IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
(1) Likelihood for citations of the manuscript
The quality of research is evaluated by the quality of the journal where results are published and by the number of citations. Recently, citations are becoming more important. Increased citations are helping both authors and the journal. A technically correct manuscript is not sufficient reason for its acceptance; a likelihood of citations must be considered. Our current impact factor is 5.468 and this means that each paper is cited by journals papers at least 5 times within a couple of years after publication. Such expectation is currently the major criterion for review. Please notice that poorly written and out of scope papers have significantly reduced chances for citations.
(2) Estimate the interest of readers
In the age of electronic publications it is not easy to be noticed (Industrial Electronics Society alone receives over 5,000 conference and journal papers per year). Therefore, very careful wording should be used in the title and in the abstract. Without a proper title and abstract a great paper might never be downloaded from IEEE Xplore and read. Often manuscripts receive negative reviews because reviewers are not able to understand the manuscript. This is the authors' (not reviewers') fault. If reviewers have difficulties, then other readers will face the same problems and there will be no reason to publish the manuscript. Is the length of manuscript adequate? Manuscript should be written on the proper level. It should be easy to understand by well qualified professionals working in industry, but at the same time please avoid describing well known facts (use proper references instead). Authors have to do everything possible so the paper will be noticed and read.
(3) Is the manuscript up-to-date and within the scope of TIE?
It is important that the authors show a good recognition of the state-of-the-art in the subject area. We will usually expect a minimum of 20 references, primarily to recent journal papers. Citations of textbooks and web pages should be used very rarely. In order to verify if the TIE is the right journal for manuscript submission authors may check if they can link their finding to other work published in the TIE. If there is doubt about the scope of the manuscript the editor may recommend resubmission of the manuscript to another journal with more closely connected scope.
Other problems
Rejected elsewhere manuscripts
Please notice that most of journals are rejecting about 70% of papers and these low quality papers are often being resubmitted to other journals. This procedure creates a headache not only for TIE but also for other journals as well. These are typical indicators of these previously rejected papers:
The manuscript is not formatted to the specific requirements of TIE
The subject is on the borderline of the TIE scope
References are at least one year old
Authors are not members of the Industrial Electronics Society
There are no citations to work previously published in TIE
There are no citations to IES conferences
The indicators listed above can only be used as warning signs for initial consideration if the manuscript is within the scope of the journal. They have no effect on the review process. Your manuscript is judged by three listed on top of this page criteria, but not if you are the Society member or if you have cited TIE papers. As a matter of fact, by citing not relevant TIE papers you may lower your chances for acceptance.
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Plagiarism
The plagiarizing author can only count on very short term “gain” because within a year or two the fact of plagiarism will become common knowledge and the consequences will be severe. With search engines available on the web it is much easier to detect unacknowledged copying of original text. Enhanced interest in the paper citations supported by the Science Citation Index and by Google Scholar makes plagiarism more detectable and the number of reported incidents of alleged plagiarism is growing. We are, of course, expecting reviewers to report all signs of plagiarism.
The Five Levels of Plagiarism specified by IEEE1. Uncredited verbatim copying of a full paper. Results in a violation notice in the later article’s bibliographic record and a suspension of the offender’s IEEE publication privileges for up to five years.
2. Uncredited verbatim copying of a large portion (up to half) of a paper. Results in a violation notice in the later article’s bibliographic record and a suspension of publication privileges for up to five years.
3. Uncredited verbatim copying of individual elements such as sentences, paragraphs, or illustrations. May result in a violation notice in the later article’s bibliographic record. In addition, a written apology must be submitted to the original creator to avoid suspension of publication privileges for up to three years.
4. Uncredited improper paraphrasing of pages or paragraphs (by changing a few words or phrases or rearranging the original sentence order). Calls for a written apology to avoid suspension of publication privileges and a possible violation notice in the later article’s bibliographic record.
5. Credited verbatim copying of a major portion of a paper without clear delineation of who did or wrote what. Requires a written apology, and to avoid suspension, the document must be corrected.
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