To Whom it may Concern:
1. New article about the WSEAS Peer Review
"Publishers and ‘high quality’ reviews - A statistical analysis"
by X.Zhuang, R.R.Moussa, G.Zimon, D. Tarasov, Y.Dachev
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352881157_Publishers_
and_'high_quality'_reviews_-A_statistical_analysis
2. See also an article published in the Journal of Physics (IOP Publishers) with title: presents the Metrics and Peer Review in the journal: "WSEAS Transactions on Business and Economics"
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/1564/1/012025/pdf
See also:
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/1564/1/012025
Digital Preservation in Portico: WSEAS has digital preservation in Portico https://www.portico.org/coverage/titles/?keyword=wseas&filter_by%5B%5D=e-journal
New site: WSEAS is moving to our new site very soon www.wseas.com You can now visit the new website www.wseas.com and give us ideas, comments and valuable feedback. The indexing of our Journals will continue in the same indexes normally.
Also, we would like to inform you the 100% of the WSEAS staff (even the secretariats) are currently with Ph.D. in Engineering, Physics, Biology, Mathematics and Computer Science.
New Format for WSEAS Journals: https://wseas.org/cms.action?id=13360
WSEAS has one of the more strict and robust academic peer review processes worldwide. WSEAS has launched a compulsory certification from all the authors and for all the papers in order to certify and authenticate that each accepted paper by the Editors-in-Chief is backed by a minimum of 3 reviewers' positive recommendation.
Authors must fill in and sign the following Certification - Evaluation for the Review Process: https://wseas.org/multimedia/authortestimonials/CERTIFICATION.docx
We do not publish any paper without this Certification. After 2019, the Certifications are published together with the articles online.
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 their 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.
Since 1996, 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-testimonials.html
If some authors feel that they have not received, at least, 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
Peer Review and High Rejection Rates:
Here you can find databases containing all submitted articles to the WSEAS Journals for the recent years https://wseas.org/main/journals/JournalsDB.zip
You can see what papers have been accepted and what papers have been rejected.
Acceptance rates, which are approx 20%, can be found within.
List of Reviewers can be found here http://wseas.org/cms.action?id=5321
What do the Authors say about publishing in our Journals
https://wseas.org/main/author-testimonials.html
What do the Editors-in-Chief say about the review process in our Journals
http://wseas.org/main/PeerReview/Statement-of-Peer-Review-signed-by-the-editor-in-chief-1.pdf
http://wseas.org/main/PeerReview/Statement-of-Peer-Review-signed-by-the-editor-in-chief-2.pdf
http://wseas.org/main/PeerReview/Statement-of-Peer-Review-signed-by-the-editor-in-chief-3.pdf
http://wseas.org/main/PeerReview/Statement-of-Peer-Review-signed-by-the-editor-in-chief-4.pdf
http://wseas.org/main/PeerReview/Statement-of-Peer-Review-signed-by-the-editor-in-chief-5.pdf
http://wseas.org/main/PeerReview/Statement-of-Peer-Review-signed-by-the-editor-in-chief-6.pdf
http://wseas.org/main/PeerReview/Statement-of-Peer-Review-signed-by-the-editor-in-chief-7.pdf
http://wseas.org/main/PeerReview/Statement-of-Peer-Review-signed-by-the-editor-in-chief-8.pdf
http://wseas.org/main/PeerReview/Statement-of-Peer-Review-signed-by-the-editor-in-chief-9.pdf
http://wseas.org/main/PeerReview/Statement-of-Peer-Review-signed-by-the-editor-in-chief-10.pdf
http://wseas.org/main/PeerReview/Statement-of-Peer-Review-signed-by-the-editor-in-chief-11.pdf
http://wseas.org/main/PeerReview/Statement-of-Peer-Review-signed-by-the-editor-in-chief-12.pdf
http://wseas.org/main/PeerReview/Statement-of-Peer-Review-signed-by-the-editor-in-chief-13.pdf
http://wseas.org/main/PeerReview/Statement-of-Peer-Review-signed-by-the-editor-in-chief-14.pdf
http://wseas.org/main/PeerReview/Statement-of-Peer-Review-signed-by-the-editor-in-chief-15.pdf
http://wseas.org/main/PeerReview/Statement-of-Peer-Review-signed-by-the-editor-in-chief-16.pdf
http://wseas.org/main/PeerReview/Statement-of-Peer-Review-signed-by-the-editor-in-chief-17.pdf
http://wseas.org/main/PeerReview/Statement-of-Peer-Review-signed-by-the-editor-in-chief-18.pdf
http://wseas.org/main/PeerReview/Statement-of-Peer-Review-signed-by-the-editor-in-chief-19.pdf
Papers rejected from WSEAS, but accepted in IEEE, Springer, Hindawi etc
http://wseas.org/multimedia/journals/rejected-from-wseas-published-in-ieee-springer-elsevier-etc.zip
or
http://wseas.org/multimedia/journals/rejected-from-wseas-published-in-ieee-springer-elsevier-etc.rar
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
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
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.
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