Ethical Principles and Publication Policy

Publication Ethics Principles

Since 2021, Journal of Türkiye Media Academy has continued its publications, committing to adhere to the highest national and international publication ethics standards. To achieve these standards, the journal follows the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA), World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) and International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).

Actions Contrary to Scientific Research and Publication Ethics
• Plagiarism: Presenting the original ideas, methods, data, or works of others as one's own, either partially or entirely, without proper citation in accordance with scientific rules,
• Fabrication: Using data that does not actually exist or has been falsified in scientific research,
• Distortion: Altering research records or obtained info@turkiyemedyaakademisi.comdata, presenting devices or materials not used in the research as if they had been used, altering or shaping research results in line with the interests of the individuals and organizations providing support,
• Re-publication: Presenting duplicate publications as separate publications for academic appointments and promotions,
• Salami slicing: Dividing the results of a study into parts in an inappropriate manner that compromises the integrity of the study and publishing them in multiple publications, presenting these publications as separate publications for academic appointments and promotions,
• Unfair authorship: Including individuals who have not made an active contribution among the authors or excluding those who have, changing the author order in an unjustified and inappropriate manner, removing the names of those who have made an active contribution from subsequent editions, or including one's name among the authors by using influence despite not having made an active contribution,

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Relationships with Journal Owner and Publisher
The relationship between the editor and the publisher is based on the principle of editorial independence. According to the written agreement between the editor and the publisher, all decisions made by the editor are independent of the publisher and journal owner.

Correction, Retraction, Expression of Concern
Editors may consider publishing a correction if minor errors are found in a published article that do not affect the findings, interpretations, or conclusions. Editors should consider retracting an article when major errors/violations invalidate the findings and conclusions. The COPE guidelines are considered regarding corrections, retractions, or expressions of concern.

Protection of Intellectual Property Rights
Our journal is responsible for protecting the intellectual property rights of all published articles and defending the rights of the journal and author(s) in case of possible infringements.

Protection of Participants' Personal Data
All personal data submitted to our journal is protected in accordance with legal regulations and ethical rules.

Use of Artificial Intelligence
The use of artificial intelligence in studies submitted to our journal is acceptable in processes that do not affect the originality of the article, such as literature review or language control. However, the use of artificial intelligence must be carried out within the framework of ethical rules and should never be used for unethical purposes such as fabricating data or manipulation.
For studies involving the use of artificial intelligence, it is mandatory to inform our journal of this situation during the article submission stage. All responsibility regarding the use of artificial intelligence lies with the authors themselves.

Survey and Interview-Based Studies
In all research requiring ethics committee approval, ethics committee approval and informed consent from participants must be obtained. These approvals and documents should be specified in the relevant article.

Research requiring ethics committee approval includes any research conducted using qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from participants using surveys, interviews, focus group studies, observation, experiments, or interview techniques:

• The use of humans and animals (including materials/data) for experimental or other scientific purposes,
• Clinical research conducted on humans,
• Research conducted on animals,
• Retrospective studies in accordance with the personal data protection law,
• Indication that an “Informed consent form” has been obtained in case presentations,
• Obtaining and indicating permission from the owners for the use of scales, surveys, and photographs belonging to others,
• Indication of compliance with copyright regulations for the ideas and works of art used.

Consequently, for any research submitted to our journal that involves “qualitative or quantitative approaches requiring data collection from participants using surveys, interviews, focus group studies, observations, experiments, or interview techniques,” an Ethics Committee Decision must be obtained prior to commencing the study, and the study must be completed thereafter.

Special Issue Publication Policy
A special issue may be published once a year at the request of the Editorial Board. Submitted articles are first subject to editorial pre-review, compliance with writing rules, and plagiarism screening. They are then subjected to a double-blind peer review process.

Ethics Violation Reports
Readers who notice an ethics violation in an article published in the Turkey Media Academy Journal can report it to info@turkiyemedyaakademisi.com. Complaints are handled promptly and constructively.

Complaint Procedure
Authors and readers may submit complaints regarding the journal's content, procedures, or policies to info@turkiyemedyaakademisi.com. Complaints are reviewed confidentially and resolved promptly.

Appeal Process
Authors may submit serious objections to evaluations made by editors or reviewers to the email address info@turkiyemedyaakademisi.com. Appeals must be clearly explained. If the appeal is deemed valid, the article may be sent for re-evaluation.

Ethical Responsibilities of Stakeholders

1-Responsibilities of Authors

• Manuscripts must be original, unpublished, and not under consideration for publication elsewhere.

• All authors must give their consent; individuals who have not contributed should not be included in the author list.

• Plagiarism, fabrication, duplicate publication, and data manipulation must be avoided.

• Data used in the research should be transparent, accessible, and verifiable when necessary.

• Conflicts of interest should be clearly declared.

2- Editors' Responsibilities

• Editors evaluate manuscripts based on their scientific content, regardless of the authors' ethnicity, gender, nationality, religious beliefs, or political views.

• Editors conduct fair double-blind peer review of articles submitted for publication
and ensure that all information related to submitted articles is kept confidential prior to publication.

• They are responsible for selecting appropriate reviewers and ensuring that the review process is fair and timely.

