Ethical Responsibilities for Reviewers and Authors

The ethical responsibilities of referees and authors carry significant weight and should be upheld strictly with the International Academic Publication Standards (IAPS). It is crucial that the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) rules, along with the rules specified in our journal’s ethical guidelines, are diligently followed.

Editors, referees, and authors of our journal are expected to adhere to COPE, ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors), and other similar international standards, emphasizing the global nature of our responsibilities.

Artificial intelligence tools in articles submitted to our journal should be limited to language editing and data analysis. If artificial intelligence is used more extensively, this must be clearly stated in the article.

– If artificial intelligence tools are used at any stage of the article creation (idea, design, data analysis, interpretation, language control, etc.), authors should consider both the Council of Higher Education (YÖK) guidelines and the principles presented by COPE.

The stages in which artificial intelligence tools are used should be stated in detail in the article’s acknowledgment section. This section promotes academic transparency by acknowledging all contributors, including AI tools.

– For the content produced with artificial intelligence in the articles submitted to our journal not to be accepted as plagiarism, the authors must declare their contribution rates to the article. If these declarations are missing, the article will not be evaluated.