Publication Ethics

JEMUR follows the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the ethical requirements of TR Dizin, the Turkish national citation index. Every submission must comply with research and publication ethics, and that compliance must be documented in the manuscript itself.

Ethics Committee Approval

Approval from an ethics committee is required in all disciplines, including the social sciences, for research involving:

data collected through questionnaires, interviews, focus groups, observation, experiments or similar methods;
clinical or experimental studies on humans or on animals;
retrospective studies that fall within the scope of personal data protection legislation;
case reports, for which the manuscript must state that informed consent was obtained.

Approval must be obtained before data collection begins. A study carried out without prior approval cannot be regularised afterwards and will be returned to the author.

What the Manuscript Must State

All ethics statements belong under a single heading called Declarations, placed after the conclusion and before the reference list. Declarations cover the following:

Ethics statement — required in every manuscript. Declare that research and publication ethics have been observed. Where the research required ethics committee approval, give the name of the committee, the date of the decision and the decision or protocol number. Where approval is not required, say so and explain why.
Conflict of interest — required in every manuscript. Where there is none, write that the authors declare no conflict of interest.
Funding — optional. Name any grant, scholarship or institutional support that made the research possible.
Acknowledgements — optional. Thank those who contributed to the work without qualifying for authorship.

Permissions and Third-Party Material

Written permission must be obtained and documented for the use of scales, questionnaires, photographs, figures, tables and other material belonging to others.
Copyright provisions must be observed for all reproduced material.
Funding sources, conflicts of interest and the contribution of each author must be declared.

Responsibilities of Authors

Submit original work that is not under consideration elsewhere and has not been published before.
Obtain the necessary approvals and permissions before the research begins.
List as authors only those who made a genuine intellectual contribution, and include all of them.
Declare funding, conflicts of interest and any use of artificial intelligence tools.
Provide the underlying data or materials if the editors ask for them.
Notify the editors promptly if an error is discovered after submission or publication.

Responsibilities of Reviewers

Evaluate manuscripts on scholarly merit alone, without regard to the identity, institution or seniority of the author.
Treat the manuscript as confidential and do not share, cite or use unpublished material.
Decline the invitation and inform the editor where a conflict of interest exists.
Provide constructive, specific and respectful comments appropriate to an emerging researcher.
Report suspected plagiarism, duplicate submission, data manipulation or other ethical concerns to the editor rather than investigating independently or contacting the author.
Observe the agreed deadline, or tell the editor in good time if more is needed.

Responsibilities of Editors

Decide on the basis of scholarly quality and fit alone.
Protect the confidentiality of the double-anonymous review process and of all parties to it.
Withdraw from handling any submission in which they have a conflict of interest.
Ensure that every submission is screened for similarity and for ethical compliance.
Handle allegations of misconduct in accordance with COPE guidance, giving authors a fair opportunity to respond.
Publish corrections, expressions of concern or retractions when the scholarly record requires it.

Misconduct

Plagiarism, duplicate or redundant publication, data or image manipulation, fabricated citations, undisclosed conflicts of interest and inappropriate authorship are grounds for rejection. Where such problems come to light after publication, JEMUR will issue a correction, an expression of concern or a retraction as appropriate, and will state the reason publicly.

Concerns about the ethics of a published or submitted article may be sent in confidence to editorial@jemur.org. All reports are examined; the person reporting is not identified to the author.