Evaluation Principles
• Manuscripts that have not been previously published or are not currently under review for publication in another journal and are approved by each author are accepted for consideration.
• Submitted and pre-checked articles are scanned for plagiarism using Ithenticate software.
• Nûbihar Academy conducts a double blind review process. All manuscripts will first be evaluated by expert field editors for suitability to the journal. Eligible articles are sent to at least two independent expert referees to assess the scientific quality of the article.
• The field editors evaluate the articles independently of the ethnicity, gender, nationality, religious beliefs and political philosophy of the authors. They ensure that manuscripts submitted for publication undergo fair double blind peer review.
• The editor-in-chief does not allow conflicts of interest between authors, editors and reviewers.
• Editors are responsible for the final decision on acceptance or rejection of manuscripts. The editor's decision is final.
• Editors are not involved in decisions about manuscripts written by themselves or by family members or colleagues, or about products or services in which the editor has an interest. Any such submission is subject to all of the journal's usual procedures.
• Reviewers should ensure that all information about submitted manuscripts remains confidential until the manuscript is published, and should report to the editor if they discover any copyright infringement or plagiarism by the author.
• If the referee does not feel qualified to review the manuscript or is unlikely to be able to provide timely feedback, he/she should inform the editor and ask him/her to exclude him/her from the review process.
• During the review process, the editor should make it clear to reviewers that manuscripts submitted for review are the private property of the authors and that this is a privileged communication. Reviewers and editorial board members may not discuss articles with other individuals. Care should be taken to keep the identity of the reviewers confidential.

Plagiarism Check
• The publications received by the journal are first checked for plagiarism.
• The intihal.net program scans the articles coming to Nûbihar Academy to prevent plagiarism.
• The plagiarism similarity rate must be less than 20%. If the similarity rate is 1%, but citation and quotation are not done properly, there may still be plagiarism. In this respect, citation and quotation rules must be known and carefully applied by the author.

Preliminary Evaluation
Articles received by Nûbihar Academy are pre-evaluated after plagiarism control.
• The Editor-in-Chief sends the research article to the relevant field editor for preliminary evaluation. For research articles, the field editor usually reads the article from beginning to end and examines it for compliance with the journal's publication principles, academic writing rules and APA Citation System and fills out the preliminary evaluation form.
• The next step for your research article is our Editorial Board meeting. The members will read your pre-evaluated article and discuss its importance, originality and scientific quality. To make editorial decisions for research articles, we mainly focus on the research question. Even if the topic of the article is relevant, topical and important for the scope of the journal, we may reject the article if it does not have a research question. Of course, if there are serious flaws, the paper will be rejected. If we do not think that Nûbihar Akademî is the right journal for the research paper, we will inform the authors of our decision immediately so that they can submit their work elsewhere without delay. The usual reasons for rejection at this stage are insufficient originality and the topic being outside the scope of the journal. Everyone attending the manuscript meeting is asked to declare relevant conflicting interests at the outset, and anyone with a significant conflicting interest either leaves the room or speaks last (depending on the nature and extent of their interest) while the manuscript is being discussed.

Duration of the Pre-Assessment: For research articles that are included in the preliminary review process at Nûbihar Academy, the maximum time until the first decision is 15 days.

Field Editor Review
The manuscript that passes the Preliminary Review and Plagiarism Scanning stage is reviewed by the relevant field editor in terms of problematic and academic language and style.

Review Time: Pre-Publication

Refereeing Process
• If your article is suitable for Nûbihar Akademî, the field editor will send your article to two external referees. The referees advise the editors who make the final decision. We ask the referees to confirm their reports and to declare any conflicts of interest on the manuscript we send them. The final decision is made by the Editor-in-Chief after the external peer review process.

Refereeing Type: Double Blinded

Double Blinding: After the plagiarism check, eligible articles are evaluated by the field editor in terms of originality, methodology, importance of the subject matter and compatibility with the scope of the journal. The editor ensures that the manuscripts undergo double blind review in a fair manner, and if the manuscript meets the formal guidelines, he/she submits the manuscript to the evaluation of at least two referees from Turkey and/or abroad, and if the referees deem necessary, they approve the publication of the manuscript after the requested changes are made by the authors.

Author-Referee Interaction: Editors mediate all interactions between referees and authors.

Number of Referees Reviewing Each Article: Two to three

Permitted Duration: Three weeks (21 days). If necessary, the evaluation period can be extended up to 4 weeks by adding 7 days to this period.

Decision: In order for the article to be accepted for publication by the field editor, at least two referees must make an acceptance decision.

Author-Referee Interaction: Editors mediate all interactions between reviewers and authors.

• In cases of suspected serious research misconduct, some articles may also be reviewed by Nûbihar Academy's ethics editor and third parties deemed appropriate by the editor.

Suspicion of Ethical Violation: Reviewers should inform the field editor if they suspect research or publication misconduct. The editor is responsible for taking appropriate action, following COPE recommendations.

• For all manuscripts, we aim to reach a final decision on publication within 5 to 6 weeks of submission. If we propose a publication subject to revision, we usually ask authors to revise and upload their manuscript within the following month.

• Accepted articles are published on https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/nubihar as they are prepared.

• After publication, the articles are selected for the next issue.

• Nûbihar Akademî provides open access to articles as part of its commitment to readers and authors. All our articles are freely available online.

• If you notice any errors in your published article, email the editor-in-chief who will let you know if a correction will be made.

