IPAC'19 Light Peer Review Timeline
Remaining deadlines for the whole process are indicated below:
- Wednesday, May 1, 2019: Deadline for the submission of papers to be considered for Peer Review Proceedings.
- Friday, May 10, 2019 (or earlier): Deadline for the first round of review. Authors are informed of requested revisions by the referees. If no correction is required, author is informed whether the paper is accepted or declined.
- Monday, May 13, 2019 (or earlier): Deadline for the author submission of revised/corrected papers. Papers are uploaded into the SPMS in the usual way.
- Friday, May 17, 2019 (or earlier): Majority of authors are informed whether their paper is accepted to or declined from the Peer Reviewed Proceedings. Papers not selected for the Peer Review Proceedings will be automatically follow the usual publication route to the IPAC'19 JACoW proceedings.
- Wednesday, May 22, 2019: Decision deadline for chief of the Scientific Publication Board concerning the approval/refusal of any papers still in contention.
- Sunday, June 2, 2019: Deadline for reformatting to the IoP template and upload to URL to come.
Introduction
At IPAC'19, a Light Peer Reviewed process is offering an intermediate
level of publication between a non-refereed IPAC paper (that will be
published by default in the JACoW conference proceedings) and a high
quality PRAB paper. This is a continuation of successful similar
efforts at IPAC'17 and IPAC'18.
Successful peer reviewed papers will be published as part of the
Institute of Physics Journal of Physics: Conference Series and
therefore visible in the known publication and citation databases. The
IoP Proceedings Licence Terms and Conditions can be found here.
Please note that publication in the IoP Conf. Series excludes the
possibility of publication in the PRAB special edition (or any other
"regular" edition of PRAB).
We see the introduction of light peer review as an opportunity to
publish papers that do not fulfill all the acceptance criteria of
journals by virtue of their limited content, as is inevitable with
the three page limit. Examples of papers that may survive light peer
review, but possibly not the rigour of PRAB, could include review
papers, technical advancements without novel schemes, incremental
design or performance improvements, and similar topics.
The papers submitted to the Peer Reviewed IPAC'19 proceedings will be
reviewed by members of the Scientific Advisory Board, Organizing
Committee, Scientific Program Committee, and by volunteers selected by
the Scientific Program Committee. All papers are reviewed by two
referees. In the event of disagreement between referees, the SPC shall
resolve the case.
Due to limitations on time and number of referees, it cannot be
guaranteed that all papers submitted will be reviewed. We expect that
up to 200 papers will be processed on a first come, first served basis
pro rata of the number of papers per Main Classification.
Authors can volunteer for this new refereeing process at the time of
abstract submission; and must indicate their area of specialization by
Main Classification.
Last update: May 2 2019