Publication Ethics

The Journal of Disaster and Risk uses the iThenticate software to determining for plagiarism in the text of submitted manuscripts. If the similarity ratio detected before publication exceeds 15%, the article is rejected before the referee evaluation process is initiated. Even if a manuscript is below %15, it will be declined if it breaches the academic code of conduct by intentional misuse of references, wrong citations and other forms of plagiarism.

The author(s) must pay regard to the ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors) recommendations and COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) standards.

Authors who submit papers to The Journal of Disaster and Risk certify that his or her work is original and is not published or under publication consideration elsewhere. In addition, authors confirm that submitted papers have not been copied or plagiarized, in whole or in part, from other papers or studies. Authors certify that he or she does not have potential conflicts of interest or partial benefits associated with his or her papers. Submitting authors must confirm the following:

Submitting authors must confirm the following:
1. Manuscripts must be the original work of the submitting author.
2. Submitted manuscripts must be unpublished and it should not contain any information that has already been published.
3. Any facts that might be perceived as a possible conflict of interest of the author(s) must be disclosed in the paper prior to submission.
4. Authors should cite all data sources used in the preparation of the manuscript.
5. Authors should accurately present their research findings and include an objective discussion of the significance of their findings.
6. Data and methods used in the research need to be presented in sufficient detail in the paper, so that other researchers can replicate the work.
7. Authors need to at least have the raw data readily available for presentation to the referees and the editors of the journal, if requested.
8. Republishing content that is not novel is not tolerated (for example, an English translation of a paper that is already published in another language will not be accepted).
9. If errors and inaccuracies are found by the authors after publication of their paper, they need to be promptly communicated to the editors of this journal so that appropriate actions can be taken.
10. Plagiarism, data fabrication and image manipulation are not tolerated.

Please note: It is unethical to submit a manuscript to more than one journal concurrently.

Reviewers must confirm the following:
1. Manuscripts are reviewed fairly based on the intellectual content of the paper regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, citizenship or political view of the author(s).
2. Any observed conflict of interest during the review process must be sent to the editor.
3. Information pertaining to the manuscript is kept confidential.
4. Information that may be a cause for rejection of publication must be sent to the editor.

Editors must confirm the following:
1. Manuscripts are reviewed fairly based on the intellectual content of the paper regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, citizenship or political view of the author(s).
2. Information pertaining to manuscripts is kept confidential.
3. Any observed conflict of interest pertaining manuscripts must be disclosed.

Publication Principles and Guidelines

• The Journal of Disaster and Risk uses the iThenticate software to determining for plagiarism in the text of submitted manuscripts. If the similarity ratio detected before publication exceeds 20%, the article is rejected before the referee evaluation process is initiated (Publication Ethics)

• Scientific articles that come from various areas of research in disaster and risk are published in the journal.

• Articles submitted to the journal are accepted in Turkish or English.

• The review and evaluation process of submitted articles is carried out by the "Double Blind Peer-Reviewed" method (referees and authors are prevented from seeing each other's information).

• The journal adopts the Open Source Publishing Policy.

• There is no charge for publishing articles and accessing published articles in the journal. No fees are paid to the authors and referees for articles accepted for publication.

• The article review process in the journal is foreseen to continue no more than 6 months for each article, depending on the referee evaluations.

• In case of a “Correction” decision for a submitted article, the authors must make the necessary corrections within 15 days and upload the final form of the article to the journal system. The editor reserves the right to reject the article unless the author sends the final edited article within the specified time.

• The articles sent to the journal should not have been published or sent for publication in anywhere else.

• If the submitted article consists of previous work such as a thesis, presentation or conference paper, there should be footnotes on the first page in accordance with the following conditions.

- If the study is published as an abstract; title, date and place of the study should be written.

- If the study is produced from graduate theses; the name of the thesis, the name of the advisor, the university and institute information, the date of completion and the location should be written.

- If the study is supported by a research institution or fund; the name of the organization providing the support, the project number, and the date of completion should be written.

- Distinguished event information should be written for articles produced from presented and then partly published studies outside of the specified conditions.

• Before submitting the submitted articles to the referees, the following points are considered and then the eligible articles are sent to the referees for review process:

- Compliance with the writing rules

- Compliance with formal template

- Compliance with aim and scope

- Compliance with publishing guidelines

- Compliance with publication ethics

- Scientific quality and originality



• An article is evaluated by at least 2 referees. If an article is rejected for publication by a referee, then article is evaluated by third referee. The article must have the approval of at least 2 referees as a prerequisite for acceptance. After the approval of the arbitrators, the Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board have the power to decide whether or not to publish the article.



• All authors who submit articles to Journal of Disaster and Risk have equal rights. No privilege is given to any study or author in the evaluation, acceptance and publication processes of the articles. The published order of accepted articles is set according to the admission time. However, the Editorial Board reserves the right to make changes when necessary.

• Once an article has been accepted for publication, the "Copyright Agreement Form" must be completed and signed by all authors and uploaded to the journal system.

• The articles accepted for publication are published by Journal of Disaster and Risk with all publishing rights.