Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

The International Journal on Information Technology (IREIT) is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes original theoretical and applied papers on all aspects regarding Information Technology. It is intended to be a cross-disciplinary international journal aimed at disseminating results of research on information technology.

The topics to be covered include but are not limited to:

strategy, infrastructure, human resources, sourcing system development and implementation, communications, technology developments, technology futures, national policies and standards, Emerging advances in IT and new applications, Process Automation, Intelligent Mechatronics and Robotics, Intelligent Automation, Intelligent Social Agents, Intelligent Control, Intelligent Information Systems, Industrial Applications of Artificial Intelligence, intelligent electronic devices and systems, reengineering tools and methodologies, Geographical Information Systems/ Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GIS/GNSS), Information Technology in Healthcare, Strategic Decision Support Systems, Natural Language Interfaces to Intelligent Systems, Coordination in Multi-Agent Systems, Agent Oriented Modelling and Development, Process improvement tools, Business process support systems, Management Information Systems, Security and Information Assurance, e-commerce, information technology and electrical, mechanical, chemical, industrial, civil and communications applications.

The Editorial policy is to maintain a reasonable balance between papers regarding different research areas so that the Journal will be useful to all interested scientific groups.

IREIT also publishes letters to the Editor and research notes which discuss new research, or research in progress in any of the above thematic areas.

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

After submitting a paper, it will be peer-reviewed.
All our journals are peer-reviewed. Reviewers are appointed by the journal editor.

Peer review has two key functions:
- To act as a filter and determine the validity, significance and originality of the work to ensure only good research is published.
- To improve the quality of research submitted for publication by giving reviewers the opportunity to suggest improvements.

The review procedure

Each submitted paper is subjected to the following review procedure:
- Preliminarly, the Plagiarism Prevention Office (plagiarismprev@praiseworthyprize.org) checks each submission through the Ithenticate’s CrossCheck software, in order to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts (click here to find out more about CrossCheck for Researchers), comunicating the results of the test to the Editor-in-Chief of the journal only in the case of abnormal percentage of similarity;
- the Editor-in-Chief, if not in conflict of interest, decides for general publication suitability;
- in case of conflict of interest, the Editorial Office invites an Editor (Helper editor) to handle the paper;
- the Editor-in-Chief (or the Helper Editor) invites 3 Reviewers to perform an independent review of the article;
- the Journal adopts a single-blind peer review: the Reviewers are aware of the identity of the Authors, but the Authors are unaware of the identity of the Reviewers;
- taking care of the recommendations of the Reviewers, the Editor-in-Chief (or the Helper Editor) decides whether the particular article may be accepted as it is, or it may be revised or rejected;
- the Editor contact the Corresponding Author by email with the editorial decision, Editor comments and Reviewer comments. Authors will be requested to revise their manuscript according to the Reviewers' suggestions, comments and criticisms;
- the revised manuscript must be returned within one month and the review process begins again.

Peer review process flowchart

Ethical Guidelines

Publication Frequency

The Journal is published biannually.

Journal's Consent Policy

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Reviewers Suggestion

In the submission process, the submitter is requested for kindly suggest three potential reviewers with the appropriate acknowledged expertise to review the manuscript. These reviewers will not be automatically approved by the Managing Editor.
At Step 1 of the submission procedure please provide detailed contact information (address, homepage, phone, verified institutional e-mail address). The proposed reviewers should neither be current collaborators of the co-authors nor have published with any of the co-authors of the manuscript within the last five years, according to the Ethical requirement of the review process. They should be from different institutions of the authors. The submitter may also identify appropriate members of the Editorial Board of this journal or others Praise Worthy Prize's journals as potential reviewers. The submitter may also suggest reviewers from the authors that you frequently cite in your paper.

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