How does the review process work?
The Scholarship Committee consists of men and women from industry and academia. Each application is reviewed by at least three members of the Scholarship Committee, and the reviews are blind. Each reviewer answers questions about each application, and the results are tallied and normalized. Scholarships are awarded to the candidates with the highest scores.
One or more editors read each manuscript that IS receives. If the manuscript appears suitable for the journal, it is sent to two or three external reviewers. The review process is doubly blind: we remove the author’s name and any identifying references from the manuscript when it is sent for review and provide anonymous comments to the author when the review is returned. Reviews are only sent to authors when they offer useful constructive comments. Manuscripts that receive positive external reviews are circulated to all of the journal’s editors (Steven Miller, Owen Cote, Sean Lynn-Jones, and Diane McCree), who then select those that will be published from this short list of leading contenders. We repeat this process for each issue; very few articles are accepted and then held over as part of a backlog for publication in a future issue. This policy ensures that we accept only the very best of each group of leading contenders and that we have flexibility to publish articles rapidly. In s
