The journal supports transparency, verifiability and reproducibility in research on the arts of the Turkic peoples.
Data availability statement
Every research and review article ends with a “Data Availability Statement” explaining where and under what conditions the data, measures, interview questions, materials and any analysis code can be accessed, or why they cannot be shared. In studies based solely on published sources and archival documents, the statement confirms that all sources used are fully cited in the article. Examples:
- “The data and the interview schedule are available on Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.XXXXXXX.”
- “Because participants were assured of confidentiality, the interview transcripts cannot be shared; anonymised data are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.”
- “No new data were generated in this study; all sources and archival documents used are cited in the article.”
Primary sources, archival documents and works
- Archival documents are cited with the name of the archive, the fonds or collection, the file, folder or document number and the date; any abbreviations used are explained in the article.
- Manuscripts and rare books are cited with the library, collection and shelfmark or inventory number.
- Images of works of art and design give the artist, title, date, technique, dimensions, collection or location and the source of the image.
- Photographs, measured drawings, sketches and survey records produced in fieldwork give the person who made them, the place and the date; recordings of interviews with masters and artists give the interviewee, the place and the date.
Recommended practices
- Sharing data, materials and code in open repositories that assign persistent identifiers, such as Zenodo, OSF or Harvard Dataverse, or in institutional open repositories, and citing the dataset in the reference list
- In quantitative and experimental studies, registering hypotheses and the analysis plan before data collection (preregistration) and linking the preregistration in the Method section
- Replication studies and studies with null results are also worth publishing; the assessment is based on the quality of the method.
Reporting standards
- Quantitative, qualitative and mixed-methods studies: APA JARS (JARS–Quant, JARS–Qual, JARS–Mixed)
- Interview and focus group studies: COREQ
- Systematic reviews and meta-analyses: PRISMA 2020
Data retention
Authors retain the raw data and analysis files reported in the article for at least five years after publication and make them available to the editors if an ethical or scholarly inquiry requires it.
Personal data
Shared datasets are anonymised so that participants cannot be identified and are shared only to the extent permitted by participants’ consent (see Ethics Approval and Informed Consent).