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Cilt: 10 Sayı: 1, 30.06.2024

Yıl: 2024

EAJS is an international research journal published biannually, on par with the best international journals on the subject. The journal's vision is to leave an academic podium for researchers around the world to publish original, innovative, pragmatic and high-quality research work. The journal aims to encourage academicians and everyone involved in science to publish research studies of multiple disciplines.

EAJS is a double-blind, peer-reviewed, bi-annually published academic journal that publishes research articles in the field of formal, natural and applied sciences in order to contribute to the international science literature. The journal welcomes manuscript submissions from academicians, scholars and practitioners from all over the world for possible publication. The fields listed below for submission of research papers/reviews are indicative only.

  • Physics
  • Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
  • Mathematics
  • Biology
  • Chemistry
  • Engineering

Eastern Anatolian Journal of Science (EAJS) is open access journal and all the manuscripts published in EAJS is freely available online for anyone.

The journal accepts the following types of contribution:

  • Original Research Paper
  • Review

Criteria for a publication in the EAJS:

  • The relevancy to the scope of the EAJS.
  • The novelty and originality of the work.
  • Significance to the broadening and development of the field of Science and Technology.

Manuscript Submission
Authors may submit manuscripts in English. The cover letter should give the author address, e-mail address, affiliation, and should indicate the intended publication format (Original research article or review). After the acceptance of the manuscript for publishing, authors must be sent source files of the accepted paper.

There is no submission fee or article processing charge for this journal.

Permissions
Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.

Plagiarism

The use of someone else's ideas or words in their original form or slightly changed without a proper citation is considered plagiarism and will not be tolerated. Even if a citation is given, if quotation marks are not placed around words taken directly from another author's work, the author is still guilty of plagiarism. Reuse of the author's own previously published words, with or without a citation, is regarded as self-plagiarism. All manuscripts received are submitted to iThenticate®, a sophisticated plagiarism checking system and similarity rate can not be more than thirty five percent (%35) in plagiarism report.

Title Page
The title page should include:
· The name(s) of the author(s)
· A concise and informative title
· The affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s)
· The e-mail address, telephone of the corresponding author

Abstract
Please provide an abstract of 150 to 250 words. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references.

Keywords
Please provide 4 to 6 keywords that can be used for indexing purposes.

Headings
Please use no more than three levels of displayed headings.

Abbreviations
Abbreviations should be defined at first mention and used consistently thereafter.

Footnotes
Footnotes can be used to give additional information, which may include the citation of a reference included in the reference list. They should not consist solely of a reference citation, and they should never include the bibliographic details of a reference. They should also not contain any figures or tables.
Footnotes to the text are numbered consecutively; those to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data). Footnotes to the title or the authors of the article are not given reference symbols.
Always use footnotes instead of endnotes.

Tables and Figures

Tables should be cited consecutively in the text. Every table must have a descriptive title and if numerical measurements are given, the units should be included in the column heading. Tables should be simple with simple borders and text written as left side.

Each figure can be integrated in the paper body or separately uploaded and should be cited in a consecutive order. Figure widths can be 4-6 inch as 300 dpi.

The labels of the tables and the figures should be clear and informative. The labels are position to below of the figures and to above of the tables.

Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section before the reference list. The names of funding organizations should be written in full.

Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  2. The submission file, click here to download the template.
  3. The authors must upload the copyright agreement form.
  4. The text is in a single-column format; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.

Copyright Notice
All the intellectual property rights of the papers accepted for the publication belong to the Eastern Anatolian Journal of Science.

Privacy Statement
The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES OF THE AUTHORS, EDITORS AND REVIEWERS


Publication Ethics
Users of Eastern Anatolian Journal of Science (editors, authors, reviewers, department editors, readers) must obey to the ethical rules and responsibilities specified by Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) that we have shared on our Dergipark page. These ethical rules and responsibilities are summarized below.

