Review Process

PRELIMINARY REVIEW PROCESS OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD

Akdeniz İletişim’s Editorial Board evaluates the manuscripts by considering the following criteria:

- Manuscripts should be written in accordance with rules stated in Author Guidelines.
- Academic language should be adopted while preparing the manuscripts.
- Manuscripts must be original works that have not been published elsewhere and have not been sent for publication.
- Manuscripts should not contain plagiarism, and originality reports obtained from Turnitin or iThenticate plagiarism checking programs should be uploaded to the system together with the Manuscript file. For the studies to be evaluated, the Turnitin or iThenticate plagiarism report must be 15% or less. Manuscripts with a similarity ratio above will not be considered for further evaluation. Manuscripts without a Turnitin or iThenticate originality report will be desk-rejected.
- Manuscripts should be consistent in terms of purpose, subject and content.
- Manuscripts should include title, abstract, keywords, abstract, introduction, literature, method, conclusion and references, English extended abstract (for manuscripts written in Turkish).
- The length of manuscripts should not be below 5000 words and above 8500 words.

The peer-review process of the manuscripts that pass the editorial evaluation begins. In the appointment of reviewers, the compatibility of the manuscript subject with the reviewer's field of expertise is taken into consideration.

Manuscripts are sent to two reviewers in accordance with the double blind anonymous peer-review system. If both reviewers’ reports are positive, the manuscript is published, and if it is negative, the manuscript is rejected. In case of a positive or negative report from the reviewers, a third reviewer is appointed. The manuscript is accepted or rejected in line with the report of the third reviewer. As a result of these examinations and evaluations, changes and/or corrections may be requested from the author(s) of the manuscript.

Manuscripts whose peer-review process is not completed will be evaluated for the next issue.

The peer-review evaluation process can take 30-240 days.