Refereeing Process Guidelines for the Work of the Editorial Staff
• Editorial and analysis articles written by Nûbihar Akademî's own editors are not subject to external peer review.
• Original research articles by the editorial staff are sent to at least two external reviewers as blind referees. During this period, the roles of those editors are suspended.

Responsibilities of Authors
• The author must comply with research and publication ethics.
• The author should not attempt to publish the same study in more than one journal.
• The author should cite the works used in the writing of the article in full in the bibliography.

Responsibilities of the Editor
• The editor evaluates manuscripts for scientific content without regard to the ethnicity, gender, citizenship, religious beliefs or political opinions of the authors.
• The editor conducts fair double-blind peer review of manuscripts submitted for publication and ensures that all information about submitted manuscripts is kept confidential before publication.
• The editor informs the reviewers that the manuscripts are confidential and that this is a privileged interaction. Reviewers and the editorial board cannot discuss manuscripts with other people. The anonymity of reviewers must be ensured. In certain cases, the editor may share a reviewer's review with other reviewers to clarify a particular point.
• The editor is responsible for the content and overall quality of the publication. It is also his/her responsibility to issue a correction note or retraction when necessary.
• The editor does not allow any conflict of interest between authors, editors and reviewers. He/she has full authority only to appoint referees and the Editorial Board is responsible for the final decision to publish the manuscript in the journal.

Responsibilities of Reviewers
• Reviewers should not have any conflicts of interest related to the research, the authors and/or the research funders.
• The reviewers' evaluations should be objective.
• The language and style used by the referees should not offend the author.
• Reviewers should ensure that all information regarding submitted manuscripts remains confidential until the manuscript is published.
• Reviewers should notify the editor if they notice copyright infringement or plagiarism in the work they review.
• A reviewer who feels inadequate to review a manuscript or who feels that he/she cannot complete the review in the allotted time should withdraw from the review process.
• During the review process, reviewers are expected to consider the following points:
• Does the article contain new and important information?
• Does the abstract clearly and accurately describe the content of the article?
• Is the methodology described in a coherent and understandable way?
• Are the interpretations and conclusions supported by the findings?
• Are adequate references given to other studies in the field?
• Is the language quality adequate?

Attribution/Indirect Transfer
If a citation is made to an opinion, discussion or determination in a source and the cited opinion is put on the line in the words of the citing researcher, the source should be indicated at the end of the sentence. If the reference is to a specific page or page range of the work, the page number should be given. If there is a reference to the entire work, that is, if the reference is made in a dimension that requires the reader to examine the entire work, the source should be indicated in the footnote after the phrase "bk. on this subject", "bk. about this opinion", "bk. about this discussion" or just "bk.".

Quotation/Citation
If the relevant part of the source is quoted verbatim, untouched, point and comma intact, the quoted part is "enclosed in double quotation marks" and the source is indicated at the end. Quotations that exist in the directly quoted text are written using 'single quotation marks'. If the directly quoted part is longer than three lines (more than forty words), it is shown in a separate paragraph. In order to distinguish long quotations from the main text, it should be preferred to write in a font size one smaller than the normal text size and to indent the entire paragraph from the left at the beginning of the line. In direct quotations, some words, sentences and paragraphs may be omitted, provided that they do not change the meaning. Ellipses (...) are placed in place of the omitted parts. It is not correct to write the part quoted verbatim from a source without enclosing it in "double quotation marks" and to be content with just writing the source at the end. If these rules are not followed, the author may be accused of a violation of publication ethics (Plagiarism).

Referee Process (Academic Evaluation)
After being reviewed by the field editor, the manuscript is submitted to at least two external referees who have a PhD thesis, book or article on the subject. The referee process is carried out in confidentiality within the framework of double blind refereeing. The referee is requested to either state his/her opinion and opinion on the manuscript or justify it with an explanation of at least 150 words on the online referee form. The author is given the right to object and defend his/her views if he/she disagrees with the referee's opinions. The field editor ensures mutual communication between the author and the referee while maintaining confidentiality. If both referee reports are positive, the manuscript is submitted to the Editorial Board with a proposal to consider publication. If one of the two referees has a negative opinion, the manuscript is sent to a third referee. Studies can be published with the positive decision of at least two referees. The publication of book and symposium reviews and doctoral thesis abstracts is decided upon the evaluation of at least two internal referees (the relevant field editors and/or members of the editorial board).

Proofreading Phase
If the referees request corrections to be made in the text they have reviewed, the relevant reports are sent to the author and he/she is asked to correct his/her work. The author makes the corrections in the Word program with the "Track Changes" feature turned on or indicates the changes in the text in red. Submits the corrected text to the field editor.

Field Editor Control
The field editor checks whether the author has made the requested corrections to the text.

Referee Check
The reviewer checks whether the author has made the requested corrections to the text.

Expanding the Abstract and Abstract Section
Authors of manuscripts that are deemed "publishable" by both reviewers are asked to expand the abstract/abstract section of the manuscript to 150-200 words.

Language Editor Review
The manuscripts that pass through the referee process are reviewed by the Language Editors and, if necessary, the author is asked to make corrections. The review process is completed within a maximum of 15 days.

Editorial Board Review
Articles that pass technical, academic and linguistic reviews are examined by the Editorial Board and it is decided whether they will be published or not, and if so, in which issue they will be included. The Board decides by majority vote. In case of equality, the final decision is made in favor of the editor's decision.

Typesetting and Layout Phase
The manuscripts that are decided to be published by the Editorial Board are typeset and edited, made ready for publication and sent to the author for review. This stage takes a maximum of 15 days.

Data Submission to National and International Indexes
The data of the published issue is sent to the relevant indexes within 15 days.