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The document discusses IntechOpen's peer review and indexing processes for edited volumes. Chapters are peer reviewed by academic editors or sent externally if the editor authored the chapter. Reviews consider the proposal, chapter fit and relevance. Full chapters undergo plagiarism checking and scientific review by the editor before a decision on inclusion. Indexing can be automatic through tools like OAI-PMH or manual via FTP to databases like Web of Science, Scopus and PubMed. IntechOpen uses various internal systems like MTS to manage the call, publishing and sales processes.

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The document discusses IntechOpen's peer review and indexing processes for edited volumes. Chapters are peer reviewed by academic editors or sent externally if the editor authored the chapter. Reviews consider the proposal, chapter fit and relevance. Full chapters undergo plagiarism checking and scientific review by the editor before a decision on inclusion. Indexing can be automatic through tools like OAI-PMH or manual via FTP to databases like Web of Science, Scopus and PubMed. IntechOpen uses various internal systems like MTS to manage the call, publishing and sales processes.

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REVIEW PROCESS - EDITED VOLUMES

Chapters are peer reviewed by academic editors on their editor panel connected to our internal
manuscript tracking tool, chapters written by editors are sent for external peer review in order to avoid
conflict of interest.

The review is twofold. Once the authors register they need to submit the chapter proposal and keywords
of their chapter-to-be. The editor then reviews the proposal to see whether the chapter will fit into the
scope of the book and whether it is relevant for the book, if the review results are favourable the
authors can proceed to writing their full chapter.

Submitted full chapters undergo a plagiarism check via Intenticate, the academic editor performs review
of the chapter manuscripts and evaluates their scientific merit, and ultimately decides whether they are
suitable for inclusion in the book or not. During the revision, authors work on improving their chapters.

The editor can accept the work, request minor or major revisions, or, if they think that the manuscript is
not following scientific standards, reject it.

If the editor has requested major revision at the time of the first round of review, the editor has only
three options on the second round of review: accept, accept with minor and reject.

Editors have full editorial independence of accepting or rejecting full chapter submissions.
INDEXING

INDEXING - Types of databases

automatic - OAI-PMH (open archives initiative protocol for metadata harvesting): google scholar,
dimensions/altmetric, BASE, openaire

manual - FTP (file transfer protocol) : web of science, scoupus, pubmed, ebsco

Web of science - book citation index (BKCI), oldest and largest, 472 indexed, 3 rejected

Scopus - not indexed in scoupus

Pubmed - indexed via welcome trust

MTS SYSTEMS - Invitation (call) process

IntechOpen currently operates with 3 supporting systems

MTS call system – call process is managed through MTS call system, book projects can be filtered based
on the season

MTS manager – book publishing process is managed through MTS manager

MTS saleforce – book publishing process is managed through MTS saleforce

MTS call system is an internally developed software/tool that allows setting-up and sending out call for
chapter email campaigns based on predefined ITO settings.
Editor and author acquisitions

- the preliminary process before a book is started includes following steps:

Book project catalogue – content team prepares a catalogue of tentative book projects for the upcoming
year

Academic editor acquisition – once the catalogue is completed the commissioning editors proceed to
contact possible academic editors for each book project, they are chosen based on their research areas,
scientific merits and previous publications, external collaborators that contribute, independently and on
voluntary basis

Autor invitation – authors are chosen based on their publishing history and current research field trough
publicly available databases, perspective authors are contacted and invited by email to submit chapter
proposals

The system supports activities:

email invitation

invitation page

status emails

author registration

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