This text has been prepared taking into account the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics), ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors) and YÖK Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive.
1. Responsıbılıtıes Of The Publısher
As the legal or natural person owning the journal, the Publisher accepts the following responsibilities:
Editorial Independence: The Publisher guarantees that it will not interfere with the Editorial Board's article selection, evaluation process, or publication decisions for any commercial, political, or personal reasons. The Editors are fully independent in their decisions.
Protection of Intellectual Property: The Publisher protects the intellectual property rights of the published articles and maintains their records.
Continuity: The Publisher is obliged to provide the necessary technical infrastructure, digital security, and sustainability to ensure the continued publication of the journal.
2. Dutıes And Responsıbılıtıes Of The Edıtorıal Board
The Editors (Editor-in-Chief, Section Editors, and Editorial Board) constitute the backbone of the process as the "brain" of the journal.
2.1. Fair Play and Impartiality: Editors evaluate every submitted work based solely on its academic merit, originality, and relevance to the journal's scope, without regard to the authors' gender, ethnic origin, religious belief, nationality, sexual orientation, political philosophy, or institutional hierarchy.
2.2. Confidentiality: Editors and editorial office staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript (author name, manuscript subject, reviewer reports, etc.) to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, and editorial board members. The evaluation process is conducted in a "closed-circuit" manner.
2.3. Conflict of Interest
Editors cannot manage manuscripts involving themselves or their first-degree relatives, or authors with whom they have a competitive or collaborative relationship.
If an Editor submits a manuscript to the journal, the entire evaluation process of this manuscript is managed by an independent "Guest Editor" or an Editorial Board member, completely closed to the relevant Editor's access.
2.4. Publication Decision and Peer Review Management: The Editor is the final authority deciding whether a manuscript will be published. In making this decision, the Editor considers:
Compliance with the journal's writing guidelines (Pre-Check),
Plagiarism report (Similarity Check),
"Blind" evaluation reports from at least two reviewers,
The author's responses to reviewer criticisms. The Editor has the right to reject a work accepted by reviewers if plagiarism or scientific error is detected.
3. Dutıes And Responsıbılıtıes Of Revıewers
Peer review is the most critical stage of academic quality control. Our journal implements the "Double-Blind Peer Review" method; the author does not know the reviewer, and the reviewer does not know the author.
3.1. Scientific Contribution and Objectivity
Reviewers should evaluate manuscripts based solely on the text and avoid personal comments directed at the author.
Reports should be written in a constructive, polite, and academic tone that enables the author to identify deficiencies. Statements such as "Not Suitable" alone are not accepted; the reasons (methodological error, lack of literature, etc.) must be justified.
3.2. Expertise, Timing, and Right to Refuse
If the submitted work is outside the reviewer's area of expertise or if the reviewer does not have sufficient time to evaluate the manuscript, they must notify the editor and decline the assignment.
A reviewer who accepts the invitation must submit their report within the time frame determined by the journal (default 15-20 days).
3.3. Confidentiality and Data Security
Reviewers must treat the manuscript they are reviewing as "privileged information and documents." They cannot discuss, copy, or share the work with others.
Important: Reviewers cannot use the data or ideas in an unpublished manuscript for their own research. This is considered "theft of ideas."
3.4. Detection of Plagiarism and Ethical Breaches: If a reviewer notices that the work under review bears a substantial similarity to a previously published work (plagiarism) or that the data appears inconsistent (fabrication/falsification), they must immediately report this to the editor with evidence.
4. Dutıes And Responsıbılıtıes Of Authors
4.1. Originality and Plagiarism Policy: Authors guarantee that the work they submit is entirely original.
Plagiarism: Using others' ideas, methods, or data without citation.
Self-Plagiarism: The author citing large blocks from their own previous publications without citation or permission.
All submissions are scanned with iThenticate, intihal.net or Turnitin. Works with a similarity rate exceeding 20% (excluding bibliography) may be rejected following editorial review.
4.2. Authorship Criteria: Our journal accepts persons meeting the following 4 criteria determined by ICMJE as "Authors":
Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work.
Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content.
Final approval of the version to be published.
Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
Contributors who do not meet these criteria (e.g., funding only, language editing only) should be acknowledged in the "Acknowledgements" section, not as authors.
Ghost Authorship: Excluding those who contributed.
Gift Authorship: Including those who did not contribute. (These are serious ethical violations).
4.3. Data Accuracy and Retention: Authors are responsible for the accuracy of the data in the article. They must be ready to provide raw data upon request by the editor or reviewers. It is the author's responsibility to retain this data for at least 5 years after publication.
4.4. Multiple Publication and Salami Slicing
Multiple Publication: The same manuscript cannot be submitted to more than one journal simultaneously.
Salami Slicing: The results of a single research project cannot be artificially divided (to increase citation counts) and published as multiple articles. The integrity of the research must be preserved.
4.5. Ethics Committee Approval and Human Rights: "Ethics Committee Approval" is mandatory for all research involving human participants (surveys, interviews, focus groups, experiments, oral history interviews) in social sciences (history, sociology, psychology, etc.).
The name of the institution, date, and decision number of the approval must be stated in the "Method" section and on the first/last page of the article.
In oral history studies, it must be declared that "Informed Consent" was obtained from the participants.
5. Publıcatıon Polıcy And Technıcal Detaıls
5.1. Open Access Policy: Ileri Hareket Journal of History and Culture Studies adopts the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) principles. We believe that knowledge should not be a commercial commodity. All published articles are available to readers free of charge and without restriction immediately upon publication.
5.2. Copyright and Licensing (CC BY-NC 4.0): Published articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license.
What does this mean? Anyone can share, copy, and redistribute the article, provided they cite the author and the journal (attribution). However, they cannot use the article for commercial purposes (selling, etc.).
Authors transfer the copyright to the journal but retain the right to share the work on their own websites or institutional repositories for "non-commercial purposes."
5.3. Fee Policy (No APC): Our journal is a non-profit academic platform.
Article Submission Fee: None.
Article Processing Charge (APC): None.
Royalties payment to authors: None.
5.4. Digital Archiving: Our journal uses the Journal Platform's archiving system.
6. Investıgatıon Of Ethıcal Vıolatıons And Sanctıons
The Editorial Board acts in accordance with COPE Flowcharts when a suspicion of ethical violation arises regarding a published or submitted manuscript.
Detection of Suspicion: The Editor identifies a situation such as plagiarism, data fabrication, or authorship dispute.
Request for Defense: The Editor presents the evidence to the author and requests an explanation.
Investigation: If the author's explanation is deemed insufficient, the author's institution or relevant ethics committees are contacted if necessary.
Decision and Sanction:
Correction: A correction is published for simple errors.
Retraction: If plagiarism or fraud is confirmed, the article is retracted. A "RETRACTED" watermark is stamped on the article electronically, and a reasoned editorial note is published.
Embargo: The author who committed the ethical violation is banned from submitting manuscripts to the journal for a certain period (e.g., 3 years).
7. Advertısıng And Sponsorshıp Polıcy
Journal of Advanced Movement History and Culture Studies does not publish commercial advertisements on its website or in its printed copies.