Dear
Readers,
I am
glad to be writing to you yet again. We
are already into the third issue of Vol.41
and quite remarkably managing to turn around
the response from contributors to ijper.
I did mention last time regarding the unsatisfactory
standard of articles being received at our
editorial office. But off-late our members
have realized the importance of publishing
good articles thereby making a collective
effort in popularizing the journal towards
the impact factor. I am sure with the publication
of good articles in the coming days we should
achieve our twin goals and objectives laid
down earlier of obtaining the impact factor
for ijper, as well as receiving articles
from our overseas counterparts.
We would
like to clear all the articles received
prior to December 2006 by the end of the
current year. In view of several constraints,
ijper could publish a limited number of
articles per issue during the earlier years.
To place on record, ijper published about
43 articles during the calendar year 2006.
We have been constantly receiving a number
of suggestions from our members to enhance
the size of ijper to encompass many more
articles in each issue. We do agree with
our member friends, and have been pushing
through hard with our advisory board to
set a standard of a minimum number of 100
pages with about 25 articles per issue.
This will enable us to throw light on the
papers with very short incubation time and
also create an opportunity for many of our
readers to publish their research work or
share their collection of concepts through
review articles. We would certainly like
to reduce the waiting period for all the
submitted articles.
With
2008 fast approaching, and to assist our
contributors in designing articles to match
the journal style exactly, the current issue
has a detailed section on ‘ijper-Instruction
to Authors 2008’. The same shall also
be made available on the ijper web-site
too. The authors are advised to strictly
follow the instructions for avoiding unnecessary
rejection of articles by referees and undue
delay in publishing such papers. Further,
the authors should strictly refrain from
sending articles that have already been
published in other journals.
The launch of the web-based manuscript handling
system was put on hold, in view of designing
the proposed ‘ijper-Instruction to
Authors 2008’. We would like to customize
all the sections as per the required format;
thereby the author of the paper automatically
prepares the soft copy of the article on
the ijper- web based manuscript handling
system themselves. |
