Ethical Principles and Publication Policy

International Journal of Social Inquiry (IJSI) is an international refereed journal published by the Bursa Uludağ University Social Sciences Institute. The journal is published in three issues, in April, August, and December each year. Thus, it is aimed that the journal will reach a wide range of authors and readers. IJSI publishes articles on social issues, particularly in the fields of economics, public finance, business and management, political science, public administration, sociology, psychology, and philosophy.

Ethical Responsibilities of the Editor(s)

• Editors have full responsibility and authority to accept or reject an article.
• Editors should not have a conflict of interest / conflict regarding articles they accept or reject.
• Only articles that will contribute to the field should be accepted.
• Support the release or retraction of the correction when errors are found.
• It should prevent plagiarism / fake data.
• Editors and the Editorial Board should deal with the scientific content and writing rules associated with the journal.
• Editors will take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of articles where research misconduct occurs.

Ethical Responsibilities of Referees

Referee evaluation is defined as obtaining advice from experts about articles submitted for publication to the journal.
• Referees' decisions must be objective and impartial.
• Referees should not have a conflict of interest / conflict with the research / author / funders of the research.
• Referees should indicate works that have been published but not yet cited in the article.
• Referees should keep reviewed articles confidential.
• Referees cannot communicate directly with authors; The article evaluation forms and the notes stated on the text are forwarded to the author (s) by the editors.
• Referees are required to fill in the "Referee Evaluation Form" for the articles they have evaluated. The referees are required to indicate in this form their decisions regarding whether the article they have evaluated can be published or not, and their reasons / suggestions for their decisions.
• At least two referees evaluate an article submitted for publication in IJSI.
• In IJSI, during the referee evaluation process, double-blind refereeing is applied. The referees do not see the names of the authors and the authors do not know the names of the referees.
• After the article sent to be published is subjected to referee evaluation, it is also examined by the scientific committee when deemed necessary. Comments and assessments from the referees and / or scientific committee are forwarded to the authors, and when necessary, the author may be asked to review and make corrections.
• IJSI does not pay referees at any stage for article evaluation.

Ethical Responsibilities of Authors

• Bibliography list must be complete.
• Plagiarism and fake data should not be included.
• The same research should not be attempted to be published in more than one journal and should comply with scientific research and publication ethics.
• All kinds of research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from the participants by using survey, interview, focus group work, observation, experiment, interview techniques; Use of humans and animals (including material/data) for experimental or other scientific purposes; Clinical studies on humans; Research on animals; According to the personal data protection law, retrospective studies require ethics committee approval. In studies that require ethics committee permission, information about the permission (name of the committee, date and number) should be included in the method section, as well as on one of the first/last pages of the manuscript.

According to the Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive of The Council of Higher Education article 4, actions against scientific research and publication ethics are as follows:
a) Plagiarism: To present the ideas, methods, data, practices, writings, figures, or works of others as if they were their own, partially or entirely, without reference to their owners in accordance with scientific rules,
b) Forgery: To produce data that is not based on research, to edit or change the presented or published work based on unreal data, to report or publish them, to pretend that a research has been done.
c) Distortion: Falsifying the research records and the data obtained, showing the methods, devices, and materials not used in the research as being used, not considering the data that are not suitable for the research hypothesis, playing with the data, and / or results to conform to the relevant theory or assumptions, falsifying or shaping research results in line with their interests,
d) Republishing: To present more than one work containing the same results of research as separate works in academic promotions,
e) Slicing: To present the results of research as separate works in academic promotions by breaking down the results of the research in an inappropriate way and making many publications without reference to each other,
f) Unfair authorship: Including non-active contributors among the authors, not including those with active contributors among the authors, changing the author's order in an unjustified and inappropriate manner, removing the names of the active contributors from work during publication or in subsequent editions, to include his / her name among the authors,
Other types of ethical violations include:
a) Not specifying the supporting persons, institutions, or organizations and their contributions in the publications made as a result of research conducted with the support,
b) To use the thesis or studies that have not yet been submitted or accepted as a source without the permission of the owner,
c) Not complying with ethical rules in research on humans and animals, not respecting patients' rights in publications,
d) To act contrary to the provisions of the relevant legislation in biomedical research and other clinical trials related to humans,
e) Sharing the information contained in a work that has been assigned to review with others before it is published without the explicit permission of the owner of the work,
f) Misusing the resources, venues, facilities, and devices provided or allocated for scientific research,
g) To claim unfounded, unwarranted, and deliberate ethical violations,
h) To publish the data obtained without the express consent of the participants in a questionnaire and attitude research conducted within the scope of a scientific study or if the research will be conducted in an institution, also without the permission of the institution
i) To harm animal health and ecological balance in research and experiments,
j) Failing to obtain written permissions from authorized units in research and experiments before starting work.
k) Research and experiments in legislation or engage in activities contrary to the provisions on related research and experimentation of the international conventions that Turkey is a party.
l) Failing to comply with the obligation to inform and warn those concerned about possible harmful practices related to the scientific research conducted by researchers and authorities,
m) Not using the data and information obtained from other persons and institutions in scientific studies, to the extent and as permitted, not to respect the confidentiality of this information and to ensure its protection,
n) Making false or misleading statements regarding scientific research and publications in academic appointments and promotions.

• Authors must comply with copyright regulations for their intellectual and artistic works. Authors must obtain permission from the copyright holder when using previously published content, including images, tables, or any other content in print or electronic format. All legal, financial and criminal liability in this matter belongs to the authors.
• Authors are obliged to participate in the referee evaluation process.
• In articles with more than one author, it is expected that all authors have contributed significantly to the research. Author(s) should correctly cite the sources they use in their articles and prepare their articles in accordance with the "Authors Guide (Writing Rules and Reference Formats)" determined by the journal.
• All authors are obliged to ensure that errors are withdrawn or corrected.
• Articles should not be submitted to a journal other than IJSI for simultaneous publication. Translations of articles published elsewhere are not accepted for publication in IJSI. Authors should be aware that the copyright of the materials contained in IJSI belongs to IJSI.
• Supporting persons, institutions, or organizations and their contributions should be indicated in publications made as a result of research conducted with support.
• If the article is produced from the author's master's or doctoral thesis or a project, this should be stated in the article.
• IJSI does not charge author(s) for publishing at any stage.
• Author(s) must upload the signed "Author Statements Form" when submitting their manuscript to the journal. In addition, the approval document should be uploaded to the system as an additional file for studies that require Ethics Committee Permission.

Confidentiality Statement

All of the data (personal information such as names and last names of authors, email addresses, etc.) are sole to be used by the scholarly studies of the journal. This data is not used for other purposes or shared with third parties on any account.

Copyright and Licencing

IJSI does not charge or pay any royalties to the authors for its published articles. IJSI is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY-NC) International Licence.

Open Access Statement

IJSI is an open-access e-journal and adheres to the Budapest Open Access Initiative definition of open access (see https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org). By "open access" we mean that articles in the IJSI are freely available on the public internet in full text. Thus, any user has the opportunity to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to articles for free and scan for indexing. 

Plagiarism Detection

Eligible studies will be scanned with an internationally accepted academic plagiarism detector (excluding individual citations, bibliographies, and footnotes cited by academic rules). Studies with more than 15% similarity will be sent back to the author/authors together with the scan result report. The plagiarism detection is done by iThenticate software.

Archiving

Issues of IJSI up to 2018 are available in print at Bursa Uludağ University Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin Central Library and various other libraries. The electronic version of the journal has been archived in DergiPark and indexes since 2008.