Ethics Committee Approval

Dear Authors and Referees;
TR Dizin added some articles regarding ethical rules to its 2020 criteria. These regulations are summarized below. Please send your candidate articles by organizing them according to these articles. Our authors are required to obtain the relevant documents for their research that require ethics committee approval and upload them to the system along with their researches.

1. "Ethics Committee Permission" is required for all kinds of research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require collecting data from participants using survey, interview, focus group study, observation, experiment and interview techniques.

2. Articles should state whether ethics committee approval and/or legal/special permission is required. If it is necessary to obtain these permissions, it must be clearly stated from which institution, on what date and with what decision or issue number the permission was obtained.

3. "Ethics Committee Permission" is required for research in which humans and animals (including materials/data) are used for experimental or other scientific purposes.

4. If the researches requires the use of human or animal subjects, the reseach must comply with international declarations, guidelines, etc. It must be declared that it has been carried out properly.
5. "Ethics Committee Permission" is required for clinical research on humans and research on animals.

6. In accordance with the personal data protection law, "Ethics Committee Permission" is required for retrospective researches.

* Retrospective ethics committee permission is not required for articles that used research data before 2020, were produced from master's/doctoral research (must be stated in the article), applied for publication to the journal in the previous year, and were accepted but not yet published.

** Researchers who are not university members can also apply to Ethics Committees in their region.