peer review

INFITT organizes Tamil Internet Conference(s) at regular intervals, usually once a year, with venues alternating between India (Tamilnadu) and abroad. Three months before the conference, a call-for-papers CFP is released to the public, inviting abstracts of papers for possible presentation in one of the technical sessions of the conference. As with the international journals, all abstracts submitted for oral presentation are subjected to a rigorous peer-review process.

Last few years we have been using the conference paper peer-review processing gateway <www.easychair.org> for authors to submit their papers and a semi-blind peer-review process. Peer review is a process in which a scientific paper is evaluated by a group of experts in the same field to make sure it meets the necessary standards for acceptance and publication.  During the peer-review process, the reviewers examine the relevance of the paper within the scope of the conference, originality, novelty of the work, sound analysis of the data and clear presentation, and last but not least the originality (authenticity) of the work without any signs of plagiarism. INFITT uses a single-blind review process wherein the names of the reviewers are not shared with the author but the reviewers are aware of the author’s identity.

Peer review is an important process to ensure quality work for presentation at the conference session and for subsequent publication in the conference proceedings. Even for papers accepted for the oral presentation at the conference, the written version of the work is reviewed and the editorial members work with the authors to revise the paper wherever a revision is required. Since the majority of the work presented at the conference are current, ongoing research, and even exploratory in nature, peer-review process is essential for the authors and the conference delegates.