Qubahan Techno Journal (QTJ) is committed to fair, independent, confidential, transparent, and academically rigorous editorial decision-making.

Editor-in-Chief

The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for:

• safeguarding academic quality;
• maintaining editorial independence;
• ensuring appropriate peer review;
• overseeing conflicts of interest;
• ensuring fair editorial decisions;
• overseeing publication-ethics matters;
• addressing complaints and appeals;
• overseeing corrections and retractions; and
• protecting the integrity of the scholarly record.

Editors and Section Editors

Editors must:

• evaluate manuscripts according to scholarly merit and relevance;
• maintain confidentiality;
• disclose conflicts of interest;
• recuse themselves where impartiality cannot be ensured;
• select appropriately qualified reviewers;
• avoid reviewers with relevant conflicts;
• assess reviewer reports critically;
• provide reasoned editorial decisions; and
• ensure independent handling of conflicted submissions.

Reviewer Responsibilities

Reviewers must:

• accept assignments only within appropriate areas of expertise;
• provide objective and constructive assessment;
• maintain confidentiality;
• disclose conflicts of interest;
• complete reviews within the agreed period;
• avoid personal criticism;
• report serious scholarly or ethical concerns; and
• avoid inappropriate or coercive citation requests.

Editorial Independence

Editorial decisions are based on scholarly merit, originality, relevance, methodological or theoretical quality, ethical compliance, and contribution to knowledge.

Editorial decisions must not be influenced by APC payment, publisher commercial interests, author nationality, institutional affiliation, personal relationships, political or religious beliefs, gender, or other characteristics unrelated to scholarly merit.