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.