Journal of International Economics and Administrative Studies uses double-blind review process where both the reviewers and the authors are anonymous. Double-blind review process, fair and unbiased, means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process.
The editorial board decides the review process and after initial check the articles send to the reviewers through the Dergipark system. The peer reviewers are committed to assess the manuscripts and recommend their decisions if they believe that the submitted manuscript makes an important contribution to the fields of economics and business administration and hence publishable. Reviewers should report their views and suggestions clearly with supporting evidence.
Publication processes in Journal of International Economics and Administrative Studies is based on the principle of sharing and developing the knowledge in a fair and ethical manner. In this regard, the journal is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and observes the following principles of Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement, which is based on the recommendations and guidelines for journal editors developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Please inform the editorial board about any legal or ethical breaches at iibf.dergi@gop.edu.tr
For Reviewers
- The manuscript must be related to the reviewers’ area of expertise.
- Reviewers are expected to review the manuscripts with no conflict of interest. If reviewers have a potential conflict of interest, the reviewers must inform the editor and decline to review where appropriate.
- Peer review process should be fair and unbiased.
- Reviewers need to fill the manuscript assessment form, and for a healthy peer review process they must not disclose their names.
- Reviewers should suggest their publications decisions with supporting evidence and reasons in this form.
- Reviewers are expected to act fairly and impartially, and provide objective and constructive reviews.
- Reviewers are expected not to use insulting, hostile, or defamatory language in their reviews. In such cases, the editor or editorial board could ask to revise their language.
- Reviewers should be timely in their reviews and follow ethical principles.
For Editors
- The editors are committed to assessing manuscripts solely for their intellectual content without regard to its origin, or race, gender, religious belief, ethnic origin, or political philosophy of the authors.
- The editors should ensure that the peer review process is timely and need to follow a double-blind reviewing policy.
- The editors are committed to protecting the confidentiality of all material submitted to the journal and must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the author, reviewers, and editorial board.
- In case of any legal or ethical breaches, the editors should follow Higher Education Institutions Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Guideline.
- The editors reserve the right to accept and reject articles or return them for revisions or resubmissions.
For Authors
- The authors should ensure that their work is entirely original and written by themselves. If the authors have used the work and/or words of others, they should ensure that this has been appropriately cited or quoted and permission has been obtained where necessary.
- Only articles with a similarity rate ≤ 15% are taken into the review process. Articles with a similarity rate of more than 15% are rejected.
- The manuscripts must not have been published before, and is not being considered for publication elsewhere.
- The authors are expected to consider carefully the list and order of authors before submitting their manuscript and provide the definitive list of authors at the time of the original submission. The editor will not consider deletion or rearrangement of author names when the manuscript enters peer review process.
- If the authors need to obtain “Ethical Committe Approval” for their work, the information (ethical committe name, approval documentation number and date) should ben explained inside the manuscript (material section).
- The Copyright Transfer Agreement, signed by the corresponding author includes a warranty that the manuscript is an original work. Upon acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to complete a “Copyright Transfer Form”. The undersigned hereby assigns to the Journal of International Economics and Administrative Studies all rights under copyright that may exist in and to the work. No fees are paid for the publication of the works of the authors.
- The authors are responsible from their work.