IHS determines policies related to cooperation with conferences as follows

1) IHS only accepts conference collaborations with publishers from universities after considering many aspects. This is to anticipate the presence of predatory conferences or similar ones.

2) Collaboration with IHS does not guarantee that the article will be accepted for publication. All potentially topical articles will still undergo a peer-review process according to IHS's standard timeframe of 3-5 weeks.

3) IHS will not help promote the conference. However, once the collaboration is approved by the IHS Editor-in-Chief, the conference organizers can state "all potential articles will be published in IHS," subject to the terms mentioned in point 2.

4) IHS does not publish proceedings articles already published in full text or even just the title and abstract. This is to avoid duplicate publication.

5) IHS does not provide a quota for articles to be accepted from the conference. All submitted articles will be reviewed per the policy mentioned in point 2.

6) IHS will not publish special issues from any conferences. All accepted articles, after undergoing review, will be included in a regular issue according to the timeline set by IHS.

7) The Article Processing Charge (APC) for articles accepted for publication from the conference will be the same. There will be no difference in APC compared to regular articles, neither discounted nor increased.

8) A Letter of Acceptance will be provided to the author from the conference after the article has been accepted in accordance with the policy mentioned in point 2.

9) IHS suggests that authors should not be limited to a single country, but rather include authors from two or more countries to increase author diversity in IHS.

10) Upon acceptance, the Editor-in-Chief will review references and discourage excessive self-citation of IHS articles if they are not topically relevant. For relevant topics, authors may be encouraged to cite other sources unless IHS articles are the primary relevant works, which would require discussion with the Editor-in-Chief.

For further information, please get in touch with Editor-in-Chief: [email protected]