Publication Ethics

Research works are sent via the Journal's official e-mail account, which is available on its own website.

The research is presented to the Technical Committee of the journal, to consider whether the research complies with the terms of the initial publication or not.

In the event that the research fails to comply with the declared initial conditions, the research is returned to its owner to work on completing the conditions, especially the method of marginalization, documentation and adherence to the journal’s own template.

In the event that the researcher adheres to the initial conditions of the journal, the research is presented to a specialized member of the editorial board to see whether the research complies with the ethical and scientific conditions of the journal and deserves to be sent to external reviewers or not.

In the event that the research obtains initial acceptance, it shall be sent to external specialist reviewers to decide whether the research deserves to be published in the journal or not.

In the event that the research fails to obtain acceptance in the internal evaluation, the researcher shall be sent a letter of apology for not accepting the research.

The journal awaits the reviewers’ opinion on the research on the journal’s official e-mail account within a maximum period of two weeks.

If the reviewers request an amendment, the research shall be sent to the researcher again to make the required amendments.

In the event that one of the reviewers rejects the research and the other accepts it, the research shall be sent again to a third member, who is oftentimes a competent member of the Editorial Board, in order to provide the final word thereon, and the journal proceeds further according to the recommendation of this third reviewer.

In the event that the external reviewer fails to duly submit her/his reviews on time, the journal shall be entitled to replace her/him with another reviewer in order to facilitate the reviewing/evaluating mission, not to disrupt the reviewing process and to keep on publishing research without bearing the financial reviewing costs for the late reviewer.

Should one of the external reviewers apologize for reviewing the sent research for any reason, the journal shall replace her/him with another competent reviewer to speed up the research reviewing procedures and not disrupt them.

In the event that the researcher makes the required amendments, the research shall be sent back to one of the reviewers to consider whether or not the researcher has made the required basic amendments.

If the reviewer’s report recommends that the researcher makes the required amendments, the journal shall send the researcher a letter of acceptance to publish her/his research.

In the event that the researcher does not make the required amendments and adheres to her/his opinion concerning a certain issue, the Editor-in-Chief of the editorial Board must have the final say whether or not the research is accepted.

If the research is sent to the researcher after amendment and she/he responds to the journal by withdrawing her/his research, the journal has the left to write to the authorities responsible for the researcher to bear the reviewing fees for the journal, after informing the researcher concerned of this action.

The researcher is entitled to withdraw her/his research before the external reviewing procedures without bearing any financial costs.

If the journal later discovers that the research has plagiarized or been published elsewhere, the journal has the left to withdraw the research from the Issue, and send a message to the authorities responsible for the researcher.

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