Publishing a peer-reviewed journal requires continuous work, responsibility, obligation, and cooperation of the parties involved: authors, reviewers, editors, and board members. Editors are responsible for maintaining/monitoring publishing ethics and academic records.

UNIKA Journal of Health Sciences is a peer-reviewed scientific journal based on high ethical and editorial standards. The editorial evaluation is based on the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Cope's requests for ethical duties, responsibilities, and open access in this journal are considered. See Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

There is no charge for articles and other processes uploaded to the UNIKA Journal of Health Sciences; all accepted articles are published, read, and downloaded free of charge. For this reason, UNIKA Health Sciences Journal has adopted ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors) and BOAI (Budapest Open Access Initiative) as its principles.

All UNIKA Journal of Health Sciences members and authors should be aware of the rules regarding the basic rules and recommendations set by COPE.

AUTHOR: All authors must make significant contributions to the research. Issues such as plagiarism, forgery, distortion, and unfair authorship are the authors' responsibility. If detected, the article will be rejected. An article in the process cannot be sent to or published in another journal. The author is responsible for uploading "documents and information requested for studies requiring ethics committee permission" to the system. Our journal requires authors to identify the ethics committee that approved the study. It also expects authors to comply with the standards recognized below.

Declaration of Helsinki

US Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects

European Medicines Agency Guidelines for Good Clinical Practice

REVIEWER: Articles submitted for publication are evaluated by at least two blind referees. The peer review process involves seeking advice on individual manuscripts from reviewers' experts in the field. Referees have no conflict of interest, and the articles are kept confidential. The editor reviews the referee evaluation results, and the author is notified of the decision regarding the article. The names of the referees who evaluate the articles are not reported to the authors. Referees also cannot see the terms of the authors. The general principle is that manuscripts deemed inadequate are developed in line with the referees' recommendations.

EDITOR: Journal Editors are committed to complying with all COPE Code of Conduct standards. Editors should not have conflicts of interest regarding the articles they accept or reject. Only articles that contribute to the field should be taken.

Manuscripts that do not reach the intended level and studies that are not considered scientifically sufficient are rejected by the editor without explaining the reason.

JOURNAL MANAGEMENT: Journal management and editors will take the necessary steps to prevent the publication of articles that are deemed to constitute misconduct in the abovementioned matters for the authors. In no case should the journal or its editors encourage or allow such abuse to occur. If the journal's publisher or editor is notified of any allegation of research misconduct, the publisher or editor will address the allegations appropriately.

The journal will allow articles to be retracted or corrected when necessary. The journal will publish corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies when necessary.