Qubahan Techno Journal (QTJ) is committed to maintaining the integrity, reliability, transparency, and ethical quality of the scholarly record.

The journal's practices are informed by internationally recognized principles of publication ethics and research integrity, including guidance from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

1. Originality and Plagiarism

Authors must submit original work.

Plagiarism, unattributed copying, duplicate publication, inappropriate text recycling, fabrication, falsification, and misleading manipulation of research materials are prohibited.

QTJ may use similarity-detection and other research-integrity screening tools.

A similarity percentage alone is not used to determine plagiarism.

2. Duplicate and Concurrent Submission

A manuscript must not be under consideration simultaneously by another journal.

Duplicate or redundant publication is prohibited.

3. Authorship and Contributorship

Authorship must reflect genuine scholarly contribution.

Guest, gift, honorary, purchased, and ghost authorship are prohibited.

All authors must approve the submitted manuscript and final Version of Record.

4. Conflicts of Interest

Authors, editors, and reviewers must disclose relevant financial and non-financial competing interests.

5. Funding

All relevant financial, institutional, governmental, commercial, or material support must be disclosed.

6. Data and Research Integrity

Fabrication, falsification, selective manipulation, deceptive presentation, or misleading alteration of research data, mathematical results, computational outputs, images, or creative research materials is prohibited.

7. Data and Research Materials

Authors should make supporting data, code, models, research instruments, and other materials available where ethically, legally, and practically possible.

8. Human Participants

Research involving human participants must comply with applicable ethical requirements.

Where ethics approval is required, authors must identify the approving institution or committee and provide the reference number where available.

Informed consent must be obtained where required.

9. Vulnerable Populations

Research involving vulnerable individuals or communities requires appropriate safeguards.

10. Privacy and Confidentiality

Identifiable or sensitive personal information must not be published without an appropriate ethical and legal basis.

11. Images, Figures and Creative Materials

Images, figures, recordings, artworks, datasets, or other research materials must not be manipulated or represented deceptively.

12. Citation Practices

References must be relevant and genuinely support the claims for which they are cited.

Citation coercion, citation cartels, fabricated references, and citation manipulation intended primarily to influence metrics are prohibited.

13. Editorial Independence

Editorial decisions are based on scholarly and ethical considerations and are independent of financial, commercial, institutional, personal, or political influence.

14. Allegations of Misconduct

QTJ will evaluate credible allegations of research or publication misconduct.

Possible actions include:

• requesting clarification;
• requesting original data or documentation;
• suspending editorial processing;
• rejecting a manuscript;
• issuing a correction;
• issuing an Expression of Concern;
• retracting an article; or
• contacting relevant institutions where appropriate.

15. Post-Publication Concerns

Substantiated concerns raised after publication will be evaluated and may result in clarification, correction, Expression of Concern, retraction, or other appropriate action.

16. Complaints and Appeals

Authors and readers may submit reasoned complaints concerning editorial procedures, research integrity, or published content.