The scientific journal “Bulletin of the Turkic Academy” is committed to adhering closely to international organizations’ ethical guidelines, such as the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), maintaining high standards in the publication process, and providing guidelines for best practices to meet these requirements.
The editors are responsible for deciding which submitted articles should be published. In evaluating the submissions, the editors should limit their assessment to the intellectual content. The editors can disregard any material that violates legal requirements regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. They must ensure the confidentiality of submitted works until publication.
Duties of authors
Authors of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the manuscript. A manuscript should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Counterfeit or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.
Originality and plagiarism
The authors must ensure that their works are entirely original and that any use of the work or words of others is appropriately cited or quoted. Plagiarism can take many forms, including publishing another’s work as one’s own, copying or paraphrasing significant parts of another’s paper without acknowledgment, or claiming results from research conducted by others. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.
Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication
An author should not publish manuscripts describing the same research in multiple journals or primary publications. Submitting the same manuscript to multiple journals concurrently constitutes unacceptable publishing behavior. Generally, an author should not submit a previously published manuscript for consideration to another journal.
Acknowledgement of sources
Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been significant in determining the nature of the reported work. Information obtained privately, such as in conversation, correspondence, or discussion with third parties, must not be used or reported without explicit written permission from the source. Information obtained in the course of confidential services, such as refereeing manuscripts or grant applications, must not be used without the explicit written permission of the authors involved in these services.
Authorship of the manuscript
Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author must ensure that all appropriate co-authors are included in the manuscript and that no inappropriate co-authors are listed. Furthermore, all co-authors should have reviewed and approved the final version of the manuscript and agreed to its submission for publication.
Disclosure and conflicts of interest
All authors must disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project must be disclosed.
Fundamental errors in published works
When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in their published work, the author must promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper. If the editor or publisher learns from a third party that a published work contains a significant error, the author should promptly retract or correct the paper or provide evidence to the editor of the correctness of the original work.
Duties of the Editorial Board
These guidelines are based on existing COPE Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.
Publication decisions
The editor is responsible for deciding which submitted articles should be published. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The editor may be guided by the policies of the journal’s Editorial Board and constrained by legal requirements in force regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism.
Fair play
An editor should evaluate manuscripts based on their intellectual content without regard to the author’s race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy.
Confidentiality
The editor and editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
Disclosure and conflicts of interest
Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor’s own research without the author’s express written consent. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Editors should avoid considering manuscripts with conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any authors, companies, or institutions connected to the manuscript. They should ask a co-editor, associate editor, or another member of the editorial board to review and consider the manuscript instead. Editors should require all contributors to disclose relevant competing interests and publish corrections if competing interests are revealed after publication. If necessary, other appropriate actions should be taken, such as publishing a retraction or expressing concern.
The section is prepared according to resources from Elsevier publisher (https://www.elsevier.com/) and files (https://publicationethics.org/resources) from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE – https://publicationethics.org/).