Editorial Introduction to the Special Issue of JESTI on ICSELL 2025

Abstract

Introducing JESTI: A Journal for an Interdisciplinary Age
This editorial marks a significant milestone: the publication of the first issue of the Journal of Engineering, Science and Technological Innovations (JESTI). JESTI was founded on the conviction that advancing knowledge in engineering, applied science, and technology requires not only technical excellence but also the communicative and educational practices that allow such knowledge to be generated, shared, and applied across disciplinary, institutional, and linguistic boundaries. The journal welcomes original research, critical reviews, and practice-informed studies from across this broad and interconnected terrain. It is committed to rigorous peer review, open scholarly exchange, and serving the academic and professional communities of the Gulf region and beyond.
That this inaugural issue takes the form of a special issue is itself a deliberate statement. JESTI begins not in isolation, but in partnership, in direct response to the intellectual energy of a wider community of researchers and educators whose work exemplifies exactly the kind of interdisciplinary inquiry this journal was created to advance.