Dear INFORMS Community:
responsibility of overseeing IJDS in the next three years. I am writing to our community to welcome your submissions to this relatively new journal:
1. All new submissions to IJDS follow a double-blind review process. When you make a submission, please remove all author-identifying information from both the main manuscript and supplemental materials (if applicable), including those in the acknowledgement section.
2. For new submissions on and after 1/1/2025, authors are no longer required to use Code Ocean to submit data and code. Following the practice by
other INFORMS journals, we move the data/code sharing to the time when a paper is accepted, not at the time of submission. At submission, authors
need to submit a Data/Code Disclosure Form for acknowledging the reproducibility requirement, including data/code sharing, when a paper is accepted for publication.
3. I acknowledge that IJDS's review time was long, but we are making effort to shorten the review time. Our goal is to have 90% of the submissions reviewed and decisioned within 90 days and ensure that no paper review goes beyond 180 days. When these goals are met, one could expect the average review time to be around 45 days.
In the past few weeks, I met one-on-one with each editor on the IJDS editorial board. All editors are on the same page, offering their best to meet these review time goals and provide quality reviews.
It would be great if potential authors could go over the revised submission guidelines before submission. One can also find the current editorial board here. If you think there is anything we can do to make paper submissions less burdensome, please feel free to reach out to me or any of our editors.
Best regards.
Yu
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Yu Ding, Ph.D.
Editor in Chief, INFORMS Journal on Data Science
Anderson-Interface Chair and Professor
H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
755 Ferst Drive NW | Atlanta | Georgia 30332-0205
Office: Groseclose 346 | 404-894-7562 |
yu.ding@isye.gatech.edu | isye.gatech.edu/users/yu-ding
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