Quality Control
Quality Control 1:
New Associate Editors, New Members in the Editorial Boards, New Guest
Editors in Special Issues are welcome provided that the Advisory Board
of WSEAS will approve them after peer review in their Biographies and
checking their recent publications record in Scopus, EI Compendex,
SCIE, ESCI, IET etc
Quality Control 2:
New Reviewers are welcome provided that the Advisory Board of WSEAS
will approve them checking their recent publications record in Scopus,
EI Compendex, SCIE, ESCI, IET etc
Quality Control 3:
WSEAS can sponsor financially or technically some conferences provided that
a) The Organizers/Chairmen of these Conferences are Professors in
reputable Universities,
b) The Organizers/Chairmen of these Conferences have important
academic records of recent publications record in Scopus, EI
Compendex, SCIE, ESCI, IET etc, great participation in research
projects and have supervised at least 1 Ph.D. dissertation
c) The Organizers/Chairmen of these Conferences will provide to the
WSEAS the list of their reviewers (Names, Academic Affiliation,
Academic Web Address, Phone, Academic Email),
d) The Organizers/Chairmen of these Conferences will provide to WSEAS
the reviewers' comments of 20 papers randomly selected by the WSEAS
from the conference program (as a sample),
e) The Deadlines of these Conferences do not generate concerns for the
conference peer review.
Quality Control 4:
Before the commencement of the Peer Review, organized by
Editor-in-Chief or some Associate Editor, WSEAS makes a pre-screening
quality control / review checking the following:
a) Plagiarism and Self-Plagiarism avoidance control via Turnitin and
iThenticate.
b) The English Language of the paper.
c) Affiliation of the prospective authors (i.e. Do they belong to a
University or to a real company or to a real institute? can their
university be identified? can their Academic URL be identified on the
web? Do they use academic/professional email addresses? have they
provided a phone number when they uploaded their paper? Does their IP,
from where uploaded their paper, agree with their country?),
d) The References (i.e. Are the references adequate? Does the paper
include references from the last 5 years? Can the references be traced
easily via google, Do the references report the year of the
publication?).
e) Are there indications that some prospective authors have not
substantially contributed to the research?
For example a paper in Civil Engineering with an author from a surgery
clinic in a Hospital.
Roughly, 20% of the papers are usually rejected in this pre-screening
quality control / review checking. This acts as a first filtering
which saves valuable time of the Reviewers and the Editors-in-Chief.
Quality Control 5:
WSEAS uses a compulsory certification from all the authors and for all
the papers in order the Administration of WSEAS to certify and
authenticate that each accepted paper by the Editors-in-Chief is
backed by a minimum of 3 reviewers' positive recommendation. Download
this Certification - Evaluation of the Review Process from here:
http://wseas.org/multimedia/au
3 positive opinions from 3 independent reviewers with strong peer
review, they should not sign this form. All the Certifications -
Evaluations of the Review Process for each paper are available to
everybody after a simple request by email support@wseas.org,
wseas.transactions@gmail.com
Update: The Certifications are published now on the web, together with
their papers
Quality Control 6:
The Certifications have also this declaration - confirmation: "Also,
we declare also that no reviewer, no Associate-Editor, no
Editor-in-Chief, no member of the WSEAS Secretariat, nobody whatsoever
and never forced me in WSEAS Journals to add references / citations to
any previous WSEAS Publications or any other publications"
Quality Control 7:
Responses to Reviewers (required): For every revised version, the
authors will reply using these tables
http://wseas.org/multimedia/Re
the web or will send them by email. Authors will have to make all the
changes, modifications, additions, studies, corrections asked by the
reviewers using the http://wseas.org/multimedia/Re
have to be fully complied with the reviewers' instructions. Before the
publication, the three (or more than three) reviewers will check, if
the changes, modifications, additions, studies, corrections etc have
been carried out. In this case, the paper will be published or will be
rejected or a new round of peer review will start.
Quality Control 8:
The WSEAS offers consistently high quality, line by line, thorough,
rigorous, strict peer review process and very high editorial standards
of care to its authors and readers. This page contains some comments
from just a few of our authors about their experience of publishing
with us: http://wseas.org/main/author-t
Peer Review and High Rejection Rates:
Here you can find databases containing all submitted articles to the
WSEAS Journals for the recent years
http://www.wseas.org/main/jour
Acceptance rates, which are approx 20%, can be found within.
Quality Control 10:
List of Reviewers can be found here http://wseas.org/cms.action?id
What do the Authors say about publishing in our Journals
http://wseas.org/main/author-t
The Editors-in-Chief declare, confirm, certify and sign the review
process in our Journals and the rejection rates
http://wseas.org/main/PeerRevi