ACADEMIC ETHICS

Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Business has adopted universal ethical principles for its university life and academic activities.  The Faculty envisages both the faculty members and the students —in their research and publications as well as educational and teaching duties— to enjoy academic freedom, to be considerate to both human honor and labor, to be respectful, responsible, and impartial, to keep their integrity and honesty, to be open to self-criticism, and to be sensitive to the environment and nature.

Faculty of Business aims for its faculty members and students to apply high level standards for its scientific, academic, and professional activities and raise the quality of the scientific research.  In this context, the faculty administration takes necessary precautions against the violation of scientific ethical principles, such as plagiarism (to cite the ideas, methods and words of another person  or publication without showing reference), fabrication (to publish data and results that do not exist in reality), duplication (using the same data and results in more than one publication), salami slicing (to make more than one publication by artificially dividing the results of a research), distorted or biased publication (the impartiality of the scientific works that are funded by certain institutions  and as a result promote the interest of the researchers and funding institutions), selection of partial references (authors choosing of references that only support their arguments and results and their ignorance of the other sources that do not confirm their arguments), imaginary authorship (including the scholars into the list of the authors who had no active contribution to the research or the publication due to their titles) and scientific neglect.

Faculty of Business particularly pays special attention to ‘plagiarism’ as the most commonly practiced violation of scientific ethical principles and teaches the students the avoidance of plagiarism in its various courses. The students are taught that the presentation of ideas from a publication without citing it as a reference, in other words, presentation of others’ ideas as their own and showing an already existing publication as a new and original publication are all considered as plagiarism. The instructors teach their students different reference styles and in order to avoid plagiarism ask their students to check their papers through the Turnitin Program. Plagiarism may result with the failure of the students from the course or even with the punishment of the student with a disciplinary action. Faculty of Business has taken the necessary precautions to provide and sustain academic honesty at the highest level possible and it will not tolerate any kind of violation of this sort.