Criteria

TR Dizin Application and Evaluation Processes

Creating a User Account and Journal Application

For the journal to be evaluated within the scope of TR Dizin, a user account must be created via the "Editor Application Form" by the journal owner, publisher and editor through TR Dizin.

 

Before applying for the TR Dizin, please read the "Prerequisites for TR Dizin Journal Application" and "TR Dizin Journal Evaluation Criteria". Applications for journals that do not meet the conditions and criteria are rejected. Applying after completing the missing information will reduce time and effort.

The TR Dizin application form includes fields such as "Editor", "Journal", "Publisher", "Contact", and "Other" information about the journal.

All procedures related to the process management for TR Dizin are carried out through the TR Dizin. Therefore, all information in the above fields must be accurate, clear and complete.

Missing and incorrectly filled parts will adversely affect your journal application and may prevent communication with you for contact purposes. Please provide accurate and complete information.

Post-Application Processes and Journal Evaluation Procedures

The process of publication starts after the journal information is filled out. Its application shall be completed after at least one issue, and the peer-review reports specified in the criteria are submitted. The journals whose applications have been approved shall be monitored for at least one (1) year, 2 (two) years for newly-published journals, as of the submission date of the first issue and peer-review reports, for regular publication/submission and completion of deficiencies in the criteria other than the application conditions, if any. During the monitoring process,

Journals published for a long time may upload PDFs of the previous year's issues, at most, as of the application date by logging into TR Dizin with the user name and password specified in the "Editor Application Form".

PDFs of the issues to be published (including the outside cover, inside cover, and contents page) must be uploaded to TR Dizin. For electronic journals only, the parts missing from the sections mentioned above must be accessible from the web page.

The issue's PDF contents must be copyable.

The data file must be submitted using the issue's XML standard, or article information must be entered.

When submitting the first issue of the new year, the issues of the accepted and rejected articles in the previous year, if any, must be entered. If possible, it is suggested that you submit an Excel spreadsheet with the article's title, name of the author(s), date of delivery, acceptance/rejection status, and date.

After the application is approved, the journal issues and peer-review reports specified in the Journal Evaluation Criteria should continue to be uploaded. If any of these are missing, your journal will not be included in the evaluation process and will be rejected for the related year. Please make timely and regular uploads.

TR Dizin experts conduct a preliminary journal evaluation at the end of the monitoring period. The evaluation provides necessary suggestions/warnings to the journals with determined deficiencies. Journals may be rejected during the preliminary evaluation phase due to deficiencies regarding basic quality and quantity issues. If not, journals whose monitoring process is completed are submitted for committee evaluation.

Committee Evaluation Processes

Committee evaluation uses general publishing principles, journal evaluation criteria, peer-review reports and preliminary evaluation forms.

 

The committee members will evaluate the journal;

Compliance with Research and Publication Ethics,

The peer-review evaluation system, the contribution of peer-reviewing, adequacy of reports, effectiveness, content quality, etc.

Editorial board quality, competence, contribution, independence, publication accuracy (language and spelling), product accuracy (in terms of typesetting, etc.), international and geographic representation of the journal (reviewers, advisory and editorial board), competent names, etc.

The formal features of articles, compliance with spelling rules, accuracy of article sources and conformity to standards, article title, abstract, and keyword quality.

Committee members may request additional information and documents if they do not consider the existing documents sufficient in the evaluation process.

Post-Committee Evaluation Procedures

The result of the committee evaluation (such as acceptance and rejection) shall be notified to the publisher/editor in an official letter. "TR Dizin Participation Agreement" is signed in 2 (two) copies between the accepted journal editor and the Directorate of ULAKBIM.

The TR Dizin data entry process includes the journal after signing the agreements.

New issues of "accepted "journals should be uploaded in PDF format. The editor and publisher ensure the issues are sent on time and regularly. Failure to upload the issues and related peer-review reports to TR Dizin in time will cause the journal to be removed from the index.

The new issues of the accepted journal should also comply with the conditions and criteria. In case of non-compliance with the criteria, the journal's status in the index is re-evaluated by the relevant Committee.

After the committee evaluation, journals not accepted to the TR Dizin will continue to be monitored for one year.

In the case of monitoring after rejection, the journal is re-evaluated at the end of the period, provided it completes its new issues, uploads peer-review reports, and completes the missing points in question.

As a result of the second evaluation of the Committee, if the deficiencies mentioned previously continue, the re-evaluated year and the journal's next year will remain rejected. The journal, which has been rejected twice in a row, will not be considered for two years.

According to the committee evaluation results, "accepted" or "rejected," journals should upload their new issue and documents requested for evaluation by the Committee (sample peer-review reports, etc.) to TR Dizin on time.

General Points to Take Into Consideration for TR Dizin

Periodicals and publication months should not be changed during the journal year/volume publication. Periodical and publication month changes should be decided before the year/volume starts and announced beforehand.

If a decision to change the journal name is made, a new ISSN should be obtained for the new name of the journal. The old name of the journal should be indicated for at least two years in each issue published under the new name and on the website. The journal's name changes, ISSN information, and the year intervals should be indicated in the "About Journal" section under the title "History of the Journal". In order to change the name of the journal, a request must be made through the "Journal Name Change Form" in ODIS.

