The peer review process is the driving force behind all IGI Global books and journals.
All IGI Global reviewers maintain the highest ethical standards and each manuscript undergoes a rigorous double-anonymized peer review process,
which is backed by our full membership to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). The full publishing process and peer review are
conducted within the IGI Global eEditorial Discovery® online submission system and on average takes 30 days.
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To apply to become a reviewer for an IGI Global journal, you must complete the ad hoc reviewer application form.
As an ad hoc reviewer, you have the valuable opportunity to review some of the most advanced scholarly research manuscripts
in the field and the overall success of the journal is dependent on your reviews. As such, ad hoc reviewers are appointed
to serve for one year and upon completion of this term, ad hoc reviewers will have the potential to be promoted to a full
editorial review board member based on the timeliness and quality of the reviews received.
Learn MoreAs this journal is under the Hybrid Open Access model, authors can choose between Standard (Non-OA) publishing or Open Access publishing. Find the policies for the publishing models below:
- Standard (Non-OA) Publishing: If the author choses to publish under the Standard (Non-OA) model, the article will be published under a Green OA model and the copyright of
their article will transfer to IGI Global under our Author Warranty and Transfer of Copyright Agreement.
However, through Green OA, IGI Global supports a Fair Use Policy, enabling authors to Post the final
typeset PDF (which includes the title page, table of contents and other front materials, and the copyright
statement) of their chapter or article (NOT THE ENTIRE BOOK OR JOURNAL ISSUE), on the author or
editor's secure personal website and/or their university repository site. See the Fair Use Policy for sharing allowances conducive to Green Open Access.
- Open Access Publishing: If the author choses to publish under OA, the authors receive the
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licensing arrangement. The copyright for the
work remains solely with the author(s) of the article. Others may distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon
the work, even commercially, without asking prior permission from the publisher or author and so long as
they credit the author for the original creation. All authors are required to sign an author's warranty
stating that the materials are original and unpublished elsewhere. The journal will not publish any
material that has been previously published elsewhere. View Full OA Policy
IGI Global holds its journals to the highest ethical practices.
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IGI Global book and journal editors and authors are provided written guidelines and checklists that must be followed to maintain
the high value that IGI Global places on the work it publishes. IGI Global reviewers are an important component of the scholarly
process and therefore are instructed to provide comprehensive, detailed appraisals of work that they are reviewing to assist the
author in improving the quality and usability of the presented research. It is the policy of IGI Global to maintain high ethical
standards in all publications. These standards pertain to all books, journals, chapters, and articles accepted for publication.
View Full Ethics and Malpractice StatementAll inquiries regarding IJFSA should be directed to the attention of:
Submission-Related InquiriesAll inquiries regarding IJFSA should be directed to the attention of:Deng-Feng Li
Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Fuzzy System Applications
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