Senior Editors
- Tim Menzies: Editor-in-Chief
- Hoa Dam: Deputy Editor-in-Chief
- Greg Gay: Deputy Editor-in-Chief
- Justyna Petke: Deputy Editor-in-Chief
| What | How | Who |
|---|---|---|
| tribunal | sounding board for intricated review | Tim,Hoa,Greg |
| social media posts | Tim,Greg | |
| desk rejects | Tim,Greg | |
| alarm clock | monitors for slow review cycles | Tim,Hoa |
| special issues | reviews special issue proposals, reaches out to selected SE event organisers to run SIs | Tim, Justyna |
Desk Rejects
Many papers are not sent on to review for the following four reasons:
- Not situated in se domain; e.g. the paper makes no reference to papers from the SE mainstream?
- Paper lacks evaluation against some prior state of the art result.
- Paper does not have a significant automation component.
- But we are a little light handed with this one since papers might (e.g.) be offering a new result in a previously unexplored area.
- Paper does not satisfy the requirements of a (e.g. )technical paper as stated in https://ause-journal.github.io/cfp.html. Paper might be more suitable to resubmit this as a (e.g.) tools paper Note that to do #3 properly we need to know the intent of the authors (what kind of paper they thought they were submitting). Authors can supply that intent in the paper title OR cover letter . Also note that this point might lead to major revision, not rejection.
As to other principles of desk rejects:
- Be open to out of the box. Sometimes (ocassionaly) we find gems there that mean we should junk all our rules and take a paper since it is cool.
Social Media post topics
Includes, but not limited to:
- profiles of the editorial board
- exciting new papers
- upcoming special issues
- new of the journal
- new editors
- improvements in our impact factors
- improvements in our “time to first decision”
- educstion about our innovaction call for papers