IGLC Paper Submission and Review Process

Responsibility

The conference’s technical committee manages the paper submission and the peer review. The technical committee consists of one or more technical chairs. The technical chair(s) can elect to recruit track chairs to manage the paper submission and peer review process for the various conference tracks.

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 adhere to all content and fomratting requirements – found online at IGLC.net and included in the full template and formatting instructions (See Templates.

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 technical committee assigns 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, members of the technical committee 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, 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 technical committee finds that the authors have sufficiently addressed the reviewer's 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.