About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The Journal of Technology and Data Science (JTDS) publishes original scholarly articles examining theory, methodology, and cutting-edge applications in information technology and data science. The journal's scope covers, but is not limited to, the following eight principal domains:

• Data Science and Machine Learning — supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning; data mining; statistical learning; predictive analytics; time series analysis; anomaly detection; recommendation systems; and data visualization.
• Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning — deep learning, computer vision, natural language processing (NLP), large language models (LLM), generative AI, expert systems, explainable AI (XAI), and ethics and fairness in artificial intelligence.
• Information Systems and Software Engineering — information systems development, decision support systems, enterprise systems (ERP/CRM), agile and DevOps methodologies, software quality assurance, HCI, and UX.
• Big Data and Data Engineering — big data architecture, data warehousing, data lakes, ETL/ELT pipelines, real-time stream processing, data governance, data quality, MLOps, and distributed database systems.
• IoT, Cloud Computing, and Technology Infrastructure — Internet of Things, cloud computing, edge and fog computing, computer networks, distributed systems, containerization, virtualization, and web-based service architectures.
• Cybersecurity and Privacy — network security, cryptography, digital forensics, intrusion detection, blockchain security, privacy-preserving computation, IoT security, and information security governance.
• Computation and Optimization — optimization algorithms, metaheuristic methods (genetic algorithm, particle swarm, ant colony), simulation and modeling, operations research, high-performance computing, and numerical computation.
• Applied Technology and Data Science — applications in interdisciplinary fields, including:
  • Healthcare: health informatics, AI for medical diagnosis, electronic medical records, telemedicine, data-driven epidemiology.
  • Education: learning analytics, educational data mining, adaptive learning systems, e-learning platforms.
  • Business and Finance: fintech, fraud detection, business intelligence, customer analytics, algorithmic trading.
  • Government and Smart City: smart government, e-government, urban analytics, public policy sentiment analysis, open government data.
  • Agriculture and Smart Farming: precision agriculture, crop yield prediction, plant disease and pest detection, IoT-based soil quality monitoring, smart irrigation systems, agricultural drone analytics.
  • Fisheries and Smart Aquaculture: precision aquaculture, water quality monitoring, species identification and fish disease detection, automated feeding systems, fishing ground prediction, vessel monitoring system.
  • Industry and Manufacturing: Industry 4.0, predictive maintenance, supply chain analytics, AI-based quality control, digital twin.
  • Transportation and Logistics: smart transportation, traffic prediction, route optimization, smart logistics.
  • Environment and Sustainability: climate analytics, remote sensing, carbon footprint analytics, food security, blockchain-based food traceability, circular economy analytics.

Why Publish in JTDS

Six principal reasons JTDS is the right choice to publish your research in technology and data science:

Peer Review Process

Every manuscript submitted to JTDS proceeds through the following double-blind peer review stages to ensure scholarly quality and integrity:

1. Initial Editorial Screening — assessment of scope alignment, originality, and compliance with author guidelines. Manuscripts that do not meet basic criteria are returned to the author at this stage.
2. Double-Blind Peer Review — evaluation by at least two independent expert reviewers. Author and reviewer identities are mutually anonymized to ensure objectivity.
3. Editorial Decision — based on reviewer recommendations, the editor decides: accept, minor revision, major revision, or reject.
4. Final Production — copyediting, typesetting, and DOI assignment are performed after acceptance.

Open Access Policy

JTDS is a fully open-access journal. All published articles are available immediately and permanently to read, download, and redistribute without subscription, registration, or payment barriers — in line with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI).

Articles are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license, which permits non-commercial reuse with appropriate attribution and share-alike requirements on derivative works. JTDS does not charge any article submission charge or article processing charge.

Publication Frequency

JTDS publishes two issues per year: Edition I (June) and Edition II (December). Since Volume 4 (2026), articles are published continuously — online as soon as they clear production — and assigned to the issue corresponding to the publication period (Edition I for January–June, Edition II for July–December). See the Publication Model section for full details.

Continuous Publishing Model

Since Volume 4 Issue 1 (Edition I 2026), JTDS has adopted the continuous publishing model: every article that passes peer review and production is published online as soon as it is ready, then administratively assigned to the issue of the current period. This approach aligns with standard practice at journals indexed in major scholarly databases (Crossref, DOAJ, Scopus).

1. Immediate online publication — articles are published within 7–14 days of the final editorial decision; the date of publication reflects the actual online publication date, which also becomes the DOI registration date at Crossref.
2. Assignment to issue — articles published between January–June are assigned to Edition I; those published between July–December are assigned to Edition II.
3. Continuous pagination — page numbers continue across Editions within the same volume; they do not reset per issue.

Primary benefits of this model for authors and readers: faster indexation by Google Scholar and DOAJ harvesters, immediate visibility for the academic community, and publication-date certainty for authors' academic needs (graduation, promotion, accreditation).

Publication Ethics

JTDS follows the principles established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). All authors, reviewers, and editors are expected to uphold the highest standards of academic integrity, including originality, proper attribution, disclosure of conflicts of interest, and ethical conduct of research. The journal uses plagiarism detection tools to screen all incoming manuscripts.

Indexing and Abstracting

JTDS is indexed and currently pursuing inclusion in major scholarly databases, including but not limited to: Google Scholar, Crossref, Garuda, DOAJ, BASE, WorldCat, Dimensions, Neliti, and other leading indexing services.

Archiving and Long-term Preservation

JTDS implements a layered preservation mechanism to ensure long-term readability of articles:

• Permanent DOI via Crossref — every article is registered with a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) at Crossref, guaranteeing a permanent resolvable link even if the site URL structure changes.
• Daily Automatic Backup — the database and article files are automatically backed up daily on publisher infrastructure as data-loss mitigation.
• LOCKSS Publisher Manifest — the publication manifest is available at /gateway/lockss to facilitate harvesting by libraries running the LOCKSS daemon.
• PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) — the plugin is installed and configured on OJS; onboarding to the PKP PN network is in progress.
• Self-archiving by Author — authors are encouraged to deposit the postprint version to their institutional repository for additional redundancy.

Errata, Corrections, and Retractions

JTDS follows the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) guidelines for handling errors and integrity issues in published articles. Three types of correction actions apply:

1. Errata — corrections to editorial errors that do not affect article substance (e.g., typographical errors, formatting, or metadata). The original article remains intact; the erratum is published separately with its own DOI and linked to the original article.
2. Corrigendum — corrections to substantive errors made by the author (e.g., data, figures, or minor conclusions) that do not invalidate the overall main conclusions. The original article is marked "corrigendum" and the corrigendum is published with bidirectional links to the original article.
3. Retraction — withdrawal of an article due to serious issues such as plagiarism, data fabrication/falsification, duplicate publication, or major ethical violations. The article remains accessible but is clearly marked "RETRACTED" with a retraction statement explaining the reason; the article's DOI is not removed to preserve the scholarly record.