannot pass the first evaluation (“Editor’s Cut”) are rejected. Rejection reasons include the article’s content is out of area for the Journal, it does not comply with the ethical considerations and/or principles of the Journal, it does not follow the author guidelines, it is not qualified for publication, the number of the articles received by the Journal is too high to evaluate within a reasonable time, etc.

Articles that pass the first phase, are assigned to an Associate Editor to have a detailed assessment. At this stage, the rejection reasons may include that the article’s content is beyond the scope of the journal, that it does not comply with the ethical considerations and/or principles of the Journal, that it does not follow the author guidelines, that it is not qualified to be published, etc.

Articles that pass from the assessment of the Associate Editors, are sent to two experts on the related topic for peer-review. In the evaluation of the articles, double blind peer review system is executed and articles are evaluated by at least two arbitrators. If one of the arbitrators is negative and the other expresses a positive opinion, the Journal Publishing Commission may decide to assign a third arbitrator for the article by examining the peer-review reports or to return the article to the author. At least two arbitrators are required to submit a positive opinion in order for the paper to be published.

While designating the reviewers, all Editors and the Editorial Board are asked for their opinions. In cases where peer-review reports are contradictory or are not found sufficient, a third referee is asked to review the work. The articles that are not considered sufficient by both arbitrators are rejected.

Those articles that are evaluated as “review and re-submit”, will be sent to the same reviewers for re-evaluation when a corrected version is received. At this stage, the articles are rejected if they are not found sufficient by the reviewers.

Articles that passed from the peer-review process are sent to the Editorial Board for final decision. Positive reviewer reports are not binding for the Editorial Board, but are principally taken into consideration. The decisions made by the Editorial Board are final.

Articles that are approved for publication by the Editorial Board are transferred to the Managing Editor for final assessment, correction, language editing, and determination of a publication date and issue.
The manuscripts to be submitted to the journal must be prepared in accordance with “the spelling rules”, have not been published elsewhere or should not be in the process of refereeing in another journal at the time of submission to our journal.

The responsibility of science and language in the articles published in the journal belongs to the authors and TESAM ACADEMİ Refereed Journal and editors cannot be held responsible. Citation and quotation can be made from the articles in the journal with giving the reference.