| Publication of the article in a First Publication Archive | |
| Delay until the next issue of the relevant News Journal (2-4 weeks) or Newsletter (usually 0-2 days) | |
| The article is received and therefore
posted in an ETAI News Journal. In this way it is made known to researchers within its own field. |
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| Public reviewing during 6 months. |
Delay before author decides to submit the article for acceptance by ETAI, at least 3 months. |
| Submission to ETAI | |
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Confidential review (must be completed at most 3 months after submission). |
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| The article is
accepted in the ETAI, and obtains journal accepted status. |
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In particular, "usually well-informed sources" have stated to us that publication by an ETAI First Publication Archive does not (from the publisher's point of view) disqualify an article from being received by the A I Journal, the Journal of A I Research, the IJCAI, or the KR Conferences.
The ETAI requires the author to wait three months before submitting, counted from the date of publication, in order to obtain some feedback from the public reviewing before making that decision.
Therefore, since the area editor has been involved already when the
article was posted in the News Journal, all that it takes to submit
the article is to send an E-mail message to the area editor.
Articles which do not fit into any of our research areas can not
be submitted to the ETAI.
First, since some of the conventional reviewing duties are performed
by the First Publication Archive (such as checking language correctness)
and by the public review process (such as checking the adequacy of
references), the confidential review concentrates on the following
three aspects:
Another difference against conventional journal reviewing
is that, for rejected papers, the grounds for rejection are
always specified in a public review report. Typically, one or
possibly more of the above mentioned criteria are invoked.
This makes it possible for the author to "explain what happened"
in the process.
The review decision must be returned within three months
of submission of the article.
It is our intention and expectation that papers which have been
accepted after ETAI:s reviewing process will have a higher and
more uniformly high quality than papers that were accepted in
ordinary journals.
The article is included in the overall list of accepted articles
(reachable by the lower-left box on the ETAI main menue)
and in the list of accepted articles in the area in question
(in the matrix of the ETAI main menue).
Submitting the article for acceptance
There is one Area Editor for each of ETAI's research areas. The
Area Editor has two main responsibilities: to edit the area's news journal,
and to lead the reviewing process for articles in that area.
Confidential peer review
ETAI:s confidential peer review is done in the same way as for
conventional journals: two or three reviewers who are specialists
in the topic of the article are requested to recommend whether it
is to be accepted. However, there are also some differences.
A fourth, possible grounds for rejection is if there is some
exceptional and unforeseen circumstance which implies that it
should not be accepted.
The article is accepted...
This means that the article has passed all the quality controls, and
that the author can rightfully include it in her or his
curriculum vitae under the list of "journal articles".
In particular, the construction of the review procedure in the
ETAI, the fact that all reviewing is done by experts in the
area of the article,
the lack of haste (no express reviewing), and the fact
that some of the reviewing is done publicly all contribute to
assure particularly high standards.