Invitation from the Editor-in-Chief of IRAS/RISA to Publish your Conference Paper – In Three Languages!
In the past IRAS/RISA has frequently published papers from EGPA conferences. Not everyone realizes all the advantages of publishing in IRAS/RISA, so it may help if I spell some of them out here:
- You may submit in French or English
- If accepted, your paper will be published not only in the French (RISA) and English (IRAS) editions of the journal, but also in the Chinese edition. Translations into other languages will be arranged by the journal – you do not have to organize that yourself
- IRAS is published by Sage and has a very wide global circulation both in hard copy and electronically. Electronic downloads of articles were running at well over 70,000 in 2009
- IRAS is a JCR-ranked journal and its impact score has risen every year since 2005.
- The French edition (RISA) is also available on an electronic platform – www.cairn.info (as well as in hard copy, as in the past)
- RISA is also on Babel
All submitted papers that are assessed as suitable by the editors will then be subjected to a double-blind review process. It needs to be understood that quite a lot of papers fall out at this stage – in fact, like all top journals, we receive many more papers than we can publish.
How to submit
There are basically two ways of approaching submission. One is to submit as an individual In which case it is very simple:
To submit in English and in French, go to the website:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/iras
and upload your paper according to the instructions.
The other way of approaching submission is to think in terms of submitting a group of related papers, to be published as a symposium. In this case your working group chairperson would select and organize a group of the best papers and send it, in the first instance, to me, so that I can take a quick look at the papers before deciding whether to pass them on to referees.
Best wishes,
Christopher Pollitt
