Editorial Policies
Health Tech Science Journal is committed to the highest standards of publication ethics and transparency in scientific publishing.
Optional Peer Review
Submitted manuscripts undergo double-blind peer review by at least two independent reviewers with expertise in the field. Editors base their decisions on the reviewers' recommendations, the scientific soundness of the work, and its relevance to the journal's scope. Articles published through the editor-curated fast-track are clearly identified as not peer reviewed. If the author selects the Preprint route, no peer-review will occur at the moment of publication.
Open Access and Licensing
All articles are published in open access, free of charge for readers, under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication. No article processing charges (APCs) are currently applied.
Publication Ethics
The journal follows the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Studies involving human subjects must have been approved by an institutional ethics committee and conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, with informed consent obtained from all participants.
Plagiarism, Misconduct, and AI Tools
All submissions may be screened for plagiarism. Fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, duplicate submission, and redundant publication are unacceptable. Confirmed misconduct will lead to rejection or retraction. Reasonable use of AI tools — as tools — is tolerated.
Authorship
Authorship follows the ICMJE criteria: substantial contribution to conception or data, drafting or critical revision, approval of the final version, and accountability for the work. All listed authors must meet these criteria, and contributors who do not should be acknowledged instead.
Conflicts of Interest
Authors, reviewers, and editors must disclose any financial or personal relationships that could inappropriately influence the work. Declared conflicts are published with the article; editors and reviewers with conflicts are excluded from the handling of the affected manuscript.
Corrections and Retractions
Errors that affect the interpretation of published work are corrected through errata. When results prove unreliable or misconduct is confirmed, the article is retracted following COPE recommendations, with the retraction notice linked to the original article.
