Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in Microsoft Word file format. The manuscript is written according to the JSOMER template. The plagiarism report is less than 25%.
- The text of the manuscript is anonymised. The "Title Page" file containing information about the manuscript and author information was filled.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and APA 7 reference requirements outlined in the Submission Guidelines.
- I am aware that this journal requires all authors to disclose any potential sources of conflict of interest in the manuscript.
- All the authors have read and approved the manuscript as it is. They all acknowledge that it has been sent to JSOMER for publication.
- I confirm that all the research meets the ethical guidelines, including adherence to the legal requirements of the study country. The author(s) are responsible for the content and information presented in the manuscript.
- All approved rights such as patents, etc. copyrights are of the author(s); the author(s) can use the whole work in their books, courses, oral presentations, and conferences. They have the right to reproduce the work as a whole or in part for their use.
- That the text, figures, and documents in the article do not violate the copyrights of the third parties, the publisher is not responsible for any claims or lawsuits to be made by third parties due to copyright infringement, and all responsibility belongs to authors.
Original (Research) Article
Reports of original research, with methods, results, and conclusions. Research articles should report on original primary research or computational methods or new experimental, tests or procedures. In original articles, the abstract should not be longer than 350 words. The full text of the article, including all elements (abstract, references, and appendices) of the text, should be no more than 10000 words. In exceptional cases, do not hesitate to get in touch with the editor.
Review Article
Overview of developments in fields or the current lines of thought. Synthesizes multiple sources of information and has a long list of references. Emphasis is more factual and less on opinion. Scoping review, narrative review, meta-synthesis, systematic review, meta-analysis, and other review studies are considered review articles. In review articles, the abstract should not be longer than 350 words. The full text of the article, including all elements of the text, should be no more than 10000 words. In exceptional cases, do not hesitate to get in touch with the editor.
Brief Report
With shorter references and fewer tables/figures. Must meet the demands of scientific rigour required of a JSOMER article but can be preliminary findings. The abstract should not exceed 350 words. The entire article, including the abstract, references, and appendices, should not exceed 4000 words. In exceptional cases, do not hesitate to get in touch with the editor.
Book Review
Journal of Social Media Research (JSOMER) also publishes review papers. The board of editors thinks that review works are valuable parts of scientific and academic studies/publications.
The critics and reviews of the books written in English are accepted. The review papers published in JSOMER are given DOI (Digital Object Identifier) numbers and sent to the databases indexing JSOMER.
What is a review paper?
- A review paper is a text which introduces a book, an article, or a compilation to a wider audience through discussing, criticising, and constructively interpreting its content and structure.
- A book review is different from a book report. A book report acknowledges just the content of the book, while the content stands for only a small part of an academic review paper.
- A book review is expected to criticise and comment on the content, method, and structure of the text in hand constructively. It also needs to review the thoughts critically, discuss the consistency of the thoughts, and how the sources and resources are used.
Writing the review
The author needs to ensure that the content of the review includes these points:
- A brief, impressive introduction of the topic/subject, and the discussion of the text under consideration;
- A summary of the original text;
- Presenting the inferences made from the text, and the strengths and weaknesses it referring to the logical order of thoughts;
- A discussion and conclusion part consisting of the reviewer's viewpoints concerning the original text.
The format of the review
The formatting requirements presented for research articles are also valid for book reviews. Thus, the writing rules and citation style must be addressed.
- The title of a book review paper must be different from the title of the book reviewed.
- The issues listed below must be included in the review paper.
° The author(s) or editor(s) name, and surname (it must be stated if the text is a compilation)
° The title of the book
° Publication year
° The place it published
° The publisher
° Number of pages in total
The Review Process of the Book Reviews
- JSOMER prioritises the reviews of those books or texts published within the last five years. Demanding the review of their publication(s), the publisher(s) or the author(s) should send a request to JSOMER by sending an e-mail to editor@jsomer.org
- Since book reviews are given a limited place in journal issues, monographs authored by individuals are given priority. Other types of reviews come after the monographs. The review of textbooks and handbooks is not published in JSOMER.
- Before starting a book review for JSOMER, the reviewers are advised to get in touch with the journal editor first.
- There should not be any personal connection between the author(s) of the original text and the reviewer (working at the same department chair, thesis jury membership, close friends, etc.).
Letter to the Editor
İlgi çekici bir noktayı dile getirmek, görüş farklılıklarını tartışmak veya katılımı teşvik etmek amacıyla dergiye gönderilen mektup veya mektuba yanıt. Bilimsel konulardaki görüşlerinizi ifade edin ve 2000 kelimeyi geçmemelidir. Yazarlar bu tür yazılarını göndermeden önce Baş Editöre veya editörlere e-posta göndermelidir.
Copyright Notice
Aiming to support the idea of accessing information most easily, JSOMER adopts an open-access policy and supports the idea of requiring peer-reviewed journals to become open-access appearing in the Budapest Open Access Initiative signed on September 12, 2012. Thus, the open-access policies adopted by the editorial board of JSOMER can be found at http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai-10-recommendations.
Budapest Open Access Initiative defines the concept of “open access” as [peer-reviewed works’] “… free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.”
In this respect, authors hold the copyrights of their manuscripts as well as the final papers. The authors hold the copyright without any restrictions. Copyright transfer agreements and similar agreements are not requested from the authors. Solely for keeping the integrity and quality all JSOMER content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. This license terms are not binding for authors. JSOMER full-text articles are published online immediately after their procedures and are openly and freely accessible afterwards. No fees or subscriptions are required for access to the full-text articles. In thinking of sharing knowledge/information in the expansion of scientific developments, open-access policies promise great potential for researchers and readers. Based on this perspective, JSOMER invites its readers to freely access and use its published works by referring to their sources and authors. The readers do not need to obtain permission from the authors or the publisher.
Creative Commons
All articles published by JSOMER are licensed with “Creative Commons Attribution License (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND)”. This license entitles all parties to use scientific work for a non-profit purpose under the condition of providing references. Open access is an approach that eases interdisciplinary communication and encourages cooperation among different disciplines. Therefore, JSOMER contributes to the field of social media research by providing more access to its articles and a more transparent review process. The publication processes of JSOMER are executed by the manuals of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), National Information Standards Organization (NISO, Council of Science Editors (CSE), and European Association of Science Editors (EASE).
Authors who send their manuscripts to the Journal of Social Media Research (JSOMER) read and approve the text of the responsibility statement on the screen of the control list when they upload their studies on the online system of the journal. By marking the box “I warrant that it conforms with the items above” at the end of the control list, it is deemed to have accepted the text of the responsibility statement.
Author(s) declare(s) to approve the statements at below:
- The manuscript sent to be published in the Journal of Social Media Research (JSOMER) is the author(s) own original work,
- A part or the whole of this work has been not published and has not been sent for publication elsewhere.
- All the authors have read and approved the manuscript as it is. They all acknowledge that it has been sent to JSOMER for publication.
- The author(s) are responsible for the content and information presented in the manuscript.
- All approved rights such as patents, etc. copyrights are of the author(s);
- The author(s) can use the whole work in their books, courses, oral presentations, and conferences.
- They have the right to reproduce the work as a whole or in part for their use.
- That the text, figures, and documents in the article do not violate the copyrights of the third parties, the publisher is not responsible for any claims or lawsuits to be made by third parties due to copyright infringement, and all responsibility belongs to authors.
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