The Journal of Area Studies adheres to academic principles and ethical values in its publication policy. The publications of the journal should follow the national and international standards regarding ethical principles and values, in particular the standards determined by COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) and the principles determined in YÖK "Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive" (https://publicationethics.org/ https://www.yok.gov.tr/Sayfalar/Kurumsal/Mevzuat/Bilimsel-Arastirma-Ve-…). The publication request of the works that are found to be in violation of the research and publication ethics standards accepted in the article evaluation process will be rejected. If the contradiction in question is detected after the publication of the work, the work will be removed from the publication.

The principles stated below have been prepared based on the standards specified by COPE and YÖK.

Editor and Editorial Board Responsibilities

Editors have to take precautions against necessary unethical behaviors, especially intellectual property rights.

Editors evaluates manuscripts for their scientific content without regard to ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, citizenship, religious belief or political philosophy of the authors. He/She provides a fair double-blind peer review of the submitted articles for publication.

Editors are obliged to protect the personal information of authors and referees within the scope of ethical principles.

Editor-in-Chief is responsible for the contents and overall quality of the publication. He/She must publish errata pages or make corrections when needed.

Editors have complete responsibility and authority to reject/accept an article. Editors should have no conflict of interest with respect to articles they reject/accept.

Responsibilities of the Referees

Referees (Reviewers) examine the articles submitted as to methodology, scope, and originality and decide whether they are appropriate for publication.

Reviewers evaluate manuscripts based only on scientific content, without regard to ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, citizenship, religious belief, or political philosophy of the authors. They may not have any conflict of interest or competing interest with respect to the research, the authors, and/or the research funders.

Referee reports should be objective and moderate. Defamatory, derogatory, and accusatory statements must be avoided.

Referees should avoid superficial and ambiguous expressions in evaluation reports. For the evaluations that resulted negative, the missing points and imperfections of the article must be shown clearly and concretely.

Referees should not share their evaluations reports or information about the article with others and should not directly communicate with the authors without the permission of the editor.

Reviewers are responsible for the concealment of the articles they received and for not using the information attained from the reviewing process for personal interests.

Authors Responsibilities

The authors are responsible for the articles' conformity with scientific and ethical rules. Articles to be sent to the journal must be original, not previously published elsewhere, or not in the process of being evaluated in another journal for publication.

Authors must confirm that their submitted article is their own original work, which does not infringe the intellectual property rights of any other person or entity, and cannot be construed as plagiarizing any other published work, including their own previously published work (self- plagiarism). They should obtain permission or cite to reproduce any content from other sources.

All sources used in the article should be properly indicated in the references; copyright materials must be used in accordance with copy laws and agreements and the required permissions.

All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

In studies requiring ethical committee permission, information about the permission (board name, date and issue number) should be included in the method section and on the first/last page of the article.

It should be made sure that other individuals shown as co-authors, have contributed to the research. Persons who do not have academic contributions should not be cited as additional authors.

During the evaluation phase, if the author(s) realizes that there is a mistake with their work, they should immediately contact the editor.