Publication Ethics Statement

The Yearbook is committed to the highest standards of publication ethics and adopts the ethical publishing principles established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME). The journal adheres to the principles set out under Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing, available at:
https://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines-new/principles-transparency-and-best-practice-scholarly-publishing

Manuscripts submitted to the Yearbook must be in line with its aims and scope. Only original manuscripts that have not been previously published, are not under consideration by another journal, and have been approved by all authors in terms of both content and submission are accepted for evaluation.

Once a manuscript has been submitted to the Yearbook for publication, no author’s name may be removed from the list of authors, no new author may be added, and the order of authors may not be changed without the written consent of all authors.

Plagiarism, duplication, fabricated authorship or denial of authorship, research or data fabrication, sliced publication, segmented publication, copyright infringement, and concealment of conflicts of interest are considered unethical practices. Any manuscript that does not comply with accepted ethical standards will be rejected or retracted. This includes articles in which ethical violations or irregularities are identified after publication.

Plagiarism

Manuscripts that pass the preliminary evaluation are screened for plagiarism using appropriate software. If plagiarism or self-plagiarism is detected, the authors are informed. Editors may subject a manuscript to plagiarism checks at various stages of the review or production process if deemed necessary. High similarity rates may result in rejection of a manuscript before acceptance or even after acceptance. Depending on the type of manuscript, the similarity rate is expected to be below 15% or 20%.

Double-Blind Peer Review

Following plagiarism screening, eligible manuscripts are evaluated by the Editor-in-Chief in terms of originality, methodology, significance of the subject matter, and compatibility with the scope of the journal. The editor ensures that manuscripts undergo a fair double-blind peer review process. If the manuscript complies with formal requirements, it is submitted for evaluation to at least two reviewers from within the country and/or abroad. Reviewers may request revisions, and publication approval is granted once the requested revisions have been completed by the authors.