ETHICAL PRINCIPLES
In terms of publication ethics Visionary Journal pursues the principles, standards and recommendations of the publication ethics determined by COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) and ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors). Accordingly, all the articles that do not comply with the accepted standards of ethics are rejected. The rule also applies for those articles that contains discrepancies which are detected after the publication. In the context of publication ethics, all the shareholders are expected to bear the following ethical responsibilities in brief and all the ethical incidences are going to be evaluated in compliance with COPE rules.
Ethical Responsibilities of Authors:
- Authors should send those articles which have not been published elsewhere or which have not been sent anywhere.
- Authors should give references to all the citations in their articles.
- Authors are accepted to declare that the article belongs to themselves, they do not plagiarise, all the responsibilities due to plagiarism belong to themselves and the journal does not have any responsibility in such cases.
- Authors should guarantee that they give scientific contribution to the article and it should be accepted that all the authors of the article have equal responsibility.
- Corresponding author should guarantee that all the co-authors mentioned in the article have an agreement on the publication of the article and on being named as co-authors. All the writers who give crucial contributions to the article should be named as co-authors. Others should be given place in the acknowledgement.
- Authors are responsible for declaring the supporting institutions, financial sources or conflicts of interest.
- In case of necessity authors should give access to the data sets utilised in the articles.
- The authors should prepare the articles to be published in the Journal in accordance with research and publication ethics. For the research made in the article and for clinical and experimental studies on human and animal that necessitate ethics committee approval separate ethics committee approvals should be taken and these approvals should be mentioned in the article and should be documented.
Ethical Responsibilities of Reviewers:
- Any reviewer who is selected for reviewing the article but whose qualifications do not match with the subject of the article and/or to whom the time limitation of the review process is not appropriate should inform the editor and ask for her/his removal from the review process.
- Reviewers are responsible for the concealment of the articles they received and for not using the information attained from the reviewing process for personal interests.
- Reviewers should not share their evaluations reports or information about the article with others and should not directly communicate with the authors without the permission of the editor.
- Reviewers should be intentive about potential ethical incidences in the article and should present them to the editor. This includes similarities and overlappings with the studies of the reviewer published elsewhere.
- Reviewing should be done objectively. Personal criticisms should be avoided and the evaluations should be constructive, honest and polite.
- Reviewers who may have potential conflict of interest with (at least) one of the authors due to a competitive, collaborative of other types of relationships or connections should inform the editor before accepting the reviewing process.
Ethical Responsibilities of Editorial Board:
- The decision of the selection of articles to be published in the Journal is under the responsibility of the editorial board. The editorial board should carry out the evaluation independent of race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship or political philosophy. The decision to be made should be based on the accuracy, validity and importance of the article, and its relevance with the scope of the Journal. Legal necessities should also be consulted in cases of slander, copyright infringement and plagiarism.
- The editor or any member of the editorial board should not reveal any information about the article except for the related authors, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial consultants and publishers.
- The information in any article presented but not published should not be used in any research of the editor or of the member of the editorial board without express written permission of the authors.
PUBLICATION POLICY
- Süleyman Demirel University Visionary Journal is an international peer reviewed e-journal and published four times a year in February, May, August and November.
- Research and review articles on all subjects related to economics and administrative sciences may be submitted to the Journal. The rate of review articles to the total number of articles could not outnumber 25%.
- No fee is charged from the articles sent to the journal for evaluation or for application.
- A single author cannot publish two articles in succeeding two volumes or in one year. Therefore those authors who send more than one article to the Journal are accepted to approve the rule.
- The articles should be written either in Turkish or in English.
- The articles should be prepared by using the article template to be attained form the web site of the Journal. The articles should be prepared in accordance with the spelling rules and should be uploaded to the DergiPark system. Together with the article(s) the Article Application Form that is signed by all the authors should be uploaded to the system. The authors should add their titles, institutions where they work/study, contact information and Orcid ID information to the system. Those authors who cannot upload their papers through the system may take technical support by e-mailing to vizyoner@sdu.edu.tr.
- The articles sent to the Journal in order to be published should be prepared by the author(s) in accordance with research and publication ethics. A document of the approval of ethical committee is required from any type of studies that utilise qualitative or quantitative approaches and that necessitate data collection through questionnaires, interviews, focus group studies, observations, experiments, meeting techniques and the date of the study does not change this requirement. For the research made in the article and for clinical and experimental studies on human and animal that necessitate ethics committee approval separate ethics committee approvals should be taken and these approvals should be mentioned in the article and should be documented. In those articles necessitating ethics approval, approval-related information (name of the committee, date and number) should be given in the method part and also in the first/last page of the article. Therefore, in the cases that necessitate ethics committee approval, those articles that do not send these documents would not be evaluated and would be rejected.
