Independent peer review is a new integrated service for scholars, which takes a manuscript from peer review to publication, in a transparent, fair, equitable and affordable way. It is powered by the Unified Scholars Platform- a computer controlled peer review platform which allows scholars to anonymously review manuscripts among themselves, as a service.
Independent peer review in Programming Languages and Semantics allows for the submission and the subsequent evaluation of manuscripts in both programming languages and program semantics. Tens of professors and world-leading experts in both fields are available on the Platform to evaluate manuscripts.
The independent reviewing professors welcome innovative full length research in all sub-fields of programming languages, including but not limited to compilers, functional programming, concurrent programming, imperative programming, logic programming and object oriented programming. All topics in those sub-fields are acceptable for evaluation. Also welcomed are innovative research in program semantics, type theory, and the formal methods used to check properties of programs or implement formally described languages. This section has a very broad and all-encompassing scope and welcomes research from ALL areas of programming languages, their semantics and verification.
The accepted manuscripts from this independent peer review process would be published in a new open access journal of programming languages and semantics, and indexed and promoted for maximum reach. We bear full responsibility for all that.
Manuscripts can be submitted anytime to the platform. There are no deadlines.
The independent reviewing professors welcome you and your manuscript to be a part of change and a part of history.
Please check the 'announcement' tab of this webpage for very important information.
Editorial Board
Independent scholarly publishing is based on a model that is fundamentally different from the conventional journals. And this is a fact we are happy to announce.
Independent publishing is based on scholars doing their peer reviews among themselves, anonymously, with the aid of a platform that is specially developed for this purpose. The publishers have no involvement or control of this process. It is scholars doing their own thing among themselves, for themselves, by themselves. The accepted papers are published in a journal that was established solely to disseminate the knowledge from this independent process.
While conventional journals establish editorial boards to perform certain roles; independent publishing relies on a computer-controlled platform, in which the roles of an editorial board have been incorporated in the software/algorithm. For example, the duties, policy implementation, ethics, equality, diversity, etc., that an editorial board would have performed are already incorporated in the platform's algorithm by design, and implemented by the computer. Hence, our computer-controlled independent scholarly publishing needs no editorial board, and has none.
The platform has thousands of world-leading professors who anonymously evaluate your manuscript. They work as either an editor who edits your paper, or as a reviewer who reviews your paper. They don't sit on a board, they evaluate papers. All professors on the platform evaluates papers, whilst the computer controls the process. This is how independent scholarly publishing operates.
However, authors can view the names of the editors on the peer review page of the platform. And the overall member statistics for this field/journal is displayed on the left side of this webpage. The advisory board in the member stats refers to the company's advisory board, not this journal's editorial board.
The Independent reviewing professors welcome scholars and researchers to submit their manuscripts for high quality peer review by experts in the field. Accepted papers would be published in a new world class journal, which is currently being finalized and not yet online. All published papers would be given genuine DOIs, indexed and widely promoted.
Independent Publishing for Scholars - An Overview
Unified Scholars is currently pioneering the entry of "Independent publishing" to scholarly journals. ...It isn't an easy task, nor do we expect a smooth ride. Nevertheless, we are committed to this endeavour and we draw strength from the positive reactions we are getting from scholars.
"Independent publishing", "self-publishing" and "traditional publishing" are three (3) models of publishing. To understand each model, you may need to read this article: https://lnkd.in/e5xvxzcW
Currently, all three models are used in book publishing, and book authors have the option to publish via any of the three models. .... But in journal publishing, only one model is in use; and that is the centuries old traditional publishing model. The self-publishing and independent publishing models are non-existent in journal publishing; which means scholars are unable to explore other publishing "routes/options" and enjoy the benefits they offer. And quite alarmingly, unlike book authors, scholars are unable to break free from the big spell.
Whilst self-publishing and independent publishing afforded book authors alternative publishing routes to break free from the big spell; they are not available to scholars, partly because of the complexity of scholarly peer review. Hence, the publishing of Journals still depend on the traditional publishing model, which by modern standard, should be obsolete; and which in reality, is the basis of the complex problems facing scholarly publishing.
The coming of Unified Scholars & Publishers however promises to change all that, and bring independent publishing to scholars. Unified Scholars devised an ingenious way of adapting independent publishing to journals through the use of an independent platform [Unified Scholars Platform(USP)] and independent reviewing professors. The independent reviewing professors aided by the USP can now do high quality peer reviews anonymously and independently as a service to other scholars. Hence, solving the peer review complexity problem and making independent scholarly publishing a possibility.
We are hopeful that this new model would establish independent publishing as an alternative route/option for scholars to publish their manuscripts in a seamless, fair, equitable and affordable way; and as a fundamental solution to endemic problems in scholarly publishing. I would write about this later.
We welcome scholars to our world of independent scholarly publishing, which gives them the chance to break free from the big spell as book authors have done. And we encourage them to use the service. The model worked for books; there is no reason it wouldn't work for journals.
Unified Scholars and the independent reviewing professors welcomes scholars onboard.
More information is available in the "Announcement" tab of this webpage.