Submitting an article
To submit an article to our journal, first read the information in the author's guide section. Use the sample article template for the article. If you have questions, you can contact us.
Ethical Principles and Publication Policy
Objectivity and Independence
Editor-in-chief, editors, associate editors, and referees conduct the evaluation process of the manuscript sent to the journal objectively and in coordination within the framework of ethical principles. Editorial decisions are independent, and internal or external factors cannot influence these decisions. In accordance with the principle of impartiality, academics working in our institution are not deemed eligible to work as a section editor in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship and Innovation Studies, in order not to be effective in the evaluation of articles due to conflict of interest.
Privacy
The content of the articles and the personal information of the authors such as name, e-mail address, and telephone numbers that are sent the Journal of Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship and Innovation Studies is used only for the scientific purposes of the journal and not for other purposes, and cannot be shared with third parties. Article evaluation processes are also carried out confidentially.
Authors Rights
The authors of the manuscripts sent to Journal of Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship and Innovation Studies must have contributed significantly to the design, execution or interpretation of the study. For instance, in view of the research and publication ethics as well as authors rights, it is not acceptable to include those as authors who do not actively contribute to the research but just only help in writing or data collection processes, which may not require any scientific knowledge. All the authors in a publication should be in agreement of the names and the orders of the authors in the manuscript.
The competence of the authors to the subject of the study is evaluated by the editor within the framework of deontological rules and the professional fields of each author.
The corresponding author of the article should declare the contributions of the authors to the work under the title of “Author contributions”. The corresponding author is primarily responsible for the problems that may arise in this regard. In multidisciplinary studies, 2 authors who are from different disciplines can be “equivalent first name authors” and up to most 3 authors who are also from different disciplines can be “equivalent second name authors”.
Originality of Research Findings
The authors should declare that the article they presented contained the original research results, that the study data were analyzed correctly, and that they were prepared for publication using adequate and appropriate references, in the “cover letter” section of the on-line system at the submission stage.
Similarity
Articles submitted to the journal are subjected to similarity analysis using appropriate software at the beginning and at every required stage. If unethical similarities are detected regardless of the rate of similarity, this situation is reported to the authors and corrections are requested or articles containing excessive similarities are rejected at the first evaluation stage without being evaluated.
Plagiarism/Self-Plagiarism, Duplicate Publication
Journal of Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship and Innovation Studies applies publication ethics and verifies the originality of content submitted before publication and checks all submitted manuscripts for plagiarism/self-plagiarism, similarity, and duplication. Before submitting manuscripts to our journal, it is suggested to check the similarity status/ratio in your manuscript with appropriate plagiarism software programs (iThenticate, Turnitin, etc.). In this respect, the articles/reviews submitted to our journal are subject to preliminary evaluation; manuscripts with a similarity ratio below 25%, which is determined with the software’s, will be considered acceptable by our Editorial Board. Articles/reviews with more than the specified ratio (25%) are returned to the author(s). Authors do not have the right to use entire paragraphs from their previous publications in a new submission. These actions are also considered plagiarism. In any case, the manuscript should be original in terms of scientific contents and writing. In the event of alleged or suspected research misconduct, the Editorial Board will follow and act in accordance with “COPE Guidelines”.
Conflicts of Interest
The editor-in-chief pays attention to whether there is a conflict of interest or union of interest between editors, reviewers and author(s) for an objective and unbiased evaluation of the article. In addition, the authors should disclose any financial interests or links or any conditions that may raise the bias issue in research and article under the above heading.
Copyright Transfer Agreement and License
The authors of the articles sent and found suitable for publication in Journal of Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship and Innovation Studies must fill in the document, which can be found on the journal’s web page, and sign it with a wet signature. Authors who submit articles from abroad should scan the signed form and send it to the editor via the system or by e-mail. Original forms that are wet signed for articles sent domestically should be submitted to the journal via mail or cargo. The works of the authors who do not submit the Copyright Transfer Form on time are not published. All authors participating in the study agree that if the article is published in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship and Innovation Studies. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-NC 4.0) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
Withdrawal of a Submission
In case of if the authors detect a significant error or deficiency in their article under review or if this error is reported to them by the editor/subject editor/referees they can contact immediately to the editor-in-chief and ask the request to withdraw the article by stating the reason. The decision on this issue is up to the editorial board.
