Dear Emanuel, It is good that you rise this question, as it is of common interest (and you are sending it to the fis list). MDPI journals have independent review process. As an editor of a special issue, you can only invite papers that you would like to have in your special issue. Then MDPI journal organises review process choosing three independent reviewers. If all of them reject the paper, scientific editor cannot get paper published, as it is assumed that peer review reflects the judgment of the competent research community. As author I am always prepared to be subject to peer review, and as editor I respect decisions of the peer review process. Given steadily increasing number of specialised disciplines and much smaller number of available reviewers, what we can do to increase the quality of peer review is to bring right specialities of reviewers onboard, and MDPI is always willing to consider new proposals. In our community peer review is still closed/blind (which e.g. in some journals in biology is not - instead with each published article they provide information about three reviewers) which is also a topic one might discuss in this forum, and people in other fora discuss currently. What kind of peer review would be the best one for a journal, a book, a conference?
Thank you for your kind words about is4si summit in Gothenburg 2017, and I hope you will join the next edition in 2019 at Berkeley. I also noticed that Proceedings of the summit http://www.mdpi.com/2504-3900/1/3 have excellent visibility which is great for the community. With best regards, Gordana From: Fis <fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es<mailto:fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es>> on behalf of Emanuel Diamant <emanl....@gmail.com<mailto:emanl....@gmail.com>> Date: Monday, 6 November 2017 at 05:43 To: 'Gordana Dodig Crnkovic' <gordana.dodig-crnko...@chalmers.se<mailto:gordana.dodig-crnko...@chalmers.se>> Cc: "fis@listas.unizar.es<mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es>" <fis@listas.unizar.es<mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es>> Subject: Re: [Fis] INVITATION TO WORLD SCIENTIFIC VOLUME ON THE STUDY OF INFORMATION Dear Gordana, I received your invitation letters (dated Nov. 5 and Nov. 1). However, I think, I will not be able to accept your kind offer. For the following reason: After the Vienna 2015 Summit, I was invited (by MDPI Information journal) to submit an extended version of my conference paper to the journal’s Special Issue: Selected Papers from the ISIS Summit Vienna 2015<http://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues/ISIS-2015>. A few days after I have submitted my paper, I was informed “that your manuscript has been declined for publication in Information”. No further explanation or editorial comments were provided (Guest Editors of the Issue were M. Burgin and W. Hofkirchner). As it follows from your invitation letter, M. Burgin will again be the Chief Editor for all volumes of the Gothenburg Summit selected papers. As you understand, I cannot allow myself to be subjected again to M. Burgin’s editorial customs. Therefore, I am sorry but I must turn down your kind proposal. My publication ambitions are pretty well satisfied with the publication in the MDPI Proceedings, 2017, Vol. 1, Issue 3, and the attention the two of my papers have achieved among the readers: Wu Kun’s paper – 148 reads / 56 downloads, Burgin’s paper – 216 reads / 67 downloads. (Not so bad, as you see). I appreciate your efforts in Gothenburg Summit organization. Best regards, Emanuel. ---------------------------------------------------------------- From: Gordana Dodig Crnkovic [mailto:gordana.dodig-crnko...@chalmers.se] Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2017 12:17 PM To: Emanuel Diamant Cc: markburgin Subject: INVITATION TO WORLD SCIENTIFIC VOLUME ON THE STUDY OF INFORMATION Dear Emanuel, As a result of Gothenburg meeting of the International Society for the study of information, Mark Burgin and I are preparing two volumes with World Scientific. We would be very happy if you could contribute to the volume addressing Philosophy and Methodology of Information. We would expected a contribution on the topic you presented on the summit. This is the first volume of two, the second one being dedicated to Theoretical Information Studies. The books aim to chart the new interconnected territory and thus to set the foundation for the emerging research field of The study of information, presenting within the same context contemporary research in theoretical, philosophical and methodological aspects of information, with the goal of enabling new insights coming from cross-fertilization among the research fields. The structure of the books is given in the end of this message. The schedule for the book project is defined by the following deadlines: Expression of intention to contribute: November 15, 2017 Paper submission: January 15, 2018 Notification of acceptance/rejection: February 15, 2018 Submission of the final version of the paper: March 1, 2018. In the expression of intention to contribute, please send us your tentative: 1. Title 2. Abstract (200-500 words) and 3. Length of the proposed paper. The typical length of a paper is 15 pages. However, both shorter and longer papers could be accepted where appropriate. The final formatting of all papers will be in Word or LaTeX. As usual, it is responsibility of the author to make certain that the content of the contribution is significantly new and not submitted for publication in any other venue - journal, conference, book or other. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least two independent experts in the field. If you do not intend to submit a paper, please let us know as soon as possible. Looking forward to hearing from you. Gordana and Mark Editors The structure of the planned volumes is as follows. Vol 1 Philosophy and Methodology of Information (G. Dodig-Crnkovic and M. Burgin, edts.) Part 1. Philosophy of information Part 2. Methodology of information Part 3. Philosophy of information studies Part 4. Methodology of information studies Vol 2 Theoretical Information Studies (M. Burgin and G. Dodig-Crnkovic, edts.) Part 1. Foundations of information Part 2. Information theory Part 3. Information as a natural phenomenon Part 4. Cognition and intelligence in natural and artificial systems Part 5. Social, economic and legal aspects of information Part 6. Technological aspects of information [cid:image001.png@01D356CA.2F860090] ______________________________________________ Gordana Dodig Crnkovic, Professor of Computer Science Department of Computer Science and Engineering Chalmers University of Technology School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Mälardalen University http://www.mrtc.mdh.se/~gdc/ General Chair of is4si summit 2017 http://is4si-2017.org<http://is4si-2017.org/>
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