In the event of a later change in the information provided at the application stage, this information should be changed from ODIS as soon as possible. The information should be updated as soon as a change (such as editor, journal URL, contact information). The responsibility rests with the editor in case of missing or incorrect information. The "Journal Information Change" Form should be used for areas that are prevented from experiencing any change.

Peer-review evaluation reports should be kept for at least five years after publication, allowing the TUBITAK ULAKBIM TR Dizin Committee to review them.

All issues of the journal, including the outside/inside cover, the back of the magazine, and each issue on the journal's web page, shall include the journal's name, year, volume number, if any, and issue number.

Additional/special issues, subject-specific journals or congress proceedings, and those published according to article writing rules will be evaluated according to the relevant article's criteria.

Additional/special issues are the responsibility of the journal editor. The journal's rules and policies also apply to these issues. The additional/special issue could have a guest editor.

Every scientific article should have a "Bibliography". The references should be written in the Latin alphabet, and the form, accuracy and accessibility should be considered.

The bibliography should conform to the international writing sources (APA, MLA, AIP, NLM, AMA, ACS, etc.), and the format used should be detailed in the "Article Writing Rules".

In the scientific articles using footnotes, the footnote references should be provided separately at the end of the article.

The bibliographic information that identifies the article and can be used for citation [journal name -usually the "short name of the journal" specified by the editorial board is preferred, year; volume no (issue no if any): in the format of the page ranges of the related article (for example Akd. Araş Derg, 2014; 15(2): 15-22] on the first page of the scientific articles in the journal, preferably on the top, should be provided with the international common form.

The TUBITAK ULAKBIM TR Dizin Committee periodically re-evaluates all journals in the index. The journal may be removed from the index if the TR Dizin Journal Evaluation Criteria or other conditions are not followed.

The journal should not include names that may mislead readers and authors about "indexed sources."

In article acceptance, if the opinions of the two reviewers differ, the editor or a third reviewer should be consulted.

TR Dizin Application Requirements and Journal Evaluation Criteria

Prerequisites for Journal Application to TR Dizin

The following issues are a prerequisite for journal applications for screening in the TR Dizin, and the issues stated as incomplete or incorrect will result in the rejection of the journal application. Therefore, be sure to provide the relevant items.

 

To apply to the index, at least one issue must be published.

Journals in the fields of Health Sciences, Dentistry, and Pharmaceuticals should publish at least three issues per year; journals in the fields of Engineering, Basic Sciences, and Veterinary Medicine should publish at least two issues per year; and journals in the fields of Social Sciences and Humanities should publish at least one issue per year.

ISSN should be obtained for printed journals and E-ISSN for electronic journals. If both formats are published, both ISSNs must be available.

The ISSN number must be obtained from the ISSN Office of Libraries and Publications General Directorate of the Ministry of Culture.

The format of the journal name on the outside cover/inside cover/web page should be the same as the ISSN registration at the Republic of Turkey Ministry of Culture.

The ISSN of the printed version of the journal (on the outside cover of the journal, preferably on the upper right, together with the information regarding the journal on the inner cover) and the ISSN of the electronic version should be easily visible on the journal website and on the home page.

The journal should be peer-reviewed and scientific. This should be indicated in the journal and on the web page.

The journal should have an independent web page, and the detailed information for the scientific journal should be designed to be easily accessible. Information related to the journal [full name of the journal, name in other languages (such as the English name), if any, abbreviated name, ISSN (printed) and ISSN (electronic), full address, publication language of the journal, publication months, publication interval, purpose, scope and ethical information, corporate contacts and e-mail addresses, history of the journal (if applicable such as change of name and ISSN with year intervals), editors and related boards, publisher, publishing house, etc. information] should be indicated on the inside cover of the journal and the website under separate headings.

The purpose and scope of the journal should be indicated in detail in the journal and on the web page.

The articles in the journal should contain abstracts and keywords in the article's language. The abstract should be given a word limit, and this rule should be followed. Abstracts and Keywords should comply with international standards.

Articles written in languages other than Latin should include the title, abstract, keywords, and references in Latin alphabets.

The articles in the journal should be classified according to their types (research article, case report, review, etc.) and indicated on the table of contents and the first page of the article.

On the first page of the scientific articles in the journal, preferably at the bottom, the article submission and acceptance dates, the authors' institutions, contact information, and the internationally valid "ORCID" information should be included.

In order not to disrupt the integrity of scientific articles, advertisements and similar promotions should not be included in the article and should not be given a page number.

TR Dizin Journal Evaluation Criteria

The journals providing the "Prerequisites for Journal Application to TR Dizin" and whose applications are approved are evaluated by TR Dizin Experts and the Committee according to the following criteria after a 1 (one) year follow-up. This period is 2 (two) years for newly published journals.

 

The journal should publish its issues on time and at the intervals announced during the year and upload them to the TR Dizin Online Journal Monitoring System (ODIS). The journal editor is responsible for timely and regular submission. TR Dizin will not accept journals that do not submit their issues on time.

