Peer Review Policy
The peer review of papers published in the BIS Proceedings Series titles is managed by the organizers and proceedings editors.
The detailed procedures will vary from event to event according to the custom and practice of each community. Our publishing agreements require peer review to be undertaken in accordance with the principles outlined below.
All organizers/editors must complete a form describing how the papers were peer reviewed. This information will be published as part of the proceedings.
Peer review must be conducted through our platform unless another method is agreed with the journal team. Publisher reserves the right to request peer review reports at any time.
Conference papers must meet all the usual standards of quality for an BIS Proceedings Series publication. However, reviewers will take into account the nature of conference papers. Review papers are also welcomed and accepted. Reviewers will consider background papers more favourably than would be normal for a regular paper. These allowances shall not go so far as to approve papers of low scientific standard. Papers that have been published in written form elsewhere should not be considered.
Reviewers should consider the following key points related to scientific content, quality and presentation of the papers:
Review Criteria
- Research question: why the authors do this research and what is its importance and application.
- Novelty: a paper gives new ideas, derivations, applications that has been not studied before or little- or not in depth-studied.
- Literature review: to identify the research gap with recent references from 2015 onwards.
- Research methodology: analytical, numerical or experimental or mixed. What is the contribution of the authors, assumptions and/or approximations used, description of apparatus and its limitations, steps of experiments, etc.
- Quality of results: and the depth and logic of the discussion.
- Insight conveyed and recommendations that might be used by others for future work.
- English: used effectively to communicate the ideas and easy to understand with least or no grammatical error or typos.