UPA Strategic Affairs adheres to the academic ethics procedures proposed by the ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors) and COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics). These procedures apply to editors, authors, and referees.
Actions contrary to scientific research and publication ethics are listed below:
Plagiarism: Presenting the original ideas, methods, data, or works of others as one’s own, either partially or entirely, without proper citation in accordance with scientific rules.
Fabrication: Using data that does not actually exist or has been falsified in scientific research.
Distortion: Altering research records or obtained data, presenting devices or materials not used in the research as if they had been used, altering or shaping research results in line with the interests of the individuals and organizations providing support.
Re-publication: Presenting duplicate publications as separate publications for academic appointments and promotions.
Salami slicing: Dividing the results of a study into parts in an inappropriate manner that compromises the integrity of the study and publishing them in multiple publications, presenting these publications as separate publications for academic appointments and promotions.
Unfair authorship: Including individuals who have not made an active contribution among the authors or excluding those who have, changing the author order in an unjustified and inappropriate manner, removing the names of those who have made an active contribution from subsequent editions, or including one’s name among the authors by using one’s influence despite not having made an active contribution.
Our journal also requires that all studies in scientific fields requiring ethics committee approval have obtained the relevant ethics committee decision. In this context, authors must include the date and number of the Ethics Committee approval on the first or last page of the article.
In line with the regulations implemented by Ulakbim TR Index since 2020, studies without ethics committee approval are not considered for publication in our journal.
Studies requiring ethics committee approval in our journal include the following:
- All research conducted using qualitative or quantitative approaches that involve collecting data from participants through methods such as surveys, interviews, focus group studies, observation, experiments, and discussion techniques.
- Studies in which humans and animals (including materials or data) are used for experimental or other scientific purposes.
- Clinical research conducted on humans.
- Scientific research conducted on animals.
- Retrospective studies within the framework of the Personal Data Protection Law.
For such studies to be considered for evaluation, the relevant ethics committee approvals must have been obtained, and these approvals must be clearly stated in the article text.
