LEGAL PUBLICATION POLICY AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
1. Purpose and Legal Basis

Akademik Tarih ve Düşünce Dergisi / Academic Journal of History and Idea conducts its scholarly publishing activities in accordance with international ethical and legal standards. These activities are carried out in line with, primarily, the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the publication ethics criteria of Clarivate Web of Science, the DOAJ – Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing, and generally accepted norms of academic law.

This policy has been prepared in order to clearly define the legal boundaries of responsibility of the journal, the publisher, the editors, and the editorial boards; to protect the journal in the event of potential disputes; and to address ethical, legal, and administrative risks that may arise during the publication process in a preventive and regulatory manner.

2. Editorial Independence and Final Authority

The final authority regarding all content to be published in the journal rests with the Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board, in accordance with the principle of editorial independence.

The publisher, sponsors, institutions, or third parties may not directly or indirectly interfere with editorial decisions.

Editorial decisions are final. Authors may not raise any legal, financial, or administrative claims against the journal as a result of decisions related to rejection, correction, retraction, or removal of their work.

Editors, within the scope of their editorial discretion, are entitled to review and, where necessary, revise their decisions at any stage of the publication process in line with the public interest, scientific integrity, and ethical requirements.

3. Authors’ Legal Responsibility and Declaration

All authors submitting manuscripts to the journal shall be deemed to have accepted, declared, and undertaken the following:

That the submitted work is entirely original;

That all data, visuals, tables, and quotations included in the work have been used in accordance with the law;

That no intellectual or industrial property rights of third parties have been infringed;

That all necessary approvals have been obtained for studies requiring ethical committee permission;

That any and all legal, criminal, and financial liability arising from the publication of the work shall rest exclusively with the author(s).

Within this scope, the journal, the editors, and the publisher shall not be held liable under any circumstances for copyright infringement, violations of personal rights, breaches of data protection, academic misconduct, or unlawful content.

4. Disclaimer of Liability

All opinions, findings, and evaluations expressed in articles published in the journal belong solely to the authors.

Such views may not be construed as representing the official opinions of the journal, the editors, the editorial board, or the publisher.

The journal provides no warranty or guarantee regarding the accuracy, completeness, or suitability of the published content for any particular purpose.

The journal shall not be held responsible for any damages arising from the use of information published in the journal or from decisions made on the basis of such information.

5. Authority to Retract and Remove Publications

In accordance with the COPE Retraction Guidelines, the journal reserves the right, in cases where ethical violations are identified before or after publication, and where deemed necessary within the scope of editorial discretion, to unilaterally implement the following actions:

Correction,

Editorial note,

Retraction, or

Removal.

No compensation, right, or claim may be asserted by the authors as a result of these actions.

6. Objection and Complaint Mechanism

Authors may submit objections to editorial decisions solely on procedural grounds.

The content of scientific evaluations and peer-review reports is not subject to appeal.

Objections shall be assessed in writing, and the decision of the Editorial Board shall be final and binding.

Applications that are malicious, threatening, or intended to exert pressure shall not be taken into consideration.

7. Applicable Law and Jurisdiction

In any dispute arising within the scope of this publication policy:

The laws of the Republic of Türkiye shall apply.

The competent courts shall be the courts of the place where the journal is headquartered.

Authors may not request recourse to any alternative jurisdiction or international arbitration.

8. Right to Amend the Policy

The journal reserves the right to unilaterally amend this legal publication policy in accordance with:

Changes in international ethical standards,

Indexing requirements,

Legal obligations.

The amended policy shall become binding as of the date of its publication on the journal’s website.

9. Binding Effect

Any submission made to the journal shall be deemed to indicate that this legal publication policy has been read, understood, and accepted by the author(s).