Publication Ethics and Malpractice Policy

The Journal for Turkish-German Legal Studies is dedicated to maintaining the highest standards of publication ethics and adheres to the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing, as outlined by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME). These guidelines can be accessed at: https://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines-new/principles-transparency-and-best-practice-scholarly-publishing.

All participants in the publication process—editors, reviewers, authors, and publishers—must adhere to the following ethical principles.

Submitted manuscripts must be original, unpublished (including full-text versions in conference proceedings), and not simultaneously under review elsewhere. Each submission undergoes an initial editorial assessment followed by a double-blind peer review conducted by at least two referees. The journal strictly prohibits unethical practices such as plagiarism, duplicate submissions, authorship misrepresentation, data fabrication or manipulation, salami slicing, copyright infringement, and undisclosed conflicts of interest.

Manuscripts that do not comply with these ethical standards will be rejected or retracted, even post-publication if misconduct is discovered. In line with ethical guidelines, any instances of suspected plagiarism or duplicate publication will be formally reported.