PUBLICATION POLICY

EVALUATION PROCESS

YILDIZ SOCIAL SCIENCE REVIEW (YSSR) require neither submission or publishing fee. In parallel, YSSR is an open access academic journal. For articles to be published in YSSR, they must not have been published elsewhere or accepted for publication. Papers presented at a scientific meeting can be accepted, provided that this is clearly stated in advance. 

In order to maintain high standards of the journal, all articles submitted are subject to the process outlined below.

INITIAL MANUSCRIPT EVALUATION

All articles submitted for evaluation are first subject to plagiarism check through the iThenticate program. Article(s) that are concluded to have plagiarism are rejected and returned to the author(s). Then, the articles are checked for compliance with the journal template and spelling rules. The articles that pass these stages are sent to the Editor-in-Chief for the blind referee process. The author(s) of the article rejected in the pre-evaluation stage is/are informed within 2 weeks.

EDITOR IN CHEF EVALUATION

The editor-in-chief decides to lead the article that passes the preliminary evaluation to the refereeing process or  to reject without refereeing. The article rejected at this stage has at least one of the following flaws: it is outside the aim and scope of the journal, it is not unique enough, it has an insufficient and/or weak language (Turkish or English), it has conceptual/methodological flaws. The author(s) of the article rejected in the Editor Review phase is informed within 2 weeks of the article's submission to the Editor-in-Chief. The article found suitable for the referee process is sent to 2 referees who are experts in their fields.

DOUBLE BLIND PEER REVIEW

In the evaluation of the articles, a double blind peer review system is operated as a referee type and evaluation is made by two referees who are experts in their fields. In this process, both the authors' and the referees' information is kept confidential. The referees are asked to make objective comments to authors without revealing their identity information.

Although the language correction is not a part of the double blind peer review system, our referees can make suggestions for correcting the language and style of the articles they have reviewed.

The refereeing process of the articles is completed in approximately 2 months. In order the article to be published, both referees' positive reports are required. In cases where the referees' opinions contradict, the Chief Editor is authorized to decide whether to publish the article or not.