TBV Journal of Computer Science and Engineering Ethical Principles

TBV Journal of Computer Science and Engineering undertakes to implement the publication ethics at the highest level and to comply with the following principles of publication ethics. In this context, all stakeholders are expected to adopt the following ethical responsibilities within the scope of publication ethics. These principles are based on the recommendations and guidelines developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Council of Science Editors (CSE), World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) and International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) for journal editors.
In this context, TBV Journal of Computer Science and Engineering undertakes to comply with the Code of Conduct and Principles of Transparency and Best Practice prepared by the COPE Publication Ethics Committee. Compliance with the COPE Guidelines for Editors is within the scope of the editors' duty, and it is mandatory for our journal referees to comply with the COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers.
Editors, referees and authors who submit articles to the TBV Journal of Computer Science and Engineering agree to abide by the ethical rules described below.
Basic Ethical Rules to Follow in an Article
• Fabrication: Showing the data that were not obtained during the research as if they were obtained.
• Distortion: It is the act of making changes in research records, devices and processes in order to bring research results into the desired format.
• Plagiarism: It is the act of using the methods, data, writings and figures developed by others without attribution to the developers.
• Piracy: It is the act of republishing all or part of a published publication as its own publication, without citing the source or obtaining the author's approval.
• Duplication: It is the act of sending and publishing the same research results to more than one journal at the same time. A work may be submitted in development in multiple environments and in different languages. In this case, it can be published as an article, provided that the place of publication is specified first and permission is obtained from the editor.
• Slicing: It is the act of presenting the results of a single research in more than one publication by dividing it.
• Misleading about the author's rights: It is the act of adding the name of a person who did not contribute to a research, or not writing the name of a contributing researcher, or writing the names of the authors in a way that does not match their contributions.
• Concealment of support and biased publications: It is the act of presenting research supported by commercial organizations as an unbiased publication without revealing the name of the commercial organization.
• Biased sources: In the references section of a research publication, it is the act of showing only studies that support the study in a positive way, not including those that do not support the study in the sources, thus selecting the sources biased.
Principles Editors Must Follow
Journal editors are expected to abide by the following principles.
• Impartiality and Freedom of the Publisher: Editors evaluate the submitted article by considering its suitability for the scope and scope of the Journal, the importance and originality of the work. Editors do not take into account the race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, nationality or political views of the authors. Other people and organizations other than the Editorial Board of the Journal cannot influence the correction or publication decision. Editors take care that the published Journal issues contribute to the reader, researcher, practitioner and the scientific field, and that they are original.
• Independence: The relationship between the Editors (Editor and Associate Editors) and the publisher is based on the principle of editorial independence. According to the written agreement between the editors and the publisher, all decisions of the editors are independent of the publisher and the journal owner. Editors reject incomplete and incorrect articles that do not comply with the journal policy, publication rules and level without any influence.
• Confidentiality: Editors do not share information about a submitted article with anyone other than the responsible author, referees and editorial board. It ensures that the articles evaluated by at least two referees are evaluated according to the double-blind refereeing system. If the two referees cannot agree on the result, the article is sent to a third referee for evaluation. The identities of the referees are kept confidential.
• Information and Differences of Opinion: Editors or members of the editorial board cannot use the information in the article sent to the Journal but not yet published, in their own research without the express written permission of the authors. Editors should not have a conflict of interest regarding the articles they accept or reject.

