Publication Policy

JEMUR is an open-access journal that publishes articles after double-blind peer review. Before review, every manuscript passes an editorial screening and a technical check of its references and citations.

Journal Information

Title: Journal of Emerging Minds in Undergraduate Research (JEMUR)
e-ISSN: 3150-0374
Publisher: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kadir DEMİR, İzmir, Türkiye (Publisher Information)
First issue: Volume 1, Issue 1, August 2026
Frequency: two issues a year, in June and December; accepted articles may appear earlier as Early Access
Languages: Turkish and English
Peer review: double-blind, at least two independent reviewers
Access and license: open access under CC BY-NC 4.0
Fees: none
Identifiers: every article receives a DOI
Contact: editorial@jemur.org

Language and Basic Eligibility

JEMUR accepts manuscripts in Turkish and English. Manuscripts in Turkish must also include the title, abstract and keywords in English.
At least one listed author must be an active undergraduate or graduate student at the time of submission.
Submissions must be original, unpublished, and not under review elsewhere. If the manuscript is based on a thesis, conference paper, preprint or project report, this must be stated at submission.

Formatting and Citation Standards

The main text must use Times New Roman, 12-point font.
The article title must use 14-point type; all section and subsection headings must use 12-point type.
Use no more than three numbered heading levels: 1., 1.1., and 1.1.1.
All paragraphs must use single line spacing; 1.5 spacing should not be used.
The abstract must be written in the manuscript language, contain 250-300 words, and use 10-point type.
Each manuscript must include at least 5 keywords, set in 10-point type.
References, in-text citations, quotations, tables, figures, and headings must follow APA 7 consistently.
Figures, tables, images, datasets and appendices must be legible, and their sources must be stated.

Checks Before Peer Review

Every manuscript is checked by the editorial office before it can be sent to reviewers.

Editorial screening: scope, language, formatting, research ethics, authorship and similarity. Manuscripts with a similarity rate above 20% are not accepted.
Technical check of references and citations: every in-text citation must have a matching entry in the reference list, and every reference must be cited in the text; each source must exist and be cited accurately, with its authors, year, title, source and DOI where available; and all references must follow APA 7.

Manuscripts with missing, incorrect, unverifiable or fabricated references are not sent for peer review. Depending on the extent of the problems, they are either rejected or returned to the authors for technical corrections, and a corrected manuscript is checked again before review.

Double-Blind Peer Review

JEMUR uses double-blind peer review: reviewers do not know the identity of the authors, and authors do not know the identity of the reviewers. The editorial office ensures that the files sent to reviewers contain no names, affiliations or other identifying information.
Every manuscript that passes the checks above is evaluated by at least two independent reviewers with expertise in its subject. Where possible, reviewers come from institutions other than those of the authors. No one with a conflict of interest is invited to review.
Authors may suggest reviewers or ask for particular people to be excluded; the editors are not bound by these requests.
Reviewers assess originality, contribution to the field, methodology, use of evidence and sources, clarity and research ethics. Supplementary files are reviewed together with the manuscript.
Reviewers are asked to respond to an invitation within one week and to submit their report within four weeks.
Reviewers recommend acceptance, minor revision, major revision or rejection. The editors make the final decision on the basis of the reports; if the reports conflict, an additional reviewer may be invited. Revised manuscripts may be returned to the reviewers.
Review reports are confidential and are not published, and reviewers' identities are not disclosed to authors.
Editorials written by the editors are not peer reviewed and are labeled as editorials. All other articles go through the process described here.
Manuscripts submitted by the editor-in-chief, editors or editorial board members are handled by an editor with no conflict of interest and undergo the same double-blind review, in which their authors take no part. Such articles make up no more than a quarter of any issue.
JEMUR does not currently publish special issues. Any future special issue will follow the same checks and review under the oversight of the editor-in-chief.
Submission does not guarantee acceptance. Editorial decisions are never influenced by fees or other non-scholarly considerations. Authors may withdraw a manuscript at any time before acceptance by writing to the editorial office.

Authorship and Contributorship

Everyone listed as an author must have made a substantial contribution to the work, taken part in drafting or critically revising it, approved the final version, and agreed to be accountable for it, in line with the ICMJE Recommendations.
Contributors who do not meet these criteria are named in the acknowledgements.
In manuscripts with more than one author, the contribution of each author is stated in the Declarations section.
Any change to the author list after submission requires the written agreement of all authors and the approval of the editor.

Conflicts of Interest

Authors declare any financial or personal relationship that could influence their work in the Declarations section, or state that there is none.
Reviewers decline invitations to review manuscripts in which they have a conflict of interest, and editors withdraw from handling them.