Retraction
If any ethical problem is detected about the article that cannot be compensated and cannot be eliminated with erratum after the article is published, the editor-in-chief and associate editors prepare a justification about the article and apply the retraction procedure to the article. The text file on the web page of a retracted article is blocked and the reason for retraction is added to the system as a file, ensuring that it is constantly in the archive.
Open Access Policy
This journal provides direct open access to its content does not require any subscription and access fee, and there are no restrictions on accessing and using the articles.
ARTICLE EVALUATION AND PUBLICATION PROCESS
Initial Evaluation Process
Articles submitted to Journal of Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship and Innovation Studies are primarily evaluated by the editors and associate editors. At this stage, articles not having suitable scope and aims, with low original research value, containing scientific and ethically important errors, having low potential to contribute to science and the journal, and having poor language and narration are rejected by the editor without peer-review process. Initial evaluation process takes up to most 2-4 weeks.
Preliminary Evaluation Process
Articles that are deemed appropriate for editorial evaluation are sent to the subject editor related to the category of articles to be examined in terms of scientific competence and to the statistics editor for evaluation in terms of statistical methods. The subject editors examine the article in all aspects and report their decisions (rejection, revision or peer-review) to the chief editor. This stage takes about 1 month.
Peer-review Process
Peer-review process is applied to the articles that have completed preliminary evaluation process. Suggestions of subject editors are primarily considered in referee assignment. In addition, reviews can be requested from the referees registered in the journal’s referee pool. At least 2 referees are assigned for peer-review. Opinion of more referees can be required depending on the evaluation process. At this stage, referees send their decision (reject, revision or accept) about the article to the editor-in-chief. If the rejection decision given by a referee reflects sufficient examination and evidence-based negativities or ethical problems about the scientific content and accuracy of the article, this decision is checked by the editor-in-chief and associate editors and submitted to the authors regardless of the other referees’ decisions. The time given to each referee to evaluate an article is 4-6 weeks.
Publication Process of an Article
Total evaluation period of an article, which is completed in the peer-review phase after completing the initial and preliminary evaluation process, takes 4 weeks. The articles that have completed the subject editorial and peer-review evaluation stages and accepted by the editorial are sent to the corresponding author for final checks and necessary final additions. After the acceptance, the article designed in the publication format of the journal. When it is time to publish the periodic edition of the journal, a selection is made from the articles kept on the Article in Press page, taking into account the submission date. The time it takes for the article to be published by taking the page number is 6-12 months.
Responsibilities of the Publisher, Editors and Associate Editors
The publisher contributes to the execution of the journal’s routine processes such as printing, archiving, and mailing, in line with requests from the editor.
The publisher undertakes to carry out an independent and fair decision-making mechanism for its editors and assistants in the article evaluation process and decisions.
The publisher undertakes to carry out an independent and fair decision-making mechanism for its editors and associate editors in the article evaluation process and decisions.
Editor-in-chief/editors/associate editors Journal of Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship and Innovation Studies evaluate the articles submitted to the journal regardless of their race, gender, religious belief, ethnicity, citizenship or political views. In addition, it undertakes not to give any information about the article except for the authors, subject editors and referees.
Journal of Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship and Innovation Studies follows internationally accepted principles and criteria and takes the necessary decisions to apply in the journal.
Editor-in-chief/editors/associate editors conduct the evaluation and decision process in the journal in coordination within the principles of confidentiality and have independent decision-making authority and responsibility without being affected by any internal or external factors.
Editor-in-chief/editors/associate editors make and implement all kinds of planning for the development of the journal and its international recognition. They also follow national and international meetings or events on the development of journals and article evaluation, and ensures that the journal is represented on these platforms.
The editor-in-chief/editors/associate editors make every effort to ensure that the journal’s subject editors and referee pool have international qualifications. Likewise, it makes the necessary attempts to strengthen the author’s profile. Editor-in-chief/editors/associate editors make plans to improve the quality of the articles published in the journal and carry out the necessary process.
Editor-in-chief/editors/associate editors regularly conduct and control the initial evaluation, preliminary evaluation, peer review and acceptance-rejection decisions of articles submitted to the journal. While carrying out these procedures, features such as the suitability of the study for the aims and scope of the journal, its originality, the up-to-date and reliability of the scientific methods used, and the potential it will contribute to the development of the journal as well as its benefit to science/practice are taken into consideration.
