01. Duties of Editors

Editors play a central role in ensuring the fairness, academic quality, and integrity of the journal's publication process. Their responsibilities include the following principles.

1. Publication Decisions

   Editors are responsible for deciding which submitted manuscripts are suitable for publication. Decisions should reflect academic quality, relevance, editorial policies, reviewers' recommendations, and applicable legal and ethical requirements.

2. Fair Evaluation

   Manuscripts must be evaluated based on their intellectual content and scholarly merit, without discrimination based on personal identity, religious beliefs, nationality, institutional background, or political views.

3. Confidentiality

   Editors and editorial staff must protect confidential manuscript information. Details of submissions should only be disclosed to individuals directly involved in the legitimate editorial and review process.

4. Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

   Editors must not use unpublished information or original ideas obtained from submitted manuscripts for personal research without the author's explicit permission. Potential conflicts of interest must be managed appropriately.

02. Duties of Reviewers

Peer reviewers contribute to the quality and credibility of published research through independent, constructive, and academically rigorous evaluations.

1. Contribution to Editorial Decisions

   Peer review supports editors in evaluating manuscript quality and provides authors with constructive feedback to improve the clarity, methodology, interpretation, and scholarly contribution of their research.

2. Promptness and Professional Responsibility

   Reviewers who lack the necessary expertise or are unable to complete a review within the requested period should inform the editor and decline the assignment when appropriate.

3. Confidentiality

   Manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. Their content must not be shared or discussed with unauthorized individuals.

4. Objectivity and Constructive Feedback

   Reviews must be objective, respectful, and supported by clear academic reasoning. Personal criticism of authors is inappropriate.

5. Acknowledgment of Sources

   Reviewers should identify important relevant studies that have not been acknowledged and inform editors of substantial similarities between submitted manuscripts and previously published scholarly works.

6. Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

   Reviewers must protect privileged information obtained through peer review and must not use it for personal advantage. Any competing interests or relationships that may compromise impartiality should be disclosed to the editor.

03. Duties of Authors

Authors are responsible for the originality, accuracy, transparency, and integrity of the research they submit for scholarly publication.

1. Reporting Standards

   Authors must provide accurate and objective accounts of their research. Methods, data, results, and interpretations should be reported clearly enough to permit scholarly evaluation and, where appropriate, replication. Fabrication, falsification, and knowingly misleading statements are unacceptable.

2. Originality and Plagiarism

   Submitted manuscripts must represent original scholarly work. Ideas, words, findings, data, and materials obtained from other sources must be properly acknowledged, quoted, or cited.

3. Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publication

   Authors must not submit the same manuscript to multiple journals simultaneously or publish substantially identical research in different publications without proper disclosure and legitimate editorial justification.

4. Acknowledgment of Sources

   Authors must acknowledge the intellectual contributions of other researchers and cite relevant scholarly literature that supports the theoretical, methodological, and analytical foundations of their work.

5. Authorship and Contributorship

   Authorship should be limited to individuals who have made significant scholarly contributions to the study. Contributors who do not meet authorship requirements should be appropriately acknowledged.

   The corresponding author must ensure that all legitimate co-authors are included, that inappropriate authorship is avoided, and that all co-authors have reviewed and approved the final manuscript before submission.

6. Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

   Authors must disclose relevant financial, professional, institutional, or personal interests that could influence the research or its interpretation. Research funding and other material support should also be acknowledged.

7. Fundamental Errors in Published Works

   If authors discover significant errors or inaccuracies in their published work, they must promptly inform the editor or publisher and cooperate in implementing necessary corrections or retractions.