[institut] New referee policy in JHEP (fwd)

[Marko Vojinovic]

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Marko

Marko Vojinovic
Institute of Physics
University of Belgrade
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e-mail: vmarko at phy.bg.ac.yu

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Date: Wed,  5 Dec 2007 18:14:52 +0100 (CET)
From: JHEP Editorial Office <jhep-eo at jhep.sissa.it>
To: vmarko at phy.bg.ac.yu
Subject: New referee policy in JHEP

Dear Colleague,

The real value of scientific journals today is the peer-review
processing. Indeed, the development of the electronic archives has
diminished the importance of the scientific journals as conveyors of
information, as they are no longer the main sources of scientific
information.  Keeping in mind these facts, SISSA started several years
ago new electronic journals: JHEP, JCAP, JSTAT and JINST, which are
now among the journals with the highest impact factor in their
fields. We believe that the main reason for this success of our
journals is the high quality of the peer-review process.

Given that peer review is the most valuable asset of journals, we
would like to urge again our referees, in an even stronger manner, to
be as rigorous as possible when reviewing our submissions. We
understand that this task will require an even greater effort by
reviewers and we therefore feel that this should be rewarded in some
way. Hence, in the spirit that scientific work should be remunerated,
we have decided to allocate funds for this purpose and to pay a token
fee for every referee report beginning in 2008. We strongly feel that
this new practice in the policy of scientific journals is the right
step on the way to further improve the quality of our peer review
process.

We would appreciate it very much if you could inform your colleagues
about our new policy.

SISSA Medialab Executive Editorial Committee

Amos Breskin
Marc Henneaux
Viatcheslav Mukhanov
Hector Rubinstein