• Publishing Decision: Editors ensure that all articles accepted for publication are evaluated by at least two referees who are experts in their field. The editors decide which of the articles sent to the journal will be published; They are responsible for deciding the validity of the studies in question, their contribution and importance to researchers and readers, the comments of the referees and legal conditions. Editors have the responsibility and authority to accept or reject articles. Therefore, they have to use their responsibility and authority appropriately and on time.
• Ethical Concerns: Editors are responsible for taking the necessary precautions when ethical concerns arise regarding a submitted article or published article. As a matter of fact, they continue their business processes without compromising intellectual property rights and ethical principles. Editors act in accordance with the COPE Guidelines in case of ethical concerns. If the ethical issues are important, corrections and withdrawals can be made or concerns can be published in the journal.
• Collaboration with Journal Boards: Ensures that all Editors' Advisory Board members advance processes in accordance with publication policies and guidelines; Informs the members of the Advisory Board about the publication policies. It enables the members of the Advisory Board to carry out their work independently. Allows new Advisory Board members to participate. It should submit studies appropriate to the expertise of Advisory board members for evaluation. Interacts regularly with the Advisory Board
Principles Authors Must Follow
Authors are expected to abide by the following principles.
• Article Scope: The authors of the original research should ensure that the work done and the results are presented accurately, followed by an unbiased discussion of the importance of the work. The article should contain sufficient details and resources.
• Data Access and Retention: Authors are required to retain the raw data of their work. When required, they should be able to submit for editorial review if requested by the journal.
• Originality and plagiarism: Authors must submit entirely original works, and if they have used the work or words of others, it must be properly cited. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable. For this reason, a similarity rate report is requested from all authors who submit articles to the journal.
• Multiple, Duplicate, Redundant, or Concurrent Submissions / Publications: Authors should not submit a previously published article in another journal for consideration. Submitting an article to more than one journal at the same time is unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.
• Authorship of the Article: Only the names of the people who contributed to the study should be written as authors. Authorship criteria are as follows; (i) contributed to the design, implementation, data collection or analysis phases (ii) prepared the manuscript or contributed significant information or critically evaluated it, or (iii) saw the final version of the manuscript, approved it, and agreed to submit it for publication. Corresponding author must ensure that all authors (according to the definition above) join the list of authors and must declare that they have seen the final version of the article and agree to submit it for publication. Articles written by the members of the editorial board of the journal are accepted as minimal as possible. In this case, blind refereeing rules must be applied.
• Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: Authors should disclose conflicts of interest at the earliest possible stage (usually by submitting a notification form at the time of article submission and including this disclosure in the article). All sources of financial support for the study must be declared (including the grant/funding number or other reference number, if applicable).
• Participate in the Peer Review Process: Authors are required to participate in the peer review process and are responsible for fully cooperating by responding promptly to editors' requests for raw data, disclosures and evidence of ethical approval and copyright permissions.
• Fundamental Errors in Published Works: Authors are obliged to immediately inform the journal editors or publishers when they see significant errors in their published works. It is also responsible for cooperating with the journal editors or publishers to remove the article from publication or submit an erratum. If the editors or publisher learns from others that a published work contains a material inaccuracy, they require the author to promptly correct the article or provide evidence of the accuracy of the article's content. If these are not fulfilled, it acts to remove the article.
Principles That Arbitrators Must Follow
Referees are expected to abide by the following principles.
• If the referees can complete the evaluation within the given time, they should take this responsibility. It should not cause an intentional delay. If additional time is required, it should promptly notify the Journal.
• Confidentiality rules should be adhered to. During and after the evaluation, information about refereeing should not be disclosed, other than what is published in the Journal.

• The information obtained during the evaluation process should not be used for the benefit of the referee or any organization or to the detriment of others.
• All potential conflicts of interest (personal, financial, professional, political or religious) should be notified to the journal in advance. Even if this situation arises after the request for refereeing is accepted, it should be discussed with the journal.
• Evaluation should be done in accordance with the requirements of the job and personal and professional prejudices should be avoided.
• Evaluations should be objective and constructive. The author should be provided with feedback so that he can improve his article.
• The authors should not be contacted directly without the permission of the journal.
• Manuscript's instructions, policies, etc. should be read and evaluated. If there is unclear or incomplete information, the journal should be contacted.
• If an unethical situation related to the study is encountered at any stage of the evaluation process or a research misconduct is suspected, the journal should be informed of this situation.
Referees should reject the evaluation in the following situations.
• If it is requested to evaluate another work that is very similar to a work that is in the preparation stage or is about to be published in another journal.
• If there are problems with the journal's refereeing format (for example, if there is open evaluation and the identities of the referees are disclosed to the authors).
The referees should pay attention to the following issues while preparing the evaluation form.
• Journal's guidelines for feedback should be followed.
• Reviewers should be very clear in their criticisms and provide appropriate justifications in order to ensure that editors can be fair when making their final decisions.
• It should not be forgotten that the work is the work of the author, and the article should not be rewritten as preferred by the referee.
• One should be sensitive about Turkish.
• Feedback should be given meticulously.
• Negative comments should not be made about other authors mentioned in the study.
• Comments and recommendations made for the editor should be consistent.
• Comments containing slander and accusations should not be written, assuming that the author will not see them.

