Conference Forward to Journal Policy

The OPRE journal has ongoing relationships with the following three conferences: EC, Sigmetrics, and WINE. The following details the review process for papers forwarded from those conferences. There is NO guarantee that a paper forwarded from the conference will be accepted for publication at the OPRE journal. The goal of the conference-forward-to-OPRE process is to provide a faster overall timeline for the authors (from first submission to publication, if accepted), and also to improve quality and continuity of the review process.

1. Authors following this route must elect to publishing an extended abstract (one page or less) placeholder in the conference proceedings.
2. The conference must specify a deadline to authors, by which they must have submitted their paper to OPRE, along with any conference reviews and response to those reviews.
3. The conference must forward all reviews and reviewer names, as well as any higher-level editors involved in handling the paper, to the appropriate OPRE Area Editor.
4. The Area Editor chooses an Associate Editor who was NOT involved in handling the conference paper.
5. The Associate Editor should invite one reviewer that was involved in handling the conference paper and one reviewer that was NOT involved. In rare event situations in which the conference reviewers disagree strongly, then the Associate Editor, in consultation with the Area Editor, may decide to involve more than one conference reviewer AND another reviewer that was not involved in handling the conference paper. (There must always be one reviewer that was not involved in handling the conference paper. If the reviewer that was involved in handling the conference paper declines, then all reviewers may be new reviewers.)
6. The Associate Editor makes a recommendation to the Area Editor using all available information (conference reviews, conference reviewer report, and newly recruited reviewer report).
7. The Area Editor reads the Associate Editor recommendation, decides whether or not s/he agrees, and then communicates the decision to the authors.