Sunday 4 December 2022

How to publish in FIS - Suggestions


Dear friends,

the FIS rejections rate is higher than 90%. It is evident that some suggestions are necessary! Here you can find a short list:

- prepare always the paper using the journal template following the authors' guidelines. This is mandatory. In particular, please, prepare the Refs. using the journal style.

- do not submit a paper that is not focused on one of the journal topics. Please, consider that the title of the journal is "Fracture and Structural Integrity". It means that either "fracture" or "structural integrity" must be evident in the paper! As a consequence, we will reject at the desk:

  • Papers with only some mechanical tests results, without any discussion about the damaging mechanisms;
  • Papers with only some numerical results, without any validation;
  • Papers with some mechanical tests results, but with a focus that is clearly far from the journal's main topics.
- we check the plagiarism/self-plagiarism using iThenticate. There is not a defined threshold, as we check also the "quality" of the plagiarism/self-plagiarism. It means that a paper with a plagiarism/self-plagiarism score that is quite low (e.g., 20%), but that is due to a "copy and paste" of a paragraph, is rejected. In addition, we reject also papers with figures that are not original (we can accepte them only if the ref is clearly shown in the caption and a written permission is submitted to the journal).

- suggest the reviewers, but, please, avoid reviewers from your own country. They will not be accepted.

- after a review round, please, send the new version within one month (with all the requested files. After 30 days from the editor decision, the paper will be considered as withdrawn.

- after being accepted, the author receive the proofs. Please, send the proofs acceptance (or amendments) as soon as possible with the Visual Abstract;

- Visual Abstract is a short video presentation with the "core" of the paper: 2 minutes is the maximum suggested lenght. Longer videos are accepted, but we warmly advice to respect the maximum lenght (readers appreciate short videopresentations!).

Last but not least... the journal is a "Diamond" open access journal. No fees for the readers. No APC for the authors. Nobody is authorized to ask for money to publish a paper in Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale. In case of problems, send an email to gruppofrattura@gmail.com.

Please, share your opinions/suggestions!

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