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IGLC Paper Submission and Review Process

Responsibility

The conference’s scientific chairs manage the paper submission and the peer review, helped by track chairs for the conference tracks. The scientific chairs are also the editors of the proceedings.

Call for Papers and Deadlines

Call for papers is typically sent out in October-November of the year before the conference. The call for papers is posted and distributed through various channels, including:

  • The conference website
  • IGLC.net
  • The IGLC LinkedIn page
  • The IGLC LinkedIn discussion group
  • The IGLC mailing list

The deadlines for paper submissions vary from year to year and are announced when the call for papers is sent out. Typically, the deadline for submitting full papers is mid-January of the conference year. The IGLC does not do abstract submissions.

Paper Submission

All papers must be in .docx format, use the official conference template, and meet the content and formatting requirements.

Before submitting, check your paper on the Check your paper page. It checks the paper against the template (styles, title, authors, abstract, keywords, headings, page setup, figures, captions and more) and tells you what to fix. Upload its PDF report together with your paper, at every submission. It does not replace the chairs' review, but a paper that fails it is likely to be sent back.

Authors must submit their papers through the conference’s management system. The IGLC has standardised on using ConfTool for this purpose. However, each year’s conference has its own installation and URL. The call for papers and on the conference website will provide the link.

Initial Review

The chairs make an initial review of the submission to ensure that:

  • The paper’s topic is within the aim and scope of the conference (must be related to Lean Construction).
  • The paper constitutes a novel academic contribution.
  • The paper uses the indicated template and is formatted in accordance with the instructions given in the template.
  • The language quality is sufficient for the paper’s content to be reviewable.
  • The submitted paper is anonymized – all author names and affiliations have been removed.

Papers with major issues will be rejected, while papers with minor issues will be sent back to the authors for rectification and resubmission. If the paper passes the initial review, the chairs will send it out for peer review.

Peer Review

The IGLC uses double-blind peer review. The authors do not know who the reviewers are, and the reviewers do not know who the authors are.

The chairs assign at least two reviewers to each paper. All papers submitted within posted deadlines should also be reviewed within posted deadlines. If the reviewers assigned are unresponsive, additional reviewers will be assigned, time allowing. Otherwise, the chairs will step in to make up for the missing reviews.

Based on the reviews, the chairs decide to reject or accept the paper, either as is or with minor or major revisions. The authors are informed of the acceptance status by email, along with the review results and any corrections they are expected to make.

Revised Paper Submission and Review

Upon receiving the review results, the authors should revise their papers in accordance with the comments made by the reviewers and chairs.

The revised paper, along with a rebuttal document and a new report from Check your paper, must be uploaded to the conference management system within the set deadlines. The rebuttal document must use the rebuttal document template posted on the conference website.

The rebuttal must describe how the authors have addressed each of the comments made by the reviewers and chairs.

If the chairs find that the authors have sufficiently addressed the reviewers' comments, they will accept the paper as is. Otherwise, the paper will either be rejected or, time allowing, sent back to the authors for further corrections.

Camera-Ready Paper

Once the paper is accepted, add the authors' names and affiliation footnotes, and check the paper once more on the Check your paper page. Upload the camera-ready Word file to the conference management system together with the PDF report from Check your paper.

Leave the headers and footers as they are in the template. The IGLC adds the reference with the DOI, the title, the authors, the track and the page numbers when the paper is published.

Editing and Publication

The proceedings editors, helped by students or assistants, check and edit the camera-ready papers. If a paper has problems that only the authors can fix, the editors will contact the authors. The papers are published on IGLC.net, each with its DOI, before the conference. The authors then receive an email asking them to confirm the published details of their paper (title, authors, affiliations, ORCID iDs, abstract and keywords) before the DOIs are registered. See Publication.