Ethics committee in the social sciences that evaluates research proposals in order to protect human rights before, during and after the research, to prevent them from harm, and to obtain informed consent. This committee examines the submitted research in terms of the above-mentioned dimensions and if it is appropriate issues an ethics committee approval document and issues a related document.
- Ethics committee approval document should be submitted for all manuscripts.
- For the manuscript that does not require the Approval of Ethics Committee, researchers should submit the official document showing that they do not require ethics committee approval to be obtained from the ethics committee of their institution.
- Researchers who are not affiliated with any institution should apply to the ethics commitee of the universities in their province before the data collection process of their studies and obtain an ethics committee approval certificate.
- For the manuscript produced from theses, it is sufficient to submit the Approval of Ethics Committee received for the thesis. A separate Approval of Ethics Committee document is not expected for these manuscripts.
*Institutional and individual research and application permissions obtained for the research are not accepted as an approval of the Ethics Committee.