The relationship between compliance with the principles of transparency and best practice and journal sustainability in scientific publishing

Abstract

The sustainability of journals in Turkiye has emerged as a crucial and timely issue. This study aims to address this issue by analyzing journal sustainability using transparency principles. We delve into the relationship between principles oftransparency and best practice and journal sustainability, aiming to shed light on the importance of compliance with these principles in scientific publishing. In this study, all 45 peer-reviewed journals in Turkiye in economics and administrative sciences on the DergiPark platform were selected as the study sample to minimize confounding factors. The compliance of journal sustainability indicators of these journals in the 2015-2020 period, such as publication status (active-continuing publishing or ceased publishing), annual published volumes, annual manuscript submission numbers, annual number of published articles, rejection rates, combined volume or issue, was compared with 16 principles of transparency and best practice items. As a result of the analysis, it was revealed that the compliance of the journals with the transparency principles especially the ethical principles should be increased. It has been concluded that the high rejection rate, the publication of more issues per year, the use of the DergiPark submission system, and indexing coverage increase the sustainability of the journals.