ETHICAL PRINCIPLES

The International Journal of Asian Studies Social Sciences adopts the ethical publishing principles published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) as an open access journal in publication ethics.

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ETHICS (ETHICS OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH)

The following points should be taken into account for the ethics committee report:

Ethics committee approval must be obtained separately for research conducted in the Social Sciences and for studies requiring an ethics committee decision, and this approval must be stated and documented in the article. Articles must include a statement that Research and Publication Ethics are complied with.
In studies requiring Ethics Committee permission, information about the permission (committee name, date and issue number) should be included in the method section and also on the first/last page of the article.
In case reports, information about signing the informed consent/consent form must be included in the article.
Research that requires Ethics Committee permission is as follows:
All kinds of research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require collecting data from participants using survey, interview, focus group study, observation and interview techniques. Moreover; For the use of scales, surveys and photographs belonging to others, permission must be obtained from the owners and it must be stated. It must be stated that copyright regulations are complied with for the ideas and works of art used.
Articles produced from Master's/PhD studies in which some of the research data has been used before should be specifically stated as a footnote, and the decision to publish belongs to the Editorial Board.
Researchers who are not university members can apply to the Ethics Committees in their region for an Ethics Committee Report when deemed necessary.

PUBLICATION ETHICS (ETHICS OF PUBLICATION)


Writer(s);
Persons who have not contributed to the study during the scientific research and writing stages should not be listed as authors.
It is not appropriate to submit the same manuscript to multiple journals.
The author(s) are advised (by TUBITAK ULAKBIM TR Index) not to have the Supervisor as the first author in the works produced from Graduate Theses.
It is recommended (by TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM TR Index) to submit a Declaration of Researchers' Contribution Rate, a Declaration of Support and Acknowledgments, if any, and a Conflict Declaration to the Author(s) at the end of the article.
Authors must refrain from engaging in unethical behaviours such as irresponsible authorship, piracy, fabrication, multiple publication, split publishing, biassed sources, biassed publication, and violation of human-animal ethics. The Copyright Transfer Form must be filled out and uploaded to the system as a signed PDF file (available on the home page).
The author(s) must act in accordance with the citation system specified in the journal during the writing phase of the candidate article.
Unpublished or unpresented studies should not be cited as a source.
All or part of any work cannot be published without permission or citing the source (plagiarism).
The author(s) must indicate the financial sources of the study, if any.

EDITOR ETHICS

Editor(s);
He/she should be careful not to include the names of the author(s) in the full-text article he/she sends to the referees and should not disclose the names of the authors to the referees.
The candidate is obliged to appoint at least two referees suitable for the subject of the article.
Must ensure communication between the referee(s) and the corresponding author, taking into account the blind review process.
The organisation must uphold its relationships in an open and unbiased manner, without showing favouritism towards any writers or referees.
They should not use their position for their own individual and academic interests.
The candidate who will be rejected must furnish explicit and comprehensive justifications for the articles.
Scientific research should also take into account publication and referee ethics.
For articles to be published in Turkish and English, a separate editor is appointed "to make the necessary checks and corrections regarding these languages."

REFEREE ETHICS

Referees should definitely be experts in the fields addressed by the candidate article.
They should make their criticisms objectively and clearly.
Referees should not request to know the names of the authors(s) of the study they will evaluate, and the study texts should not be shared with third parties considering that they are personal.
The candidate in the evaluation process should not transfer information from the article for his/her own work, should not take into account any academic/personal interests.
They should clearly and thoroughly inform the reasons for rejection for the candidate articles they will reject.
It should also take into account the rules of scientific research and publication ethics.
Referees must specify their titles and names in the evaluation report, fill out the form completely and sign it. (The Referee Evaluation Form is available on the Main page).

ARTICLE EVALUATION PROCESS

Asian Studies International Journal of Social Sciences is an international peer-reviewed journal. Articles that have not been published before or are not yet under evaluation in another journal and are approved by each author are accepted for evaluation. Submitted articles are evaluated by the Editor, Editorial Board or Editorial Board in terms of originality, methodology, importance of the subject covered and compatibility with the scope of the Journal. Articles submitted for publication are ensured to be evaluated fairly by double-blind referees. The purpose of the peer review process is to ensure the publication of qualified and original scientific studies. All articles sent for publication to the Asian Studies International Journal of Social Sciences go through the article evaluation process stated below:

Preliminary Assessment(Preliminary Evaluation)

All studies submitted to the journal are subjected to a preliminary evaluation by the Editor or Editorial Board in terms of scientific content, publication principles, journal scope and format, similarity rate as a result of plagiarism scanning, copyright and ethical declaration notification. If the article does not meet the necessary conditions, it may be rejected or some changes may be requested before proceeding to the referee evaluation phase.

Arbitrator Policy(Referee Policy)

The International Journal of Asian Studies in Social Sciences uses a double-blind system in which the names of referees and authors are kept confidential at every stage of the process. The names of the referees are provided in the publication phase in the relevant section of each issue.

Referee Review (Evaluation)

Manuscripts that pass the preliminary evaluation stage are sent to two referees by the Editor. Referees are selected from the referee pool, taking into account their areas of expertise. The number of referees may be increased when necessary by the editors or the Editorial Board. Referees review the articles sent to them; They are evaluated in terms of originality, contribution to the field, statement of the problem and examination of the relevant literature from a critical perspective, method, presentation of the findings, discussion of the results in relation to the relevant literature and suggestions. Referees have the authority to either approve or decline the paper, or to request that the authors make revisions to both the structure and content. If one of the referee reports is positive and the other is negative, the article is sent to a third referee. Therefore, in accordance with the referees' opinions, the decision is made to either publish the article as is, reject it completely, or accept it after making certain corrections. Authors are allotted a period of 1 month to finalise the amendments outlined in the evaluation report dispatched by the referee. Failure to make revisions within this timeframe may result in the rejection of the work.


Final Review (Evaluation)

The Editor conducts the ultimate assessment of works that have received positive judgements from referees and have reached the publication stage. Articles that have undergone final proofreading, correction, and approval by the Editor as being suitable for publication are arranged in the sequence of publication and published alongside the layout works.
Authors who submit articles to the International Journal of Social Sciences of Asian Studies are deemed to have accepted these referee evaluation conditions and process of the Journal.



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