• They are obligated to initiate the necessary procedures when they detect behavior that violates publication ethics.

• They are responsible for ensuring the similarity/plagiarism control of articles.

3- Responsibilities of Reviewers

• Reviewers should not have any conflict of interest related to the research, authors, and/or research fund providers.

• Reviewers' evaluations should be objective.

• The language and style used by reviewers should not be offensive to the author.

• Reviewers must ensure that all information regarding submitted articles remains confidential until the article is published.

• If reviewers detect copyright infringement or plagiarism in the work they are reviewing, they should report this to the editor.

• A reviewer who feels inadequate to review an article or believes they cannot complete the review within the specified time frame should withdraw from the review process.

PUBLICATION POLICIES

1- Article Review Process

Evaluation Principles

1- Articles must be unpublished, not previously submitted to another journal, and approved by all authors.

2- Our journal does not permit conflicts of interest between authors and reviewers; precautions are taken in suspicious cases.

3- All articles are screened using Turnitin, iThenticate, or İntihal.net software. The similarity rate must be less than 15%.

4- Submissions to the journal must comply with the APA 7 Citation System. Inappropriate submissions will be rejected during the preliminary review stage.

5- Articles are evaluated independently of ethnicity, gender, nationality, religion, or political views.

6- Our journal employs a double-blind peer review system. The identities of authors and reviewers are concealed.

7- The final authority on the acceptance/rejection of articles rests with the editor-in-chief. The editor does not participate in the process for articles related to their own work or that of their close associates.

Evaluation Process

A- Preliminary Review

Initial Review
Research articles submitted are reviewed by the editor on the date of submission. If the editor determines that the article complies with the journal's publication policies and scientific standards, the article is forwarded to an assistant editor for a more detailed review. Assistant editors read the articles from beginning to end and evaluate them in terms of scientific adequacy.

NOTE: For all submissions, the goal is to reach the initial decision stage within two to three weeks. However, in most cases, the initial decision is communicated to the author within a few days of submission.

Early Rejection Process
If it is determined that the submitted article is outside the scope of the journal or lacks originality, authors are informed promptly. This allows them to submit their work to another journal.

Editorial Board Evaluation
Submissions to our journal are evaluated at an Editorial Board meeting. Board members discuss the article's significance, originality, and scientific quality. The evaluation focuses particularly on the presence and quality of the research question. Articles lacking a research question or containing serious scientific flaws are rejected.

B- Peer Review Process

Appropriate articles are referred by the field editors to at least two independent external reviewers under double-blind peer review. Both the author and reviewer identities are kept confidential throughout the evaluation process; the process is conducted in accordance with ethical principles and confidentiality rules.
The work is accepted for publication based on positive reports from both reviewers.
If one of the reviewers submits a negative opinion, the article is referred to a third reviewer for a decision.

C- Revision Process

If revisions are requested by the reviewers, authors must mark the suggested corrections in a different color (e.g., red) in the manuscript. The changes made are first reviewed by the editor and then re-examined by the relevant reviewers.
Manuscripts that have completed the review process are also reviewed by the journal's language editors.
If deemed necessary in terms of language and writing, authors are asked to make additional corrections. The linguistic revisions made are checked again and approved.

NOTE: For all articles, a final decision is targeted within 4 to 6 weeks from the date of submission. If revisions are requested, authors are generally expected to revise their articles and re-upload them within one month.

D- Publication Process

Accepted articles are published online at https://www.turkiyemedyaakademisi.com/ after the preparation process (typesetting and layout) is completed. Published articles are officially included in subsequent issues of the journal.

Principles of the Peer Review Process for the Editorial Board's Work

Editorial articles and analysis articles written by the editors of the Turkey Media Academy Journal do not undergo external peer review. Original research articles, however, are sent to at least two external reviewers under a blind review system. During this period, the authors' editorial roles are suspended to ensure they are not involved in the review process, thus maintaining double-blind peer review.

2- Archiving, Open Access, and Copyright Policy

The works published in our journal are digitally archived in LOCKSS. Our journal also allows authors to archive versions of their works on their own websites, institutional websites, and other repositories. As our journal is open access, there is no embargo period.

Authors retain the copyright to their work published in our journal, and their work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). All work published in our journal is published as open access under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license. Articles published in our journal can be accessed free of charge at https://www.turkiyemedyaakademisi.com/index.php/tumader/issue/archive.

Scope of the License
As long as you comply with the license terms, the licensor cannot revoke these freedoms (the specified rights).
You are free to:
1) Share: Copy and redistribute the work in any medium or format.
2) Adapt: Remix, transform, and build upon the existing work.
Under the following conditions:
3) Attribution: You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so, but this does not imply that the license holder approves of you or your use.
4) NonCommercial: You may not use this material for commercial purposes.
There are no additional restrictions: You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that would restrict the use of the permissions granted by the license.

3- Fee Policy

Article publication and article processing in the journal are free of charge. No processing fees or submission fees are charged under any name for articles submitted to the journal or accepted for publication.

4- Advertising and Sponsorship Policy

Advertising and sponsorship are not accepted in our journal. All expenses of our journal are covered by the Publisher.