Standards and Principles

Istanbul University Faculty of Communication Journal - İstanbul Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi Dergisi is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and pays regard to principles of publication ethics and, recommendations for journal editors developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

All submissions must be original, unpublished (including as full text in conference proceedings), and not under the review of any other publication synchronously. Each manuscript is reviewed by one of the editors and at least two referees under double-blind peer review process. Plagiarism, duplication, fraud authorship/denied authorship, research/data fabrication, salami slicing/salami publication, breaching of copyrights, prevailing conflict of interest are unnethical behaviors. 

All manuscripts not in accordance with the accepted ethical standards will be removed from the publication. This also contains any possible malpractice discovered after the publication. In accordance with the code of conduct we will report any cases of suspected plagiarism or duplicate publishing. 

For dealing with cases of possible scientific misconduct and breach of publication ethics, COPE Ethics Flowcharts are taken into consideration: https://publicationethics.org/files/Full%20set%20of%20English%20flowcharts_9Nov2016.pdf