Field editors should be present for the institutional and journals with a broad scope.

The journals should have language editors for the publication language. Compliance with the spelling rules of the relevant language should be considered.

Publication and advisory boards should have an institutional distribution, and the editorial board should consist of at least 1/3 of different institutions. The names of the institutions where the board members work or at least the city and country information should be included.

Editor and editorial board members' competencies, publications, etc. should be considered.

Appropriate peer reviewers should be appointed from different institutions, and the principles of impartiality and diversity should be observed.

The diversity of institutions and authors in the articles published in the journal should be taken into consideration.

The following should be observed under the code of ethics.

An ethics committee approval must be obtained for research conducted in all disciplines, including social sciences and clinical and experimental studies on humans and animals, requiring an ethical committee decision. This approval should be stated and documented in the article.

It should be indicated in the journal and web page under a separate heading referring to national and international standards.

Information on the ethical rules under separate headings should be provided for the peer-reviewers, authors and editors under this heading.

It should be stated that the articles comply with Research and Publication Ethics.

International standards and institutions should be cited. For example, scientific articles sent to journals should consider the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) recommendations and the International Standards for Editors and Authors of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

In studies requiring ethical committee permission, information about the permission (board name, date and issue number) should be included in the method section and on the first/last page of the article.

For the scales used in data collection, permission should be obtained from the scale owner and declared in the article.

Copyright regulations must be observed for the ideas and works of art used.

The number of articles to be included in each journal issue should be proportional, and the number of articles in each issue/volume should be even.

The total number of scientific research articles within a year should constitute at least 50% of the scientific articles (research, case report, review) for the science subject area. In addition, for health sciences, dentistry, and pharmacy, the total number of scientific research papers must be at least 12 in one year.

Article writing rules should be detailed in the journal, and the articles should be strictly in this format—for example, table, figure, title, sub-title, abstract, and references.

In journals that begin with a new volume number at the end of each year, the page numbers should start from 1 in the first issue and follow each other in the issues within the same volume. The page number can start from 1 in each journal issue with an issue number without a volume.

The number of peer-reviewers must be at least two for each article, taking care to be from different institutions.

All journals within the scope of the TR Dizin (accepted, pending or new applicants) should submit peer-review reports of two accepted (1st and 4th article published in the first issue), one rejected, and one additional article to be selected by the editor in 2020. (For 2019, the 2nd and 4th articles in the 1st issue and the peer-reviewer reports of one article unsuitable for publication should be uploaded.) If the Committee requests a peer-reviewed report, it should be uploaded to ODIS using the same method. In addition to the format review, the peer-review evaluation reports should indicate that a scientific evaluation has been carried out (selective peer-review form, peer-reviewer notes on the article, scientific evaluation notes, etc. in the evaluation form). [* for the related article, it should be uploaded in 1 pdf file (the first form of the submitted article, 1st peer-review opinion, 2nd peer-review opinion, corrections if any, referee names and evaluation dates and signed if possible) showing the whole evaluation process].

In the journal, a combined issue can be published only once for two consecutive issues within three years.

Special issues or additional issues are also evaluated based on the criteria. Additionally;

Additional/Special issue: They are published in addition to the regular issues of a journal issued at regular intervals.

Page numbers for additional/special issues should be numbered differently from the regular issues in the year.

Special/Additional issues cannot exceed 1/3 of the normal period. This scope does not include special issues, including abstracts of congress proceedings.

Case report reviews and research article rates (excluding congress abstracts) published on special/additional issues will be included in the rates of published articles on other issues.

Award numbers are not accepted under special/additional issues. It should be numbered and submitted as an ordinary issue.

"Review" and "Case Report" journals:

 

In addition to meeting the above criteria, compliance with the following issues is also required.

 

Review Journals

The journal should only publish a review article, which should be indicated in the journal.

These journals should meet the criteria other than the article related to the "number and percentage of research articles" of the TR Dizin criteria.

Review journals planned to be included in TR Dizin must be peer-reviewed. However, "invited reviews" will not require peer reviews. Invited review refers to a limited number of invited articles in a journal. The editor should at least approve these reviews.

Review journals outside this scope will not be evaluated.

 

Case Report

Only the case report should be published, and this should be stated in the journal.

It should meet criteria other than the criterion related to the "number and percentage of research articles" among the TR Dizin Criteria.

Suggestions

The peer-reviewer list's announcement is at the journal editor's discretion. However, it is suggested that a list by issue/volume/year be provided,

It is suggested that article titles be provided in Turkish and English on the "Contents" page of the journal,

It is suggested that a plagiarism program be used and announced in the journal and website,

It is suggested that the abbreviation of the name of the journal be indicated in the journal,

It is suggested that the title, abstract, and keywords be published in a journal in a language other than the article's language to increase the impact of the articles in national and international fields.

It is suggested that the journal include detailed information about its publishing process and policy (such as open access information, pricing policy, if any, and article review period and process) under the "publication policy" title.

It is suggested that a statement regarding the contribution rate of the researchers, a statement of support and acknowledgement, if any, and a Conflict of Interest Statement be submitted at the end of the article.

Source: https://trdizin.gov.tr/en/criteria/