Indexing
JOT is currently listed/indexed by DBLP, Google Scholar, SCIRUS, Scientific Commons, DOAJ, Index of IS Journals, and SCOPUS. JOT is registered under ISSN 1660-1769.
Refereed Articles
Submissions are welcome in all areas of Object Technology. JOT welcomes original research contributions, empirical studies and state-of-the-art surveys.
Submissions must not have been previously published or submitted for publication in another venue. Research submissions that extend a previously published conference or or workshop paper must contain at least 30% new material to be considered original. The cover letter to the submission must list all related previous publications and detail the differences to the submitted paper. Manuscripts should be concise and complete, and should be carefully proofread. Submissions that do not meet these standards may be returned without review.
Submissions should include a title, list of authors and affiliations, an abstract, a list of keywords and a PDF of the draft for review. Manuscripts should be formatted as 10 point, single column, single-spaced text. JOT does not have fixed page limits, but submissions should typically not exceed 25 pages. Lengthier submissions may be considered if justified. (Supporting material, such as extended code examples or full proofs of theorems may be placed in a separate appendix.) If accepted, the final camera-ready version must be prepared using the provided LaTeX template. (A Word template is provided as an alternative. For best results, you will need to download and install Computer Modern fonts.)
Authors are invited to suggest an Associate Editor of JOT with the appropriate expertise to assess the paper, provided no conflict of interest exists. (An author is considered to have a conflict of interest with an editor or reviewer if they have co-authored papers or have otherwise been in a close professional relationship within the past six years.) An acknowledgement of receipt from the editor should be expected within a few days of submitting a paper.
Members of the Editorial Board are permitted to submit papers to JOT.
Review Process
Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their relevance, originality, timeliness, significance and presentation.
- Papers that are clearly unacceptable will be returned by the Editor-in-Chief (EiC) without being reviewed.
- Papers for review will be assigned to an Associate Editor (AE). The AE may decide to reject the paper with a short review.
- Otherwise the AE will select three expert reviewers to carry out a detailed assessment.
- The AE will recommend acceptance or rejection of the paper based on the returned reviews and on the AE's own assessment. In rare cases, additional reviews may be solicited.
- A paper may be accepted, rejected, or provisionally accepted pending a major revision. Revised papers may be subject to a full review. The corresponding author should normally receive notification of a decision within three months of submission.
- Accepted papers will be published without delay upon receipt of the final camera-ready copy. (Planned for 2011.)
- All papers published by JOT will be assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to guarantee their archival nature. (Planned for 2010.) Papers should be cited as specified by JOT, including the DOI, where available.
Blog Entries
JOT also welcomes short articles, technical notes, tutorials, technology updates, book and product reviews, guest editorials, columns, and other timely and newsworthy announcements. Whereas refereed articles should have a strong scientific component, blog postings will be selected for newsworthiness, technical relevance and accuracy. Submissions will be accepted at the editor's discretion, possibly entailing a streamlined review process, and will be published on the JOT Blog as they become available.
Copyright
Upon acceptance of your submission, you will be asked to sign a standard copyright transfer form assigning the copyright to JOT.