Light peer review

The IPAC’26 Light Peer Review process will offer an intermediate level of publication between a non-refereed IPAC paper published in the JACoW conference proceedings and a refereed journal like PRAB.

Successful peer reviewed papers will be published as part of a conference journal.

We see the introduction of light peer review as an opportunity to publish papers that do not fulfil all the acceptance criteria of journals by virtue of their limited content – as is inevitable with the three-page limit. Examples of papers that may survive light peer review, but possibly not the rigour of PRAB, could include review papers, technical advancements without novel schemes, incremental design or performance improvements, and similar topics.

The papers submitted to the Peer Reviewed IPAC’26 proceedings will be reviewed by referees selected by the Scientific Publication Board (SPB) among participants to the conference. All papers are reviewed by two referees. In the event of disagreement between referees, the SPB shall resolve the case.

Due to limitations on time and number of referees, it cannot be guaranteed that all papers submitted will be reviewed.

Authors can also volunteer to be referees at the time of registration by indicating their area of specialisation.

The IPAC’26 Light Peer Review is coordinated by Gianluca Geloni (EuXFEL)