IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics 

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. We would also expect that authors would 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 more closely connected with the manuscript. 

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. We have already considered sharing our database with other Transactions but, unfortunately, we cannot do that without jeopardizing authors’ rights to confidentiality. These are typical indicators of these previously rejected papers:

·        The subject is on the borderline of the TIE scope

·        There are not enough citations to work previously published in TIE

·        There are no recent references (12-18 months)

·        The manuscript is not formatted correctly

·        There are no citations to IES conferences

·        Authors are not members of the Industrial Electronics Society

The indicators listed above can only be used as warning signs; however, they do not by themselves warrant rejection of a manuscript.

 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 detachable and the number of reported incidents of alleged plagiarism is growing. We are, of course,  expecting reviewers to report all signs of plagiarism.

1. 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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