Ethical Principles and Editorial Policy


* Protection of Personal Data: The personal data of real persons in the studies evaluated in Felsefix are protected under the Law on the Protection of Personal Data. No information belonging to the author is shared with third parties and institutions.

* Pricing: Felsefix journal does not charge a fee at any stage of the article acceptance, evaluation and publication processes.

* Plagiarism Check: All works accepted to Felsefix are checked through plagiarism programs (iThenticate). The matches resulting from the plagiarism check are examined and a plagiarism report is created. Studies with a similarity rate above 20% are not accepted for publication.

* Preliminary Evaluation and Blind Review: The editors of the journal review each manuscript submitted before the deadline for acceptance of manuscripts for compliance with the aims, principles and rules of the journal. Authors who submit their work to the journal are deemed to have accepted that their work has not been published elsewhere before or has not been sent elsewhere for publication. Articles that do not comply with the aims, principles and rules of the journal are not accepted to the journal. For articles that are suitable for the journal, the Editor-in-Chief will work with the Associate Editors, who will assign a field editor or referee to the article. Once appointed, Associate Editors may decide to reject an article, continue the peer review process, or request revisions before further peer review. Manuscripts that successfully pass the pre-evaluation and plagiarism check are sent to at least two referees for the peer review process. If one of the referee evaluations is positive and one is negative, the article is submitted to a third referee for evaluation. Articles that receive two positive reports are published with the decision of the editorial board. In editorial processes, the information of authors and referees is kept confidential to the parties. 

* DOI Number: The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is an access address that allows the identification of works published in electronic media and access to the official and original copy. After the publication process, Felsefix will assign DOI numbers to the accepted works and secure the official information of the work in the electronic environment.

* Copyright and Permissions: Felsefix does not accept any responsibility for copyright issues. Authors accept responsibility in this regard and are responsible for providing and checking the copyright and usage permissions of the sources and materials they use in advance. The responsibility for the works published in the journal belongs to the authors. All authors, when their articles are published after passing the editorial and referee process, accept that the copyright belongs to the journal Felsefix, open source access and the terms of CC BY-NC- 4.0.

* Publication Ethics: Felsefix adopts the policies and follows the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), which is recognized as an international standard on publication ethics in all processes carried out and in the context of Author, Reviewer, Editor, Publisher and Reader responsibilities.

* Ethics Committee Approval Certificate: If the studies submitted to Felsefix journal foresee the collection of data from humans through surveys, interviews, focus group studies, experiments, etc. and their use for experimental or other scientific purposes, it is mandatory to obtain an "Ethics Committee Approval Certificate" from the Human Research Ethics Committee of the relevant institution before the application.