The ethical principles and publication policy of Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University Journal of Institute of Science and Technology have been prepared in accordance with the guidelines and policies published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Actions Contrary to Scientific Research and Publication Ethics
• Plagiarism: Representing the original ideas, methods, data or works of others as one's own work in whole or in part without citation in accordance with scientific rules,
• Forgery: Using non-existent or falsified data in scientific research,
• Distortion: Falsifying research records or data, falsifying devices or materials that were not used in the research, falsifying or shaping the results of the research in line with the interests of the persons and organizations receiving support,
• Republishing: Presenting duplicate publications as separate publications for academic appointments and promotions,
• Slicing: Inappropriately and inappropriately dividing the results of a research into parts in a way that disrupts the integrity of the research and publishing them in more than one issue and presenting these publications as separate publications in academic appointments and promotions,
• Unfair authorship: Including or excluding people who have not actively contributed, changing the author ranking in an unjustified and inappropriate manner, removing the names of active contributors from the work in subsequent editions, using one's influence to have one's name included among the authors even though one has not actively contributed,

Ethics Committee Permission
In our journal, all studies that require ethics committee approval must be approved by the relevant committee. Surveys, experiments, observations, clinical and animal studies and research involving personal data are subject to ethics committee approval. This permission must be clearly stated in the text of the article. Studies without ethical approval are not evaluated. Scientific research on humans and animals must be conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and ARRIVE guidelines and approval must be obtained from the relevant ethics committee. Studies without ethics committee approval are not evaluated in our journal.

Research Requiring Ethics Committee Approval
In our journal, researches that require ethics committee permission include the following studies:
• All research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that involve collecting data from participants through methods such as surveys, interviews, focus groups, observations, experiments and interview techniques,
• Studies in which humans and animals (including materials or data) are used for experimental or other scientific purposes,
• Clinical trials conducted on humans,
• Scientific research on animals,
• Retrospective studies within the framework of the Personal Data Protection Law.
In order for such studies to be included in the evaluation, the relevant ethics committee permissions must be obtained and these permissions must be clearly stated in the text of the article.

Protection of Personal Information
All personal data submitted to our journal are protected in accordance with legal regulations and ethical rules.

Correction, Retraction, Expression of Concern
Editors may consider publishing a correction if minor errors are identified in the published article that do not affect the findings, interpretations and conclusions. In the case of major errors/violations that invalidate findings and conclusions, editors should consider retracting the article. COPE guidelines regarding correction, withdrawal or expression of concern are taken into account.

Ethical Violation Notifications
If readers notice a significant error or inaccuracy in an article published in our journal, or if they have any complaints about the editorial content (plagiarism, duplicate articles, etc.), they can report it by sending an e-mail to izufbed@izu.edu.tr. The editors (together with Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University) will take the necessary steps when ethical issues are raised about a submitted text or a published article. Every allegation of unethical publication behavior will be investigated, even if it is raised years after publication. If, as a result of the investigation, the ethical allegation turns out to be true, corrections, retractions, expressions of concern, and similar initiatives will be taken with the relevant parties. These initiatives may take the form of publishing an official statement in the journal; sending an official letter to the employer, institution or organization of the person concerned; and sending an official letter to the relevant professional organization.

Ethical Responsibilities of Authors:
1. Originality and Plagiarism - All texts must be the original work of the authors and must be free of plagiarism.
2. Authorship - Authorship should be limited to authors who have made significant contributions to the text. Authors must have permission to use the software, questionnaires/web surveys and scales used in their work.
3. Multiple publication of the same manuscript - Authors should not submit the same manuscript to more than one journal at the same time.
4. Citing sources - Authors should properly and accurately cite the work of others.
5. Disclosure, conflicts of interest and financial support - Authors should clearly disclose any conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise, that may affect the conclusions or interpretation of their manuscript, and should identify the individuals or institutions that provided financial support for the research. All authors must provide information about funding sources and financial or non-financial interests; obtain ethics committee approval for research involving humans and/or animals; and, if the research involves animals, include a statement that the status of the animals has been taken into account.
6. When submitting their manuscripts to the Journal, authors should take care not to provide inaccurate information about the author group, the author handling the correspondence and the order of authors. In general, it is not allowed to add new authors or remove existing authors during the manuscript evaluation phase. However, in some cases it is possible to add or delete authors. When changes are made to authors, the reasons for the change should be explained in detail. Please note that author changes are not allowed after acceptance of the manuscript.

