Aims & scope
Innovative Infrastructure Solutions aims to present innovative studies serving the general disciplines of sustainable infrastructures and geotechnical engineering. This journal also has a special intention to help the worldwide countries to develop their existing and new infrastructures in terms of mitigating and adapting to climate change. Worldwide engineers are invited to submit their original contributions, and to transfer the knowledge between the worldwide researchers. This journal is the official journal of the Soil-Structure Interaction Group in Egypt (SSIGE).
- Geotechnical Engineering:
- Foundation, Geotechnical, Geoenvironmental, Geosynthetics and Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering;
- Soil and Rock Mechanics, Geomechanics, Mining, and Geological engineering;
- Computational Mechanics, Innovative Soil Models, Discrete Element and Boundary Element Modelling, Mesoscale Modeling, and Advanced Numerical and Analytical Analyses;
- Oil and Gas, and Petroleum Geotechnical Engineering; and
- Geosciences, Geomatics, Geoinformatics, Geophysics and Global Hazards.
2. Sustainable Civil Infrastructure; which includes:
1. Engineering Structures, 2- Bridges Engineering, 3- Tunneling Engineering, 4- Airports and Pavement Engineering, 5- Transportation Engineering, 6- Railroad and Railway Engineering, 7- Dams Engineering, Canals and Levees, and Irrigation and Water Sources and Structures, 8- Ports, Offshore and Marine Technologies:
- Sustainability, Energy Engineering, Global Climate Change, and Environmental and Waste Management and Remediation;
- Materials Engineering, Materials and Resource Conservation, Nanotechnologies, Advances in Composite Materials, Climate-Friendly Technologies, Damage Mechanics, Structural Health Monitoring, and Sustainable Construction Technologies;
- Advanced Analysis for Sustainable Design, Innovative Seismic and Dynamic Analyses, Innovative Technologies for Severe Weathers, and the Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change;
- Worldwide innovative procedures and precautions for the Design, Risk Assessment, Fire Sciences, Improvement, Rehabilitation, Surveying, Maintenance Works and Hazards’ Studies; and
- Building Information Modeling (BIM), Building and Construction Engineering, Project Management, and Contract Administration.
Open access
All articles published by Innovative Infrastructure Solutions are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges or registration barriers. Further information about open access can be found here.
Authors of articles published in Innovative Infrastructure Solutions are the copyright holders of their articles and have granted to any third party, in advance and in perpetuity, the right to use, reproduce or disseminate the article, according to the SpringerOpen copyright and license agreement.
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Article-processing charges
The publication costs for Innovative Infrastructure Solutions are covered by the Soil-Structure Interaction Group in Egypt (SSIGE), so authors do not need to pay an article-processing charge.
Indexing services
SpringerOpen is working closely with Thomson Reuters (ISI) to ensure that citation analysis of articles published in Innovative Infrastructure Solutions will be available.
Publication and peer review process
Authors will be able to check the progress of their manuscript through the submission system at any time by logging into My Innovative Infrastructure Solutions, a personalized section of the site.
Portability of peer review
In order to support efficient and thorough peer review, we aim to reduce the number of times a manuscript is re-reviewed after rejection from Innovative Infrastructure Solutions, thereby speeding up the publication process and reducing the burden on peer reviewers. Therefore, please note that, if a manuscript is not accepted for publication in Innovative Infrastructure Solutions and the authors choose to submit a revised version to another SpringerOpen journal, we will pass the reviews on to the other journal's editors at the authors' request. We will reveal the reviewers' names to the handling editor for editorial purposes unless reviewers let us know when they return their report that they do not wish us to share their report with another SpringerOpen journal.
Reprints
Please see our reprints website for information about reprinting articles.
Supplements
Innovative Infrastructure Solutions will consider supplements based on proceedings (full articles or meeting abstracts), reviews or research. All articles submitted for publication in supplements are subject to peer review. Published supplements are fully searchable and freely accessible onlineand can also be produced in print. For further information, please contact us.
