- All
submitted papers will undergo a double-blind
review process.
- The possible
decisions from the review include acceptance or
rejection.
- Articles may
be rejected without review if they are obviously
not suitable for publication.
- Articles
will be rejected if detected for copyright
infringement and plagiarism.
- The
reviewers evaluate manuscripts for their
intellectual content without regard to race,
gender, sexual orientation, religious belief,
ethnic origin, citizenship, or political
philosophy of the authors.
- The staff
must not disclose any information about a
submitted manuscript to anyone other than the
corresponding author, reviewers, other editorial
advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
- Reviews
should be conducted objectively. Personal
criticism of the author is inappropriate.
Referees should express their views clearly with
supporting arguments.
- Manuscripts
received for review are treated as confidential
documents and are reviewed by anonymous staff.
- A reviewer
should also call to the publisher's attention
any substantial similarity or overlap between
the manuscript under consideration and any other
published paper of which they have personal
knowledge.
- A paper
should contain sufficient detail and references
to permit others to replicate the work.
Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements
constitute unethical behavior and are
unacceptable.
- The authors
should ensure that they have written entirely
original works, and if the authors have used the
work and/or words of others that this has been
appropriately cited or quoted.
- Submitting
the same manuscript to more than one publication
concurrently constitutes unethical publishing
behavior and is unacceptable.
- Authorship
should be limited to those who have made a
significant contribution to the conception,
design, execution, or interpretation of the
reported work.
- All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.
The guidelines below are for papers being submitted for peer review.
Carefully consider the paper review criteria
Peer reviewers will be asked to evaluate papers based on the following criteria and weightings:
• Relevance: Appropriateness/fit for the conference theme and target audience (10%)
• Aims and organization: Clarity of aims/objectives, and organization/sequencing of sections and content (10%)
• Presentation: Adherence to Springer conference and ICCGE style guidelines, and overall standard of presentation (10%)
• Readability: How easy the paper is to read and understand in terms of language and writing style (10%)
• References: Adequacy and suitability of literature references (10%)
• Originality: The degree to which the paper makes a new and innovative contribution to research and/or practice (20%)
• Scholarly Quality: Level of methodological and/or theoretical rigor and of reflective depth exhibited in the paper (30%)