ETHICAL PRINCIPLES

In terms of publication ethics Süleyman Demirel University Visionary Journal pursues the principles, standards and recommendations of the publication ethics determined by COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics). 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 scope of publication ethics, in summary all stakeholders are expected to bear the following ethical responsibilities, and any ethical case would be evaluated according to all guidelines and policies created by COPE (https://publicationethics.org/guidance/Guidelines), such as 'ethics toolkit for a successful editorial office,' 'principles of transparency and best practice in scholarly publishing,' 'journals’ best practices for ensuring consent for publishing medical case reports: guidance from COPE,' 'ethical guidelines for peer reviewers,' etc.

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.

• Süleyman Demirel University, the publisher of Süleyman Demirel University Visionary Journal, is a non-profit state university and operates with awareness of its ethical responsibilities regarding Süleyman Demirel University Visionary Journal.
• From the perspective of Süleyman Demirel University, the journal's editorial board is responsible for all processes related to the submitted works. Within this framework, they hold decision-making status regardless of economic or political gains.
  
• Süleyman Demirel University promises the creation of an independent and transparent editorial board decision-making process.
  
• Süleyman Demirel University bears the responsibility to take measures against any form of scientific misconduct, citation manipulation, and plagiarism related to the editorial board.

Unethical Conduct Reporting:

• If you encounter any unethical behaviour or content beyond the ethical responsibilities mentioned above in Süleyman Demirel University Visionary Journal, please report it via email to vizyoner@sdu.edu.tr.

PUBLICATION POLICY

Scope:

• Süleyman Demirel University Visionary Journal is a 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%. The type of the article is not determined according to the declaration of the authors but according to the decision of the board of editors following their inspection.
  
• The papers presented in the congresses or symposiums and published as full text in proceedings book could not be sent to the Journal. Only those papers that are not published as full text, providing that the related information is given could be sent to the Journal.
  
• 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 maximum percentage of articles published in the journal from the same institution can be 25%. If the number of accepted articles from the same institution exceeds this ratio, the articles are accepted for publication based on the factors such as submission date, type, subject, and language of publication.
  
• Applications for articles that do not comply with ethical principles and publishing policy would not be accepted. The review processes of those articles who are found to be deficient later would be terminated and the articles would be rejected regardless of the stage of evaluation process they are in.
  
• The opinions in the articles published in the Journal are not the opinions of the Journal and all the responsibility belongs to the authors.

Price Policy

• No fee is charged from the articles sent to the journal for evaluation or for application.

Plagiarism Policy:

• The articles submitted for publication in the journal are checked through iThenticate or Turnitin plagiarism detection programs.
  
• In order for the article to proceed to the evaluation process, the similarity index ratio must be less than 20%.
  
• The plagiarism evaluations of the articles are going to be made by the Journal; hence the author(s) do(es) not need to attach plagiarism report.
  
• Articles with a similarity index ratio exceeding 40% are directly rejected. For articles with a similarity index ratio between 20% and 40%, the responsible author is asked to make revisions to meet the required condition.
  
• 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.

Special Issue Publishing Policy:

• In addition to its regular issues released at regular intervals, the journal may publish special issues consisting of articles covering a specific theme or comprising conference/symposium proceedings and similar event reports.
  
• Special issues cannot exceed more than 1/3 of the regular period. Special issues containing conference abstracts are not included in this coverage.
  
• Guest editors may be accepted for special issues.
  
• The ethical principles, publishing policy, and writing rules of the journal also apply to special issues. However, in special issues, the restrictions on compilation articles, the limitation on publishing more than one article by an author in two consecutive issues and multiple issues within the same year, and the limitation on the maximum of 25% of published articles from the same institution are not enforced.

Application Process:

• 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.

Ethical Declarations:

• 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.
  
• Authors must adhere to the publication ethics principles, standards, and recommendations established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) regarding publication ethics.
  
• It is strictly prohibited to write any part or the entirety of the articles submitted to the journal using Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools. AI tools may be used for purposes such as generating figures or graphics, improving writing and grammar, and enhancing the overall readability of the article. In such cases, authors are required to provide a clear and comprehensive explanation regarding the application of AI tools in their work. The journal adheres to COPE's following statement regarding the use of artificial intelligence in scientific research: “The use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT or Large Language Models in research publications is expanding rapidly. COPE joins organisations, such as WAME and the JAMA Network among others, to state that AI tools cannot be listed as an author of a paper. AI tools cannot meet the requirements for authorship as they cannot take responsibility for the submitted work. As non-legal entities, they cannot assert the presence or absence of conflicts of interest nor manage copyright and license agreements. Authors who use AI tools in the writing of a manuscript, production of images or graphical elements of the paper, or in the collection and analysis of data, must be transparent in disclosing in the Materials and Methods (or similar section) of the paper how the AI tool was used and which tool was used. Authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, even those parts produced by an AI tool, and are thus liable for any breach of 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.

Review Process:

• An article sent to the Journal follows three stages: pre-control, evaluation and publication stage.
  
• 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 its compliance with our publication principles, spelling rules, the rules of publication ethics and being scientific. At this stage, the compliance of the article with ethical principles, publishing policy, and writing rules is being checked. 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.
  
• Articles submitted for publication in the journal undergo plagiarism checks using iThenticate or Turnitin plagiarism detection programs during the initial screening stage. In order for the article to proceed to the evaluation process, the similarity index ratio must be less than 20%.
  
• 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. Within the process, in addition to the revised version of the paper, a revision report should be sent. 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, subject of the 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.

Correction and Retraction Policy:

• Authors may withdraw their manuscripts at any stage until the completion of the review process and initiation of the publication process.
  
• Authors or the editorial board may request retraction or correction of an article for various reasons after publication. These requests are processed in accordance with COPE guidelines.
  
• If authors or the editorial board identify minor errors in the published article, they may request a correction when the corrections do not affect the findings, interpretations, or conclusions. When significant errors and violations that invalidate the findings and conclusions are identified, retracting the article may be considered.
  
• If there is a possibility of research or publication misconduct by the authors, and if there is evidence suggesting that the findings are unreliable and that the authors' institutions have not investigated the matter, or if a possible investigation appears unjust or inconclusive, the editorial board may issue an expression of concern.

Open Access and Copyright Policy:

• Süleyman Demirel University Visionary Journal adopts the principle that offering scientific research to the public for free would enhance the global sharing of knowledge and provides instant open access to its content.
  
• Süleyman Demirel University Visionary Journal is a journal that adopts an Open Access policy and accepts the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) declaration.
  
• Süleyman Demirel University Visionary Journal accepts that peer-reviewed scientific research, in line with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition, should be freely accessible, readable, downloadable, copyable, distributable, printable, scannable, linkable to full texts, indexable, transferable to software as data, and available for any legal purpose via the internet without financial, legal, or technical barriers. 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 International License (CC BY 4.0).
  
• The Journal does not pay any royalties to the author(s) of the articles published.