Institute for Complexity Science
and Advanced Computing

Submit Your Work

Traditional peer review takes six months to a year. Reviews are private. Decisions are opaque. Article-processing charges run into the thousands. Acceptance often hinges on institutional affiliation, name recognition, or which side of an academic feud the editor sits on.

Every author receives the full review record — scores, justifications, dissents from every panelist. When work is accepted, that record publishes alongside it.

There are no fees. No APCs. No institutional gatekeeping. Submit from anywhere, with or without a university behind you. The panel reads the manuscript, not the affiliation.

The pipeline is the same for everyone. No fast-track for friends, no slow-walk for outsiders. Same rubric. Same panel. Same audit trail.

What accepted authors get

  • No fees. No article-processing charges, no submission fees, no enhanced-review charges. Open review is the standard, not a paid upgrade.
  • Copyright stays with authors. Authors retain full copyright. Open license at the author's choice; CC BY 4.0 by default.
  • The full review record publishes with the paper. Reviewer scores, dimension-level comments, the Review Quality Control audit, and the decision rationale are all public, all permanent, all attached to the paper's permalink. See the review process.
  • Selection for Persistence. Accepted papers are eligible for inclusion in Persistence, the Institute’s annual peer-reviewed journal — a trade paperback and Kindle edition distributed through Amazon and IngramSpark. Contributors receive a CV-citable byline in a real, indexed journal volume. Authors retain full copyright on their own work. See the books.
  • Permanent archival deposit and Scholar indexing. Each accepted paper is deposited with a Zenodo DOI, indexed by Google Scholar, and listed at /publications under the Institute's record.

Two submission paths follow — pick the one that matches the state of your manuscript.

How would you like to submit?

By DOI or arXiv ID

For work already deposited on Zenodo or arXiv. Paste the identifier — ICSAC fetches the manuscript and metadata automatically.

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By PDF upload

For unpublished work with no existing DOI anywhere. ICSAC mints a new Zenodo DOI on accept and deposits the manuscript in the ICSAC Zenodo community. If your work is already deposited anywhere, use the DOI route to avoid duplicate records.

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Before you submit

  • Scope. ICSAC accepts research using scientific, mathematical, or computational methods to make testable claims — across the natural sciences, formal sciences, computational fields, and quantitative social sciences. Pure humanities, theology, advocacy, or opinion without quantitative or formal methodology are out of scope.
  • Format. PDFs must have an extractable text layer; image-only scans cannot be reviewed. Maximum upload size: 100 MB.
  • Identity. Every submitter signs in with ORCID at the submission step — you'll be sent to orcid.org to enter your password, then returned here with your ORCID iD verified. Free registration at orcid.org/register; takes a couple of minutes. Keep your ORCID record current; ICSAC pulls from it.
  • Notifications. A confirmation email arrives at the address you provide; the result email follows when the panel completes — typically within 5 to 10 days.
  • Conflicts. Disclose any conflicts of interest in the manuscript itself.
  • Process. Read the full review process for what every submission goes through.