Ethical Principles and Publication Policy
Publishing Principles
• Medialog TR Journal is an open access, peer-reviewed academic journal that is electronic and published twice a year.
• If the editorial board accepts, it is possible to add additional issues or special issues. The editorial board decides on the number of studies to be published for each issue.
• The journal, whose writing language is Turkish and English, contains original studies prepared in accordance with academic standards on topics related to communication sciences, sub-disciplines and different disciplines related to communication sciences.
• The responsibility of the scientific content of the study and the expressions used belongs to the authors.
• The studies that complete the refereeing process are ranked.
• No fee is required for the studies to be published in Medialog TR. Due to the open access policy, the published works can be accessed via https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/medialogtr web address.
• All authors are expected to read and understand the publication policy of Medialog TR before submitting their work to the journal. Most plagiarism, copyright infringement and similar situations are not caused by ulterior motives, but by the problem of not being understood. If you have a question about the measures taken against the prevention of ethical abuse, you can contact the editorial office. If a study is sent to Medialog TR, it is understood that all authors read and accept the said rules and that the study is in accordance with the policies of the journal.
• The studies to be published in Medialog TR must not have been published in another journal or other media before and must not have been accepted for publication. However, it is possible to publish the full texts of the studies presented in scientific meetings (provided that they have not been published before). For this, the study must be made suitable for the journal's article format.
• Studies produced from theses are also subject to peer review. Studies produced from the thesis or presented in a scientific meeting should be indicated as a footnote at the bottom of the first page where the abstract is located.
• The works must be sent to the journal's web page (https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/medialogtr).
• Authors must have an ORCID number.
• When sending studies, identity and contact information that reveals the explicit identity of the author should not be included.
• A single study by a number of authors is included in Medialog TR. Even if it is a co-author, a second work is not accepted.
• In addition to original studies, short introductions, criticisms and interviews of audio-visual studies are also published in Medialog TR. These studies must be single author.
• Studies that do not edit according to the writing rules of Medialog TR and the "Templates" on the journal page are returned without going to the editor and referee evaluation process. The board makes the final decision on the publication of the studies.
The studies to be sent to the journal must be sent with the following documents:
• "Copyright Transfer Form" signed by all authors must be sent. All publication rights of the accepted works belong to the journal and the author is deemed to have transferred the copyrights and no royalties are paid to him. You can download the Medialog TR Copyright Transfer Form from the attachment at the end of the page.
• The "Conflict of Interest Form" signed by all authors must be sent. You can download Medyalog TR Conflict of Interest Form from the attachment at the end of the page.
• If necessary, the Ethics Committee Permission Document must be sent with the study.
Research Requiring Ethics Committee Permission
• All kinds of research carried out with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from participants using questionnaires, interviews, focus group studies, observations, experiments, interview techniques,
• Use of humans and animals for experimental or other scientific purposes,
• Clinical studies on humans,
• Research on animals,
• Retrospective studies in accordance with the personal data protection law.
Also;
• Stating that the "Clarified consent form" was received in the case presentations,
Obtaining permission from the owners and specifying the use of scales, surveys and photos belonging to others,
• It should be stated that copyright regulations have been complied with for the intellectual and artistic works used.
Publication Ethics
Ethical policies have been developed by the Editorial Board in order to make the studies published in Medialog TR unbiased and ethical. These policies cover authors, referees, editors and processes related to the study. The ethical duties and responsibilities in Medialog TR have been prepared by taking into account the publishing policies of journals scanned in the national and international areas and the guidelines and policies published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) as open access.
Ethical Responsibilities of Authors
The author who submitted a study to Medialog TR Magazine is expected to comply with the following ethical responsibilities:
• The works sent by the authors are expected to be original and up-to-date.
• Authors are required to fully and accurately refer and quote all the works they benefit from.
• Persons who do not contribute to the content of the article should not be mentioned as authors. If any, situations and relationships that may constitute a conflict of interest should be explained.
• Authors may be requested raw data about their work within the framework of evaluation processes. Authors must submit the requested data and information to the publication or scientific committee.
• If the authors notice an error regarding their published or work in the evaluation phase, the journal has an obligation to inform the editor, correct his article or cooperate with the editor in the withdrawal processes.
• For a study that has started the evaluation process, the author cannot request a process such as adding-removing, changing the author order.
