Guidelines for PC Members

As a PC member to use this Online Submission & Review System, before handling those manuscripts of which you are being in charge, you must have understood the following procedure:

1.First of all, please invite Reviewers by using our Online Submission & Review System.

2. Then, you can distribute the manuscripts to the Reviewers you invited by clicking the button “Distribute Paper”. Of course, you can also send the manuscripts to other Reviewers who were not invited by you but of the research interests similar to the topic of the manuscripts you are handling. Make sure that for each manuscript you must send to more than three Reviewers for reviewing. The reason in doing so is that if less than three review reports are received for each manuscript, our system doesn’t allow you to make a decision to it. After that the Reviewer will automatically receive a review invitation letter from our system. He will send an email letter to your registered email-box, which will tell you whether or not he has agreed to review the manuscript(s) you sent to him. The result will be shown within the “Paper Status” section.

3.You have to check whether or not the Reviewers are enough for reviewing a manuscript of which you are being in charge by clicking the button “optional Reviewer”, where you can change the Reviewer if he has declined your invitation or not made any response to your invitation (marked as “Unresolved” in “Paper Status” section) after the deadline you specified.

4.By clicking the button “Decision”, you could make the decision to those manuscripts in the list window, where you are kindly required to give a summary comment to each manuscript.

5.If the Reviewer who agreed to review the manuscript you distributed to him (her), don’t send in the review report in time, you could send him (her) a reminder email by clicking the button “Reminder”.

6.For convenience, our system also provides you with the function of “Query”. By clicking the button “Query”, you can query the manuscript, author and Reviewer in which you are interested.

In the following, the left navigation menu for PC Member section would be explained in details as follows.

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Distribute Paper(s):  In case you have enough Reviewers, you can distribute the manuscripts from ICIC editors to the Reviewers you invited as well as other Reviewers who were not invited by you but of research interests similar to the topic of the manuscripts you are handling. Make sure that for each manuscript you must send to more than three Reviewers for reviewing. The reason in doing so is that if less than three review reports are received for each manuscript, our system doesn’t allow you to make a decision to it. After that the Reviewer will automatically receive a review invitation letter from our system. He will send an email letter to your registered email-box, which will tell you whether or not he has agreed to review the manuscript(s) you sent to him. The result will be shown within the “Paper Status” section.

Paper Status:  This section will provide you with a list status of the manuscripts of which you are being in charge. For each manuscript, if less than three Reviewers who have accepted your invitation are arranged for reviewing, you may add the Reviewer(s) by entering the ”Optional Reviewer” section. If the Reviewer has declined your invitation or not made any response to your invitation (marked as “Unresolved” in “Paper Status” section) after the deadline you specified, you may change the Reviewers you invited by entering the ”Optional Reviewer” section.

Decision:  A manuscripts list which you have made or not decision is shown to you. Each manuscript in the list must have received at least three review results before decision. If a manuscript has been made a decision, the decision status will be shown as “Done”; if a manuscript has not been made a decision, the decision status will be shown as “Unresolved”. If you click the button “Unresolved”, a popup window named “Make Decision” will be shown to you, at this time, you can read over all the reviewers’ comments, and then give your summary comments for making a decision. After that you can click the button “Send” to submit out your decision.

Reminder: This section will provide you with a list of manuscripts and the corresponding Reviewers of which you are in charge. If the Reviewers have not sent in the review results in time, the papers status will be highlighted as “Red”. After you have clicked the button “Send reminder letter”, a list of reminder letters will be sent to them, respectively.

Query: By clicking the button “Query”, you can query the manuscript, author and Reviewer in which you are interested.