Use of Artificial Intelligence

AI tools cannot be listed as authors.
Authors remain responsible for the argument, sources, analysis, wording, and accuracy of the manuscript.
Generating all or a substantial part of the manuscript with an AI tool is not acceptable.
Any limited use of AI for language checks, transcription, data organization, or similar technical support must be disclosed.
The disclosure should name the tool, explain how it was used, and state how the output was checked.
Reviewers and editors must not upload manuscripts or review reports to generative AI tools, or use such tools to write or assess reviews and editorial decisions.
Automated tools used in the checks before review, such as similarity software, support the editors; every result is assessed by an editor.

Research Ethics and Integrity

JEMUR follows COPE Core Practices and the ethical requirements of TR Dizin. Ethics committee approval is required, in all disciplines including the social sciences, for research involving questionnaires, interviews, focus groups, observation, experiments, human or animal subjects, retrospective studies covered by data protection law, and case reports. Approval must be obtained before data collection begins, and the committee name, decision date and decision number must appear in the manuscript.

Plagiarism, fabrication, falsification, citation manipulation and misleading use of sources are not accepted, and suspected misconduct is handled in line with COPE guidance. The full policy, including the responsibilities of authors, reviewers and editors, is set out on the Publication Ethics page.

Data Sharing

Authors are encouraged to deposit the data, materials and code underlying their findings in a public repository and to describe their availability in the Declarations section. If data cannot be shared, for example for privacy or ethical reasons, the reason should be given. The editors may ask to see the underlying data during review.

Open Access

JEMUR is a fully open-access journal. All articles are free to read immediately on publication, without embargo or registration. In line with the Budapest Open Access Initiative, readers may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search and link to the full texts, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, and use them for any other lawful purpose permitted by the license, without financial, legal or technical barriers.

Copyright and Licensing

Authors retain the copyright of their articles. On submission, they accept the JEMUR copyright statement by ticking a box in the submission system; if the manuscript is accepted, this grants JEMUR the rights to publish, distribute, archive and index the work.
Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). Anyone may share and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes, provided that the authors and the original publication in JEMUR are credited. The license is shown on every article.
Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce material owned by others.
These terms apply to published articles and are separate from the copyright of the website itself.

Self-Archiving

Authors may deposit the submitted, accepted and published versions of their article in institutional or subject repositories and on personal or academic websites, without embargo. Copies of the accepted or published version should cite the original publication in JEMUR and link to its DOI. A preprint posted before submission does not count as prior publication but must be mentioned at submission.

Archiving and Preservation

Every published article is deposited with its DOI in Zenodo, the open repository operated by CERN, where records are kept for the lifetime of the repository. Because each DOI resolves to the Zenodo record, the articles remain accessible even if the journal website is unavailable.

Corrections, Retractions and Post-Publication Discussion

Readers may raise questions or concerns about a published article by writing to editorial@jemur.org. The editors examine every report and, where needed, ask the authors to respond.
Errors that do not affect the conclusions are corrected with a correction notice linked to the article.
When serious problems are found, JEMUR may publish an expression of concern while the matter is examined, or retract the article in line with the COPE Retraction Guidelines. A retracted article remains online, clearly marked as retracted, with a notice explaining why.

Complaints and Appeals

Authors who believe that a decision was based on an error may appeal within 30 days by writing to editorial@jemur.org and explaining their reasons. The appeal is considered by the editor-in-chief or by an editor who was not involved in the original decision, and an additional reviewer may be consulted. The decision on the appeal is final.
Complaints about the journal's processes or conduct can be sent to the same address. They are handled confidentially and in line with COPE guidance.

Fees, Funding and Advertising

JEMUR charges no fees of any kind; see the Price Policy.
JEMUR has no income from authors, readers, advertising or sponsorship. Its running costs are met by the publisher.
JEMUR does not accept advertising.

Early Access

Accepted articles may be published online before the issue in which they will appear is complete. An article released in this way is final and citable: it has completed peer review, copy-editing and proofreading, and it carries its own DOI.

Early access articles do not yet have a volume, issue or page range, because the issue has not been assembled. They are listed in a separate Early Access section and are marked as such on the article page. Until the issue appears, the recommended citation form is Advance online publication.

When the issue is published, the article moves into it and receives its volume, issue and page numbers. The DOI does not change and existing links continue to work.

Publication Workflow

Submission: Authors submit the manuscript, author details and any supplementary files through OJS and accept the copyright statement in the final step.
Editorial screening: The editorial office checks scope, language, formatting, similarity, ethics and authorship.
Technical check: References and citations are checked; manuscripts that fail are rejected or returned for technical corrections.
Double-blind peer review: At least two independent reviewers evaluate the manuscript, and authors may be asked to revise it.
Editorial decision: The editors decide on the basis of the reviewer reports and the revisions.
Production: The accepted manuscript is copy-edited, typeset and proofread, and its publication details are checked.
Publication: The article is published open access under CC BY-NC 4.0 with a DOI and added to the journal archive.

The editors may ask for further information or documents when authorship, ethics, originality, AI use or permissions need to be verified.