Publication Ethics and Responsibilities

The publication process of the MAUN Journal of Education requires everyone involved in the process (authors, reviewers, editors) to comply with academic ethical principles and standards. It is assumed that all individuals involved in the process accept the following responsibilities. While determining the responsibilities expressed, the rules and responsibilities specified by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), which regulates open access rules, were used.

Ethical Responsibilities of Authors
The author(s) must be original in all their academic works. If they benefit from other academic studies in their studies, they are required to give full reference and/or citation. Persons who do not contribute to the study should not be included as authors. Researchers cannot submit their work to more than one publication at the same time. Each submission process must be made following the conclusion of the previous application. A study published in another medium should not be sent to our journal. In case the submitted works contain content, situations and relationships that will constitute a conflict of interest, information should be provided. Authors should be ready to present the raw data and experimental information of the study to the editorial board and scientific committee, if requested. It is not possible to add an author, change the order or remove an author for a work whose evaluation process has been started. Author(s) should have documents showing that the data they use in their studies (if any) have ethical rights, usage rights, and necessary permissions for research/analysis/experiment. Author(s) should inform the journal editor or journal publisher and cooperate in correction or retraction if they notice an error in their review, early view stage or published work.

Ethical Duties and Responsibilities of Editors
As stated by COPE, which ensures the integrity of the open access rules clearly stated on the Dergipark website, the main ethical duties and responsibilities of the editor are as follows: ensuring continuity in the development of the journal, meticulously carrying out the steps to increase the quality of the academic studies published in the journal, working towards the needs of the readers and authors, communicating openly and transparently on matters that require correction or explanation, and maintaining all business processes without compromising intellectual property rights and academic ethical rules.

Ethical Duties and Responsibilities of Reviewers
A reviewer should evaluate academic studies in his field of expertise. He/she should be impartial and confidential in his/her evaluations. Within the scope of these principles, the evaluation results of the studies should not be shared with the public at the end of the process and should be destroyed. If a conflict of interest is detected as a result of evaluation, the relevant editor should be informed, and the review process should be rejected. The result of the evaluation should be conveyed in a constructive and polite manner, and negative and personal communication style containing hostility, slander or insult should not be used. He/she should evaluate the studies accepted as reviewer within the promised time and within the framework of the specified academic ethical rules and communicate the result.

Ethical Responsibilities of the Publisher
Our journal makes the editors responsible for all the works included in the process. The editor carries out the necessary measures to prevent political or economic gains from the work done in the journal. Our journal is committed to independence in the creation of editorial decisions. The journal undertakes to protect the intellectual property and copyrights of all accepted works. The responsibility of the editors to take the necessary precautions regarding academic misconduct and plagiarism related to the process is also under the commitment of our journal.
Relationship with the Authors
In the articles sent by the authors, the editors make a positive or negative decision by evaluating the originality of the study, the clarity of the narrative, and the suitability of the journal's purpose-scope. In this context, all studies that do not pose a serious problem are included in the evaluation process. Editors should consider reviewers’ suggestions. Editors should not change the decisions made by previous editors about the studies unless a major problem in terms of ethics and scope is detected.

Relationship with the Reviewers
Blind Review and Review Process policies should be meticulously followed by the editor. Reviewers should be selected according to the field of expertise of the relevant publication. All information about the publication and the process should be shared openly with the reviewer. It is the editor's responsibility to determine whether there is a conflict of interest between the author and the reviewer. With the start of the evaluation process, the identities of the reviewers should be kept confidential. Editors should encourage reviewers for impartiality and objectivity. Care should be taken to keep the reviewer pool wide. Practices and policies should be pursued to increase the performance of reviewers in the evaluation process. Processes that are far from being scientific and academic ethical rules should be prevented.

Relationship with the Readers
The editor should make decisions to meet the expectations of the audience that the journal addresses. Care should be taken that the studies to be published are original studies that will contribute to all levels of the academy (readers, researchers) and the literature. He/she should consider the feedback from the readers and the academic community and provide explanatory feedback.
Relationship with the Editorial Board
The editor is responsible for the members of the editorial board to work in compliance with the relevant policies and guidelines. Within the scope of these policies, the relevant members should be informed and informed about the developments. New members should be provided with the necessary training and information.

Relationship with Owner and Publisher
Within the framework of academic ethical rules, the editor and the publisher sign an independence agreement. In other words, editors are independent of the publisher and owner in their decisions.

Protection of Personal Data
The journal editor is responsible for ensuring that all information, subjects, and images found in studies published in the journal are protected. Individuals used as subjects in the study, if any, should refuse to work unless their consent is documented. In addition, the journal editor is responsible for protecting the individual data of everyone involved in the publication process (author, reviewer, and reader).

Ethics Committee, Human and Animal Rights
The editor should ensure the protection of human and animal rights in general within the scope of the work. He/she is responsible for controlling the necessary permissions and ethics committee reports regarding the data and subjects used in the study experiments and research.

Precaution against Potential Misconduct
It is the editor's duty to take precautions against abuse and misconduct. The editor, who carries out a meticulous work at the point of identifying and evaluating the complaints about this subject, should share the relevant findings and ensure the continuation of the academic ethical environment.

Protection of Intellectual Property Rights
The editor of the journal is responsible for protecting the intellectual property rights of all studies and defending the rights of the journal, authors, and reviwers in case of violations of academic ethics and other negativities. In addition, the journal editor should confirm whether the studies published in the journal violate the intellectual property of another academic work because of plagiarism and take the necessary action. At the beginning of these measures, the request for a plagiarism report of the article with the work of the author before the evaluation process comes.