Ethical Principles and Publication Policy
1. Research and Publication Ethics Standards
Elderly Issues Research Journal on adheres to academic principles and ethical values in its publication policy. The journal continues its publication life in accordance with national and international standards regarding ethical principles and values. In this context, the standards set by COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) and the principles set in the YÖK "Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive" are considered. (You can access the directive from the link below:
https://publicationethics.org/https://www.yok.gov.tr/Sayfalar/Kurumsal/mevzuat/bilimsel-arastirma-ve…).
If the article accepted in the article evaluation process is found to be against research and publication ethics standards, the publication request is rejected. If this contradictory situation is detected after the publication of the article, the article will be removed from the publication.
* The principles stated below have been prepared on the basis of the standards specified by COPE and YÖK.
2. Authors Responsibility
The author checks and confirms whether the article complies with the ethical standards, publication principles and writing rules adopted by the Journal before it is sent to the Journal.
It is the responsibility of the author(s) to prepare the article in accordance with research and publication principles. By submitting the article, the author undertakes that it has been prepared in accordance with the Law on Intellectual and Artistic Works No. 5846, the YÖK Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive, and the research and publication ethics standards announced by COPE.
Only articles that pass peer-review and have a maximum similarity rate of 16% are published in the journal. The total similarity level of the article is determined by international similarity programs such as iThenticate and Turnitin. The author is responsible for submitting the article similarity report during the application.
3. Responsibility of Referees
The referee evaluates the article sent to him by considering the principles in the link announced by COPE (https://publicationethics.org/files/Ethical_Guidelines_For_Peer_Reviewe…) and forwards it to the editorial board within the time given to him.
4. Responsibility of the Editor and Editorial Board
a) Impartiality: The editor conducts the evaluation process of the works regardless of the religion, gender, nationality and political view of the author.
b) Confidentiality: The Editor ensures that the principle of blind refereeing is protected during the publication process. It also takes measures to prevent the occurrence of a conflict of interest between the author and the referee.
c) Fairness: He considers the COPE guidelines for the compliance of the Referee process with ethical standards.
d) Cooperation and Coordination: They provide the necessary cooperation and coordination for the completion of the evaluation process of the articles within the stipulated time.
e) Sharing Information: The editor observes the principles in the link determined by COPE (https://publicationethics.org/files/Sharing%20_of_Information_Among_EiC…) in sharing information about the journal's publication process and article evaluation processes with other members of the Editorial Board.
f) Ethical Violations: The Editor abides by the rules in the link specified by COPE (https://publicationethics.org/files/Full_set_of_flowcharts_Turkey_2017%…) when there are duplicate publications, slicing, plagiarism, false data, conflict of interest and unfair authorship suspicion for an article sent to the Journal for publication or published in previous issues of the Journal, and when there are requests for change of authorship.
In addition, the Editor pays attention to the information published by COPE at the link https://publicationethics.org/files/Web_A29298_COPE_Text_Recycling.pdf for duplicate publication and slicing cases, and to the issues explained at https://publicationethics.org/files/Recognise_Potential_Authorship_Prob… for cases of unfair authorship.
Dear Author(s),
Ethics Committee Permission is required for studies to be published since 2020 in line with the decisions taken by Ulakbim TR Index and Dergipark. Studies requiring Ethics Committee Permission are listed below. When uploading your work to the journal, you must upload your Ethics Committee document with your article file. If your study is not included in the study group requiring ethics committee approval, you must sign the declaration form indicating this situation and indicate the relevant situation in your article text.
Studies Requiring Ethics Committee Permission;
- All kinds of research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from participants using questionnaires, interviews, focus group work, observation, experimentation, interview techniques,
- Using human and animals (material / including data) experimental or other scientific purposes,
- Clinical studies on humans,
- Clinical studies on animals,
- Retrospective studies in accordance with the law on protection of personal data.
Additionally;
It should be noted that there are copyright regulations for the intellectual and artistic works used.
For the use of scales, questionnaires and photographs belonging to others, permission must be obtained from the owners and specified.
In case presentations, it should be stated that the "informed consent form" was obtained.
Note: For the articles that have been accepted but not yet published (research data before 2020 were used, produced from master's / doctoral studies (should be specified in the article), a publication application was made to the journal in the previous year) retrospective ethics committee approval is not required. Please indicate in the declaration form that your work carries this situation.
To reach the declaration form stating that the study does not require Ethics Committee Permission, please CLICK HERE.
Studies Requiring Ethics Committee Permission and Accepted for Publication
- In studies requiring ethics committee approval, information about permission (name of the board, date and number) should be included in the method section and on the first / last page of the article.
- In case presentations, the information that the informed consent form was signed should be included in the article.