Ethical Principles and Publication Policy – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research

Eurasian Journal of Educational Research (EJER) adopts the Instructions for Scientific Research and Publication Ethics guidelines issued by the Council of Higher Education (Turkey). For more information on Ethical Principles and publication Policy athttps://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/page/about.

Authors of EJER must confirm the following:

Submitted manuscripts must be the original work of the author(s).
Only unpublished manuscripts should be submitted, and this will be emphasised in the cover letter.
It is not ethical to submit the same paper to multiple journals simultaneously.
Any potential conflicts of interest for each author should be clearly stated at the time of submission.
Indicate the sources of data/support used in the preparation of the manuscript. These may include: Foundations, grantors, donors, supporting institutions that provided insight and expertise that significantly supported the research.
If authors discover any errors or inaccuracies after publication their work, they must report them immediately to the journal editors.
All authors are responsible for the content of their paper.
When reproducing figures and/or schematics from previous publications, it is the author’s responsibility to obtain the appropriate permission from the respective editors.

Reviewers of EJER must confirm the following:

That all manuscripts be fairly reviewed on the basis of the intellectual content of the work, regardless of the gender, race, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, or political values of the author(s).
That they will be objective and constructive in their reviews, will not make hostile or inflammatory remarks, and will not make defamatory or derogatory personal comments
That they will review manuscripts for which they have the necessary expertise to make a proper assessment and which they can assess in a timely manner
That any conflict of interest identified during the review process must be disclosed to the editor
That all information concerning the manuscript will be kept confidential
That they will not use information obtained during the peer review process for their own benefit or the benefit of any other person or organisation, or to disadvantage or discredit others
That any information that may be the reason for refusing to publish a manuscript must be disclosed to the editor.

Editors of EJER must confirm the following:

That all manuscripts be evaluated fairly, based on the intellectual content of the work, regardless of the gender, race, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, or political values of the authors
That information pertaining to the manuscripts will be kept confidential
That any conflict of interest observed with respect to manuscripts must be disclosed

The Editorial Board is responsible for deciding whether to publish submitted manuscripts, based on the reviewer’s evaluation of the manuscript, the journal’s editorial policies, and legal provisions against plagiarism, libel, and copyright infringement.

Plagiarism Policy

All papers submitted to EJER after completion of the review process and accepted as possible publication in EJER will be asked by the authors to submit a similarity report in PDF format using a plagiarism software program (e.g. iThenticate / Turnitin / Academic Paradigms, LLC-Check For Plagiarism / Grammarly-Plagiarism Checker) that determines plagiarism / similarity rates. Submit the report Plagiarism-Similarity in PDF format for the entire text including tables and figures (excluding bibliography). Manuscripts will be published after you submit the similarity report.
All authors must check their manuscript using one of the above plagiarism checking software and send it to us in PDF format.

General similarity ratio:
Similarity Index – Plagiarism Ratio 5% – 10%: The document contains plagiarism or similarity at low risk. ACCEPTABLE
Similarity Index – Plagiarism Ratio 11% – 25%: The document contains moderate plagiarism or similarity. ACCEPTABLE. Please revise your paper.
Similarity Index – Plagiarism Ratio 25%+: The document contains high-level plagiarism or similarity. REJECT: The EJER Editorial Board will REJECT your manuscript.

Review Policy

Manuscripts found suitable due to the preliminary review will be sent to the reviewers for scientific evaluation in a blind review. Based on the reviewers’ reports, the editors, Editorial Board and/or associate editors will decide whether to publish the manuscripts. If deemed necessary, papers will be returned to authors to revise or suggest corrections according to the reviewers’ criticisms and suggestions. The review process cannot start if any of the requirements mentioned in this journal are not met or missing, such as detailed personal information about the authors (corresponding author, ORCID, affiliation, email, etc.) or typos in the submission form, etc.
During the review process, authors can only communicate with the Editor-in-Chief and co-editors via email. A strict double-blind procedure will be followed in reviewing manuscripts in the journal.
Editor-in-chief, section editors, reviewers, and authors must use appropriate, polite language in their correspondence. They will not use derogatory, demeaning, or threatening language.
The author(s) cannot make changes to accepted and completed manuscripts.
The author(s) is/are responsible for the content of the published manuscript (the accuracy of references and quotations, arguments and copyrighted tables, images and other figures).

Open Access Policy

Eurasian Journal of Educational Research (EJER) is a fully open access journal. This means that the abstracts and full texts of all manuscripts published in this journal are freely available to anyone immediately after publication, without any form of restriction and without requiring a subscription to the journal.
Manuscripts published in EJER are distributed under the CC BY license. Users may distribute, modify, tweak, and build upon our manuscripts, including commercially, as long as they are cited for their original creation.

Ethics Committee Approval

The “Ethical Committee Approval” is requested for manuscripts regarding changes for 2020 under TR INDEX Evaluation Criteria. All manuscripts uploaded on or after February 21, 2020 must upload the Ethics Committee Approval / Permission Document. In this regard, for studies requiring Ethics Committee approval and uploaded after February 21, 2020, information about the approval (panel name, date and number) should be included in the methods section and on the first/last page of the manuscript.
According to the index rules of ULAKBİM TR, the ORCID numbers of all authors in the manuscripts must be submitted with the final form of the manuscript. Authors whose ORCID number is missing will not receive a DOI number and the manuscript will not be published online first.