Editor-in-chief/editors/associate editors systematically review, inspect and make decisions about the articles submitted to the journal in terms of features such as author rights, conflict of interest, observance and protection of animal rights, and compliance with research and publication ethics.
The editor-in-chief conducts the evaluation/revision process between the authors and subject editors and referees, and ensures that it is completed within the prescribed time.
Archive Policy
This journal uses the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among the participating libraries and allows them to create permanent archives of the journal for preservation and restoration purposes.
Responsibilities of Subject Editors
Subject editors do reviews and evaluations in accordance with the main publication goals and policies of the journal and in line with the criteria that will contribute to the development of the journal. Author information is kept confidential in articles sent to the subject editor for preliminary evaluation by the editor.
Subject editors thoroughly examine the sections of the introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion and conclusion, in terms of journal publication policies, scope, originality and research ethics. Subject editor submits its decision (rejection, revision or peer-review) after evaluation to the chief editor in a reasoned report.
Subject editor may request additional information and documents related to the study from the authors, when necessary. In multidisciplinary studies, the article can be submitted for the evaluation of multiple subject editors.
Responsibilities of Referees
Double-blinded peer-review procedure is applied in Journal of Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship and Innovation Studies in order to evaluate the articles submitted to the journal in accordance with the principle of impartiality and in objective criteria; that is referees and writers do not know about each other. The referees submit their opinions and reports to the editor in-chief to ensure the control and suitability of a submitted article, its scientific content, scientific consistency and compliance with the principles of the journal. When a referee makes a decision “reject” about an article, he/she prepares the reasons for the decision in accordance with the scientific norms and presents it to the editor.
The referee(s) also gives the authors the opportunity to improve the content of the article. Accordingly, the revisions requested from the authors should be of a quality that explains/questions specific issues rather than general statements.
Referees appointed for the evaluation of the articles agree that the articles are confidential documents and will not share any information about these documents with third parties, except for the editors participating in the evaluation.
Referees should place their criticism on scientific infrastructure and write their explanations based on scientific evidence. All comments made by the referees to improve the articles should be clear and direct, and should be written away from disturbing the feelings of the author. Insulting and derogatory statements should be avoided.
If a referee has an interest relationship with the author(s) on one or more issues, he/she must report the situation to the editor and ask his/her to withdraw from the referee position. The same is also applicable when the authors illegally obtain information about the referees of the article and try to influence them.
The editor-in-chief can share the comments and reports from the referees with the editors/associate editors and the relevant subject editor, as necessary, to ensure that the decision on the article is optimal.
If necessary, the editor may share the critical decision and its grounds that a referee has sent about the article with the other referee(s) and present them to their attention.
Referee(s) may request revision many times for the article they evaluated.
The content of the referee reports is checked and evaluated by editor-in-chief/editors/associate editors. The final decision belongs to the editorial.
Responsibilities of Author(s)
It is not tolerable for the author (s) to send an article, which has been already sent to another journal, to Journal of Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship and Innovation Studies within the scope of “which accepts” or “which publishes first” approach. If this is detected, the article is rejected at any stage of the evaluation. As a possible result of these actions, in the process following the previous acceptance of the article sent to another journal, the withdrawal request with this excuse that the authors submit for this article, the evaluation process of which is going on in our journal, is evaluated by the editors and associate editors of the journal and disciplinary action on the grounds of ethical violations about those responsible is started. This unethical action is also informed to the journal editor (if known) who accepted the article.
It is essential that the articles to be sent to Journal of Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship and Innovation Studies include studies that have up-to date, original and important clinical/practical results and prepared in accordance with the journal’s writing rules.
Authors should choose the references they use during the writing of the article in accordance with the ethical principles and cite them according to the rules.
The authors are obliged to revise the article in line with the issues conveyed to them during the initial evaluation, preliminary evaluation and peer-review phases of the article and to explain the changes they made/did not make sequentially in the “response to editor” and “response to reviewer comments” sections.
If information, documents or data regarding to the study are requested during the evaluation process, the corresponding author is obliged to submit them to the editorial.
Authors should know and take into account the issues listed in the “General Ethical Principles” section regarding scientific research and authors.
The authors do not have the right to simultaneously submit multiple articles Journal of Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship and Innovation Studies. It is more appropriate to submit them with acceptable time intervals for the journal’s policy.
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