Ethical Responsibilities of Authors

  • Authors prepare and send their manuscripts in original form.
  • The authors ensure that their citations and quotations in their manuscripts are accurate and complete.
  • Authors should indicate and explain situations in which they may be involved in conflicts of interest.
  • The editors, department editors or the reviewers can request raw data from the author of the manuscripts. Therefore, the author must keep the raw data of the article ready for submission.
  • Ethical reports must be submitted by the author together with the article, when necessary.
  • Authors are obliged to inform the journal authorities in case of any errors and inaccuracies about the article during any of the pre-control, evaluation, proofreading and publishing stages.
  • One article cannot be processed in two different journals at the same time. Even if the overall process is completed in a journal and the article is rejected. In other words, an article published in another journal cannot be sent to Eastern Anatolian Journal of Science.
  • In order to add an author, change the order of the authors or omit an author for an article on process for publishing on Eastern Anatolian Journal of Science, an application with the approval of all contributing authors is required. Journal management reviews the application and notifies the corresponding author about the decision.

Ethical Duties and Responsibilities of Editors

The editors of Eastern Anatolian Journal of Science should be obeyed to the ethical roles and responsibilities of “CODE OF CONDUCT AND BEST PRACTICE GUIDELINESFOR JOURNAL EDITORS” and “COPE BESTPRACTICE GUIDELINES FOR JOURNAL EDITORS” announced by Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and provided on our Dergipark webpage. These duties and responsibilities are summarized below.

Editors’ Relationships with Readers

The editors are responsible for taking into account the feedback from the readers, researchers and practitioners about the published works and to provide the necessary responses and take necessary actions.

Editors’ Relations with the Authors

  • Editors make decisions about the articles based on the original value of the article, the aims of the journal and the ethical rules.
  • Editors should accept papers with high original value, based on journal objectives and ethical rules for the evaluation process.
  • The editors should take into account positive opinions of the reviewers unless there is an important reason.
  • Requests and feedback from the authors should be returned with feedback.

Editors’ Relations with the Reviewers

  • The reviewers to be appointed must be selected from related area of the manuscript.
  • The editor should make sure that there is no conflict of interest between the reviewers and the authors.
  • The editor is responsible for guiding the reviewers during the article evaluation process and for providing the requested information.
  • The editor is obliged to hide the credentials of the author and the reviewers by means of blind reviewing.
  • The editor must make the necessary warnings to the reviewers about evaluating the article in a timely, impartial and scientific manner.
  • The editor must make an effort to increase the number of reviewers.

Editors’ Relations with the Journal Owner and the Publisher

Editorial decisions should be independent of the journal owner and the publisher.

Publication of the Article

Editors are responsible for considering publishing principles, journal objectives and international standards in the articles to be published in the journal.

Retention of Personal Data

Editors are responsible for not transferring the personal information to third parties except for the consent of the authors.

Ethics committee, Human and Animal Rights

The editors are responsible for protecting the human and animal rights at about manuscript in the studies conducted on humans and animals. The editor is responsible for rejecting the article if ethics committee approval is not sent in the works that must provide ethics committee report.

Protection of intellectual property rights

Editors are responsible for protecting the intellectual property rights of all articles submitted and published in the journal.

Complaints to Editors

Editors are responsible for providing an open and enlightening answer to complaints from the reviewers, authors and readers.

Conflicts of interest and relations

Editors are responsible for taking action against conflicts of interest between authors, reviewers and third parties in order to complete the impartial and independent evaluation processes of the articles.

Ethical Responsibilities of Reviewers

  • The reviewers are responsible for not evaluating the article if there is a conflict and relationship of interest.
  • The reviewers are responsible for evaluating the article with due regard to the principles of confidentiality and impartiality.
  • The reviewers cannot use the work sent to them for any purpose until the evaluation process is completed and issued.
  • When evaluating the manuscripts, the reviewers are responsible for not allowing the gender, nationality, religious beliefs, or political views of the authors to have an influence on the evaluation.
  • The reviewers should use a gentle and constructive language when evaluating the article and should avoid insulting, defaming and hostile comments and statements.
  • The reviewers are responsible for evaluating the article in a timely and ethical manner.

There is no need to pay APC or any other fee to publish a paper in Eastern Anatolian Journal of Science.