Login/submit
The author of the paper submits the article after login on journal website. Authors should not submit to another journal at the same time during the evaluation process.
Initial Check
First, the manuscript is checked by the experts (Clerical Staff) according to the following rules. This process takes 3 days to a week:
1 - Edit the whole article based on the format available on the website.
2 - The abstract must be between 200 to 250 words.
3 - The article should be extended up to at least 8 pages as the JIST Standard for an accepted paper is between 8-12 pages.
4 - Edit the references section in the related field based on the IEEE format. For example:
[1] K. Author, “Title of chapter in the book,” in Title of His Published Book, xth ed. City of Publisher, Country if not USA: Abbrev. of Publisher, year, ch. x, sec. x, pp. xxx–xxx. ##
5 - JIST policy for reviewing papers is blind reviewing. Therefore, you have to delete the author's name and affiliation in the manuscript and then upload it as .doc(x) and .pdf formats.
6 - Using 4 to 8 Keywords is mandatory. Please use Enter after each keyword.
7- Introduce two referees with a minimum h- index of 5 in Recommended Reviewers Box on website. They should not have studied with the authors of the article at the same university.
8 - Check your manuscript from the plagiarism viewpoints again. The paper would be rejected if the overall similarity with other papers goes above 20 percent.
Plagiarism/Scope Checking
According to the policy of the publication the papers will also be checked from plagiarism viewpoints using the iThenticate service. IThenticate is one of the best services for identifying scientific and literary similarities. Any paper with an above 20 percent overall similarity with other papers will be rejected. It may take one to two weeks.
In the next step, the editor evaluates the topic of the article. The topics of the articles must be related to the Journal Scopes (Journal Topics and Scope.Link). Irrelevant papers will be rejected and will not enter the review stage. Authors' articles should be in original research and review article. This process takes 2 weeks.
Check Technical Content and Reviewing Process
The editor reviews the article in terms of content and technique.The editor selects 2 numbers of potential referees to review the manuscript. The selected referees are experts in the study area of the article and they are faculty members of universities in Iran and all over the world.The editor can decide to send the article to one of the referees suggested by the authors.
So the following steps are performed:
1-Appointing a referee based on the specialized field of the article
2-Sending reminders for reviewing articles
3-Checking the evaluations of review
4-Sending the reviewers' comments to the authors
5-Review of article corrections
Articles with two acceptances will be sent to the next stage (Editorial board), otherwise they will circulate in the reviewing cycle. Articles rejected by a reviewer or authors who don’t submitted corrections within the specified time frame will be rejected. The reviewing process take 3-4 month.( Depending on the availability of expert reviewers).
Editorial Board
Decisions of the editorial board members:
1-The article is accepted and can be printed.
2-The article is accepted, but some corrections are needed.
3-The article is not acceptable and should be rejected.
This process takes about a week to ten days.
Accept/Proofreading
After accepting, the authors are required to proofread their manuscript according to the format of the journal articles. Re-checks are made in connection with grammar, references, etc. Changes in the content of the article are not accepted. The article in this section is reviewed again by experts and the editor in chief and compared with the original version.
Galley Proof
Proofreading is reviewed by experts, and page layout reviews the article once more and improves it according to the format of printing journal articles.
Publish
First, the articles are indexed in the upcoming box on the journal site. The authors can receive the certificate of acceptance in their profile and articles are published in turn at the time of submission.