Title/Abb.:                         Trakya University Journal of Natural Sciences / Trakya Univ J Nat Sci

Website:                            http://dergipark.org.tr/trkjnat

Frequency:                         2 times a year (April and October)

First Issue Published:  Volume 1 Issue 1, 2000

Review System:              Double-Blind Peer Reviewing

Submission Fee:             No any fees or charges

Editorial Boards:           Editor-in-Chief along with 35 section editors, 7 special editors (statistical editors, copyeditor, language editor and design editors).

Access:                               Open Access (Since 2018 with CC BY 4.0 licence)

Trakya University Journal of Natural Sciences (TUJNS) publishes studies with strong scientific content in the fields of Biology, Biotechnology and Basic Medicine Sciences in order to make articles available to a wide range of scientists at the international level. The journal provides researchers a fast and fair environment to submit, improve and publish their studies. The journal is not only free of any kind of submission and publication charge but also it allows free online access to published articles.

Trakya University Journal of Natural Sciences (TUJNS) publishes experimental and theoretical contents in the form of research articles, short communications, technical notes, reviews, letters to the editor and book introductions in fields of Life Sciences. Questionnaire studies are not accepted for evaluation in the Journal. The main feature of publishing policy is the contribution to science. Studies for which reviewers reported no scientific contribution decision are not published.

Trakya University Journal of Natural Sciences (TUJNS)  is a peer-reviewed journal, a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and indexed by CAB Abstract, DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journal), ESCI (Emerging Sources Citation Index), TUBITAK-ULAKBIM Life Sciences Database (Turkish Journal Index) and Zoological Record.  

JOURNAL HISTORY

Trakya University Journal of Natural Sciences started its life in June 2000 with the name “Trakya University Journal of Scientific Research, Series B Natural and Applied Sciences”. Prof.Dr. Ömer Zaim, who also played an important role and provided contribution during the foundation of the journal, served as the founder editor. Prof. Dr. Ahmet Asan became the second editor of the journal with issue published in December 2002. The name of the journal was changed as “Trakya University Journal of Sciences in December 2003 and Dr. Yılmaz ÇAN became the new editor of the journal in December 2004, followed by Prof. Dr. Hilmi İbar who took the charge in the next issue in June 2005. Prof. Dr. Ahmet Cihan and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mümin Şahin were the next two editors until Assoc. Prof. Dr. Seyfettin Dalgıç was charged as the new editor of the journal in June 2012 just after the journal was given its current name “Trakya University Journal of Natural Sciences”. Assist. Prof. Dr. Deniz Ağırseven was in duty as the editor for the issues in December 2012 and June 2013. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Meral Fent was the editor by the issue in December 2013 until Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kadri Kıran was assigned as the recent editor in December 2015. 

PEER REVIEW PROCESS

All submissions uploaded to the manuscript evaluation system will be investigated in weekly meetings by the Editorial Board for the control of their scientific contents. Individual views of board members are received and the final decision on the submission is given by the Editor in chief. Submissions with scientific contents are assigned a section editor for further processes. Section editors send a manuscript as soon as possible to 2 reviewers with a PhD degree at the least for a review request. The reviewers are asked to inform the section editors in 5 days to inform the section editors about their decisions (accept or refuse to review) on evaluation of the manuscripts. Section editors assign new reviewers for those who refuses the review request or who does not respond in 5 days. Reviewers accepting the manuscripts for evaluation complete their review tasks in 20 days and send their review reports to section editors with which they reject the manuscript or ask for a resubmission after revision. Section editors make a decision considering the reviewers’ reports and inform the author(s) about the decision.

The Editor-in-Chief is not permitted to submit research articles and reviews to TUJNS and thus cannot be considered for publication. Conversely, members of the Editorial Board have the opportunity to submit their manuscripts to the journal. However, they do not participate in the editorial decision-making process regarding their manuscripts to mitigate potential bias.

Invited reviews, editorials and letters to editors may be accepted by the editor-in-chief without peer review after the editorial board review. 

ETHICAL GUIDELINES

OPEN ACCESS POLICY 

TUJNS provides Open Access to all published data in the journal by adopting the fact that Open Access of the public to scientific studies will increase the global sharing of knowledge.

In addition, TUJNS support Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI10) (http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read)

ARCHIVING 

TUJNS uses LOCKSS system in order to create a distributed archiving system among the participating libraries and to provide a basis for these libraries to construct permanent archives with preserving and restoration aims. Please click on this link to get more information about LOCKSS 

PRIVACY STATEMENT

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

MEMBERSHIP/OFF-PRINTS/ACCESS TO THE JOURNAL

The journal content is open access and there is no membership requirement for readers. All corresponding authors of printed manuscripts are sent 15 off-prints and 1 copy of the issue in which their manuscripts were published, both free of charge. The journal provides free access to all content and full-text pdf files can be used within the scope of CC-BY 4.0 international license.  

ADVERTISING

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