Evaluation Principles
• Manuscripts that have not been previously published or are not currently under review for publication in another journal and are approved by each author are accepted for consideration.
• Submitted and pre-checked manuscripts are scanned for plagiarism using Turnitin software.
• Our journal conducts a double blind review process. All manuscripts will first be evaluated by the editor for suitability to the journal. Eligible manuscripts are sent to at least two independent expert referees to assess the scientific quality of the manuscript.
• The Editor-in-Chief evaluates manuscripts independently of the ethnicity, gender, nationality, religious beliefs and political philosophy of the authors. He/she ensures that manuscripts submitted for publication undergo fair double blind peer review.
• The editor-in-chief does not allow conflicts of interest between authors, editors and reviewers.
• The editor is responsible for the final decision regarding the acceptance or rejection of manuscripts. The editor's decision is final.
• Editors are not involved in decisions about manuscripts written by themselves or by family members or colleagues, or about products or services in which the editor has an interest. Any such submission is subject to all of the journal's usual procedures.
Reviewers must ensure that all information about submitted manuscripts remains confidential until the manuscript is published and must report to the editor if they discover any copyright infringement or plagiarism on the part of the author.
If the referee does not feel qualified to review the manuscript or is unlikely to be able to provide timely feedback, he/she should inform the editor and ask him/her not to involve him/her in the review process.
During the review process, the editor should make it clear to reviewers that manuscripts submitted for review are the private property of the authors and that this is a privileged communication. Reviewers and editorial board members may not discuss articles with other individuals. Care should be taken to keep the identity of the referees confidential.
 
Review Process
Refereeing Type Double Blind
Double-Blinding: After plagiarism check, eligible manuscripts are evaluated by the editor-in-chief for originality, methodology, importance of the topic covered and compatibility with the scope of the journal. The editor ensures that the manuscripts undergo a fair double-blind review and if the manuscript meets the formal requirements, he/she submits the manuscript to the evaluation of at least two referees from Turkey and/or abroad, and if the referees deem necessary, they approve the manuscript for publication after the requested changes are made by the authors.
Review Time: Pre-Publication
Author-Referee Interactions: Editors mediate all interactions between reviewers and authors.
Time in Review: For research articles in the review process, the time until the first decision is approximately 60 days.
Acceptance Rate: We publish approximately 42% of the articles received by our journal. Approximately one third of all submissions are rejected in the preliminary review before being sent to peer review.
Plagiarism Check: Yes - Turnitin.
Number of Reviewers Reviewing Each Article: Two
Allowable Duration: 20 days. This period can be extended by adding 10 days.
Decision: In order for the article to be accepted for publication by the Editor, at least two referees must make an acceptance decision.

 

Suspected Ethical Violation

Reviewers should inform the Editor if they suspect misconduct in the research or publication. The Editor is responsible for taking appropriate action, following COPE recommendations.
The Editor-in-Chief reviews the research article on the day of submission and, if he/she considers that the article merits further consideration, sends it to the Deputy Editor for a more detailed review. For research articles, the deputy editor usually reads each article thoroughly. We aim to reach an initial decision for all manuscripts within two or three weeks, but usually the initial decision is made within a few days of submission. If we do not think our journal is the right journal for the work, we will notify the authors immediately so that they can submit their work elsewhere without delay. The usual reasons for rejection at this stage are insufficient originality and the topic being outside the scope of the journal.
The next step for your research paper is our Editorial Board meeting. The members will read your paper and discuss its importance, originality and scientific quality. To make editorial decisions for research articles, we mainly focus on the research question. Even if the topic of the article is relevant, topical and important to the scope of the journal, we may reject the article if it does not have a research question. Of course, the paper will be rejected if it has serious flaws. Everyone attending the manuscript meeting is asked to declare relevant conflicting interests at the outset, and anyone with a significant conflicting interest either leaves the room or speaks last (depending on the nature and extent of their interest) while the manuscript is being discussed.
If your article is suitable for our Journal, the section editor will send it to two external referees. The referees advise the editors, who make the final decision. We ask the referees to confirm their reports and to declare any conflicts of interest on the manuscript we send them. The final decision is made by the Editor-in-Chief after the external peer review process.
For all articles, we aim to reach a final decision on publication within 6 to 8 weeks after submission. If we propose a publication subject to revision, we usually ask authors to revise and upload their manuscript within the following month.
Our journal provides open access to articles as part of its commitment to readers and authors. All our articles are freely available online.
If you notice any errors in your published article, email the editor-in-chief who will let you know if a correction should be made.
 
Refereeing Process Guidelines for the Work of the Editorial Staff
Editorials and analysis articles written by the editors of our journal do not undergo external peer review. Original research articles are sent to at least two external reviewers for blind review. During this period, the roles of those editors are suspended.