Akdeniz Tıp Dergisi (ISSN: 1300-1779)

Description

The Akdeniz Medical Journal is the scientific publication of Akdeniz University Faculty of Medicine and is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary medical journal published every four months (January, May, September).
The Akdeniz Medical Journal is indexed by TÜBİTAK-ULAKBİM, TurkMedline and Araştırmax.
The aim of the journal is to present the studies conducted at the Akdeniz Faculty of Medicine and in Turkey in the fields of health sciences and related areas to the national and international science environment and contribute to their announcement and sharing and therefore to the promotion of Turkey in this context. The Akdeniz Medical Journal is targeting to provide free and easy access to the journal in printed or electronic form for all relevant medical institutions and information centers in Turkey and globally and also to be included in national and international indexes.
In line with these objectives, the articles containing original research(basic, clinical and epidemiologic) are preferred for publication in the Akdeniz Medical Journal. Editor reviews, collected studies, case presentations, letters to the editor, technical notes, articles on medical education, articles on medical history, and biographical articles can also be accepted under the condition that they have not been published previously or currently sent to another journal to be published. Using articles published in Turkish journals as references is especially preferred.
The publishing language of the Journal is Turkish and English. Care should be taken to protect the integrity of the Turkish language in Turkish articles and the current edition of the Spelling Guidelines and Turkish Dictionary of the Turkish Language Institution should be used as the basis. Care should be taken to use “Turkish Science Terminology” as much as possible in the use of medical terms. The authors can use the “Medicine Terminology Guide” of the Turkish Language Institution and other Medical Terminology Dictionaries.
All scientific responsibility for the articles belongs to the authors. The name order of the submitted articles should be a joint decision. The responsible author is considered to accept the author order in the name of all authors by signing the “Author responsibility and Copyright Transfer Form”. Anyone who does not meet the criteria for authoring but has contributed to the study can be listed in “Acknowledgements”. The authors should declare in writing that the article is an original paper that has not been published before and that they will not attempt to publish it somewhere else during the evaluation process.
The authors are considered to have accepted any changes and corrections made by the editor as long as the scientific content is not changed. The articles sent are not returned whether published or not, and only images and figures that are not published can be returned to the author upon request.
The articles sent should be prepared in accordance with the journal rules and be ready for page layout. The editorial board has the authority not to publish articles that do not comply with the spelling rules, to return the article to the author for correction or to re-edit the article. The editor and language editors have complete authority in making changes and corrections in the writing language and spelling, making sure the references comply with the spelling rules, and other relevant issues. If previously published quoted text, tables, images, etc. are present in the article, the responsible author of the article should obtain the written permission of the related copyright owner and authors and also state it in the article.
The articles sent to the Akdeniz Medical Journal first undergo an objective review by the Editorial Board. The editors have the right to reject the articles directly or to send them back for re-editing. If there is no reason to reject the article in this stage, it is sent to two separate reviewers familiar with the article subject. When necessary, it can also be sent to a third reviewer. The reviewers state their approval if they find that the article content conforms to scientific principles or they can approve it after the required changes are made by the authors. The final decision for publication belongs to the editors. Once the page layout is prepared and corrections are made, the responsible authors will be asked for a final check and “printing approval” to be provided in writing.
The articles are sent to the reviewers after the authors' names are removed from the text, in accordance with the peer-review system. Information on which reviewers the article has been sent to is not provided to the authors. Reviewers and Editorial Board members cannot discuss the articles in public. The comments of the reviewers on an article can be sent by the editor to other reviewers reviewing the same article, for clarification. Another reviewer can be assigned to replace a reviewer who cannot evaluate the sent article within the specified period.
The authors are wholly responsible for the opinions, thoughts and recommendations in their articles. The copyright of the published articles belongs to the Akdeniz Medical Journal and cannot be transferred even in part without the permission of the journal. Copyright is not paid for articles submitted to the journal.
ETHICS
The Akdeniz Medical Journal requires the authors to comply with research and publication ethics. Compliance with national and international ethical guidelines and receiving permission from the related ethics committees are essential for studies performed on humans and animals. The “Ethics Committee Approval” should be sent to the www.akdeniztipdergisi.org address online. Compliance of articles with ethics rules is the responsibility of the authors.
Researches on humans: The journal accepts the principle of compliance with the principles stated in the “Helsinki Declaration”, “Good Clinical Practice Guide” and “Good Laboratory Practice Guide” and the related regulations of the Republic of Turkey Ministry of Health for all studies where a “Human” factor is included. Obtaining permission from the “Clinical Studies Ethics Committee” and sending the relevant document to the journal is obligatory for studies conducted on humans. The authors should state that they obtained a signed “Informed consent” document from the relevant ethics committee and the study subjects in the Material and Method section of the article.
An “Informed consent” document should be obtained from the patients or if necessary from their legal representatives for case presentations without considering whether the identity of the patient is revealed and this process should be stated in the text under the case presentation part of the article. The “Informed consent” document obtained from the patient or the legal representative should be sent to the journal.
Animal research: Permission should be obtained from the “Experimental Animals Ethics Committee” for research conducted on animals and a copy of the relevant document should be sent to the journal. The Material and Method section of all animal research studies should state that all animals were treated humanely and in accordance with the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (www.nap.edu/ catalog/5140.html) and that consent was obtained from the Experimental Animals Ethics Committee. The measures taken to prevent pain and distress of the animals should be clearly stated in such studies. The article will not be published if a copy of the Ethics Committee consent is not sent to the journal.
Conflicts of interest: The authors should report any conflicts of interest related to the article. If any direct or indirect commercial connections (such as employment, direct payments, owning shares, company consultancy, patent licensing arrangements, or a service fee) or an institution providing financial support for the study is present, the authors should state that they do not have any commercial relationship with the commercial product or drug used, the company, etc. or explain the relationship if any in the cover letter and also under the title of “Conflict of interest” before the references section of the article.
Authoring contribution: The contributions of the authors (constitution of an opinion, study design, experimental practices, statistics, writing of the article, etc.) in articles with multiple authors should be explained and submitted to the editor with a signed form (within the scope of the copyright transfer form). Authoring contribution information should be reported in the article before the references.
Financial support: Financial support, donations and all other activities (statistical analysis, English/Turkish evaluation) and/or technical help should be clearly stated if present before the references part of the article. The authors should also declare the roles of the sponsors of the study, if any, in the following areas: (1) Design of the study, (2) Data collection, analysis and the interpretation of the results, (3) Writing of the report, (4) Deciding to send the article for publication.
Plagiarism: The articles sent will be checked for plagiarism. The aim is to contribute to the decision-making process of the reviewers and editors.