Associate Editors
As Associate Editor you are asked to manage the review of 3-5 papers, and to collect at least 3 independent reviews for each paper.
The papers assigned to you are already available it the system, please proceed to check for potential conflicts of interest or papers that you do not feel comfortable handling at: https://its.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl and click enter in “Associate Editor for Contributed Papers”.
In order to ensure a fair review process in accordance with IEEE-ITSS standards, Associate Editors must verify that the following premises are met:
- Acting as an Associate Editor (AE) is a very important role for the IEEE-ITSS congresses, the scientific quality of congress depends on their engaged performance. That is why it is expected that they will be dedicated and professional in the performance of their duties.
- The reviews received must be properly documented and justified (with special relevance to those that are negative). If a review is received and is not properly justified, it is the task of the associated editor to ask the reviewer for clarification or to seek a new review.
- AEs should be familiar with the paper, and should not make a final decision without a documented judgment of the paper.
- AEs should remember the IEEE’s policy with respect to no unilateral decisions. This means that decisions made must be supported by at least two reviewers, including the AE.
- AEs, either when assigning reviewers, or with respect to their assigned papers, must ensure that there is no conflict of interest that would compromise the impartiality of the review.
Reviewers
Reviewer Duties
Once you get the reviewing assignment, please go through papers assigned and check:
- There is no conflict of interest
- The paper falls within your field of expertise
If either of these issues arise, please contact Program Chairs as soon as possible to solve them.
Please familiarize yourself with the different plagiarism and submission policies, and if you identify that the paper does not comply with any of these, communicate with the PC, in the meantime proceed to the revision of the same, while the problem is being solved.
How to proceed with the review
Each accepted paper must be technically sound and make a contribution to the field of Intelligent Vehicles. Contribution to the field includes novelty of approach or breaking concept as well as strong experimental results. However, a fresh new vision or approach can be a contribution even if it does not improve on state-of-the-art (SOTA) and less than SOTA performance should not be used for rejection on its own. Similarly, minor errors that are easily corrected are not reasons to reject an article.
Writing the review report
The reviewer has to identify the most relevant aspects of the article in a specific and detailed way by identifying the manuscript strengths and weaknesses. Although bullet points may be used, these must be explained in an appropriate manner, they must help the AE to make a final decision about the article. Remember that the AE will make the decision based mainly on your comments, rather than the assigned grade, so it must be properly argued. In addition, the review should provide sufficient feedback to authors to revise the paper for future submissions.
In reference to the review of the state-of-the-art, specific publications should be included rather than vague references such as “this is well known” or “it has been used before”.
Please see the note below for treatment of arXiv and supplementary works.