Responsibilities of the Editors:
1. Publication decisions - Editors are responsible for deciding which of the manuscripts submitted to the journal should be considered or published.
2. Integrity - Editors must ensure that the publication review process works properly. In this context, editors should not disclose the identity of the authors to the reviewers and the identity of the reviewers to the authors.
3. Confidentiality - Editors should treat manuscripts submitted for review as confidential documents and should not disclose any information about the submitted manuscripts to anyone other than the author responsible for the correspondence, referees, members of the editorial board and the publisher.
4. Disclosure and Conflict of Interest - Editors and any person responsible for editorial work should not use any material from a submitted manuscript (published or unpublished) for their own research without the written permission of the author.
5. Investigation - Editors should properly and honestly investigate ethics complaints.

Responsibilities of Reviewers:
1. Confidentiality - Reviewers should treat all information about submitted manuscripts as confidential and proprietary.
2. Objectivity Standards - Reviewing should be carried out in an objective manner without criticizing the author personally.
3. Contribution to the Editors' Decisions - Reviewers should clearly present their views based on strong arguments.
4. Promptness - Reviewers should complete their evaluation within the time allotted to them.
5. Disclosure and Conflict of Interest - Reviewers should not consider a manuscript if they have a conflict of interest arising from competition, collaboration, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions associated with the submitted manuscript.

PUBLICATION POLICIES

General Principles
• Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University Journal of Institute of Science and Technology is a scientific and refereed journal published twice a year. Our journal is published by Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University.
• The journal accepts original academic articles in Turkish and English. The journal includes current and original scientific articles related to Science and Engineering Sciences.
• The articles to be submitted to the journal must be original and must not have been published or accepted for publication anywhere before.
• Our journal is open for article submission on a continuous basis. Submitted articles should be appropriate to the purpose and scope of the journal.
• The aim of the journal is to ensure that scientific developments in different fields of Engineering and Basic Sciences, Life Sciences and Health Sciences are shared among scientists, researchers and other people interested in the aforementioned fields with a reputable and peer-reviewed journal publishing approach.
• The target audience of our journal consists of academicians, researchers, experts, professionals and students studying at undergraduate, graduate, doctoral and specialty level who are interested in the fields in which articles are accepted.

Referee Evaluation Process
• In our journal, the review process is based on the “double-blind peer review” system. Within the scope of this system, the identities of both authors and reviewers are kept mutually confidential.
• The manuscripts submitted to our journal are first subjected to a preliminary editorial review for compliance with ethical principles, editorial policy and editorial rules. Articles that pass the preliminary review are evaluated within the scope of the double blind review process. For evaluation, each article is directed to two independent external referees who are experts in their fields.
• If both referees give a positive opinion, it is decided to publish the article. If one of the referees gives a positive opinion and the other one gives a negative opinion, the article is sent to a third referee and a final decision is made.
• During the evaluation process, the author(s) may be asked to make necessary corrections in line with the referees' opinions. The corrections are checked by both referees and editors.
• After the refereeing process is completed, the articles are made ready for publication after the typesetting and layout processes and are included in the first issue of the journal to be published.

Open Access and Copyright
Authors agree to transfer their copyrights to our Journal under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license when the article is accepted for publication. All articles published in our journal are published as open access under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license.

License Scope
Share: you may copy and redistribute the work in any medium or format.
As long as you fulfill the terms of the license, the licensee may not revoke these freedoms (specified rights).
Under the following conditions:
Attribution: you must give proper credit, provide a link to the license, and provide information if changes have been made. You may do these things appropriately, but this does not imply that the licensor approves of you and your use.
Non-commercial: You may not use this material for commercial purposes.
Not derivative: You may not distribute updated material if you have mixed, transferred, or worked on the material.
There are no additional restrictions: You may not limit the rights granted by the license to others, either by law or through the use of technology.

Archive Policy
The content of the Journal is digitally archived in Istanbul Sabahattin University's Journal storage and LOCKSS.
Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University Journal of Institute of Science and Technology also allows authors to share their articles on their own web pages, web pages of their institutions and other storage areas. Since the journal is a public journal, it is not possible to hide its content from the public.
Articles published in our journal can be accessed free of charge at https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/izufbed/archive.

Fee Policy
Article submission, evaluation and publication processes in our journal are completely free of charge. No fee is charged for articles submitted or accepted for publication. In accordance with our editorial policy, sponsorship and advertisements are not accepted and all expenses of our journal are covered by the Publisher.

Special Issue Publication Policy
With the decision of the Editorial Board, a special issue may be published once a year. The publication and evaluation principles for the articles to be published in the special issue are applied in the same way as in the planned issues.