ICST TRANSACTIONS
Revolutionizing the Scientific Publication Model
Peer-Reviewed and Indexed / Instantaneous / Web 2.0 Inspired / Prosumer Oriented / Royalty Based
ICST Transactions and e-SCRIPTS
ICST Transactions are peer-reviewed journal publications of the Society, novel in concept, leading in the quality of service, and crucial to innovation through effective quality control and dissemination processes.
Using e-SCRIPTS, a Web 2.0 based bidding and reviewing process, ICST Transactions represent a trusted alternative to the traditional way for reviewing, presenting, and disseminating scientific results. By combining web interactivity with the latest research on peer-reviewed publications, e-SCRIPTS leads to an objective and unbiased selection of the best reviewers available, significantly reduces the timeframe of the scientific publication life cycle, and accelerates the transformation of abstract research ideas into practical applications.
In addition to standard indexing, ICST Transactions provide authors with a mechanism to maximize their personal impact in their field by providing them with detailed and measurable feedback on the community's response to their publications in the form of downloading and bidding statistics.
Reflecting ICST's philosophy of making its members true partners in the benefits of the Society activities, ICST Transactions require no publication or membership fees. By being part of the ICST Science Rewards Program, authors share revenues from the dissemination of their scientific work.
1. Accelerated Publishing Lifecycle
By providing a mechanism for the reviewer-initiated evaluation process, e-SCRIPTS revolutionizes and accelerates the research dissemination and innovation cycle. By protecting articles through the fast publication and monitored registration of readers and reviewers, e-SCRIPTS encourages the early and open exchange of research ideas and the creation of an effective channel for the transfer of theoretical results to practical, industry, and business-oriented applications; thus maximizing authors' impact, ranking, and visibility.
2. Community Enforced Objectivity
The operating principles of e-SCRIPTS directly align with one of ICST's main missions, which is to fully involve and empower the scientific community by directly defining scientific excellence without the control of rigid structures such as elected or appointed intermediary organs or committees.
In e-SCRIPTS, the submission, review, and evaluation processes evolve autonomously, based on objective scientific merit criteria, with the Editorial Boards being responsible for strategy, scope, and quality control. Reviewers in the system are ranked by the scientific community according to a comprehensive set of evaluation criteria, which leads to the highest quality of reviews available. Community members bid for the right to review the full papers of openly published abstracts and bidders with the maximum matching interests and highest professional qualifications are selected.
3. Protection and Expanded Exposure
By protecting published results through a combination of fast publication and monitored registration of both reviewers and readers, e-SCRIPTS encourages the early and open exchange of research ideas. Through the wide dissemination of abstracts and the controlled access only by the selected reviewers to the corresponding full papers, authors achieve a substantially wider scale of exposure without compensating on the protection of their intellectual property.
4. Royalty Based Incentive System for True Society Partnership
ICST Publications, as well as the ICST Transactions Journal Series, are integrated into the Science Rewards Program that rewards participation in Society activities by providing authors with royalties based on the number of registered downloads of their papers from ICST's digital library. Under the framework of the Science Rewards Program, Society members contributing to the publishing process - authors, reviewers, editors, etc. - receive reward points, which can be used to access alternative ICST publications or participate at ICST sponsored events.