Review Criteria and Guidelines for Technical Papers

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Guidelines for Technical Papers

1. Must be worth being heard and/or purchased by meeting attendees and others because it makes a new and original contribution to the state of the art or is a constructive review of its technical field.
2. Commercialism must be avoided.
3. Each paper must be free of technical errors.
4. Performance claims and all conclusions must be supported by test data or validated simulation.
5. Editorial quality must be maintained at a high level.
6. Authors or co-authors may not be a reviewer on their own papers.

Review Criteria for Technical Papers (click any one for details)

• Quality of Data and Validity of Analytical Techniques
• Long term reference value
• Technically new, innovative, or a constructive review
• Professional integrity
• Clear presentation
• Soundness of conclusions