- In the articles submitted to the Journal, the declarations of contribution rate and if any support and thanksgiving, and conflict should be included.
- An article sent to the Journal follows three stages: pre-control, evaluation and publication stage. After author(s) send(s) the article, the article may be withdrawn through DergiPark system only during the pre-control stage. In other stages, it is impossible for the author(s) to withdraw the article. The process ends with the approval or rejection of the article.
- The articles sent to the Journal for publication are initially checked in the pre-control stage. The stage is completed at the latest in 30 days following the submission date of the article. In this stage, the article is checked for it compliance with our publication principles, spelling rules, the rules of publication ethics and being scientific. Within the scope of the pre-control three decision may be made: send to the reviewer (evaluation) process, for the article to be sent to the reviewer some alterations should be made, and insufficient for sending to the reviewer and for publishing. If the second decision – for the article to be sent to the reviewer some alterations should be made – is taken, the author(s) has/have 30 days for making the alterations and resend the article. Otherwise, the evaluation process of the article would be terminated and the article would be rejected.
- The articles sent to the Journal for publication are checked with iThenticate or Turnitin plagiarism software in the pre-control stage. Those articles having a similarity index of more than 20% are rejected without taking to the evaluation process. The plagiarism evaluation of the articles are going to be made by the Journal, hence the author(s) do(es) not need to attach plagiarism report. The authors who submit their papers are accepted to have declared that they do not plagiarize; they accept any sanction caused by any plagiarism; and they admit that the Journal have no responsibility on such situations.
- Following the pre-control stage, the articles pass to the evaluation stage. In the beginning of the evaluation stage, the articles are inspected by the editorial board or publication board for the quality, originality and scientific contribution and within 10 days at most, the article is sent to the reviewers or is rejected without sending to the reviewers.
- After the decision that the article may be sent to the reviewers for the evaluation stage, the article is sent at least two reviewers (double blind reviewers) for a control in terms of content and format. No information is given to the authors about the identities of the reviewers or to the reviewers about the owner(s) of the article. The reviewers are requested to make a decision whether they are going to evaluate the article or not within 10 days and if they accept to evaluate the article to finish their evaluation within 30 days and send their evaluation reports. Those reviewers who do not send the reports within the duration are warned and additional time of 10 days may be given for twice at most. In case of not sending the reports event within the additional duration, the article is sent to another new reviewer. If the reviewers need a second or third time evaluation following the first one, the aforementioned durations are initiated from the beginning.
- In accordance with the evaluation reports from the reviewers, the paper may be published, may be re-sent to the author(s) for correction, or may be rejected. In case of a correction all correction(s) should be made within at the latest 1 months and sent to the Journal. Otherwise, the evaluation process of the article would be terminated and the article would be rejected.
- If one of the reviews is positive while the other is negative, the editorial board may send the article to the third reviewer or may reject the article in accordance with the reviewer report. Therefore, in order for an article to be published, it should take positive decisions from at least two separate reviewers.
- Those articles that are found to be sufficient in the evaluation stage are sent to the publication stage. In the publication stage, the articles are included in the publication stage according to the decision of editorial board by taking the date of arrival, type of article and publication language. In this stage, the requests of the authors for their articles to be published earlier are refused whatever the reason of the authors. In this respect, Süleyman Demirel University Visionary Journal do not accept any article for publishing it in a particular volume and the authors may submit articles to the Journal at any time they desire.
- In the publication stage, when the publication turn comes, the typesetting and layout processes are initiated. After the completion of typesetting and layout processes, the article is sent to the author(s) once more for a last-check. After the return of the author, the articles are checked by the editor for the last time and the publication process of the article is initiated after giving a DOI number to the article. If the author(s) do(es) not return in the determined time duration, the article may be shifted to the following volume or may be published with its last format.
- The opinions in the articles published in the Journal are not the opinions of the Journal and all the responsibility belongs to the authors. The Journal does not pay any royalties to the author(s) of the articles published.
- Süleyman Demirel University Visionary Journal is a journal that adopts Open Access policy and accepts that the scientific studies which are evaluated by reviewers in compliance with the definition of Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) would be published through Internet, are accessible, readable, downloadable, duplicable, deliverable, printable, scannable without any financial, legal and technical obstacles and can be referred, indexed, transferred to software as data and can be used for any kind of legal purposes. The authors and copyright owners accept that all the users have the right to access the studies without any fee. The authors whose articles are published by the Journal accept that their studies can be cited under the provisions of the protection of copyrights and Commons Attribution License. All the articles to be published in Süleyman Demirel University Visionary Journal are licenced with Creative Commons Atıf 4.0 Uluslararası Lisansı (CC BY 4.0).
- The applications of those articles that are not improper in terms of publication principles would not be accepted. The evaluation process of those articles whose deficiencies are noticed later on, would be terminated and the article would be rejected regardless of the stage of the evaluation process.
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