Editorial Process and Peer Review

Arkhaia Anatolika opens its pages to original and qualified studies carried out with scientific methods, written in Turkish and English languages to bring new perspectives and filling a gap in their field in which new findings are evaluated, new approaches presented, previous studies are reevaluated. In order to be published in Arkhaia Anatolika, the manuscript is not published or under publication consideration elsewhere.

At Arkhaia Anatolika we focus on ensuring that all papers we publish are of high technical quality, and let the scientific community determine the impact of your work. Our editorial process focuses on the robustness and validity of your research, from methodological, analytical, statistical and ethical perspectives, rather than making subjective decisions on your manuscripts.

Arkhaia Anatolika operates a two-stage process, “Editorial Review” and “External Review”, in the evaluation of the manuscripts submitted to the journal. Editorial review is a phase carried out by the Editor-in-Chief and Assistant Editors. If necessary, support may also be sought from members of the Editorial Board based on their area of ​​expertise. External review is the process in which at least two reviewers who are experts in the field evaluate the manuscripts with the method of “a double-blind peer review”.

Arkhaia Anatolika will not accept more than one article submission from one author for the same issue. In addition, as of 2023, one year (one volume) will have to pass before the article of the same author can be evaluated. If the article is co-authored and the author whose article was published in the previous issue is the 2nd or 3rd author in the new article, the article will be evaluated.

Manuscript submissions after 15 December 2024 will be evaluated for the next issue. Even if the manuscript was sent before this date, if their evaluation process was not completed by 31 December 2024, they will be evaluated for the next issue.

Models of Peer Review: Double-Blind Peer Review

Review Timing: Pre-publication

Number of Reviewers: Two External Reviewers (Peer Review)

Mediation: Editors and Assistant Editors mediate all interactions between reviewers and authors.

Reviewer interacts with: Editors

Number of days between submission & last decision: Average 70 Days / 10 Weeks

Plagiarism checks: Yes – Turnitin

Decision: In order for the article to be accepted for publication by the Editor, at least two referees must give a positive opinion.

Ethics Violations: When reviewers suspect an ethical violation, they should report it to the Editor. The editors will follow the COPE Flowcharts when dealing with cases of suspected misconduct. Articles suspected of serious research misconduct may also be viewed by Arkhaia Anatolika’s ethics editor and third parties deemed appropriate by the editor.

Accepted articles are published at http://www.arkhaiaanatolika.org as they are prepared. 

All articles published in the Arkhaia Anatolika are fully Open Access: immediately, freely available to read, download, and share.

Editorial Process (Preliminary Review)

Preliminary Review and Plagiarism Checking: The Editor-in-Chief reviews the manuscript, and validates if the theme, originality and scientific quality of the paper are fit to be published in the journal. Afterward, the Editor-in-Chief sends the manuscripts that comply with the journal’s publication policy to the Assistant Editor for editorial review. Assistant editors check every manuscript for language quality, the integrity of the figures, the detection of plagiarism, and potential conflicts of interest. All manuscripts submitted for publication to Arkhaia Anatolika are cross-checked for plagiarism using Turnitin software. A text similarity below 15% and less (excluding bibliography) is acceptable by the journal and a similarity of >25% is considered as high percentage of plagiarism. But even in case of 15% similarity, if the matching text is one continuous block of borrowed material, it will be considered as plagiarized text of significant concern. If the decision is not to send the manuscript for external review, the Editor-in-Chief contacts the author with the decision. If the decision is positive, the Assistant Editor determines the other two external reviewers from the members of the Editorial Board based on their field of expertise.

You can see “Pre-Review and Plagiarism Checking Form” of Arkhaia Anatolika

Editorial Board Review: During the internal review process, the Assistant Editor determines the two internal reviewers from the members of the Editorial Board according to their field of expertise and the manuscripts are sent to both internal reviewers by “double-blind peer review” method. For this reason, reviewers don’t know the identity of the authors, and vice-versa. Reviewers and authors identity is visible to only editors (decision-making). If the article is deemed unsuitable for external peer review, the Editor-in-Chief will contact the author to inform them of the decision. If the decision is positive, the Editor or Assistant Editors will send the article to two external reviewers who are experts in the field.