Editorial policies
Any manuscript, or substantial parts of it, submitted to the journal must not be under consideration by any other journal. In general, the manuscript should not have already been published in any journal or other citable form, although it may have been deposited on a preprint server. Authors are required to ensure that no material submitted as part of a manuscript infringes existing copyrights, or the rights of a third party.
Correspondence concerning articles published in Innovative Infrastructure Solutions is encouraged. A 'post a comment' feature is available on all articles published by Innovative Infrastructure Solutions. Comments will be moderated by the editorial office (see our Comment policy for further information) and linked to the full-text version of the article, if suitable.
Editorial standards
SpringerOpen is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). In order to safeguard the quality of SpringerOpen journal publications, Springer has developed a policy on Publishing Integrity which is in line with the philosophy of COPE.
We follow the principle that we have a prime duty to maintain the integrity of the scientific record. Springer’s Policy on Publishing Integrity addresses:
- Clear definitions of what violation of Publishing Integrity is.
- A manual on how to identify such a violation (in the document referred to as an Act of Misconduct).
- Clear (COPE) examples of what such an Act of Misconduct looks like in practice.
- Clearly defined actions which have to be undertaken by the Editor and Springer when such an Act is a clearly proven fact.
- Q & A – a useful list of Questions and Answers on the definition of Publishing Integrity.
Please find the full document of Springer's Policy on Publishing Integrity here.
Data and materials release
Submission of a manuscript to Innovative Infrastructure Solutions implies that readily reproducible materials described in the manuscript, including all relevant raw data, will be freely available to any scientist wishing to use them for non-commercial purposes.
Any 'in press' articles cited within the references and necessary for the reviewers' assessment of the manuscript should be made available if requested by the editorial office.
Appeals and complaints
Authors who wish to appeal a rejection or make a complaint should, in the first instance, contact the Editor-in-Chief who will provide details of the journal's complaints procedure.
Competing interests
Innovative Infrastructure Solutions requires authors to declare any competing financial or other interest in relation to their work. All competing interests that are declared will be listed at the end of published articles. Where an author gives no competing interests, the listing will read 'The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests'.
Plagiarism detection
Innovative Infrastructure Solutions's publisher, SpringerOpen, is a member of the CrossCheckplagiarism detection initiative. In cases of suspected plagiarism CrossCheck is available to the editors of Innovative Infrastructure Solutions to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts by using the plagiarism detection tool iThenticate. CrossCheck is a multi-publisher initiative allowing screening of published and submitted content for originality.
Citing articles in Innovative Infrastructure Solutions
Articles in Innovative Infrastructure Solutions should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. Because articles are not printed, they do not have page numbers; instead, they are given a unique article number.
Article citations follow this format:
Authors: Title. Innov Infrastructure Solut [year], [volume number]:[article number].
e.g. Roberts LD, Hassall DG, Winegar DA, Haselden JN, Nicholls AW, Griffin JL: Increased hepatic oxidative metabolism distinguishes the action of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor delta from Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor gamma in the Ob/Ob mouse. Innov Infrastructure Solut 2009, 1:115.
refers to article 115 from Volume 1 of the journal.
Why publish your article in Innovative Infrastructure Solutions?
High visibility
Innovative Infrastructure Solutions's open access policy allows maximum visibility of articles published in the journal as they are available to a wide, global audience. Articles that have been especially highly accessed are highlighted with a 'Highly accessed' graphic, which appears on the journal's contents pages and search results.
Speed of publication
Innovative Infrastructure Solutions offers a fast publication schedule whilst maintaining rigorous peer review; all articles must be submitted online, and peer review is managed fully electronically (articles are distributed in PDF form, which is automatically generated from the submitted files). Articles will be published with their final citation after acceptance, in both fully browsable web form, and as a formatted PDF; the article will then be available through Innovative Infrastructure Solutions and SpringerOpen.
Flexibility
Online publication in Innovative Infrastructure Solutions gives authors the opportunity to publish large datasets, large numbers of color illustrations and moving pictures, to display data in a form that can be read directly by other software packages so as to allow readers to manipulate the data for themselves, and to create all relevant links (for example to relevant databases and papers).
Promotion and press coverage
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