Announcement of Soliciting Scientific Papers for the First Qian Lecture (No. [2020]009)

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Dear Editorial Board Members of JRMGE and Professors,

 

In 2019, the Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics & Engineering (CSRME) and Editorial Board of JRMGE established the Qian Qihu Lecture (Qian Lecture) for improvement and upgrading of the international awareness and visibility of JRMGE globally. In conjunction with the requirements of the China Association for Science and Technology on journal development strategy in 2020, we decide to launch the First Qian Lecture for JRMGE. For this, an Evaluation Committee composed of 13 internationally well-acclaimed experts has been established. At present, more than 10 candidates were nominated by associated institutions, organizations and Editorial Board Members of JRMGE.

In order to achieve the highest standard of the Qian Lecture and avoid any biased judgments, CSRME and Editorial Board of JRMGE have decided to further solicit scientific papers for selection of the candidates. Details of soliciting scientific papers for the Qian Lecture are shown below:

 

(1)     All the scholars around the world including the nominated candidates are welcome to send their full-text papers to the Evaluation Committee for assessment. The paper can be sent torockgeotech@whrsm.ac.cn and csrme_xueshubu@126.com. The paper format is single-column, double space, 15 pond size, font of Time New Romans with line number, or please refer to the publication style of JRMGE. The paper from each candidate or expert must have some great contributions to the fields of rock mechanics and geotechnical engineering. The deadline of receiving the papers is 15 August 2020.

(2)     The main organizing institutions of the Qian Lecture will then make the preliminary evaluation of all the received papers that satisfy the evaluation criteria and then select 5 papers with the highest quality.

(3)     The 5 selected papers will be forwarded to the Evaluation Committee members before 20 August 2020, with a double-blind review method so that the author’s name of each paper is not displayed.

(4)     The Evaluation Committee will then finalize the two papers from the five selected papers by voting. The papers receiving more than 50% votes will be effective. The two authors whose votes are the highest will be the lecturers for the First Qian Lecture.

(5)     Each paper will be refined and revised by the author according to the comments and suggestions from the Evaluation Committee. The author should submit the revised paper through the online submission system of JRMGE (https://www.editorialmanager.com/JRMGE) before 20 September 2020. The final two papers will be published in February 2021 (V13, N1; Feb. Issue).

(6)     The First Qian Lecture will be held in October 2020 during the Conference of ChinaRock 2020 in Beijing.

 

Contact Information:

 

Ms. Yuan Tan

Tel.: +86-13886163339

Dr. Zhuo Wang

Tel.: +86-13683617805

 


Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics & Engineering

Editorial Board of JRMGE

10 March 2020

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