TBV Journal of Computer Science and Engineering Publication Policy

In Turkey, there are approximately 180 departments established under the name of Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Sciences and Information Systems. The heads of these departments meet at least once a year, starting from 1995, under the name of the "Computer Engineering Department Heads" (BMBB) Board. With a decision taken by the BMBB Board in 2004, a peer-reviewed scientific journal called “TBV Computer Science and Engineering” started to be published in 2005.


At the relevant meeting, the aims of the journal were determined as follows:
• To publish original research results in the field of computer science and engineering.
• The journal aims to develop the Turkish language of science in the field of informatics by encouraging the publication of articles in Turkish.
• It accepts to publish the articles of foreign authors who do not speak Turkish in English.
• Publish titles and abstracts of Turkish articles in English.


Article Types
The following types of articles are accepted to the journal:
• Research article: An article presenting an original research with its results,
• Review article: An article that scans, summarizes, evaluates and interprets a sufficient number of scientific articles on a certain subject in the field of computer science and engineering,
• Industrial article: An article describing the research and development of new products or technologies in the field of computer science and engineering,
• Thesis work: An article containing an extended summary of an original thesis work done at the graduate level,
• Book review: Introducing and evaluating a new book published in computer science and engineering.


The articles that can be sent to the journal can be in the following fields. New research topics may be added over time.
Algorithms Natural language processing Health information systems
Assigned strings Computation theory Encryption and personality
Computer networks Human machine interaction Signal processing
Information and computer security Operating System Question and Answer Strings
Information extraction Machine learning Social networks
Computer vision Internet of Things Data science
Computer architecture Games Data mining
Cloud computing Pattern recognition Artificial intelligence
Fuzzy logic Programming languages ​​Software engineering
Big data and analytics Robots and applications High performance computing

Article Acceptance Process
The acceptance process of the articles sent to the journal consists of the following stages:
1. Each submitted article is sent to at least two referees at the first stage. 

2. Referee assignments are made by the journal editors. There are approximately 200 referees in the referee pool of the journal and these referees are classified according to their areas of interest. Each referee is sent an article on the subject he is interested in. The selection of arbitrators is done in a way that does not cause a conflict of interest.
3. The names of the authors are closed in the articles sent to the referees.
4. Reviewers are explained how to evaluate an article. They are asked to evaluate the article in terms of originality, scientific importance, quality and adequacy of its sources, writing quality, topicality and suitability for the journal.
5. The articles in which two referees give positive opinion are subjected to similarity review by the editors. The similarity in the articles is expected to be less than 25%. If the opinions of the two referees do not agree, the article is sent to another referee.
6. A paper that has passed all stages is reviewed by the editor in terms of language and presentation, and necessary corrections and improvements are made. If necessary, the authors are notified of the situation.

Careful Use of Turkish
One of the main purposes of TBV Journal of Computer Science and Engineering is to enable Turkish publications in the field of informatics and to provide Turkish idioms and terms in the field of informatics. For this reason, the articles accepted by the referees but not used carefully in Turkish and deemed impossible to be corrected by the editor are not published in the journal. The examination and evaluation of the papers accepted by the referees in terms of Turkish is done by the Turkish Language Editor.

Article Pattern
The writing pattern (format) for the preparation of an article is announced to the authors in detail. In addition, this pattern is presented to the authors for their convenience. It is examined whether the articles sent to the journal are suitable for the journal writing pattern. Inconsistencies that can be corrected by the editor are corrected by the editor, and the authors are requested to correct the papers that cannot be corrected.

Publicationt Frequency
The journal is published as one issue, two issues per year, in June and December. The first 7 issues of the journal were published in print and on the journal's website. Subsequent issues are published in the DergiPark.