Ethical Principles

For Authors

1. It is the author's responsibility to ensure that the submitted article is of a quality that contributes to the academic field.

2. The works must be original and based on research.

3. Although the journal checks the papers to avoid plagiarism, the authors are responsible for the plagiarism's academic consequences.

4. The author should only send the same article to one journal simultaneously. Also, the article must be unpublished in other journals before.

5. The corresponding author should be sure that other individuals shown as co-authors have contributed to the research. It is contrary to scientific ethics to add some, who are not academic contributors to the article, as co-authors or to put in order co-authors with non-academic criteria such as title, age, and gender regardless of the order of contribution.

6. The editors assume that the authors who submit articles to the journal have read and accepted the publishing and writing principles of the journal. The authors who submit a paper to the journal also have committed themselves to these principles.

7. Citations and bibliography should be complete and realistic.

8. The author must submit the Ethics Committee Approval document to the journal for any research that requires data collection from participants using survey, interview and observation methods.

 

For Referees

1. Referees should act with the awareness that they are the essential determinant of the academic quality of the article to be published in the journal and should evaluate it to increase academic quality.

2. To make an appropriate appraisal, referees should only accept articles that they have the expertise necessary. In addition, they should only receive the pieces that they can adhere to the double-blind peer-review secrecy, and they should keep the details of the article in every way confidential.

3. Referees should not share any information about the article examined in the review process with anyone in any way.

4. Referees should only evaluate the correctness of the content of the articles and the appropriateness of the academic criteria. The opinions put forth in the article by authors may differ from those of the referees. The differences should not affect the evaluation.

5. Referee reports should be objective and moderate and must avoid defamatory, derogatory, and accusatory statements.

6. Referees should avoid superficial and ambiguous expressions in evaluation reports. For the evaluations that resulted negatively, the missing points and flaws of the article must be clear and concrete.

7. Referees must evaluate the articles within the time frame granted to them. If they are not able to assess the article, they must notify the journal within a reasonable time.

 

For Editors

1. Editors should accept the articles that may contribute to the relevant areas expressed in the journal's scope to the evaluation process.

2. Editors should not be in any conflict of interest with the accepted or rejected articles nor take advantage of them.

3. Editors have all the responsibility and authority to accept or reject a submission.

4. It is the responsibility of editors to keep the names of referees and authors confidential.

5. Editors should make the necessary effort to prevent plagiarism in the articles submitted for publication.

6. It is the responsibility of editors to complete the review, refereeing, editing, and publishing processes of the submitted articles in a timely and healthy manner.

7. Editors should give priority to academic concerns and criteria when accepting articles to the journal.

 

Nous Academy Journal has prepared the above list by considering the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics - COPE (https://publicationethics.org/) and the Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive accepted by the Council of Higher Education. The journal approves these guidelines.