Ethical Duties and Responsibilities of Editors
General Duties and Responsibilities;
Editors
• To ensure the national and international development of the journal,
• Managing processes aimed at increasing the quality of published studies,
• To carry out the processes of implementing ethical rules for all stakeholders of the magazine,
• To publish and update ethical policies in order to contribute to the development of the journal,
• They are responsible for editing the web page of the journal and keeping it up to date.
Editors in relationships with the reader;
• To take into account the reader's journal publication, scope and ethics feedback,
• To develop the works published in Medialog TR by taking into account the interests and needs of the reader,
• It is obliged to answer the questions from the reader provided that they remain within the framework of the ethical rules.
Editors in relations with authors;
• To send the studies submitted to the journal to the editorial board that decides whether to send them to the referees,
• To inform the authors about publication and ethical policies,
• To prevent possible conflicts of authors regarding referees,
• To ensure that an unbiased evaluation is made by carrying out the concept of "Blind Arbitration" in a healthy way,
• To evaluate the requests of the authors stating that there is a conflict of interest between them and not to send their studies to these referees for appropriate reasons,
• To positively meet the demands of the authors to withdraw their work, which is still in the evaluation process,
• Responsible for evaluating the objections of the authors to the referee and editor's decisions/reports and, if deemed appropriate, to initiate a new evaluation process.
Editors in relations with referees;
• To determine a referee suitable for the subject of the candidate study,
• To provide the information and guidance that the referees will need during the evaluation phase,
• To observe whether there is a conflict of interest between the authors and the referees,
• Keeping the information about the referee who made the evaluation confidential,
• To encourage arbitrators to be impartial,
• Answering the questions of the referees about publication and ethical policies,
• Making updates that will improve the referee pool,
• Reminding the referees about the evaluation period,
• They are responsible for encouraging referees to evaluate in constructive, polite and appropriate language.
Editors in relations with the Editorial Board;
• To have meetings with the Editorial Board at certain intervals,
• To provide the board with the information and guidance they will need about the publication and ethics policies of Medialog TR,
• To provide training to the board on the publication and ethical policies of Medialog TR when needed,
• To improve the journal by taking into account the feedback from the board,
• To ensure that the members of the board are neutral,
• To encourage the evaluation of the work of the board within the framework of scientific criteria,
• They are responsible for contacting the relevant board member regarding the evaluation according to the subject of the candidate study.
Author Rights
Authors;
• They can determine the referees whose work is not to be sent for conflict of interest and ethical reasons.
• They may withdraw their work that has not yet been published while in the process of evaluating.
• They have the right to object to referee reports and editorial decisions.
• Due to material errors arising during the printing process, they may request corrections for problematic places in the first issue of their work to be published or for information errors caused by them.
Ethical Responsibilities of Referees
The studies sent to Medialog TR are sent anonymously to at least two referees in the relevant field for evaluation. In case of equality of positive and negative opinions about the article in referee evaluations, the opinion of the editor or a third referee is taken.
The double-blind referee evaluation process was adopted in Medialog TR. Writers and referees are unaware of each other's identities. In this context, referees are expected to have the following ethical responsibilities:
• To read the publishing principles of Medialog TR.
• To accept to evaluate only studies related to the field of expertise.
• Refusing to evaluate when they realize that they cannot be unbiased while making the evaluation.
• To complete the evaluation process within a certain time frame.
• Making evaluations within the framework of impartiality and confidentiality.
• Refusing to evaluate when they encounter a situation such as a conflict of interest and notify the editor of this situation.
• Report the situation to the editor when they determine that the study they evaluated was sent to another journal at the same time.
• To make the evaluation in a constructive and gentle language. Not making statements containing hostility, insults and slander and not making personal comments.
• To make sure that the evaluations are related to the content of the study.
• To be sensitive to the fact that factors such as belief, sect, race, gender and political thought absolutely do not affect the evaluation process.
Plagiarism Screening
All candidate studies must be scanned with software such as plagiarism.net, iThenticate© and Turnitin© before being sent. In order for a study to be published in Medialog TR, the upper limit of the similarity rate, excluding bibliography, is 20 percent.
Open Access Policy
Medialog TR is an open access journal and offers the content it publishes directly to open access. The journal aims to contribute to the support and development of science with an open access policy with the content it publishes. All rights of use (linking, copying, printing, replicating, in any physical environment, distributing, etc.) other than for commercial purpose of use and content modification, provided that the source is indicated in the known standards (unless otherwise specified in the relevant content)