You can see “Internal Reviewer Evaluation Form” of Arkhaia Anatolika

The Peer Review Process (External Review)

Suitable submissions to Arkhaia Anatolika undergo a double-blind peer review process: The author’s identity is not revealed to the reviewers, and vice versa. The responsible editor determines two reviewers. Reviewers who accept review are expected to complete their review within the time allotted to them. In special cases, additional time can be given to the referee for evaluation. If their conclusions are not unanimous, a third reviewer may be consulted. The reviewers are absolutely independent of the authors and not affiliated with the same institution. A referee’s decision is made in four categories as “acceptance without revision”, “acceptance after minor revision”, “review again after major revision”, and “rejection”. The reviewed manuscript are returned back to the corresponding author with comments and recommended revisions.

For papers “accepted without revision”, they are received and published as they are received.

For papers “accepted after minor revision”, papers are returned to corresponding authors for minor revision. And resubmitted papers are published without another full process of peer review but subjected to acceptable explanations for the points raised by referees. However, Editor may request additional review or comments on the revised paper by members of editorial board if it seems necessary.

For papers “re-review after major revision”, these papers are returned to corresponding authors for full revision. And resubmitted papers are subjected to another complete review process and acceptable explanation for the points raised by referees.

For the “rejected” papers, a letter of rejection is sent to the corresponding under by the name of Editor with reasons for rejection. Comments from referees are included.

The referee report includes evaluations on the following issues;

• Purpose of the article

• Importance of the topic

• Contribution to the literature

• Methodology

• Discussion

• Conclusion

• References

Referees should act with the awareness that they are the most basic determinant of the academic quality of the article to be published in the journal and should evaluate it with a view increasing the academic quality. The manuscripts are evaluated by the referees; the final decision for acceptance will be made by the Editor/Editors. The author is to be notified within four months.

You can see “External Reviewer Evaluation Form” of Arkhaia Anatolika

Peer Review Principles for Papers Submitted by the Editorial Staff and Editorial Board Members

Editorials and analysis articles written by The Arkhaia Anatolika’s own editors do not undergo external peer review. Original research articles written by the Journal’s Editors and Editorial Board Members undergo a double-blind peer review process by at least two internal reviewers and at least two external reviewers. During this period, those editors cannot enter the journal system, user accounts are disabled.

Revising and Responding

When the submission manuscript has come back from reviewers the author(s) may be given the opportunity to revise it in accordance with the reviewer comments. Authors should address this feedback from reviewers in a response to reviewers. A response to reviewers specifies how the authors addressed each comment the reviewers made. The response to reviewers is usually organized by presenting reviewers’ comments one by one, followed by the authors’ response.

When revising your manuscript and responding to peer review comments you must:

• Address all points raised by the editor and reviewers.

• Describe the major revisions to your manuscript in your response letter followed by point-by-point responses to the comments raised.

• Perform any additional experiments or analyses the reviewers recommend (unless you feel that they would not make your paper better; if so, please provide sufficient explanation as to why you believe this to be the case in your response letter).”

• Provide a polite and scientific rebuttal to any points or comments you disagree with.

• Differentiate between reviewer comments and your responses in your letter.

• Clearly show the major revisions in the text, either with a different color text, by highlighting the changes, or with Microsoft Word’s Track Changes feature. This is in addition to describing the changes in your point by point cover letter.

• Return the revised manuscript and response letter within the time period allotted by the editor.

Publishing and Post-Publishing Process

Turkish Language Control: All manuscripts that result in a positive referee process are reviewed by the Editor-in-Chief and the author is asked to revise the necessary points.

English Language Check: All manuscripts that pass the Turkish language control are reviewed by the English Language Editor and, if necessary, a correction is requested from the author. If the author wishes, he can get a professional service for this.

Typesetting and Layout: Article, which is decided to be published, is sent to the publishing unit for graphic and design processes.Editors send to authors a PDF proof of the layout, including the figures for approval before publication. As soon as the editing and typesetting stages are completed and the final version is approved by authors, the manuscripts are published online in the journal website.

Copyright: Copyright transfer agreements are signed with the author(s). The authors own the copyrights of their published article and their article is open access under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

Post-Publication Commenting: Articles published in Arkhaia Anatolika are promoted on social media platforms and comments made by platform users are followed.

Data Submission to National and International Indexes: All issues of Arkhaia Anatolika, The Journal of Anatolian Archeological Studies are digitally preserved cover-to-cover, by the Electronic Publishing Compilation System (EYDeS) of the National Library of Turkey, ensuring long-term archival of all of our publications. The published issue is sent to the National Library of Turkey as one copy within 60 days. The article metadata is forwarded to the relevant indexes within 15 days.