Policies
The rules the journal works by: review, ethics, authorship, licensing, fees, data and privacy.
Editorial Policies
Sets out the article types the journal accepts, the language and schedule of publication, how editorial decisions are taken, and how appeals, complaints and editor submissions are handled.
Peer Review Process
This page states how QAIRU Journal conducts double-blind peer review: which submissions are reviewed, the stages and the timeline, how reviewers are selected, what a report must contain, and how decisions and appeals are handled.
Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement
This page states the ethical obligations of the editors, reviewers, authors and publisher of QAIRU Journal, and the procedure the journal follows when misconduct is alleged.
Authorship and Contributions
This page states who may be listed as an author of an article in QAIRU Journal, how contributions are declared using CRediT roles, what the corresponding author is responsible for, and how changes and disputes concerning the author list are handled.
Conflicts of Interest
This page states what QAIRU Journal treats as a conflict of interest and what authors, reviewers, editors, board members and the publisher must declare or step away from.
Plagiarism and Similarity Checking
This page states what QAIRU Journal treats as plagiarism, when and how every submission is screened for textual similarity, and what follows when overlap is found.
Generative AI Policy
This page states how authors, reviewers and editors of QAIRU Journal may use generative AI, what must be disclosed and in what form, and what the journal does when an undisclosed or prohibited use is found.
Corrections, Retractions and Expressions of Concern
This page states how QAIRU Journal corrects, retracts or flags a published article, who may raise a concern, how long each step takes and how the notice reaches readers and services that carry the article.
Open Access Policy
QAIRU Journal publishes every article under Diamond Open Access: free to publish, free to read, CC BY 4.0, no embargo, with copyright retained by the authors.
Licensing and Copyright
Authors of QAIRU Journal retain copyright, articles are published under CC BY 4.0, and the journal holds only a non-exclusive licence to publish, deposit and preserve them.
Author Fees
QAIRU Journal charges authors and readers nothing at any stage; the journal is funded entirely by Qazaq AI Research University.
Archiving and Preservation
Published content is held on the infrastructure of Qazaq AI Research University with off-site backups; third-party preservation with the Internet Archive and the PKP Preservation Network is planned and conditional on DOAJ acceptance.
Data Availability
QAIRU Journal requires a Data Availability Statement in every peer-reviewed article and sets out the accepted statement types, the expectations for code and machine-learning artefacts, and the limits that apply to personal and licensed data.
Privacy Statement
This statement sets out what personal data QAIRU Journal collects from authors, reviewers, registered readers and site visitors, why it is processed, what becomes public, how long it is kept, and how a person exercises their rights.